Lord British Meetup: Dave and Busters With Richard Garriott – Bill Lange

by BillLange | Jul 13, 2018 | 2010s, Events, Magazine Preview

On Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018, Michael Sean Kane organized and hosted a Shroud of the Avatar Launch Review with special guest, Lord British himself, Richard Garriott. The event took place at the Dave & Buster’s, a full-service restaurant and video arcade, on 42nd...

Sega Arcade Pop-Up Book to Soon Feature on your Coffee Table

by Brendan Meharry | Jul 13, 2018 | 1980s, 2010s

Your coffee table is about to become astounding, and you don’t even know it yet. The world has been blessed with many great pop-up books over the decades, creating a quasi-AR-before-AR like state – however, to my knowledge none have yet to feature arcade gaming greats...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Dan Iacovelli

by Todd Friedman | Jul 13, 2018 | 2000s, 2010s

Join us tomorrow for the Video Game Summit in Villa Park, IL.   Today we will talk with Dan Iacovelli of Westchester, IL  who began this event 13 years ago.    For more information go to http://www.videogamesummit.net/ Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Dan...

Video Game Summit 2018

by Todd Friedman | Jul 13, 2018 | 2000s, 2010s, Columns, Events

Video Game Summit, is Chicago’s Premier Video Game Event. The 2018 show will be at The Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park,IL, 7/14/18 show hours are: 10:00am till 6pm(all times central) Remember how much fun you used to have playing Atari, Nintendo and all kinds of games...

Old School Gamer is available digitally and shipping Friday!

by Old School Gamer | Jul 10, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

OSG #5 is available digitally now for all subscribers and will be in the mailboxes of print subscribers early next week… This “action-packed” issue puts the emphasis sports games in the realm of retro gaming. We start out with NBA Jam and Mutant...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Joe Jackmovich

by Todd Friedman | Jul 8, 2018 | 2010s, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Joe Jackmovich, who is displayed on card number 2101, from the Superstars of 2015.  Joe is an experienced journalist with his M.A. from Indiana University.  Being a video game reporter, Joe has talked to many figures in the...