Atari Program Exchange – By Bill Lange
An Early App Store Long before the advent of the Google Play Store, the official app store for the Android operating system, or the Apple App Store for the iOS operating system, and even before the idea of Shareware, there was the Atari Program Exchange (APX), an...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Michael Jordan: Chaos In The Windy City
I have an inexplicable soft spot for entertainment that is often defined as...how should I put this? Terrible. I have, of my own volition, watched Manos: The Hands of Fate and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I have searched out entire episodes of the cartoon Clutch...
Super Mario World By Amy Trinanes
What can I say about Super Mario World? One of the best, if not the best platformers ever made! Number 5 in the Super Mario series, and released in Japan in 1990, Nintendo created Super Mario World as a Pack-in launch title for the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official N64 Peripherals: Rumble Pak
Hey, what’s shakin’?
Opining on Designing – By Howard Scott Warshaw
“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde When Oscar said this in the late 1800’s, his medium was the written word. He said many new things, but his medium was firmly established and didn’t change much during his lifetime. He stood on the shoulders (and picked the...
Character Showdown By Josh LaFrance
Mario clearly rules as the king of sales and is a character that is every bit as recognizable as a pop culture icon such as Mickey Mouse. But, he isn't alone.. Millions of people also have enjoyed the exploits of a little blue hedgehog that wears tennis shoes or the...
Atari VCS teases the future at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles
E3 2019 kicked off on June 10th, 2019, in Los Angeles and the Atari VCS team hit the ground running, with a busy event schedule of meetings and demos flowing through the Atari hospitality suite from beginning to end. Everyone left LA feeling like it was “mission...
Relive Retro Classics Today with The EON Super 64 Lagless HDMI Adaptor for Nintendo 64
Premium Solution Ditches Risky Mods, Extra Power Sources WESTFIELD, NJ – July 22, 2019 – The EON Super 64, the first-of-its-kind, plug-and-play solution connecting the Nintendo 64 with modern televisions and monitors, is available now at CastleMania Games, Amazon, and...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure – By Brett Weiss
Platformers were ubiquitous during the ’80s and ’90s, so I could have picked from any of hundreds of titles for this installment of Old School Bargain Bin. I decided to focus on an early platformer based on a cartoon I didn’t care about and a sequel to one of the most...
Five Game Franchises That Desperately Need Sequels
Let’s face it- game developers have to manage a tough situation. While the need to share their art and experiences is always the most important thing, making money also plays a role. That’s the reason why the industry is flooded with sequels. However, as we all know,...
Blazing Chrome Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw2WxrZVQvA&feature=youtu.be In the future, machines have taken over the world, and only a small rebellion against these cybernetic terrors have a chance to save the world. Sure, the story is pretty much a carbon copy from the...
Saturday Supercade By Josh LaFrance
October 4th, 2014 will live in infamy as one of the saddest days in American television history. For the first time in over 50 years, not a single network showed any Saturday morning cartoons. There are many reasons that can be blamed for why this happened....
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Travis Warnell
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Travis Warnell, who is displayed on card number 171, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Travis is also displayed on card number 997. He holds world records on multiple games such as Golgo 13, Lethal Enforcers and Bang!...
Contra to See Daylight on Two Different Handhelds
My Arcade is known for a plethora of miniaturised handheld retro gaming devices that range from handhelds and mini arcades, to accessories like gamepads and oddities including a Famicom to NES cartridge converter. Their products are also usually licenced,...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Taboo: The Sixth Sense
There are many dark and dusty corridors in the Cabinet of Curiosities, musty passageways filled with cobwebs and lit only by the eerie glow of a computer monitor or television screen. At night, you can hear the pitiful cries of frustrated gamers, mourning the loss of...
Mario with Milk? By Josh LaFrance
For anyone born in the last 50 years or so, Saturday mornings have always been synonymous with cartoons (sadly those days have ended). And, for any kid watching this programming, we knew we would be inundated with commercials for 2 things: Breakfast Cereals and Toys....
A Brief History of Bonk
Sonic wasn’t the first console mascot to hop over to Nintendo’s platforms.
Handheld Showdown By Josh LaFrance
So everyone knows the Game Boy, the king of sales of the 1990s. However, is it the best handheld console of that era? That is for you the reader to decide, and each person's answer is based on their own personal tastes. For me, it is the Game Gear, but I know others...
Four Classic Games You Can Play Online
While gaming has come a long way over the last decade and longer, in more ways than one. The technological advances made has seen games improve from a visual standpoint, as well as what they’re capable of delivering in terms of gameplay too. We have seen this...
Just for Qix: Space Panic – The Foundation of All Platformers – By Michael Thomasson
Universal’s Space Panic, a rather obscure cult-classic released in 1980, revolutionized game design by introducing novel game mechanics that birthed a new genre. Space Panic is often recognized as the first platform game, as it was the premiere title to include...
TurboGrafx-16 Mini and the PC Engine Core Grafx Mini Pre-Order Now
The compact version of the classic console currently features a range of 50 retro games containing select titles that overlap in both the TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine lineup. The console will be available exclusively on Amazon from March 19th 2020, with an Amazon Prime...
Mario Party By Amy Trinanes
Mario party was the first of its kind, a game filled with the famous Nintendo characters. All of your favorite characters are in one place: Mario, Peach, Bowser etc...all competing to see who ends up with the most stars. This game is a great way to spend family night,...
Earthworm Jim – A Look Back – By Shaun Sex
If Doug TenNapel had done nothing more than create a character named Queen Slug-For-A-Butt, it would have been enough to make him a video game legend. The name is pure perfection, the brilliant antidote to the seemingly never ending cascade of games that take...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Panic! On the Sega CD
I had a Sega CD as a kid, but I never had many games for it. The system never really seemed to take off. I think I had three or four games, but I can’t say I ever noticed much of a difference between it and the Genesis. Looking back, I wish I had the chance to play,...
Bundled Games and Pricing Announced for the TurboGrafx-16 Mini
Nearly one month ago - just about to the day, actually - we reported on Konami’s E3 announcement of the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. While called that in the US, there’s a slightly convoluted naming scheme depending on your region: in Europe, it will be the PC Engine CoreGrafx...
Monkey Island 2 By Scott Crain
I've never in my life played a more hilarious, and at the same time, more morbid game. The game begins on Scabb Island where our hero (you), Guybrush Threepwood is sitting at a campfire telling other pirates how he "killed" the ghost pirate LeChuck in The Secret of...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Lonnie McDonald
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Lonnie McDonald who currently is displayed on card number 249, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. He is also featured on cards 127 (with Steve Sanders), 589, 905, 1442 and 1465. Steve is one greatest Joust players. He...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Tecmo Cup Soccer Game
Do you love the beautiful game of soccer, but also crave the turn-based action of game’s Final Fantasy? Fear not! With Tecmo Cup Soccer Game you can have both at once! First, let’s acknowledge how clunkiness of title. It reads like a bad subtitle in an old kung fu...
Top 10 NES Games of All Time
10 // CONTRA This classic run and gun action game by Konami set the bar very high for platforming shooting games. This is also an arcade port and an excellent one at that. Many titles on the NES copied Contra's formula, but none are as good as the original. 09 //...
Boy, Oh Game Boy: Lighten Up
Lights out.
The Best Old School Soccer Video Games of All Time
Nothing quite stokes nostalgia in the heart of a particular brand of millennial as memories of playing old school soccer video games. Whilst some were no doubt better than others, back in the 90’s and early 2000’s it was still a novelty for many to be playing a game...
Magical Tetris Challenge By Amy Trinanes
If you want your kids to experience a fun old school game, with awesome Disney characters to go along with it, (admit it, a part of you wants to play it too...) then Magical Tetris Challenge is for you! This was my go to game as a 10 year old when I needed a Tetris...
Archer MacLean’s Super Dropzone for SNES Review
New Review! Archer Maclean's Super Dropzone for the SNES was only released in PAL regions so may not be familiar to some of you, but it's a fun shooter that's well worth your time if you ever happen across it. [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0"...
5 Reasons Why a Game Boy Classic Would Be Amazing
With all the recent talk over the reported Nintendo Switch Mini and what Old School Console will be exalted via ”classic” console, Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. makes the argument for the Game Boy and why a return to glory would serve the Nintendo brand...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: 720
About a month ago, I decided I was finally going to learn how to skateboard. I had a skateboard as a kid, but I never learned how to use it. The most I did was use it as a luge down the hill near my house. Now, I’m learning how to use my board properly. Mostly, that...
Best Spooky Games By Josh LaFrance
Do you love halloween? I certainly do, and the fact that it is coming soon got all of us here at Classic Console Magazine thinking about some of the great "spooky" retro games that we have played over the years. These are not games that are necessarily in the horror...
Modern Indie Publisher Announced for Evercade. Also, Official Trailer
It’s been several months since we reported on the Evercade. The new retro handheld console that uses a cartridge system and includes HDMI-out previously had a handful of big-name publishers sign onboard, including the likes of Atari, Interplay and Data East. Since our...
Ninja Gaiden – By Michael Mertes
By the beginning of 1989, the Nintendo Entertainment System already had a plethora of platforming titles available, but none of them had evolved the genre as much as one title in particular. Just a few short months into 1989, Ninja Gaiden set itself apart from other...
Numskull Designs Proudly Announce: The Quarter Arcades ‘Galaga™’ Cabinet
Numskull Designs is incredibly proud to team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment for the second instalment in its Quarter Arcades range! One of the world’s most recognisable, innovative shooters of all time goes back to where it all began...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Chase the Chuck Wagon
Late at night, I often lay in bed pondering the deep, unanswerable questions of life: Why are we here? What does it all mean? And why would someone decide to make a video game based off Purina’s Chuck Wagon line of dog food? First, a little background is necessary. In...