Your Own Arcade! by Ryan Burger

by Ryan Burger | Sep 17, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Columns

Old School Gamer surveyed its friend running nationally and regionally known retro arcades and found out that there are some games you have to have to consider ourself a retro arcade. We started by listing the most popular games on the KLOV.Com site (Museum of the...

Five Modern Games/IP That Would Be Well-Served With Retro-Reboots

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 6, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Columns, Lists, Opinions

So many franchises today focus on delivering high-end visual experiences to tell their stories. They often forget that people played their games when visuals weren’t at a premium, because they were easy to play and had a level of fun needed to inspire long gameplay...

Tourney Blast !

by Todd Friedman | Jul 29, 2024 | 2010s, Columns

Here is my very first article I wrote for Old School Gamer Magazine’s website back on October 31, 2017. I have loved working with OSG and continue to contribute to the website and the physical magazine. If you are in the Chicagoland area and want some good time...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Doc Mack

by Todd Friedman | Jul 26, 2024 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Doc Mack who currently is displayed on card number 483, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection.  Doc is the owner of an arcade in Brookfield, IL called The Galloping Ghost Arcade.   This is not your ordinary arcade of today;...

Reading the Classics – From Back in the Day to Today – By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History

by Leonard Herman | Jun 16, 2024 | 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview

  Ever since the world’s first two videogame magazines, Great Britain’s Computer and Video Games and the United States’ Electronic Games, debuted two weeks apart in November 1981, printed videogame magazines have basically come in four flavors. General: The...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back?

by Old School Gamer | May 4, 2024 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1982 Publisher: Parker Brothers Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model #: PB5050 Rarity: 2 Programmer: Rex Bradford This movie based shooter is one of the finest, most challenging titles around. Join the...