by Old School Gamer | Mar 19, 2018 | 2010s, Console/Handheld
ATARI® OFFICIALLY INTRODUCES THE ATARI VCS™, ITS ALL-NEW VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM INSPIRED BY MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF HISTORY Legendary Digital Pioneer Continues Development of New Hardware Platform that Honors Company’s Innovative Video Game Roots While Launching a New...
by Ric Pryor | Mar 18, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Console/Handheld
Adventure is one of the Atari 2600 games. It’s a game you either love profoundly or say you love profoundly to avoid being shunned by the classic gaming community. Almost everyone old enough to have had a 2600 as a kid has fond memories of sitting on the living...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Mar 16, 2018 | Console/Handheld
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Ryan Hewer (Project Director, Little Red Dog Games), who gives us the skinny on Deep Sixed, which takes a heart chunk of inspiration from classic sci-fi TV and film, as well as an obscure board game. Detailing the creative process,...
by Old School Gamer | Mar 11, 2018 | 2010s, Console/Handheld
As the future of gaming is growing, one of the biggest kept secrets is from Atari and the Ataribox Project. Now, this month, people will be able to get first hand information about the system and experience some of the games and controllers that will be part of the...
by Ric Pryor | Mar 10, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
I have no idea how the postal system works. Nearly every day, things from around the country, around the world even, appear in the metal box bolted to the front of my house and I don’t have a clue how they got from those far away locations to my door. But,...
by JasonBreininger | Mar 8, 2018 | 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
Blast processing. Sega had it, Nintendo didn’t. I had no idea what it was and most other kids didn’t either. Of course, we now know it was a made up term used by the Sega marketing department, but that didn’t matter to us in 1991. All we knew was that there was this...