by David Oxford | Sep 21, 2017 | 1980s, 1990s
The Zapper light gun is an icon of classic gaming for the Nintendo Entertainment System, appearing across multiple forms of media, including as the trusty sidearm for the eponymous protagonist of the 1989 DiC Entertainment animated series Captain N: The Game Master....
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s
Satoru Iwata, who was the 4th President and CEO of Nintendo, was a programmer and game designer decades before he was a businessman. Long before his tragic death in 2015, he successfully wrote and initiated his own data compression tool to fit the NES’s Golf (which...
by Brad Feingold | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade
Every so often, you run into a game that you look at and think to yourself, who the heck came up with this? I thought the standards of a video game are to drive a car, rescue a princess, shoot an alien or even jump into your lily pad. So how is a game like Tapper...
by Old School Gamer | Sep 19, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Console/Handheld
Fellow Gamers, I’m extremely excited to be writing to you to inform you that we just released the Midwest Gaming Classic web site for 2018, and we have BIG news! The Midwest Gaming Classic will be moving from our long-time home of the Sheraton Milwaukee...
by Old School Gamer | Sep 19, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (SEPTEMBER 18, 2017) – Atari®, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and developers of interactive entertainment via its subsidiary, Vagabond Production Corp., and Fig, the community publisher behind such games as Phoenix Point, Pillars...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 16, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s
With the resurgence of retro games, thanks to the NES Classic, more gamers than ever have gone back to their pixel roots. But what if you’re looking for new games for your favorite retro consoles? While there are a plethora of homebrew developers out there,...