by Old School Gamer | Dec 15, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
I was born in 1981, the same year that Jump Man and Donkey Kong had everyone over a barrel and shortly after Pac-Man gave everyone a certain fever. Back then, video games as an entertainment medium were in their infant years and still just a curiosity to most. The...
by Brian Lesyk | Dec 13, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
I remember reading a quote once by famed French novelist and literary critic Marcel Proust: “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” In that vein, our zeal for the experiences of yesteryear as gamers often unintentionally...
by Old School Gamer | Dec 11, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
suppose one of the greater delights one can experience when one gets older is bringing joy to the younger members of the family, because it not only brings fun and laughter to the younger ones; it also brings a warmth that is unlike any other feeling known to man to...
by Ryan Burger | Dec 9, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
The ModRetro Chromatic, a new handheld device that plays all of the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, will be hiding underneath many a Christmas tree this December, just like the original did back in 1989 with the OG version from Nintendo. While this...
by William Schwartz | Dec 7, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Reviews
Having only seen the Pac-Man episode of Secret Level; it was hard to guess what to expect from the Mega Man short. The only real unifying principle of any episode of Secret Level is that engages with some kind of idea from the video game in question. As it...
by Brett Weiss | Dec 7, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Magazine Preview
Although I first began playing video games on my cousin’s Atari Pong in 1975 and on my friends’ Fairchild Channel F systems in 1976 (both my next-door neighbor and another buddy a mile away had a Channel F – crazy!), the first console I actually owned was a...