by Old School Gamer | Mar 20, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Reviews
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the...
by Todd Friedman | Mar 18, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Columns
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ryan Hart, who is displayed on card number 214, from the Superstars of 2012. Ryan is from London and has been playing games since he was 10 years. His genre of choice is fighting games. He succeeded tremendously in series...
by Todd Friedman | Mar 17, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, ESports
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Walter Day who is displayed on card number 95, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Walter is also featured on cards 108, 523, 539, 591, 775, 1000, 1021, 1859, 2133, 2149, 2261, 2292, 2321, 2390 and 2462 (And many...
by Indie Retro News | Mar 16, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Babaliba wasn’t the only classic game to be converted over to the Atari ST, as I’ve recently been told that the 1993 DOS game called Train, which is also very similar to another classic game called SNAKE. Has been converted over to the Atari ST by Slovak...
by Indie Retro News | Mar 14, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
In 1982 Gottlieb released a very famous game that had an orange character with a long snout as a nose, it just had to be the isometric arcade game with puzzle elements of ‘ Q*Bert ‘. It was so popular in fact it appeared on many systems such as the Atari...
by Todd Friedman | Mar 10, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Opinions
Forty years ago, Super Mario jumped out of his debut role-he was the nameless carpenter “Jumpman” in the classic game Donkey Kong-and into a realm of his own with the 1985 release of Super Mario Bros. Video games have never been the same. In this...