Five Games That Would Play Great As Retro DeMakes

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 11, 2020 | Lists

The visual power of the next generation consoles is certainly impressive, but nowhere near as powerful as many expected. With that in mind, rather than focus on visual power, we here at Old School Gamer are going to do the opposite- and reimagine some of this...

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...

Digging Deeper Into Big Announcement From Sega

by Jason Russell | May 29, 2020 | 2020s, Columns, Lists, Magazine Preview

Sega is About to Unleash Some Big News In case you haven’t heard, amid a global pandemic, domestic rioting and unrest, and seemingly endless troubling news, a rumor has escaped Japan that Sega is in the process of readying an announcement next week that will rile the...

Five Fun Retro Time Killers on Switch

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | May 24, 2020 | 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Lists

With the effects of the COVID-19 continuing and quarantine continuing in some parts of the country through the end of Spring and the beginning of Summer, Old School Gamer shares five games on the Nintendo Switch with a retro edge that are sure to take an afternoon off...

RETROSPECTIVE: The Licensed Fighters

by Jason Russell | May 18, 2020 | 1990s, Arcade, Columns, Lists, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

Two Great Trends That Trend Great Together As the popularity of the versus fighting grew in the early to mid 90s, it didn’t take long for developers and publishers to see the appeal in coupling the genre with licensed properties to capitalize on two trends...

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...