Phoenix IV: Mario Meets Sonic

by Leonard Herman | Dec 22, 2017 | 2000s, Console/Handheld

Sega released a Wii game on November 6 that received much more exposure. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games marked the first pairing of the iconic characters from Nintendo and Sega in a game together. The two companies had worked together previously in 2001, when...

Snail Against Squirrel for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Dec 20, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

Something like 400 games were released for the Atari 2600 in North America during its commercial life. Another 50 or so, at least officially, weren’t. Bizarre games with thought-provoking titles like Hell Driver, Dead Ray, Hole Hunter and Square Game. While...

Night Trap (Sega CD)

by JasonBreininger | Dec 16, 2017 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

Full motion video games, or FMV’s for short, were all the (short lived) rage back in the early 90s. CD technology had been around for a few years in the music industry, but, by 1992, it was finally mainstream to the point where just about everyone had traded in their...

Classic Home Video Games 1985-1988: NARC

by Brett Weiss | Dec 15, 2017 | 1990s, Console/Handheld

Publisher: Acclaim.  Developer: Rare, Platform Shooter, 1 Player 1990 Based on Williams’ 1988 arcade game, NARC for the NES was approved by Just Say No International, which was a product of the Reagan-era War on Drugs.  Players, as Max Force, must battle their...

Latest Issue of Old School Gamer going online NOW!

by Old School Gamer | Dec 13, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

We are proud to release the 2nd issue of Old School Gamer.  This issue is bonus length of 64 pages to include all the coverage we had to pack in.  Please check it out now by clicking here –...

UFO for the Atari 2600 (Not the Odyssey2)

by Ric Pryor | Dec 12, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Console/Handheld

Remember growing up with an Atari 2600 and being jealous of all your Oddyssey2 friends who got to play UFO! while you were stuck playing Asteroids? Wait, I got that backwards. Anyway, John Reder has ported UFO! to the 2600, so now it’s possible for you to relive...