Gem Blenders, TCG coming to Kickstarter

by Old School Gamer | Jan 12, 2023 | 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

GEM BLENDERS: A REVOLUTIONARY NEW TRADING CARD GAME After selling through their beta version product, indie game designer Steve Sekula and his team are set to launch the First Edition of the trading card game Gem Blenders this March via Kickstarter. In a game of Gem...

Antstream Arcade’s Greatest Hits Of 2022

by Antstream Blog | Jan 6, 2023 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Antstream

t’s been another cracking year at Antstream Arcade, stuffed full of new games, challenges and tournaments. So with New Year’s Eve imminent, join us as we celebrate the most popular retro games this year in the Antstream Arcade Greatest Hits Of 2022 compilation, along...

Taito Corporation Preparing For 70th Anniversary Celebrations In 2023

by Old School Gamer | Jan 6, 2023 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

From Nintendo Life 2023 The famous video game developer Taito Corporation – known for legendary arcade hits like Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble – will celebrate its 70th anniversary on 24th August 2023. To prepare for this epic milestone, the company has...

The Retro Hour / Guitar Hero & Rock Band – The History PodCast

by Todd Friedman | Jan 5, 2023 | 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, Podcast of the Week

CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST We get the inside story on Harmonix Music Systems, the company who brought us the legendary party games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. How the company founders remortgaged their houses to make it happen, how they did an industry first and made a...

Exploding Fist Remake – A remake of the C64 classic “The Way of the Exploding Fist”

by Indie Retro News | Jan 3, 2023 | 1990s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Here’s a game I remember fondly it’s ‘ The Way of the Exploding Fist’ ; a 1980s fighting game published by Melbourne House that appeared on many different systems such as the Amstrad, C16, C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and even the Acorn! This...

Source of Madness casts its way to a Switch cartridge

by Old School Gamer | Dec 28, 2022 | 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

The side-scrolling dark-action roguelite gets a physical Nintendo Switch release in January! Developed by Carry Castle and published by Thunderful Publishing, Source of Madness is a Lovecraftian-inspired roguelite soon available in a physical format for the very first...