by Ryan Burger | Nov 13, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
Back in the 1970s, you bought your video games at Sears, which, according to Nolan Bushnell, “The first three years it as exclusive to them. After that, e opened it up to several other retailers.” You would buy your computer software at an Apple dealer, Radio Shack,...
by Todd Friedman | Jul 28, 2024 | 1980s, 2010s, Magazine Preview
The Legend of Zelda Clock This is a cool but sad story of a classic game and how it became a permanent keepsake in my collection as well as my life long memory. One of my favorite games of all time is original The Legend of Zelda for the NES. I remember when it...
by Leonard Herman | Jun 16, 2024 | 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview
Ever since the world’s first two videogame magazines, Great Britain’s Computer and Video Games and the United States’ Electronic Games, debuted two weeks apart in November 1981, printed videogame magazines have basically come in four flavors. General: The...
by Old School Gamer | Mar 3, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
In the 90s, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony held elaborate competitions that defined an era of eSports, with regional city qualifiers awarding a trip to a spectacular main event. A generation of gamers rose to the challenge, hoping to prove themselves as the best in the...
by Old School Gamer | Feb 18, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
That’s the first law of Hollywood. The video game industry always wanted to be like Hollywood. Who would know this better than me, the man who did the most notorious movie conversion of them all? But then again, nobody knows anything. If anybody knew anything then why...
by Old School Gamer | Feb 16, 2024 | 2010s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
With the exception of an issue or two, two artists have done nearly every cover of Old School Gamer since its start in 2017. Starting out with Thor Thorvaldson for approximately the first 1/2 of our existence and then, most recently, Dexter Morrill for the last couple...