by Old School Gamer | Oct 19, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns
In Parts 1 and 2, I talked about the development of WTARG, the software I developed at Williams/Bally/ Midway to allow artists to incorporate digitized video of live actors in our games. My exploration into digitizing began in 1986, and the first version of WTARG came...
by Old School Gamer | Oct 17, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews
In this issue of Old School Gamer, we are profiling two stores that we love for different reasons. The first, which you will read about elsewhere in this issue, is a smaller sole proprietorship. Jason took his passion and built a store that caters to like-minded...
by Brendan Meharry | Oct 17, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
Analogue, king of FPGA, has, at last, pulled the trigger on a handheld to dominate over all rivals. The Analogue Pocket is, naturally, powered by FPGA (so, no emulation here) and out of the box will play Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges. The...
by Brendan Meharry | Oct 14, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade
There are many ways one can track their game collection, be it an app or some other sort of online service. While these offer niceties like box art, market worth and social networking features so you can gloat about your collection of cardboard and plastic to other...
by Ben Magnet | Oct 11, 2019 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...
I’ve been playing video games for a good long while, but there are some games that, to this very day, haunt me. Not because the game is bad per se, or because something happened to said game that made it unplayable. No, I’m talking about games that, for...
by Magazine Writer | Oct 7, 2019 | 1990s, Other Magazines Preview
As collectors of classic video games we know how frustrating it can be when we hit upon a dry period of finding classic cartridges and game systems. We know the feeling of wanting to spit nails when seeing the mother lode of rare cartridges walk off with somebody else...