New Ataribox Details Emerge

by Brendan Meharry | Sep 28, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s

Remember the Ataribox? The “new” console by Atari? While not much was known originally about the console apart from what was revealed in a twenty-second video showing nothing but 3D renders (so, nothing) – recently, Atari sent out an email newsletter exposing...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: HEY, I’M SKATIN HERE!!!!!

by Brad Feingold | Sep 27, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade

One thing I remember happening when Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace movie trailers came out was people were so dedicated to Star Wars went to any movie that was showing the trailer.  They went into the movie, watched the trailer and left.  Wait, pay...

Orange is the New Grey: The Evolution of the NES Zapper

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....

NES’s Golf Found as Easter Egg on Switch Consoles

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...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Drink Up Y’all

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...

The show that kicked our retro in the rear has moved!

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...