Convention & Event Update: May – June 2019 – By Old School Gamer Staff
CINCICLASSIC CINCINNATI, OH BY BRIAN SZAREK On May 18th, 2019, Old School Gamer Magazine was proud to be a part of the CinciClassic Retro Convention, located in the Cincinnati, OH suburb of Ft. Thomas, KY. We had a double booth set up on the far wall, so we had a...
Atari Program Exchange – By Bill Lange
An Early App Store Long before the advent of the Google Play Store, the official app store for the Android operating system, or the Apple App Store for the iOS operating system, and even before the idea of Shareware, there was the Atari Program Exchange (APX), an...
Opining on Designing – By Howard Scott Warshaw
“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde When Oscar said this in the late 1800’s, his medium was the written word. He said many new things, but his medium was firmly established and didn’t change much during his lifetime. He stood on the shoulders (and picked the...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure – By Brett Weiss
Platformers were ubiquitous during the ’80s and ’90s, so I could have picked from any of hundreds of titles for this installment of Old School Bargain Bin. I decided to focus on an early platformer based on a cartoon I didn’t care about and a sequel to one of the most...
Earthworm Jim – A Look Back – By Shaun Sex
If Doug TenNapel had done nothing more than create a character named Queen Slug-For-A-Butt, it would have been enough to make him a video game legend. The name is pure perfection, the brilliant antidote to the seemingly never ending cascade of games that take...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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