Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Drink Up Y’all

by Brad Feingold | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade

Every so often, you run into a game that you look at and think to yourself, who the heck came up with this?  I thought the standards of a video game are to drive a car, rescue a princess, shoot an alien or even jump into your lily pad.  So how is a game like Tapper...

The show that kicked our retro in the rear has moved!

by Old School Gamer | Sep 19, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Home

Fellow Gamers, I’m extremely excited to be writing to you to inform you that we just released the Midwest Gaming Classic web site for 2018, and we have BIG news! The Midwest Gaming Classic will be moving from our long-time home of the Sheraton Milwaukee...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Get a New Idea Capcom

by Brad Feingold | Sep 13, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade

Wow, there are a lot of different video games out there in the world.  From fighting to mazes, driving and shooting, there has been a great amount of games to choose from.  In addition to that, you are also choosing which “company” to support.  Sega,...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Shut the *#@! UP!!!!

by Brad Feingold | Sep 6, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade

I actually had a colleague read the first three blogs I did and she asked, “How are you remembering such childish things?”  I told her that they were exciting times in my life that are triggered when recently exposed to them again.  She didn’t...

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by Old School Gamer | Sep 4, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade, Home

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Keep Calm and Insert Coin: HEY YOU GUYYYYYYSSSSS!!!!!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!

by Brad Feingold | Sep 2, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade

June 1985.  Now that was a helluva a summer!  RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco.  Coca Cola announces they’d bring back their 99-year-old formula.  That went well. (Sarcasm).  18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched.  Weird Al...