Whether it’s early mornings with Mickey or feature length blockbusters at the movies, Disney has been a part of nearly everyone’s life. Not only has Walt and his team basically built the animation genre, but with the help of some of the industries biggest studios,...

Each month in Retro Revisited, Classic Console’s very own Brandon Poe picks one classic game to play. This month’s classic: Capcom’s Demon’s Crest. As I pondered about what retro game to play next, I remembered Super Ghosts and Ghouls for the SNES. I recalled how hard...

When many think of Archie Comics, they think of the teen-oriented comic series starring lovable High School aged stars: Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead. However, Archie Comics’ history starts long before its namesake publication. The life of the company now known...

The Nintendo Game Boy boasts a large library of games. According to 2 sources we here at ClassicConsole checked, 733 titles were released for the Game Boy. This does not take into consideration any Game Boy color titles. Compared to Nintendo’s other 8-bit system, the...

Before the Game Boy existed, handheld games by and large consisted of very simplified graphics, most times made up of dots to represent the action. Some early examples of these sorts of games were released by Mattel, Coleco and Tiger Electronics. It required far more...

Growing up in the 90s in a very rural state in Northeastern United States, we didn’t really have much for arcades in my area. Yes, there was the one tiny one tucked into the corner by the food court in the mall, and we did also have an arcade at the mini-golf place...

Ross Sillifant brings us yet another great interview this month with the amazing Chris Shrigley, co-founder of Eurocom. During their discussion we learn about what it was like to be involved with the creation of games for the SEGA-CD, especially the fantastic title...

In each month’s Tech Talk, one of our resident experts will give all of our readers their knowledge on a particular subject pertaining to the manufacture, repair and care of classic video games and systems. This month features contributing writer John Meadows from the...

Basketball is a pure American creation, being the one major sport to have it’s origins completely in the United States rather then being an altered version of a popular sport elsewhere in the world, such as baseball, which is derived from Cricket. A simple game with...

In the mid 1980’s the once booming arcade industry was coming to an end. From 1981 to 1986 the arcade industry was cut in half, going from $8 million in revenue down to $4 million. By 1991, the industry was a shell of it’s formal self only taking in $2.1 million....

Each month in Retro Revisited, Classic Console’s very own Brandon Poe picks one classic game to play. This month’s classic: Capcom’s 1942. This month I decided to sit down with a game I really did not have much experience with. I had only heard of this game when I was...

The road to Sony’s involvement in the video game industry began way back in 1986. It is a story littered with broken promises, court cases and Sony almost walking away from ever being involved in video games. Eventually redeeming themselves with the creation of a...

Prior to the creation of Activision, third party publishers did not exist. This is not just some statement thrown out to explain this publisher’s importance, it is a literal fact. Activision, formed in October 1979, was the first ever independent publisher to exist in...

Every month we here at Classic Console Magazine are given the awesome task of looking at some of the best new up and coming homebrew and independent releases for the Atari 2600. A large amount of games are being created by the retro gaming community. Some are of such...