Video Games Live features video game music performed by a complete live orchestra presented in tandem with various video game content including gameplay footage, dynamic stage lighting, and over-the-top special effects. There is nothing that adds more POP to...
Each month, the staff of Old School Gamer Magazine are sent to some of the greatest gaming conventions in the US. And to every convention we go to, we always seem to come back with more stuff than we left with. That’s not always a bad thing. Because not only...
The world don’t move to the beat of just one drum. At least that is what we learned growing up watchin’ the weekly antics of Arnold, played by Gary Coleman, when the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes was beamed across the airwaves. Of particular interest is the fifth episode...
This is Michael Thomasson comin’ at you with a historical pop-culture article, and if you’re not careful, you may learn something before it’s done. So let’s get ready, OK? Hey, hey, hey! Despite your current feelings about Bill Cosby, he was a major influence on many...
Brian Colin is a filmmaker and animator who reluctantly found himself thrust into the video game industry kicking and screaming…. During the golden age of arcade video games, Colin answered a Bally Midway ad thinking, “What does the pinball company want with an...
Tron was the first video game that was officially licensed from a movie. Other games had been created before 1981 but they were unofficial versions or they weren’t officially licensed from the movies they were associated with. The premise of Tron involves a man named...