The Ren & Stimpy Show Presents: Stimpy’s Invention

by Shaun Jex | Apr 14, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews

August 11, 1991 It’s a date that should be etched in the annals of time. It’s like July 20, 1969 (the date of the first moon landing), but much more important. It’s the day that The Ren & Stimpy Show first debuted on television. There aren’t enough superlatives to...

Pratt At the Arcade: The Darius Series – By Adam Pratt

by Old School Gamer | Apr 14, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Columns

Instead of trying to cram everything about a genre into one article, this time I am going to focus on a particular series within the realm of the shoot ‘em up. It is one that started off in arcades and was done in such a way that the home ports never could capture the...

Introducing Evercade, a Mysterious New Retro Handheld

by Brendan Meharry | Apr 13, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s

Access the mysterious Evercade website and the first thing that will grab your attention is the text; “EVERCADE – A BRAND NEW HANDHELD CONSOLE WITH UNIQUE MULTI-GAME RETRO CARTRIDGES FROM LEADING GAMES PUBLISHERS AND CONSOLE PLATFORMS”. It says a lot, but then...

Video Game Preservationist Auctions Off Unfinished Akira Prototype

by David Oxford | Apr 11, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s

Back in 2016, Patrick Scott Patterson of Video Game Preservation (a project whose purpose I’ll leave you to guess at, and which is currently on hiatus) was able to obtain a set of four cartridges for the Nintendo Game Boy featuring different builds of an...

Mortal Kombat: Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

by Shaun Jex | Apr 11, 2019 | 1990s, The Story Of...

You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone! Picture if you...

Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Asteroids and Beamrider – By Brett Weiss

by Brett Weiss | Apr 9, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Columns, Magazine Preview, Reviews

The theme for this installment of Old School Gamer is simu- lation games, but I’m still on a shooter high from the last issue, so I’m going to spotlight two more shooting games that are easy on the wallet, yet fun to play. If you’re cool with cartridge only, Asteroids...