Pong Quest: Thou Must Go – Review By Brad Feingold

by Brad Feingold | Jun 6, 2020 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

Hear ye, hear ye. Thou has been bestowed with a quest. To go through the dungeons and collect gold coins and treasure and defeat the oversized dungeon monsters with your pong paddle. And you are to….wait, what? Yes your pong paddle. Pong quest is one of those...

The Prince of Prince of Persia – By Ryan Burger

by Old School Gamer | Jun 6, 2020 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, Reviews

The first computer that I spent a lot of time on was an Apple IIc (after experiencing Apple IIe’s at junior high school) and one of the first games that I spent a lot of time on was Karateka – Jordan Mechner’s martial arts game that came out in 1984. I probably...

Meet The Latest Retro Mini: The Sega Game Gear Micro

by Jason Russell | Jun 3, 2020 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Lists

When Sega Heard the World Wanted a New Retro Mini, They Took it Literally Admittedly, Sega has one of the most desirable backlog of hardware and game libraries due for the retro mini treatment (Master System, Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast) so when rumors of new hardware...

Nintendo NES Book Now on Kickstarter!

by Old School Gamer | Jun 1, 2020 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

Nintendo NES Book Now on Kickstarter!             Welcome to the Kickstarter for The NES Omnibus: The Nintendo Entertainment System and Its Games, Volume 1 (A–L)! Featuring a robust, hugely entertaining, 1,200-word foreword by The...

Intellivision Entertainment Adds Renowned Game Industry Veteran J Allard As Global Managing Director

by Old School Gamer | May 20, 2020 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

          Former Microsoft® Executive and Xbox® Co-Founder Returns to the Video Game Industry to Further Bolster Leadership Team and Launch Intellivision® Amico™ Game Console   IRVINE, Calif. – May 14, 2020 – Intellivision Entertainment,...

RETROSPECTIVE: The Best of the Rest

by Jason Russell | May 9, 2020 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Lists, Magazine Preview

After Street Fighter II came Mortal Kombat. After Mortal Kombat came a tsunami. As the Street Fighter II phenomena grew in arcades and then again when ports of the popular games came to home consoles, nearly every company in the industry suddenly found themselves in a...