by Jeremy Parish | Oct 21, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
On July 15, 1983, Nintendo launched its first programmable console, the Family Computer. A couple of years later, the Famicom would arrive in America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the decade following the console’s Japanese debut, it would help transform...
by Todd Friedman | Oct 18, 2025 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview, Reviews
It was on my birthday, October 18th, 1985 where console gaming changed forever. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) hit North America and the consoled world has never looked back. Millions of NES consoles were purchased, and ten of million number of NES carts...
by Michael Thomasson | Oct 15, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
Nestled in a quiet corner in the Buffalo suburb of Depew sits a modest building with a simple façade. It was once a corner bar – long abandoned, idle, and forgotten. Today, it pulses with new life as the Nickel City Pinball Club. The front door bears the club’s...
by Old School Gamer | Oct 14, 2025 | 1990s, Gaming, Magazine Preview
Many will argue that the 90s were the peak of gaming, and they might not be wrong. After all, iconic consoles like the SNES, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation 1 were all released in that era. The world also got introduced to some legendary games and characters...
by Leonard Herman | Oct 13, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
Video Game Connections, located in the Regal Plaza on 2209 Rt 9 North, Howell, NJ 07731, is well-known to many videogame collectors along the east coast of the United States. Unlike many videogame stores that dot the United States and\ abroad, it is one of the few...
by William Schwartz | Oct 11, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
In a retro market typically dominated by high concept\ companies advertising their commitment to nostalgia or cheap Chinese knockoffs, 8BitDo operates in a curious middle ground. Very little is known about the history of the company, save that it was founded in Hong...