by Todd Friedman | May 8, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, Columns, The Story Of...
I am a huge video game collector. I have about 3,500 individual games and 26 consoles and handhelds. I always knew people had a bigger collection than I did, and I knew a lot of people had more complete collections as well; but years ago, I met a person who lives...
by Old School Gamer | May 7, 2019 | 1980s, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...
Old School Gamer staff members have had the privilege of meeting many programmers from the heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, notably, David Crane, Garry Kitchen and Dan Kitchen, all of whom were influential during the Atari 2600 Generation and also the founding of...
by Shaun Jex | May 5, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Growing up, I had a few friends who had dirt bikes. I did not. I was always a little jealous. The closest I could come to my own personal motocross was taking my bicycle to construction sites and riding it on dirt piles. Well, that and playing Excitebike. Based on my...
by Brendan Meharry | May 5, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Piracy is bad. We all know that, but it can’t be denied that there is a legal grey area when it comes to downloading certain game ROM’s – especially of games you already physically own or those that are considered ‘abandonware’. Other forms of media have had their...
by Shaun Jex | May 2, 2019 | 1980s, The Story Of...
What do you do when your industry collapses and you are looking for an innovative way to stay viable? If you are Nintendo, you create a video game playing robot and hope for the best. In 1983, the bottom fell out of the video game industry. After reaching revenues...
by David Oxford | May 2, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s
I don’t tend to editorialize in this space very often, so I hope you’ll permit me this. Amidst all the recent (and recurring) discussion about how easy or accessible a game should be, there have been a wave of recent releases I feel have been overlooked....