Q*Bert’s Dad, Warren Davis and His Start In the Video Game Industry – By Warren Davis

by Old School Gamer | May 17, 2018 | Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

People often ask me what they have to do to get a job making video games. If you asked me that today, I’d tell you I haven’t the faintest idea because the industry has changed so much from when I started. Ironically, when I was a young programmer just out of college,...

Retro City Festival in SoCal – By Old School Gamer Staff

by Old School Gamer | May 14, 2018 | 2020s, Events, Magazine Preview, Reviews

Sunny Southern California is the scene, specifically Pomona, CA, which seems to be the home of so many great things for the retro gaming community: Hyperkin, RetroBit, and the Retro City Festival. This event in mid- January (moving to the first weekend of January in...

Raspiboy Review and Atari 2600 Arcade Companion Review – By Brad Feingold and Old School Gamer Staff

by Brad Feingold | May 10, 2018 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, Reviews

Flying at 30000 feet and I am bored. My laptop won’t fit in my lap and my PSP Vita died. And I can’t surf. I can only type on my iPad. Whee…. Ryan is sitting next to me as we are heading to Las Vegas to the 2018 CES and he was reading and gave me something to...

Game and Market Watch – By Dan Loosen

by Dan Loosen | May 8, 2018 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

In the last article that I wrote, I discussed the importance that the role of story can have when collecting games – good stories make interesting items more desirable, thus raising their prices, while rare items that are relatively unknown tend to be forgotten...

Review: Hyperkin Supa RetroN HD – By Brad Feingold

by Brad Feingold | May 4, 2018 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, Reviews

W hen the Old School Arcade Magazine started, I was brought in to review products available to the consumer. I was able to review a reboot of the Nintendo Entertainment System and was extremely pleased with the product from another distributor. You can imagine my...

The Latest Issue of Old School Gamer is online now!

by Old School Gamer | May 1, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade, Magazine Preview

Old School Gamer has released it’s latest issue, issue #4, and this time it’s themed RPG’s, Role Playing Gamers.  Along with some of the regular features of every issue of Old School Gamer, we have targeted RPG’s with the below coverage: A...