Arcade1Up Gets a New High Score with Black Series Arcade1Up PAC-MANTM and Street Fighter IITM Head to Head Gaming Tables
Arcade1Up is celebrating New York Comic Con with special deals and has opened pre-sales for a special edition of their Arcade1Up PAC-MANTM and Street Fighter IITM Head to Head Gaming Tables, which are available for order now on Arcade1Up.com Black Series Arcade1Up...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Pete Hahn
This weekend the International Video Game Hall of Fame will be inducting its new members into the Class of 2019. One of these inductees is Pete Hahn. Pete is a multiple world record holder and former Player of the Year at Galloping Ghost arcade in Brookfield, IL. ...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jeff Peters
This weekend the International Video Game Hall of Fame will be inducting its new members into the Class of 2019. One of these inductees is Jeff Peters. Jeff is a well-deserved inductee as you will read below. His gaming history goes back to the early 1980’s until...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Rick Barretto
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Rick Barretto, who is displayed on card number 3242, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Rick is an all-around gaming enthusiast. He is a collector, author, inventor and an industry entrepreneur. In 1998 Rick...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Donald Hayes
This weekend the International Video Game Hall of Fame will be inducting its new members into the Class of 2019. One of these inductees is Donald Hayes. Donald has been on the scene since the early 1980's. Today he will be part of the Class of 2019 in Ottumwa,...
Lee’s Classic Corner: CVG 101
Welcome to the first CVG 101 column. My name is Lee K. Seitz, and I've been actively collecting classic video games since the late 1980s. The purpose of this column is to help educate newcomers to the hobby of collecting classic video games. Each issue I'll choose a...
Hey, Paisanos! It’s The Super Mario Bros. Super Show Video Game!
You’re in for a treat, so hang on to your seat!
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: A Really Great Tactics Game
I love tactics games. To the passing gamer, they may seem boring with the lack of action and constant planning and strategizing. But to me, it's an intense chess match where every move matters and the satisfaction of watching a strategy play out perfectly is oh so...
Exploring The Classic Text Adventures of Scott Adams – By Bill Lange
Until the late 1970s, electronic gaming consisted of playing one of the hundreds of ping-pong console variants on your home television, an LED-based electronic handheld game, or possibly playing a text-based computer game ... if you were lucky enough to have had...
Doin’ the Donkey Kong By by Darryl Guenther
Back in the day when arcades and corner markets were after school hangouts, one could expect to hear the “whacka-whacka” sounds of Pac-Man, the lasers firing up in Defender and the crackling, shooting sound of Centipede. There weren’t any life-like PCM samples or 3D...
Five NES Sleeper Gems
With over 700 games, the Nintendo Entertainment System library is massive. For that reason alone, it’s possible you haven’t played some of the best games on the console, despite the fact that the console was discontinued 25 years ago. In this exclusive Old School...
Colossal Cave Adventure 1976 – By Ken Horowitz
As gamers, we fondly remember certain titles that defined specific periods in our lives. Some of us grew up with one console or computer that became synonymous with our childhood or adolescence. That kind of impact is remarkable and likely beyond the scope of what the...
Atari and Arcade1Up Announce Exclusive Partnership for Iconic Titles
Atari® and Arcade1Up announce an exclusive partnership to strengthen their relationship and ensure the future of arcade gaming is true to the experience consumers remember. Arcade1Up launched in October of 2018 with multiple games from Atari® and other licenses which...
Atari® Partners With Antstream Arcade To Deliver Thousands of Retro Games to Atari VCS™ Video Computer System
Atari VCS to Launch with Unique Version of Revolutionary Game Streaming Platform, Offering Thousands of Classic Retro Games, Including Atari’s Vast Library of Console and Arcade Titles NEW YORK, NY (SEPTEMBER 30, 2019) - Atari® — one of the world's most iconic...
These scale models of the PS1 & Saturn include the Internals too
Miniature versions of consoles are all the rage at home – and seemingly everywhere else. It feels like every other week a new, little emulation box is released onto the market to satisfy the retro gaming cravings of the general public. While these are usually smaller...
Intellivision Lives! On Your Computer! By Chris Cavanaugh
I don’t think the console wars of today have anything on the console wars of the late 70’s/early 80’s. You had a choice to make: The Atari 2600 or the Mattel Intellivision. For me the choice was always obvious: The Atari 2600. For some reason, I always felt superior...
Lost Arcade Classic: Warp Warp By Kyle Snyder
When you ask the average Joe or Josephine which video game they associate most with the early 80's, you get a variety of answers...Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Galaga, and of course, Pac-Man and his family. Not ONCE will you ever hear somebody excitedly...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ken Horowitz
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ken Horowitz, who is currently displayed on card number 3190, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Ken is a huge historian and a writer of many gaming topics. Sega is his love and he has been writing about it for the last...
Best Retro Gaming Consoles that are Brought Back to Life in 2019
If you are a die-hard fan of old school gaming, you will be pretty excited to find out that there are retro consoles built today and adapted to modern technology. Most of these consoles come with some of the best classic retro games that are extremely fun to play....
My 25 “The New Classic Gamer” By Damien Quicksilver
It can be difficult to write a magazine article. You have to sit down, focus, etc... It's not really FUN. Actually, it's quite easy to put off. I'd rather just play Bomberman on my Sega Saturn. What's that? Did I just say I was playing on one of the "newer" systems?...
The Seventies: Space Wars – By Kevin Butler
Space Wars was the first vector-driven arcade game. Its success would enable Atari to create their own vector generator creating games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Space Wars also enabled a fledgling company called Cinematronics (established in 1975) to finally...
Nintendo Ultra 64 Controller Prototype Discovered
A while back, I took a brief look at what made the Nintendo 64 controller unique among its contemporaries in the market. What I didn't look at, however, was the controller we didn't get. Recently, retrogaming "preservationist, restorer, hobby sw + hw engineer" Shane...
The Atari 5200 a closer look by Patrick Wong
Atari's motto was "Power without the Price." It should have read "Power at a Price." When Atari took their low-end computer, the Atari 400, gave her a facelift, a model number twice the value of the 2600 and called her their "Super System," they also gave her an...
A Conversation With Nolan Bushnell Part 1 of 2 – Arcades Through the VCS – By Michael Thomasson
Sometimes that amazing crossing of paths happens and you just get so excited that you have to jump on it. That opportunity came for our publisher, Ryan Burger at CES this past year when he ran into Tyler Bushnell who is working to make his place in the gaming industry...
R.I.P. Sean Quigley
On September 18th, 2019, A dear friend and fellow gamer passed away. He was a local gamer in my home state of Illinois. Sean was a frequent visitor of Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. He was a true compeitive gamer that loved hanging out with his...
Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro Details Released
A few weeks ago, you may recall our initial report on the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro. Not a lot was known then – it’s honestly just an article of speculation – but a few days ago, SNK finally let rip a bunch of information in a press release. And hey, what do you know?...
Retro Remakes
It seems with out fail, whenever Hollywood announces a remake/reboot of a beloved film or film franchise it's met with so much toxicity that'll make System of a Down blush. However the complete polar opposite seems to happen with video games. The yells and cries of...
Final Fight Was One of the Greatest Beat-Em-Ups of All Time By Josh LaFrance
In the late 80’s a game which would soon be known as Final Fight was being developed as a sequel to the original Street Fighter. Once a little game called Double Dragon was released and exploded into a huge arcade success, Capcom decided to switch genres and develop...
By Far the Worst Double Dragon Aracde Title of Them All, The Rosetta Stone Lacks In Many Areas.
Double Dragon is one of the greatest beat-em-up franchises of all time and Double Dragon 1 and 2 are fantastic games, with the first being a true masterpiece and a real gaming classic. The one downfall to all of the games in the series is a lack of a true storyline....
Four Retro Games Worth Checking Out on Nintendo Switch Online
First of all, one thing needs to be made abundantly clear: Most, if not all, of the titles featured in NES and Super NES – Nintendo Switch Online are worth checking out. But getting right down to it, this site is called "Old School Gamer." That means if you're reading...
The Seventies: The Magnavox Odyssey – By Ethan Johnson
The Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first game console, wasn’t actually successful upon its initial release. While it would reimagine itself with the Odyssey 100 and 200 dedicated consoles as well as the Odyssey 2, the original model only sold 350,000 units over three...
Sega: Streets of Rage
Known in Japan as Bare Knuckle: Furious Iron Fist, Streets of Rage was SEGA’s 2nd major success with a side-scrolling action, beat-em-up style game, the first being Golden Axe. Much like Golden Axe, which was released 2 years earlier, Streets of Rage had for it’s time...
Five Retro Franchises That Need To Be Revived
With remakes and remasters flooding the marketplace, Old School Gamer shares five franchises that would be a ton of fun with a fresh coat of paint, on a new console. Berzerk: The possibility of Coleco’s upcoming arcade mini-looks cool, as does what appears to be a...
Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal: The Best (Pokemon) Sequel Ever Made.
What makes a sequel truly great? In my opinion its when the sequel to a game takes everything that was great about the original and cranks it up to 11 while still improving on what was there. There have been many sequels to games that have done this and many that...
Divin’ Kong By Mad Slug Game Studios
Here at Classic Console Magazine we are always on the lookout for the newest retro inspired gaming goodness and we especially enjoy reviewing games that are available on mobile platforms. This month’s retro inspired mobile game is brought to us by our friends over at...
Final Fantasy VIII Memories
Final Fantasy VIII is undoubtedly the most polarizing entry in the long-running series of games. I was a 16-year-old teenager when this game was released on 9.9.99 and was able to play the game a week early due to my part-time job at a video store. I instantly fell in...
How Does a VPN Affect Gaming
If you're reading this, you probably already know a little about Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). But do these essential security and privacy tools help or hinder gamers? There are a lot of myths circulating regarding the way VPN usage affects gaming, with many people...
Old School Gamer Issue #12 Now ONLINE! – Coin Up! – By Brian Szarek
Welcome, everyone, to another wonderfully-themed issue of Old School Gamer Monthly Magazine. Whether you are enjoying this online or in print, there is some amazing content in this issue, which primarily focuses on the 1970s (with a spattering of 1960s and 1980s), the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – John Pompa
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features John Pompa who currently is displayed on card number 143, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. With over 100 World Records on various video games, John is a true video game enthusiast. Some of the games he holds world...
Analogue Launches Pre-Order for their DAC
You may recall a mention of the DAC in a post I wrote last month about 32X support on Analogue’s Mega Sg console - well, it appears that Analogue has finally pulled the trigger on pre-orders for the device that they’ve been teasing since last year. So, what it is? If...