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...

Switch It Up: SNK Gals’ Fighters a Five Minute Review on a Ten Minute Game – By Brad Feingold

by Brad Feingold | May 8, 2020 | 2020s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews

Fighting games on the early handheld systems is not an easy accomplishment. We are not here to discuss the failure of Mortal Kombat for the Game Boy Advance, but that was just one example. To find a game that allows quick and easy movement and decent visualizations...

PONG Quest Launches on Nintendo Switch

by Old School Gamer | May 7, 2020 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

The critically-acclaimed PONG Quest arrives on Nintendo Switch today! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we are offering a 20% Launch Week discount through May 14th when purchasing through the Nintendo eShop. Whether you prefer playing on PC via Steam or the...

The NEOGEO POCKET fighter SNK GALS’ FIGHTERS is now available on the Nintendo SwitchTM!

by Old School Gamer | Apr 30, 2020 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

Osaka, Japan, – SNK CORPORATION (Corporate HQ: Suita-city, Osaka, Japan, Company President & CEO: Koichi Toyama) is pleased to announce that SNK GALS’ FIGHTERS is available now on the Nintendo Switch via Nintendo eShop.   SNK’s wondrous heroines duke it...

Why retro throwbacks still have a place among 2020’s groundbreaking games

by Old School Gamer | Apr 20, 2020 | Console/Handheld

In 2016 an anonymous Reddit user known only as The-King-of-Spain said they’d developed a way to play Virtual Boy games using newly released VR technology from Google and Samsung. Using an emulator – software enabling older operating systems to run on modern devices –...