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Life Before the Plumbers – Platform Games Before Super Mario Bros

Life Before the Plumbers – Platform Games Before Super Mario Bros

by Marcus Albers | May 24, 2026 | 1980s, Arcade, Atari, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld

Super Mario Bros. This game single-handedly changed how platform games were approached after it stormed onto the scene in 1985. It established so many conventions that people now expect in side-scrolling platform games. When you approach a new platformer, what is the...
One Game, Five Systems – Choplifter

One Game, Five Systems – Choplifter

by Marcus Albers | May 19, 2026 | 1980s, Apple 2, Arcade, Atari, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld

Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the...
Review: Jupiter Fracture for the Commodore 64

Review: Jupiter Fracture for the Commodore 64

by Marcus Albers | May 6, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Reviews

In case you haven’t heard, the classic Commodore has undergone a rebirth. Retro computer YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson managed to gather the support and financing to purchase the bits and pieces of Commodore held by other companies and...
MECC: When Generation X Got to Play Games in School

MECC: When Generation X Got to Play Games in School

by Marcus Albers | Apr 29, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Apple 2, C64 Vic20, Early IBM DOS

The majority of my formative years were spent growing up in Minnesota. I didn’t realize until much later in life that I had advantages afforded to me, from a computer technology standpoint, that other states simply did not have. MECC, originally the Minnesota...
Retro Review: Fort Apocalypse for the C64

Retro Review: Fort Apocalypse for the C64

by Marcus Albers | Mar 22, 2026 | 1980s, C64 Vic20, Reviews

Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin’s classic Choplifter on my cousin’s Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64...
Only $15 to go on this $20,000 Kickstarter for a book!

Only $15 to go on this $20,000 Kickstarter for a book!

by Old School Gamer | Mar 13, 2026 | 1980s, C64 Vic20

We at Old School Gamer have worked with this publisher/author on several of his books and enjoy reading them each time they come out.  Check out more information on it at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microzeit/redo-from-start-volume-ii REDO FROM START – Volume...
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