The Game Scholar: What’s in a Name? – By Leonard Herman
Since the dawn of time, or at least since 1975 when every Tom, Dick and Harry began releasing their own forms of videogame console that used General Instruments’ AY- 3-8500 chip, people have been referring to all video tennis consoles as Pong consoles. This is quite...
Convention & Event Update: February 2019 – April 2019 – By Old School Gamer Staff
MIDWEST GAMING CLASSIC, MUSEUM OF PLAY , VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL EAST MIDWEST GAMING CLASSIC MILWAUKEE, WI BY RYAN BURGER Spring is a quieter season for gaming conventions, but winter found a way to come back to the Midwest Gaming Classic again, this year in...
Tecmo Super Bowl Is Alive and Competition Is Fierce – By Sam Fritz
Down, set, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut… If those words continue to ring in one’s head then it is likely they have at one point experienced the thrill of 1991’s Nintendo Entertainment System classic “Tecmo Super Bowl”. You might have found yourself sprinting...
Toe Jam and Earl Back in the Groove – By Conor McBrien
That’s right! After seventeen years away, the old-school alien duo from the planet Funkotron has returned. Crowdfunded through Kickstarter back in 2015, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is the fourth game in the series and the first to be independently published....
Entering the Digitized Era–Part2 – By Warren Davis
In the last issue, I told the story of how I was introduced to video digitizers in the mid-1980s while working at Williams and began to explore their use in obtaining photo-realistic images for arcade games. The first digitizer I played with was made for an...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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