High Score: A Really Neat Netflix Documentary.

by Ben Magnet | Aug 29, 2020 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, ESports, Reviews

Netflix had some good video game documentaries for a while.  It was where I first watched Game Over: The Story of Atari and for fun they also have the original anime Hi Score Girl (which I would definitely recommend if you like anime) and recently Netflix released...

Top Video Games (1980s-1990s) That Feature Gambling

by Old School Gamer | Aug 27, 2020 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Gaming

The need for entertainment has been an accompanying phenomenon of humankind since the dawn of ages. This way or other people have always needed to unwind, to have a hobby, or to have some fun. However, one of the quite recent inventions has changed the entertainment...

Double Dragon

by Michael Thomasson | Aug 27, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview

This issue’s arcade game of choice is none other than the immensely popular side-scrolling beat-em up Double Dragon. The initial game was released in 1987 by Technos in Japan, and licensed to Taito for manufacture and distribution in the United States and Europe. The...

Tron

by Rob OHara | Aug 23, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview

In Disney’s 1982 classic film Tron, programs and humans did battle against one another inside a computer through multiple gaming competitions and events. Under the watchful eye of the Master Control Program, our heroes Flynn and Tron fought head-to-head against the...

Made In Japan: Radiant SilverGun

by Magazine Writer | Aug 21, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview

Released in 1998 in Arcades on the SEGA ST-V Titan hardware, followed by a SEGA Saturn release later that year, Radiant Silvergun is a shmup (shoot’em up) that almost didn’t come to be. According to the diary of Hiroshi Iuchi, the director & producer of Radiant...

What is behind the retro gaming craze?

by Old School Gamer | Aug 19, 2020 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Gaming

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, as the old joke goes. People get nostalgic about all sorts of things, and psychologists have written tomes that attempt to explain some of the reasons. There’s always been a market for retro, whether it is in the clothes we wear,...