by Leonard Herman | Jan 29, 2018 | 1990s, Console/Handheld
As Virtuality was bringing an old classic back to arcades in a new way, other companies were releasing classic arcade games for new formats. Following the success of Activision’s Atari 2600 Action Packs, several companies began releasing compilations of classic arcade...
by Michael Thomasson | Jan 29, 2018 | 1990s, Console/Handheld
Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo 1993 You always secretly knew that your neighbors were useless… even before Lucas Arts and Konami confirmed it. In this run and gun game you control Julie or Zeke, armed to the teeth with unconventional artillery such as water pistols,...
by JasonBreininger | Jan 25, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Atari, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
Back in 1994, Atari were in need of a flagship game for their latest console, the Jaguar. The launch titles they had released for the console weren’t doing the trick in moving systems out the retailer’s doors. Thankfully, Jeff Minter had been designing a game that...
by David Oxford | Jan 25, 2018 | 1990s
With the release of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition in late September 2017, Nintendo also released a number of new interviews with developers of the system’s earliest games to shine a little light on how things came to be at the dawn of...
by Leonard Herman | Jan 22, 2018 | 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview
Interest in videogames reached an all-time high during 1994. In January, GamePro became the rst videogame magazine to sell 500,000 copies of a single issue. EGM broke a di erent type of record when its December issue contained 404 pages. So much news concerning...
by Old School Gamer | Jan 17, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Console/Handheld
Old School Gamer played with one of these at CES last week and we are excited about it as we spend more time with their tablet version hopefully next week. Look for a full review of the Iphone, Ipad edition coming up in a future Old School Gamer Magazine! LOS...