The Wonderful Weirdness of IK+
If you created a Venn diagram with circles for the Commodore 64, Jackie Chan, John Travolta, and the ancient art of karate, the overlap would be International Karate +. The game, typically referred to as IK+ (released in the United States as Chop N’ Drop), was not the...
The rise of retro gaming
The rise of retro gaming In a world obsessed with innovation and progress, we also do great deal of looking back at the past. In fact, retro is such a phenomenon these days that it’s reaching into virtually every area of our lives. Of course, it’s always played a huge...
Return of Double Dragon to be Re-Released in the US
While most Double Dragon enthusiasts will no doubt be familiar with Super Double Dragon, some may not be aware that its Japanese counterpart was a fair bit different. Also released in 1992, Return of Double Dragon was basically Super Double Dragon+, featuring...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Thanks for the Nightmares
In a childs' life, if he/she sees something so scary at one point in time, they could be scarred for life. For some it's clowns, for some it's spiders. And believe it or not, for some it's eating bananas after 8PM at night that causes nightmares. Seriously, don't...
Fox N Forests Initial Thoughts
EuroVideo’s Fox N Forests is aptly named, but it doesn’t do the game’s mechanics, throwback look and feel and challenge into consideration at all. A more suitable name would be “Rick the Fox vs. The Forest,” or something to show the cool journey our character is about...
The Secret of Monkey Island: Point and Click Gaming on the Amiga
Disclaimer: I am obsessed with the Monkey Island series. Approximately 85% of my personality was lifted directly from the character of Guybrush Threepwood. The remaining 15% was culled from an odd stew of Saturday morning cartoons, the Indiana Jones movies, and the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Steven Lucas
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Steven Lucas, who is displayed on card number 178, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Steven is the 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge National Champion, in which players contested over Super Mario Bros. 3, Pin-bot and Dr....
Secret Sequels: The Games of Satellaview – Radical Dreamers
Chrono Trigger was a role playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that exploded onto the scene in 1995, capturing hearts and critical acclaim while selling millions. As such, it only stands to reason that there would be those clamoring for a sequel --...
The Last Official Release: Dreamcast – Karous
Hello again, retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. If you’re new around these here parts, in this series I divulge the last official games ever released on consoles, focusing on a different system each post. Usually, I playfully integrate what...
Jupiter Lander and the Birth of the Commodore 64
LOAD "JUPITER LANDER" ,8,1 SEARCHING FOR JUPITER LANDER LOADING READY RUN By 1982, the video game industry already had two titans that dominated the home video game market. The Apple II and Atari 2600 were both released in 1977 and were wildly popular. That same year...
NES Oddities & The Homebrew Revolution Book Review – Old School Gamer
The original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), or Famicom in Japan, is one of the most popular gaming system ever made, and, as a result, is the most written about console system. There are dozens of books about the system, it’s games, it’s re-release as a Mini...
The LaserActive: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
In today's episode, I'm exploring Pioneers LaserActive. This 'converged' device could play TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis games (plus CD extensions for both consoles) plus a few propriety formats. However, it was a monumental failure. How so? Well, watch the video and find...
Cave Fighter for the Commodore 64
Junior high was a rough time for me. Not for the reasons you might expect junior high to have been rough for a guy who's now in his forties and writes about video games. I wasn't harassed by bullies or painfully awkward around girls or constantly picked last in gym...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Toni Caven
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Toni Caven, who is displayed on card number 2724, from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. Toni is the creator of company in Finland called “Reprocade Ltd.”. He repairs, restores and operates arcade cabinets and pinball...
Happy Birthday Walter !!!
Happy 70th Birthday Walter !!! Today we celebrate Walter Day's birthday with a look back at his trading card spotlight done on December 02, 2016. The celebration today at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, CA is a fitting way for him to party with friends and...
The Mystery of the Bold Game Boy
Shortly after the launch of the Game Boy and throughout the 90's, fans of Nintendo products might have noticed something a little bit strange in advertisements for the handheld gaming juggernaut. See if you can catch it in the following advertisement:...
Kickstarter for Retro Game Engine Launches
While there are plenty of freely available game engines out there that allow budding game designers to create and self-publish the next big indie hit, there’s a decidedly huge gap if you’re looking to do that on retro consoles. While game engines such as Unity or the...
Retro Gaming Archives – May/June 1991
Consoles When any sort of new technology is made available for public consumption, there’s a portion of the population that will resist it and a portion that will embrace it wholeheartedly. Consumers of video games are no different in this regard. 1991 was a couple of...
Farsights Pinball Arcade Is Losing 60 Tables From Their Library
After years of success with the Williams and Bally pinball licenses that were part of the Farsight Pinball Arcade, they are no longer going to have the games available after June 30, 2018. A press release was issued on May 4th on their Facebook page: "Our...
New SNES Game Raises Awareness About Mental Health, for Charity
In a noble bid to raise awareness about the mental health of game developers and a toxic game industry practice known as “crunch”, publisher, Devolver Digital and developer, Mega Cat Studios have partnered up to produce a new SNES game. Fork Parker’s Crunch Out has...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official NES Peripherals: NES Satellite
There are certain things that are easy to take for granted in video games these days, and the overall capacity for multiplayer experiences is one of them. With today's tech, we can see anything from 8-player matches in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to the staggering...
Introducing the Super Nt
There are many companies that are coming out with their own version of the reboot of games and game systems. Next on the list is no exception for the 16 bit generation and the Super Nintendo. Introducing the Super Nt. A reimagining of perhaps the greatest...
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Nintendo 64 Chronicles [3] Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey & Killer Instinct Gold
#5 : Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey Nowadays, you generally don't see a sports title unless it's under the EA helm. However, that wasn't always the case. Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey is our first sports title on the console, and it's brought to us not by EA, but Midway. So...
SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis Pre-Order Now!
Scream it out loud... SEGA!!!!!! Sometimes there are not too many things to get excited for when playing retro games on your Xbox or Playstation 4. But when you get a list of 50 of the best Sega games into one place, it is more of a reason to load up your gaming...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Mike Gedeon
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Mike Gedeon, who’s Cleveland's Classic Console and Arcade Gaming Show (CCAG) is displayed on card number 233, from the Superstars of 2012. Mike and his partner Matt Teske are the organizers of the Cleveland Classic Gaming Show...
Classic Home Video Games: Tron Maze-A-Tron: By Brett Weiss
The second Intellivision game based on Disney's Iron (1982), Tron Maze-A-Tron puts players in the role of Flynn, a computer programmer who suddenly finds himself inside the circuitry of a computer. The game is divided into two sections, neither of which is...
RETROSPECTIVE: Meet the Neo Geo Mini
Suffice to say, the average gamer knew only of the Neo Geo and its library of games through the MVS arcade cabinets- which, amazingly, contained the same cartridges as the AES home console.
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Angel Studios
The next studio we're looking at from the vaunted Dream Team assembled by Nintendo to provide exclusive titles for their upcoming Ultra 64 console is Angel Studios. Some of you may not recognize the name, but by the time we're done here, you might just know who they...
The Last Official Release: N64 – Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
Greetings fellow retro devotees and welcome back to a series I like to call, The Last Official Release. Here, we take a gander at a particular console and focus in on its final official game release. Previous entries have delved into the Game Gear, NES, Atari 2600 and...
Mega Man 30th Anniversary Classic Cartridge Coming Soon
If you are a lover of classic Nintendo games and don't know who Mega Man is, it's time to get out and get some fresh air. One of the most iconic Nintendo characters, next to Zelda and Mario, is coming back in a special edition cartridge to celebrate 30 years of...
The Latest Issue of Old School Gamer is online now!
Old School Gamer has released it's latest issue, issue #4, and this time it's themed RPG's, Role Playing Gamers. Along with some of the regular features of every issue of Old School Gamer, we have targeted RPG's with the below coverage: A Selected History of RPG's by...
Relating on a Personal Level with Atari’s Paperboy
Spring of 1985 was a dark time for video games. The Nintendo Entertainment System was still 6 months from seeing the light of day in the United States. Atari mania and Pac-Man fever felt like ages ago thanks to the shift away from home console gaming towards computer...
Classic Home Video Games: Scrapyard Dog – By Brett Weiss
The closest thing the Atari 7800 has to Super Mario Bros., Scrapyard Dog is the type of side-scrolling platform game that was popular during the late '80s and early '90s. Players guide an ugly, big-nosed guy names Louie through six rounds (17 levels in all) of...
Road Rash for the Game Boy Review
It's the most reviewed series on my channel - it's Road Rash! Involving bike racing but with the added feature of being able to beat the opponents with a steel pipe, Road Rash was very successful on both the Mega Drive and PSone. Does a port to the original Game Boy...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – SimCity
While Mario lived up to his role as the mascot for Nintendo by appearing across several titles in varying capacities for the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy, his presence was downplayed somewhat when the company entered the 16-bit era with the...
Polymega Rears its Head, Proves it’s not Deceased
Prepare to hear non-stop about the Polymega, as it’s no doubt going to start clogging up your retro gaming airwaves very soon. If the name Polymega doesn’t sound familiar, however, then maybe “Retroblox” will ring a bell. Originally announced early 2017, the then...
Pac-Man Merchandising: The King of Merchandising in the Early 80s – By David Oxford
It may be difficult to imagine for someone who wasn’t there at the time – or heck, even someone who was – but following its North American arcade release by Midway Games on October 26th, 1980, Pac- Man became huge. Like, stupidly huge. One could draw comparisons to...
It’s Godzilla vs. Ultraman in Battle Baseball for the Famicom
If I were to make a Venn diagram of the relationship between American fans of shows like Mobile Suit Gundam and baseball fans, it would be two circles with the edges barely touching. That tiny, almost imperceivable area of overlap is my friend Steve. Steve owns a...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Dennis Blechner
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Dennis Blechner, who is displayed on card number 991, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Dennis is an avid gamer who loves playing such games as Tetris and Bubble Bobble. Dennis holds many records in the gaming...
My Experience at Midwest Gaming Classic 2018
The first video gaming convention I ever attended was the inaugural Missouri Game Con held in St. Louis (where I live) in 2016. Gaming conventions always seemed like cool events that other people attended. Those lucky people that lived within a 2 or 3 hour drive of...