Just for Qix: Thunderforce – From the Home to the Arcade – By Michael Thomasson

by Michael Thomasson | Mar 29, 2019 | 1990s, Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview

  It is a rare occurrence when a home console game makes its way to the video arcade, but that is what happened with the horizontal- scrolling shooter Thunder Force. Like a reverse chain of events, in the literary world it would be equivalent to a book being...

An R-Type Revival – By Patrick Hickey Jr.

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Mar 22, 2019 | 2010s, Arcade, The Story Of...

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Tozai Games Producer Takuya Banno, who discusses their new edition of the classic shoot-em-up, R-Type, dubbed R-Type Dimensions EX, on the Nintendo Switch. Featuring a plethora of old school influences and odes, Dimensions EX is...

Shooters/Shmups: Galaga – By Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Mar 21, 2019 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview

Almost every adult remembers the “Golden Age” of Video Gaming. Most would say this included arcade games from 1978 to 1983. If you were to ask someone what the five most popular games of that era were, Galaga would always be mentioned. It was, and is, one of the most...

The National Videogame Museum

by Shaun Jex | Mar 10, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Reviews

This weekend I took a trip to the past, and I didn’t even need a DeLorean to get there. All I had to do was make the short drive to Frisco, Texas to visit the National Videogame Museum. Opened in 2016 by Joe Santulli, Sean Kelly, and John Hardie (founders of the Las...

ARpiCADE – Raspberry Pi Your Jamma Cabinet – By Old School Gamer

by Old School Gamer | Mar 8, 2019 | 1990s, Arcade, Magazine Preview, Reviews

ARpiCADE is the solution to a whole slew of issues that retro video gamers have. It is an extra board set that you hook up to your Raspberry Pi computer. It allows you to do the equivalent of RetroPie, which so many people are using to build handheld computers and...

Pole Position and Michael Klug – By Joel West

by Old School Gamer | Mar 4, 2019 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns

COINS DETECTED IN POCKET   Welcome to the premier installment of a column dedicated exclusively to Old School Gamers. These gamers, back in the day, had to physically use a coin to start a video game. The earning of coinage was mostly accomplished after some form...