by Brian Chansy | Oct 13, 2025 | 2000s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Events, Gaming
Located in the same convention center as the ever-popular Anime Expo, L.A. Comic Con is an annual convention celebrating pop culture, including video games. Besides tournaments of more recent games (e.g., Street Fighter 6), the convention had something for Old School...
by William Schwartz | Oct 11, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
In a retro market typically dominated by high concept\ companies advertising their commitment to nostalgia or cheap Chinese knockoffs, 8BitDo operates in a curious middle ground. Very little is known about the history of the company, save that it was founded in Hong...
by Old School Gamer | Oct 9, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
I realized a long time ago that video games were great for releasing a lot of pent-up emotions which prevented me from ending up in jail, or worse… Malicious ramblings from the man who’s played it all you plaster some pedestrians to the pavement, you’re brain dead!...
by Indie Retro News | Oct 8, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
We’ve been told through Facebook that Jon Eggelton and Gianluca Alberico has released the final version of their previously announced Stronger Edition of the 2023 Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 unofficial hit of ‘SNK vs CAPCOM’; a C64 game that was...
by Old School Gamer | Oct 7, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
If you’ve lived in California, you drove. The uniqueness of your personal transportation said a lot about who you were, since you spent most of your day relegated behind the wheel, and that car was indeed an extension of you. The average person accumulates about...
by Eugenio Angueira | Oct 5, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
It was 1982. I walked into my local arcade and there was this game I had not seen there before. That game was Dig Dug, a game that mesmerized me the moment I set eyes on it and a game that I still love to this day. Dig Dug was a Namco game that Atari distributed in...