Arcade Paradise – “A New Challenger”

by Old School Gamer | Jul 30, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Press Release

Arcade Paradise is a love letter to arcades from the creators of Vostok Inc. Kit out your dream arcade with machines from the glory era, from simple vector-based games of the 70s all the way to the early 3D games of the mid-90s. Get a heavy dose of nostalgia with over...

Retro Gaming Events last June – by Ryan Burger

by Old School Gamer | Jul 30, 2022 | 2020s, Events, Magazine Preview

Summer so far has been quieter than some of the past years, as we have taken more time at home working on the magazine and other things all our readers will be finding out in August more about. So, we only have a couple Midwestern events to talk about in this issue....

Enjoy the Ultimate Arcade Experience at Home with the Launch of Capcom Arcade™ 2nd Stadium

by Old School Gamer | Jul 27, 2022 | 2020s, Gaming, Press Release

, Get your joysticks (and controllers) ready! Capcom Arcade™ 2nd Stadium launches today on Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam with 32 classic Capcom games to enjoy! Finally land the single-player high score in fan-favorites like BLACK...

Dragon’s Lair II Time Warp: Amiga Intro Animation redone frame by frame in Personal Paint by Hache

by Indie Retro News | Jul 25, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I remember Dragon’s Lair very well, from the Amstrad version with the jumping of platforms or trying to stay on the spinning disk without being blown off, or the interactive animated version which appeared as a laserdisc in which you needed to press a specific...

Mortal Kombat – by Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Jul 24, 2022 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

When I was a senior in high school in 1992, I worked in the local bowling alley which had an arcade in the back of the building. Each month or so, the gaming distributor would bring in some new arcade and pinball games that had just come out. There were a lot of...

Mighty Street Fighter – Could this upcoming ‘Street Fighter’ be the next homebrew hit for the Amstrad 128k?

by Indie Retro News | Jul 23, 2022 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

I’m sure many of you remember Street Fighter, a game which originally appeared on the Arcades, and was then ported to pretty much every system you could think of, including such systems as the Amiga, Atari St and even the ZX Spectrum.  Well fast forward to today...