by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Oct 1, 2017 | 2010s
Old School Gamer chats with Ezekiel Rage (Lead Developer) of Citadale: The Legends Trilogy, who lets us know how a love of 8-Bit action platformer on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Master System gave birth to a game that could one day end up on the Switch....
by David Oxford | Sep 28, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s, Arcade
Even though Nintendo got their video game start in arcades and became the stuff of legend via Donkey Kong, they’ve always been a bit shy about bringing genuine ports of their coin-op hits to home consoles. However, that all changes this week thanks to Hamster,...
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 28, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s
Remember the Ataribox? The “new” console by Atari? While not much was known originally about the console apart from what was revealed in a twenty-second video showing nothing but 3D renders (so, nothing) – recently, Atari sent out an email newsletter exposing...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 26, 2017 | 2010s
Although the Nintendo Switch has- and will have titles that show off its graphical prowess and its bevy of useful features at home and on the go, it is very much a system rooted in retro-styled gaming. From modern retellings of classics, to the inclusion of original...
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s
Satoru Iwata, who was the 4th President and CEO of Nintendo, was a programmer and game designer decades before he was a businessman. Long before his tragic death in 2015, he successfully wrote and initiated his own data compression tool to fit the NES’s Golf (which...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 20, 2017 | 2010s
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Matt Bitner – Lead Developer of A Robot Named Fight, now available on Steam. A combination of classic retro adventures the likes of Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra and Diablo, it’s a wild retro meets modern experience...
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