Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Sooner Or Later Everyone Goes to the Zoo

by Brad Feingold | Sep 7, 2018 | 1980s, Columns

In life, there are too many games to even think of that creates memories.  And ever since my trip to Pittsburgh, PA for the ReplayFx, my brain almost went into self destruct mode.  The question of why is that?  Because I pretty much have played 99% of the retro games...

Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Wrecking Crew

by David Oxford | Sep 6, 2018 | 1980s

Labor Day was this past Monday, and what better way to (belatedly) celebrate than with a look at a Mario game in which our plumber hero puts his nose to the grindstone and performs a little hard labor himself? Wrecking Crew was released just months apart for the...

Microsurgeon: An Intellivision Classic

by Shaun Jex | Sep 5, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

A few months ago I had a brilliant idea for a video game: players would control nanotechnology that had been injected into a human body. As the nanotech, you would battle things like disease and infection as they sprang up through the body. You could also repair...

Pinball Hall of Fame to MOVE to the strip!

by Old School Gamer | Sep 4, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Pinball

For many of you this is older news but Old School Gamer just heard about it last week and this is exciting!  One of our favorite places to play arcade games and pinball has a very bright future that is moving along nicely.  As covered in this story on PinballNews.Com,...

Big News: NEOGEO mini International Version will land in USA and European Markets

by Old School Gamer | Sep 4, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld

NEOGEO mini has attracted a lot of attention from many retro gamers, SNK super fans and other gamers and animation enthusiasts in Europe and America since the first official appearance of the E3 exhibition. With the selling in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and...

Arkyology for the Atari 2600 – Released at Last!

by Ric Pryor | Sep 1, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

NES fans have 678 licensed games to collect. Intellivision collectors have The 125. But if you’re an Atari 2600 collector, things are a bit more nebulous. There are, of course, the first-party games Atari itself released. Then there are the big-name third-party...