Crazy Controllers – The Resident Evil Pad a.k.a. Biohazard Dedicated Controller

by Conor McBrien | Jan 23, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s

The long-awaited remake of Resident Evil 2 comes out in two days, so I decided to look back at a controller that was designed specifically for Resident Evil games. The Biohazard Dedicated Controller (released internationally as the Resident Evil Pad) was released in...

Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: SNES Favorites – By Brett Weiss

by Brett Weiss | Jan 22, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Columns

  DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN AND SUPER STAR WARS My new book, The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A-M), is finally available, so I decided to focus this month’s column on Nintendo’s famous 16-bit console. Since the theme of the issue...

Pop Culture – The Movie Favs

by Old School Gamer | Jan 20, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview

WE ASKED WHAT YOUR FAVORITE DOCUMENTARY AND VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE TYPE FILMS ARE… DOCUMENTARIES, LONG FORM Atari Game Over The King of Kong Video Games: The Movie Bits of Yesterday Chasing Ghosts Indie Game: The Movie The Power of Glove From Bedrooms to...

Sega & Nintendo Retro-Bit Goodies at CES 2019

by Brendan Meharry | Jan 12, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

Way back in the December of 2017, Retro-Bit signed a deal with Sega of America to manufacture officially licenced accessories for consoles such as the Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. We didn’t hear much about this arrangement until last August, where prototypes for...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Bill McEvoy

by Todd Friedman | Jan 12, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Bill McEvoy who is displayed on card number 2116, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection.   Bill is the main editor of an online magazine called “Arcade Culture”.  Bill and his wife Stephanie reside in Ontario Canada and...

Boy, Oh Game Boy: A Look at the Varied Versions of Nintendo’s Landmark Handheld

by David Oxford | Jan 10, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

Originally released in 1989, Nintendo’s Game Boy took the world by storm in a way that few — if any — had a hope of competing with. Its reign over the handheld market lasted until early 2003, just shy of a good 14 years. That kind of run for hardware...