Inside Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction With Ronald Pieket

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 4, 2023 | 2000s, Interviews, The Story Of...

Destroy It All, One Card at a Time Powered by the same type of sandbox gameplay made popular by Grand Theft Auto 3 and a story that creatively borrowed from national and world headlines, Lucas Arts and Pandemic Studios’ Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is one of...

Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Vampire Hunters’

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jun 21, 2023 | 2020s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Interviews, The Story Of...

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Tiago Zaidan (CEO and Lead Producer, Gamecraft Studios) about their new game, Vampire Hunters. About Vampire Hunters: Inspired by the indie hit Vampire Survivors, Vampire Hunters has players stack weapons until you end up with...

BoomShakalaka With NBA JAM – Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | May 10, 2023 | Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series and has 2-on-2 arcade-style basketball game that with over-the-top gameplay. The exaggerated nature of the gameplay means that players can perform gravity...

Free Comic Book Day Exclusive From Old School Gamer Magazine! The Behind the Scenes Story of X-Men Legends!

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | May 6, 2023 | 2000s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Interviews, The Story Of...

Enjoy this excerpt from Patrick Hickey Jr’s book, The Minds Behind Adventure Games! To celebrate Free Comic Book Day, we take a look under the curtain of X-Men Legends! Patrick Lipo: X-Men Legends…The Birth of the Marvel Action/RPG Monopoly             With...

Subscriber Spotlight – by Ben Magnet

by Ben Magnet | Feb 24, 2023 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

The year is 1989. A young man, really an eleven-year-old kid, is playing the NES he’s had for just over a year, but he isn’t playing the classic Super Mario Bros. Instead of saving a princess in a castle or shooting down ducks, his eyes that evening are on a much...

Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game

by Old School Gamer | Jan 14, 2023 | 1990s, 2000s, The Story Of...

Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game In Late Grandmother’s Collection As spotted by Gaming Bible, a gamer named KrisReed recently took to Reddit to share a picture of their grandmother’s video game collection. However, it appears their late...