Midwest Gaming Classic Dates Announced!
We are excited to announce that we will be returning April 12, 13 and 14 to the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee! Tickets are on sale right now at https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/buy-tickets/ Hotel rooms may be booked now through...
12-inch RepliCade X Centipede Arcade Cabinet Now Available From New Wave
New Wave Toys has officially launched RepliCade X Centipede, an officially licensed, fully-playable 1/6-scale reproduction of the classic Atari arcade cabinet. RepliCade X Centipede is now available for $160 on NewWaveToys.com, and soon on Amazon, Walmart, and Best...
The Last Official Release: Virtual Boy – 3D Tetris (1996)
Hello again, retro gaming friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. It’s been a while since the last entry of this series – the retro gaming news cycle has instead been quite fruitful thanks to E3 – but with all that simmering down, it’s back to...
Kid Chameleon on the Sega Genesis
Mark Cerny began working in the video game industry at the tender age of 17. In the early 1980s, he joined Atari and worked on titles like Major Havoc and Marble Madness. Over the course of his career, his name has been connected to some of the industry’s most iconic...
Intellivision To Reveal Extensive Details of New Video Game Console On October 20th
Intellivision Entertainment President Tommy Tallarico to Keynote the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in Portland, OR IRVINE, CA, September 10, 2018 – Intellivision® Entertainment is proud to announce that it will be revealing extensive details about its upcoming new family...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Tennis
For this week's "Mario Mania," we've got something of a two-for-one special on that ever-popular sport, Tennis! It's no secret that Mario has starred in many a tennis game, from the simplistic Mario's Tennis that was packed in with the Virtual Boy to the more recent...
StarTropics for the NES
What do you do if aliens abduct your archaeologist uncle? Well, if you’re a young, baseball playing boy named Mike Jones, you set out to rescue him armed with a yo-yo that the chief of the Coralcola people of Island-C gave you. Of course, I’m talking about the 1990...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Greg Mott
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Greg Mott, who is displayed on card number 34, from the Superstars of 2011. Greg has been around the gaming scene since 1999 when he joined UKvac group on line and first met up with other UK collectors. He holds a record on...
Attack of the Mutant Camels
It is a truth universally acknowledged that hostile aliens in possession of advanced technology and a desire to invade a planet, must be in want of camels. At least, so we are led to believe by the 1983 game Attack of the Mutant Camels. The game was developed...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Sooner Or Later Everyone Goes to the Zoo
In life, there are too many games to even think of that creates memories. And ever since my trip to Pittsburgh, PA for the ReplayFx, my brain almost went into self destruct mode. The question of why is that? Because I pretty much have played 99% of the retro games...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Wrecking Crew
Labor Day was this past Monday, and what better way to (belatedly) celebrate than with a look at a Mario game in which our plumber hero puts his nose to the grindstone and performs a little hard labor himself? Wrecking Crew was released just months apart for the...
Old School Gamer listed as a Top 10 Gaming magazine
Check us out at https://blog.feedspot.com/gaming_magazines/ there are some great publications in there, and we are excited that we are showing up. Check it out and continue to spread the word about Old School Gamer!
Microsurgeon: An Intellivision Classic
A few months ago I had a brilliant idea for a video game: players would control nanotechnology that had been injected into a human body. As the nanotech, you would battle things like disease and infection as they sprang up through the body. You could also repair...
Pinball Hall of Fame to MOVE to the strip!
For many of you this is older news but Old School Gamer just heard about it last week and this is exciting! One of our favorite places to play arcade games and pinball has a very bright future that is moving along nicely. As covered in this story on PinballNews.Com,...
Big News: NEOGEO mini International Version will land in USA and European Markets
NEOGEO mini has attracted a lot of attention from many retro gamers, SNK super fans and other gamers and animation enthusiasts in Europe and America since the first official appearance of the E3 exhibition. With the selling in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and...
The PS2 has Finally Officially Kicked the Bucket
While it’s debatable if the PlayStation 2 is actually retro or not (I mean c’mon, it’s two generations behind and was launched 18-years ago) one thing is now for sure – Sony has stopped supporting it completely. While the hardware its self was discontinued in 2013...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Stuart Rankin
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Stuart Rankin who is displayed on card number 192, from the Twin Galaxies Superstars Collection of 2011. From Glasgow, Scotland, Stuart is a huge Space Harrier collector. He holds many Space Harrier World Records on the Twin...
Arkyology for the Atari 2600 – Released at Last!
NES fans have 678 licensed games to collect. Intellivision collectors have The 125. But if you're an Atari 2600 collector, things are a bit more nebulous. There are, of course, the first-party games Atari itself released. Then there are the big-name third-party...
Tron: Deadly Discs
In 1982, Disney released the film Tron starring Jeff Bridges. The story gave the world iconic characters like Kevin Flynn, a software engineer who gets transported into a computer mainframe, the artificial intelligence known as the Master Control Program (or MCP),...
“Never” is a Short Time Coming: Night Trap Finally Arrives on Nintendo Switch
There are a lot of sayings and songs about saying "never," because never is a long time to try accounting for. Back in the 90's, Nintendo stood resolute in its defense of its own business practices, specifically with regards to the content it would allow to be...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Don’t panic. Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s double check the essentials. Do you have a towel with you? A towel is the most massively useful item an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Next, find your copy of “The Best Vogon Poems of 1984.” Once you’ve got that,...
The LightGunVerter: Universal Light Gun Compatibility with Modern TV’s… Finally
Several years ago, an enterprising chap named Charlie Cole uploaded a video on YouTube of a prototype device which allowed compatibility of retro light gun games on newer, flat screened TV’s. There has been a huge demand for this sort of thing since… well, flat screen...
New 8-Bit Style Card Game Havenfall Shown at Replay FX
ReplayFX in Pittsburgh, PA was a mega outlet for a wide variety of gaming sources. The pinball, arcade, music, vendors, artists and even the independent game creators. They were all there to display and sell their product. But one vendor/booth that was there was a...
Unofficial SNES/NES Mini Peripheral Plays Original Cartridges
While Nintendo’s NES and SNES Mini consoles set Target checkout queues ablaze at their release, evoking nostalgia and curiosity among many, one of their biggest complaints (besides from the short controller cable lengths) was their locked nature. The libraries of...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
Released in 1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. It featured everyone’s favorite archaeologist doing what he did best: punching Nazis and searching for ancient relics. In this case, Indiana was searching for the...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Paradigm Simulation
Like some other companies who were chosen by Nintendo to form the Ultra 64 Dream Team, Paradigm Simulation did not have a lengthy resume of video games to their name when approached to aid in the creation of software for the company's upcoming platform. Nonetheless,...
Disney On the Nintendo Game And Watch System
Long before the Disney Afternoon games created by Capcom, Nintendo was creating other Disney themed video games. In fact, Disney’s first venture into the world of digital gaming came through Nintendo. In 1981, Nintendo released Mickey Mouse for the Game & Watch...
Retro-Bit® to Unveil First Wave of Officially Licensed SEGA Products at Gamescom 2018
Retro-Bit, a premier publisher and manufacturer of classic gaming products, is proud to announce the unveiling of their eagerly awaited SEGA controller lineup, featuring the same great quality as their original hardware counterparts like the original console port, but...
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Nintendo 64 Chronicles [7] Turok Dinosaur Hunter & Doom 64
#13 : Turok Dinosaur Hunter At a first glance, Turok seems to just be a mish-mosh of story ideas bundled into one. You take control of Tal'set, a Native American, time-travelling warrior who has been granted the title of Turok. The Turok's are the eldest male in each...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Dustwind’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Dimitri Zatisev, Creative Director of “Dustwind,” a tactical RPG with a post-apocalyptic theme. Heavily inspired by the “Fallout” series, Zatisev lets us know what makes the game different and special and why the gameplay elements...
The Last Official Release: Sega Saturn – Undefined Japanese Game (2000)
Oh, Sega Saturn… you didn’t deserve any of this. You poor thing. It’s not your fault you were the awkward middle child between your more successful siblings, the Genesis and Dreamcast - and it’s definitely not your fault that you were a victim of hard-to-program-for...
How Super NES and Super Famicom Controllers are More Alike Than You Think
On August 13th, 1991, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released to an eagerly anticipating audience in North America. Or was it August 23rd? Oddly enough, I've seen several references for each, and even conflicting information from the same sources....
inXile Entertainment’s The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Remaster Now Available on Steam and GOG.com!
Tales of the Unknown, the first volume of this legendary RPG series, arrives today, with the final two volumes launching later this year NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 14, 2018 – inXile Entertainment, the studio led by Interplay founder and industry icon Brian Fargo,...
Let’s Get Dangerous: Darkwing Duck on the NES
He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the metal key in the sardine can of justice. He is...Darkwing Duck! Another classic of the Disney Afternoon, Darkwing Duck premiered on the Disney channel in 1991, before going into weekday syndication and becoming a...
Tanglewood Review for Genesis/Mega Drive/PC
I present to you, lovely readers, my review for Tanglewood! Not only is it a Mega Drive game, but it's a NEW Mega Drive game. It's even getting a cartridge run. Playing as a small fox called Nymn, this puzzle/platformer involves trying to escape a hostile environment...
Numskull Designs is incredibly proud to team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment for the first in a series of Quarter Arcades exclusives!
The world’s most recognizable video game ‘PAC-MAN’ has gone back to where it began with one of the most realistically-presented formats of the original platform. ‘PAC-MAN’ as a character inspired generations and the original game is still one of the most addictive...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Aaron Laberge
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Aaron Laberge, who is displayed on card number 2642 from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. Aaron’s trading card will be presented and featured the weekend of March 18th, 2017 in Banning, CA. Living in Canada, Aaron has...
Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
Sometimes some crimes go slipping through the cracks, but these two gumshoes are picking up the slack… Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers debuted in early 1989 and went into national syndication that Fall. It featured the classic Disney characters Chip and Dale, but...
The South Park for Game Boy Color That Almost Was
Back in the late 90's, Comedy Central's South Park burst onto the cable television scene and became an overnight success, the talk of the schoolyard and water cooler alike. As such, it stood to reason that numerous companies were eager to cash in on the craze, and...
The Last Official Release: Intellivision – Spiker! Super Pro Volleyball (1989)
Hello and welcome back to The Last Official Release – the genuine article as far as tracking what the last games released worldwide for your favourite console are. “Genuine article” is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but in this series, I search the interwebs...