by Old School Gamer | Oct 19, 2018 | Events, Magazine Preview, Reviews
Starting out this season of expos we go from Milwaukee to New Jersey to Ohio and end up in Los Angeles for the mega E3 expo! MIDWEST GAMING CLASSIC • MILWAUKEE, WI BY RYAN BURGER The Midwest Gaming Classic is the first video game expo I have ever attended. It started...
by Old School Gamer | Oct 14, 2018 | 2010s, Magazine Preview
It was the fall of 2014. I had just purchased my first arcade machine on a whim. I had no idea what I was doing. I always wanted to own one (that one became forty) and was excited to get working on getting it running. I asked around in the mid-sized Texas city I’m...
by Walter Day | Oct 7, 2018 | 1980s, Magazine Preview
March’s issue of the 20th Century G.O.A.T.s and May’s G.O.A.T.s of the 21st Century covered a lot of ground, but by no means are we done yet! Andrew Barrow With 157 registered high scores on the Twin Galaxies Scoreboard, Andrew holds 75 world records, mostly in the...
by Old School Gamer | Sep 25, 2018 | Arcade, Magazine Preview
You hear a lot of arguments in the video game business. Some are about how much better X console is that Y for certain reasons, others delve into the minutiae of what makes a game brilliant or garbage. In covering the arcade business for more than 10 years, there is...
by Brett Weiss | Sep 21, 2018 | Columns, Magazine Preview
For this sports-themed issue of Old School Gamer, we’re going back to the basics: five early and essential games for the Atari 2600 and five for the Intellivision, the two most popular systems of the pre-NES era. These highly influential titles, which paved the way...
by Dan Loosen | Sep 18, 2018 | Columns, Magazine Preview
In prior Game & Market articles, I discussed factors that increase awareness of games, and can be a large factor in driving their value up. This time, we’re going to look at an entire segment of games that is generally overlooked by those factors, why they are...