First DLC for ‘Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration

by Old School Gamer | Sep 20, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Press Release

Atari and Digital Eclipse Announce First DLC for ‘Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration’ Releases on September 26  Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are excited to share a significant addition to Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. The Wider World of Atari, which...

Your Own Arcade! by Ryan Burger

by Ryan Burger | Sep 17, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Columns

Old School Gamer surveyed its friend running nationally and regionally known retro arcades and found out that there are some games you have to have to consider ourself a retro arcade. We started by listing the most popular games on the KLOV.Com site (Museum of the...

Jordan Mechner and John Romero Interview

by Old School Gamer | Sep 16, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Interviews, Podcast of the Week

Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and John Romero (DOOM) speak out about historical preservation of video games Following GameStop’s abrupt shuttering of Game Informer and the total deletion of the 33-year-old magazine’s website last month, Jordan Mechner...

Arcade Memories – by Old School Gamer Staff

by Old School Gamer | Sep 15, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Opinions

My memories of arcade machines start a little past my home video game history. My memory takes me back to Showbiz Pizza in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1983 for my 11th birthday. It was a small birthday party since we had just moved there that week from Ohio and I didn’t...

8 Bit Adventures 2 – The Gem That Hooked PC Gamers Comes to Consoles

by Todd Friedman | Sep 11, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Press Release

  11th September, 2024 – Australian developer Critical Games released their hit JRPG 8-Bit Adventures 2 on PC last year. Flushed from its success, and the critical fanfare it received from media, they’re eager to announce that the console versions...

Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!

by GenX Grownup | Sep 10, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, GenX Grownup, Opinions

Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while...