Jordan Mechner and John Romero Interview

by Old School Gamer | Sep 16, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Interviews, Podcast of the Week

Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and John Romero (DOOM) speak out about historical preservation of video games Following GameStop’s abrupt shuttering of Game Informer and the total deletion of the 33-year-old magazine’s website last month, Jordan Mechner...

Arcade Memories – by Old School Gamer Staff

by Old School Gamer | Sep 15, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Opinions

My memories of arcade machines start a little past my home video game history. My memory takes me back to Showbiz Pizza in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1983 for my 11th birthday. It was a small birthday party since we had just moved there that week from Ohio and I didn’t...

Tetris 40th Anniversary

by GenX Grownup | Sep 14, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, GenX Grownup, Podcast of the Week

About This Episode Forty years ago, now, a Russian software engineer wrote a simple puzzle game in his spare time. It featured a variety of geometric shapes falling into a well, and in short order, the world was in love with his creation. In this episode, we dive into...

Four Classic Castlevania Titles Return at Limited Run Games!

by Old School Gamer | Sep 13, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

September 4th, 2024— Konami Digital Entertainment（KONAMI) and Limited Run Games today revealed its full physical collection for Castlevania Dominus Collection! Pre-orders for Standard and Collector’s Editions launch on September 13th and run through October 13th,...

A review of Chrono Trigger from Boss Fight Books

by William Schwartz | Sep 12, 2024 | 1990s, 2010s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

  It always bears repeating- retro gaming culture is, itself, so old at this point that we can look at retro game appreciation from ten years ago and find tropes about as archaic to us now as the retro games themselves seemed to the people making that content....

8 Bit Adventures 2 – The Gem That Hooked PC Gamers Comes to Consoles

by Todd Friedman | Sep 11, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Press Release

  11th September, 2024 – Australian developer Critical Games released their hit JRPG 8-Bit Adventures 2 on PC last year. Flushed from its success, and the critical fanfare it received from media, they’re eager to announce that the console versions...