by Old School Gamer | Jun 13, 2019 | 2010s, Events, Magazine Preview
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...
by Old School Gamer | Jun 11, 2019 | 1980s, 2010s, Events, Magazine Preview
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...
by Conor McBrien | Jun 6, 2019 | 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...
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....
by Old School Gamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Arcade, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...
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...
by Old School Gamer | May 30, 2019 | 2010s, Arcade, Events, Magazine Preview
By and large, the great achievements of early arcade gamers from the 80’s remained known only to the faithful few until 2007, with the release of the feature length documentary film, King of Kong. At first, the film seemed peculiar: a niche subculture of competitors...
by Brett Weiss | May 28, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview
I like a good, epic solo adventure like H.E.R.O. for the ColecoVision, or God of War for the PlayStation 2, as much as anyone, and I also enjoy playing (and replaying) any number of quickie twitch games, all by my lonesome. However, there’s nothing quite like facing...