Distant Worlds & A New World Concerts!

by Old School Gamer | Jan 28, 2023 | 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, Audio, Events

AWR Music Productions, LLC presents Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, the official symphony concert tour. Launched in 2007, in conjunction with the twentieth anniversary of FINAL FANTASY, Distant Worlds features the music of the great video game series FINAL...

Missile Command on the Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000 and it looks pretty decent!

by Indie Retro News | Jan 17, 2023 | 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

The iconic Atari game Missile Command didn’t get the best of ports even on the Amstrad, but that is about to change. As thanks to yet another gaming heads up from Saberman, he has told us that Ayor61 and team, have released a much improved version of the game...

Five What-Ifs That Could Have Changed Gaming Forever

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 14, 2023 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

The comic book industry isn’t the only one that get to have this much fun. Take a look at five situations that morphed the industry forever and what could have happened if things happened otherwise. Sega Doesn’t Give Up Creating Consoles After the Dreamcast: Sega is...

Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game

by Old School Gamer | Jan 14, 2023 | 1990s, 2000s, The Story Of...

Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game In Late Grandmother’s Collection As spotted by Gaming Bible, a gamer named KrisReed recently took to Reddit to share a picture of their grandmother’s video game collection. However, it appears their late...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Daniel Janson

by Todd Friedman | Jan 8, 2023 | 2000s, Interviews

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Daniel Janson who is displayed on card number 4161, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. Daniel has been into pinball since I was 12-13 years old. In 2003, he purchased his first pinball machine (The Shadow). This was the...

The Retro Hour / Guitar Hero & Rock Band – The History PodCast

by Todd Friedman | Jan 5, 2023 | 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, Podcast of the Week

CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST We get the inside story on Harmonix Music Systems, the company who brought us the legendary party games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. How the company founders remortgaged their houses to make it happen, how they did an industry first and made a...