Give Me My Pancake! – A DIY Homebrew Kit for the Atari 2600
Homebrew video games have come a long way since they first started appearing in the 1990’s. Not only the games themselves, but the way they’re packaged and sold. Long gone are the days of inkjet printed labels and photocopied instruction sheets. Current...
Billy Mitchell coming to SoCal!
Billy Mitchell will be coming to the Retro City Festival in January – http://retrocityfestival.com. And Old School Gamer will be there giving out issue #2 of our magazine. “THE KING OF KONG” BILLY MITCHELL The star of King of Kong and history’s most...
Phoenix IV: Movies and Videogames
Parker Brothers was another major company that began licensing games for home use. In addition to acquiring arcade games like Sega’s Frogger, Parker Brothers also licensed the movie The Empire Strikes Back and designed a game around it. Even the cereal company...
Classic Home Video Video Games 1985-1988: FOOD FIGHT
Publisher : Atari. Developer: Atari, Action, 1 or 2 Players (alternating). 1987 A very nice port of Atari’s highly entertaining arcade game (1983), Food Fight for the 7800 has players guiding gluttonous Charlie Chuck (who starts on the right side of the screen)...
Obelix for the Atari 2600
Asterix is the name of a very popular French comic that, like many Americans, I have never read. I can tell you that Asterix is the little guy, Obelix is the big guy and they both have Atari 2600 games named for them. That’s about it. Sales weren’t...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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