ARpiCADE – Raspberry Pi Your Jamma Cabinet – By Old School Gamer

by Old School Gamer | Mar 8, 2019 | 1990s, Arcade, Magazine Preview, Reviews

ARpiCADE is the solution to a whole slew of issues that retro video gamers have. It is an extra board set that you hook up to your Raspberry Pi computer. It allows you to do the equivalent of RetroPie, which so many people are using to build handheld computers and...

Grim Fandango

by Shaun Jex | Mar 3, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...

All good things come to an end. Beginning with the 1986 release of Labyrinth, Lucasfilm/LucasArts released some of the greatest adventure games ever created. Games like The Secret of Monkey Island, Zak McKracken and The Alien Mindbenders, and Maniac Mansion still...

Beavis and Butthead – By Jacob Pruitt

by Old School Gamer | Mar 3, 2019 | 1990s, Arcade, Magazine Preview

IMMATURITY IN AN ARCADE… NO WAY Alot of us can remember sitting in front of the television set late at night on our carpet and watching our heroes sing on MTV. Our smiles appearing on our faces once the two teenage idiots appeared on the screen sitting on their...

The Last Official Release: TurboGrafx-16 – Magical Chase (1993)

by Brendan Meharry | Mar 3, 2019 | 1990s

Welcome back, welcome back! This – THIS is The Last Official Release. I’m not sure why I keep repeating myself, but let’s just roll with it. I’m having fun. Here, I delve into the last games officially released for your favourite consoles. A pretty darn...

Remembering Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside (1998)

by Old School Gamer | Mar 1, 2019 | 1990s, Console/Handheld

Even as a young upstart, Kobe Bryant looked like a superstar in the making. It is not much of a surprise then that the former Los Angeles Laker already had a video game to his name at the tender age of 19. In 1998 Nintendo released the Left Field Productions-developed...

Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin – Street Fighter II Turbo – By Brett Weiss

by Brett Weiss | Mar 1, 2019 | 1990s, Columns, Magazine Preview

  My forthcoming book, The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 2 (N-Z), is now available for pre-order. The book won’t release until April 28, 2019, but I decided to give Old School Gamer readers an advance look at one of the entries. Since the...