45 Years of Arcade Gaming: 1984-1989 By Adam Pratt

by Old School Gamer | Jun 8, 2018 | 1980s, Magazine Preview

This is an update & re-write of an original article that was published on ArcadeHeroes.com on June 27th, 2012 entitled ‘40 Years Of Arcade Games’. You can still read that post here: http://arcadeheroes.com/2012/06/27/ 40-years-of-arcade-games/ In last issue’s...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ryan Burger

by Todd Friedman | Jun 6, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight Features Ryan Burger of Old School Gamer Magazine who is displayed on card number 2761, from the Superstars Collection of 2017.   Ryan is the founder and creator of Old School Magazine, which is an online and publication magazine. The...

Impossible Mission And the Rise of Digital Voices in Video Games

by Shaun Jex | Jun 6, 2018 | 1980s

Another visitor. Stay awhile…stay FOREVER!!!! Those sinister words, spoken by the maniacal Professor Elvin Atombender, welcome players to the perilous world of Impossible Mission. Released for the Commodore 64 in 1984, the game has long been regarded as one of...

Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin – By Brett Weiss

by Brett Weiss | Jun 4, 2018 | 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview

Welcome to the third installment of Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin, where I direct you to games worth playing that won’t send you to the poor house. This time the spotlight is on the Atari 2600 version of Mouse Trap, which is good despite its shortcomings, and Ms....

Dog Star Adventure And the Foundation of Text Based Gaming

by Shaun Jex | Jun 2, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… George Lucas released the film Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977, beginning a pop culture phenomenon that continues to this day. People around the world latched on to the story of Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, and the...

Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: DMA Design

by David Oxford | May 31, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

The Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team studio we’re looking at this week bears some interesting parallels to the last one we looked at, Angel Studios. Like Angel, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based DMA Design began in 1984 as Acme Software, though unlike Angel, they were...