Musing of a Retro Gamer: Lost Media and Game Preservation

by Marcus Albers | Apr 19, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

As I was browsing Reddit the other day, as I’m wont to do from time to time, I came across a post about something of great interest to me that I knew nothing about. The post discussed the release of a PC port of Infinity Blade II. For the uninitiated, the...

Learning to Code in 1980: A Book, BASIC, and Pure Persistence

by William Winter | Apr 8, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

Here is a story about how I learned to code at age 13. How most of us learned. I was 13 in 1980. Back then, at home, our family had an Apple II Plus, but not a lot of software – especially we had very few games to play. But pretty much every computer had BASIC...

A Scorpion Behind the Rock – Then and Now

by William Winter | Mar 30, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

Over the years I’ve worked in the business software industry, I’ve had the pleasure of working on and off with a particular friend I’ve known since high school in the 1980s. One day, just a little while back, while working together in a meeting with engineering and...

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...

We’ve Been Here Before (And I Didn’t Even Realize It)

by Old School Gamer | Mar 20, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

This popped into my head literally like a lightbulb turning on. I just figured it out. I was sitting there using ChatGPT, working through something… typed a prompt, got a response, tweaked it, tried again, refined it, pushed it a little further… …and...

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...