Amidar500 – A 1980’s Arcade and 2600 game coming to the Amiga 500 as an Arcade conversion by JOTD gets a beta

by Indie Retro News | Sep 11, 2022 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

JOTD is certainly making a name for himself here on Indie Retro News, creating awesome Arcade like conversions of games such as Ms Pacman and Pacman 500, and even the rebuilt & adapted to Amiga AGA ripped from Supercars International 1996 as Supercars 2 AGA. Well...

Five NES Guilty Pleasures You Need to Play

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 9, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, Lists

Need something on the NES that you haven’t played yet? Try these fun ones! WCW Wrestling: The roster on this is amazing and the game is tough as hell. Easily an underrated gem. Bad News Baseball: It might be the best baseball game on the NES and it’s aged...

Old School Gamer Celebrates 5 Years and Wants to Raise It’s Game

by Old School Gamer | Sep 8, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

Press Release About Kickstarter Old School Gamer has been publishing it’s retro gaming magazine for the last five years.  Covering video gaming from its beginnings in the 1970s until the late 1990s, Old School had published 29 issues and is due for it’s 30th issue to...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel

by Todd Friedman | Sep 8, 2022 | 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, ESports, Interviews

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, who currently is displayed on card number 3480, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection.  Johnathan is a former professional Esports player of games like Quake and PainKiller. At one time Johnathan...

Five Retro Football Games That Still Rock

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 7, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

With NFL season almost here, Old School Gamer counts down five pigskin games over 20 years old that still play great. NFL Gameday 98: The first game to truly dethrone the Madden series, those polygon graphics and awesome AI set a high standard for all the games that...

Retro Games Values are Increasing by the hundreds of dollars – Do you have one?

by Old School Gamer | Sep 3, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

Have you ever wondered how retro games compare to modern games of today? Gaming has come a long way and in light of this, gaming experts at Crucial.com have looked compared data around retro vs modern games to find out, the value of retro consoles over time, the...