Tetris and Joseph Saelee – By Joel West / Completed by Brian Szarek

by Old School Gamer | Apr 16, 2019 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview

Welcome to another installment of a column dedicated exclusively to Old School Gamers and Old School Games from the Golden Age of gaming. These gamers, back in the day, had to physically use a coin or token to start a video game. The earning of these coins was mostly...

Pratt At the Arcade: The Darius Series – By Adam Pratt

by Old School Gamer | Apr 14, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Columns

Instead of trying to cram everything about a genre into one article, this time I am going to focus on a particular series within the realm of the shoot ‘em up. It is one that started off in arcades and was done in such a way that the home ports never could capture the...

Introducing Evercade, a Mysterious New Retro Handheld

by Brendan Meharry | Apr 13, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s

Access the mysterious Evercade website and the first thing that will grab your attention is the text; “EVERCADE – A BRAND NEW HANDHELD CONSOLE WITH UNIQUE MULTI-GAME RETRO CARTRIDGES FROM LEADING GAMES PUBLISHERS AND CONSOLE PLATFORMS”. It says a lot, but then...

Coffee Crisis – Grab a Cup and Kick Alien Butt!!! – By Brad Feingold

by Brad Feingold | Apr 13, 2019 | 1980s, Arcade, Reviews

“The evil alien Smurglien race has taken notice of Earth’s fancy World Wide Web and have begun stealing its WiFi. In doing so, they have hacked their own version of the internet and hid it deep within the Earth’s web-based systems, calling it the Smurnet.”  Now that’s...

Video Game Preservationist Auctions Off Unfinished Akira Prototype

by David Oxford | Apr 11, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s

Back in 2016, Patrick Scott Patterson of Video Game Preservation (a project whose purpose I’ll leave you to guess at, and which is currently on hiatus) was able to obtain a set of four cartridges for the Nintendo Game Boy featuring different builds of an...

A Killer App: Star Raiders – By Bill Lange

by BillLange | Apr 10, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

Star Raiders, the iconic computer adventure game, was created for the Atari 400/800 home computer line, in fact, it was created at the same time as the development of the computers. It was programmed by Atari hardware designer Doug Neubauer. Neubauer was also on the...