Time Traveler: Sega’s Maddening Holographic Arcade Game
Some games you simply love to hate. Dragon’s Lair by Rick Dyer comes to mind. Despite its amazing animation, the game was maddeningly difficult and bordered on unplayable. Sure, we’ve all met a handful of people that somehow managed to master the timing required to...
Lamplight City: More a Flicker Than a Flame
“With a great premise, aesthetic, and fun characters, Lamplight City is a game clearly made for the retro PC gamer.”
AtGames® Announces Blast! Family of Products
LOS ANGELES, September 25, 2018 (Newswire.com) - AtGames® Digital Media Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment products, today announced their latest classic video gaming releases, the Blast! family of products. The Blast! series of HDMI dongle and wireless...
Introducing the Pix – Your Customizable Backpack
\Kickstarter is a site that allows people with fresh ideas to present it to the world and let people get involved with the process of the production of the product. Sometimes the products will succeed and be funded within an hour or two, and some will not be funded...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Stephen Wagner
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Stephen Wagner who currently is displayed on card number 158, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Stephen has been playing arcade games since he was 7 years old. All the years of experience has put Stephen in the record...
WWF Superstars
Hulk Hogan. Macho Man Randy Savage. Mr. Perfect. Ted Dibiase, the Million Dollar Man. The Ultimate Warrior. In the early 90s, these were some of the biggest names in the world of professional wrestling. They were superstars. They were loud, brash, full of swagger (and...
Early NES (Nintendo) Box Art Pt 1 – Black Box Titles
Nintendo Power was an enormous resource when it came to helping NES owners determine what games were worth buying, renting, or better off skipping entirely. However, not everyone was blessed enough to be a Nintendo Power subscriber, and there were very few other ways...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Wrecking Crew ’98
While the "Mario Mania" series of articles is more for games featuring Mario that aren't immediately obvious, you can see from the title screen above that Wrecking Crew '98 is considerably more up-front about who its star is than its worldwide-released predecessor. In...
Bart Vs. The Space Mutants
The first animated shorts featuring The Simpsons debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. The characters got their own prime time series two years later. Over three decades later and the show has becomes longest running American sitcom and the country’s longest...
PS1 Fans Rejoice… a Mini “Classic” Version is Coming
Well, I now know what I want for Christmas. Obviously inspired by Nintendo’s success with their mini NES and SNES Classic consoles, Sony is taking a punt at the concept with their own PlayStation (the original). Originally released on the 3rd of December, 1994 in...
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...