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...

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...

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Mini Lightbox Review

by Brad Feingold | May 1, 2018 | Reviews

With the arcade machines, one of my most favorite parts is the marquees.  Besides the monitor and graphics, the marquee is the sign to attract you to the glowing light.  There are some people that collect the marquees, but the price of them can range from $5 up to...

Relating on a Personal Level with Atari’s Paperboy

by JasonBreininger | May 1, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews, The Story Of...

Spring of 1985 was a dark time for video games. The Nintendo Entertainment System was still 6 months from seeing the light of day in the United States. Atari mania and Pac-Man fever felt like ages ago thanks to the shift away from home console gaming towards computer...

Stern Pinball Arcade: Close to the Real Thing

by Brad Feingold | Apr 16, 2018 | 2010s, Console/Handheld, Reviews

I am a person that loves video games, hands down.  In case you didn’t know that. But my all time dream and love is to own my own pinball machine.  Problem is, they are big and expensive.  And there really isn’t an alternative to having one…. or is...