A Selected History of Maze Games – By Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Jan 14, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview

  People of all ages have done some sort of maze or maze game in their life. Whether it’s on a piece of paper, an activity book, or a Halloween corn maze…mazes are all around us. The same can be said for video games past and present. Some would say the...

Duck Hunt: The Ultimate Shooter – By Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Jan 8, 2026 | 1980s, Arcade, Magazine Preview

If you ask a gamer to name some popular shooter titles, they will tell you games like Call of Duty, Doom, Halo, Grand Theft Auto and Goldeneye. Before all of these hit the shelves, Nintendo had a vision of providing a shooter game with the new Nintendo Entertainment...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Paige Burger

by Todd Friedman | Dec 20, 2025 | 2010s, Columns, Magazine Preview

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paige Burger, who is displayed on card number 3105, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection.   Paige is part of the Old School Gamer Magazine crew.   Daughter of the creator and publisher, Paige has made a huge impact on...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Mike Mertes

by Todd Friedman | Nov 30, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, 2020s, Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Old School Gamer Magazine writer Mike Mertes who is displayed on card number 3482, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection.  From the moment he touched an Intellivision controller in 1985, Mike knew that he had experienced...

Celebrating 8 years of The Video Game History Foundation!

by Todd Friedman | Nov 17, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Columns, Magazine Preview

Since February 27, 2017, The Video Game History Foundation has been working hard to preserve, celebrate, and teach video game history. We want to thank you so much for believing in what we do! It’s our mission to make video game history better. Over these past...

The Video Game Life – by Chris Tang

by Old School Gamer | Oct 27, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, Magazine Preview

This issue’s theme of computers offers me a chance to relate my journey as an arcade and console gamer who once hated playing on them in the early days. The PC is now my primary platform to game on today, so how did that come to be? Growing up in the game industry...