Montezuma’s Revenge now available for home consoles

by William Schwartz | Dec 10, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Press Release

  As of December 10th, Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, as well as the Microsoft Store. The porting of...

Christmas With Antstream Arcade

by Antstream Blog | Dec 5, 2025 | 1990s, Antstream, Console/Handheld, Retro Computing

Christmas is a magical time for gamers, and for retro fans it always brings back memories of large boxes under the Christmas tree, gaming treats ready to be unwrapped on a chilly December morning. We’ve all got special Christmas gaming memories – to celebrate this...

Musings of a Retro Gamer: Loading Games from Cassette

by Marcus Albers | Nov 23, 2025 | 1980s, C64 Vic20

Modern game systems load games almost instantaneously, it seems. In general, most mobile games are at your fingertips with minimal loading time, while larger PC and console games may take 30 seconds to load their data into memory. Our expectations, as modern gamers,...

SNK vs Capcom: Stronger Edition – Interpreting a portable classic

by Marcus Albers | Nov 19, 2025 | 2020s, C64 Vic20, Reviews

When it comes to one-on-one fighting games, the Commodore 64 is generally not the go-to system. While there were a few impressive entries during the long history of the system, such as Way of the Exploding Fist and the International Karate series, C64 gamers never...

Should Have Stayed in the Arcade: 5 Commodore 64 Arcade Port Fails

by Marcus Albers | Nov 12, 2025 | 1980s, Arcade, C64 Vic20

When the Commodore 64 was still being produced, arcade boards were much more advanced. This made bringing popular, current arcade games home to the 8-bit home system a challenge at the best of times. Even though concessions would be made to bring them home...

How I love the GameBoy – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

by Old School Gamer | Nov 10, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Stern

The first time I encountered a Game Boy was not long after it came out. My family lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989. Our friends were mostly Americans who attended an international school with us. Although video game systems and handhelds were not easily...