OSG Profile: Billy Mitchell: The Legend Updates Us On the Last Ten Years – By Ryan Burger
This piece originally appeared in the Video Game Collector Magazine, but has been updated and added to with more current information including from an interview at Galaxy of Games in Ottumwa, Iowa. Q: The film King of Kong made you a celebrity in even more people’s...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Little Medusa’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Little Medusa” artistHari Edwin, who lets us know the creative process behind Mega Cat Studios latest NES game. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Hari Edwin: We love retro gaming wanted to make an NES title with...
The Magic of Mode 7
With the two-year head start that upstart rival SEGA had on Nintendo with the release of their 16-bit console, the Genesis, Nintendo needed something that would help them even the score when they released the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Sure, they had more...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Tim Kinzy
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Tim Kinzy, who is displayed on card number 2422 from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. His documentary film trading card is featured on card number 2495. Tim is one half of the team that directed, produced and edited the...
King of Kong: 35 Years Later We Celebrate – By Todd Friedman
On October 8, 1983, Walter Day of Twin Galaxies had a vision. He dreamt of having a Video Game Hall ofFameinOttumwa,Iowa. Heknew this would be the perfect place to host the event being that Ottumwa, Iowa was crowned the Video Game Capital of the world one year before....
ATARI® Officially Introduces the ATARI VCS™
ATARI® OFFICIALLY INTRODUCES THE ATARI VCS™, ITS ALL-NEW VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM INSPIRED BY MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF HISTORY Legendary Digital Pioneer Continues Development of New Hardware Platform that Honors Company’s Innovative Video Game Roots While Launching a New...
Head To Head Adventure for PC and Mac
Adventure is one of the Atari 2600 games. It's a game you either love profoundly or say you love profoundly to avoid being shunned by the classic gaming community. Almost everyone old enough to have had a 2600 as a kid has fond memories of sitting on the living room...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Golf (for Game Boy)
As briefly touched upon in our look at Alleyway, though the Game Boy did not come with a Mario title per se, Nintendo's entire first-party lineup in the west nonetheless had the mustachioed mascot's fingerprints all over the place. Unlike the Nintendo Entertainment...
Movie Review: King of Kong – By Brad Feingold
A long time ago, in a.... wait, wrong movie. Documentaries are normally a weakness for me. I sometimes have difficulties connecting with the people and the topics involved such as war, gold mining, criminals and claims of alien abductions.. But lately, I have found a...
SEGA Genesis Classics Announced for PS4, Xbox One & Steam
“HOLD ME CLOSER SHADOW DANCER! SEGA MEGA DRIVE CLASSICS COMING TO PLAYSTATION 4 AND XBOX ONE ON MAY 29” is the enthusiastic start to Sega’s latest press release. While more memes and classic gaming moments are quoted throughout the release, the first line sets the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Paul Drury
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paul Drury, who is displayed on card number 2771, from the Superstars of 2017. Paul has been a writer for Retro Gamer (UK) since 2004. He has interviewed over 150 programmers, designers and artists of games such as Nolan...
Atari Finally Showing the Ataribox Project
As the future of gaming is growing, one of the biggest kept secrets is from Atari and the Ataribox Project. Now, this month, people will be able to get first hand information about the system and experience some of the games and controllers that will be part of the...
Mr. Postman for the Atari 2600
I have no idea how the postal system works. Nearly every day, things from around the country, around the world even, appear in the metal box bolted to the front of my house and I don't have a clue how they got from those far away locations to my door. But, thanks to...
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive)
Blast processing. Sega had it, Nintendo didn’t. I had no idea what it was and most other kids didn’t either. Of course, we now know it was a made up term used by the Sega marketing department, but that didn’t matter to us in 1991. All we knew was that there was this...
Versus Mode: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game vs. the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game
A few weeks ago, I kicked off a new series that looks at games that may possibly never see a full release again, starting with Konami's wide range of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles. This week, I want to take a closer look at their first arcade game, as well as...
The Last Official Release: Atari 2600 – Klax
Hello retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release! Kicking off a few weeks ago with the Game Boy, in this series we investigate what the last official release of a console was. In today’s edition, we’re examining Atari’s long-lived 2600. Released on...
Now Hear This: No the Cat Doesn’t Sing!
A few posts back, I wrote about someone sending me a link to a YouTube page that had a bunch of rock and classic songs redone in 8-Bit style. But after that, I received a couple different emails telling me about some other pages that you can subscribe to, So I felt...
Blast Corps for N64 Review
Blast Corps involves demolishing buildings (using a range of vehicles and robots) before they're hit by a carrier transporting leaking nuclear missiles. It's as awesome as it sounds, and was developed by Rare! [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0"...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: It’s Not Cheating If the Company Made It!
There are several games that people will play over and over for either one certain reason or no reason at all. Trust me, there was a reason for this story. Back in 1983, Konami released some really great titles to the arcade. I can't remember how many quarters I...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Prologue
With rival SEGA a continued (albeit faltering) presence in the video game industry and Sony beginning to establish itself as a major player for years to come, Nintendo had to find a way to keep some of the spotlight on them in 1995 as they continued to work towards...
RETROSPECTIVE: DreamGEAR Data East Hits Gamestation Wireless Console
All in all, I would be remiss to suggest there isn’t shovel-wear to be found here but at this price-point, it’s almost like you are buying the Data East titles (with a bonus release that never before saw American shores for good measure). The remaining 300 titles are freebies; and there are a few really good ones along the way to boot.
Donkey Kong 3: “The Great Counterattack” Finally Dumped & Emulated
When you think of game emulation in general terms, do you expect that everything is available to play? Clearly, no one who works for this website/magazine has ever traversed a legally dubious ROM site to see for themselves, but we’re under good authority that most...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Todd Rogers
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Todd Rogers, who is displayed on card number 100, from the Superstars of 2011. Also Todd can be found on card numbers 356, 397, 521, 551, 660, 1763, 1869, 2049, 2135 and 2516. The Video Games first “Pro Gamer”, Todd has...
Adventure (Atari VCS/2600)
Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979? Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we...
The Last Official Release: Game Boy – Shikakei Atama o Kore Kusuru: Kanji/Keisan no Tatsujin
Greetings fellow retro gamers and welcome to a new series called The Last Official Release. Dramatic, I know. As you can likely imagine, in these articles I will be focusing on the last ever games released for consoles – highlighting a different system each post. It...
The 25th Anniversary of the Super FX Chip
February 21st, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but by proxy, it also marks another anniversary of note: The debut of the "Mathematical, Argonaut, Rotation & Input/Output" chip, or "MARIO" for...
Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn: Are You Shaqin’ With Me?!?!?!?
For the past years, unknown how many to be exact, retro gaming has become a popular concept to not only to the gaming community, but to the manufacturers as well. We have seen so many retro systems created by major companies as well as the everyday user too. We look...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Listening to Slipknot in the 8 Bit Universe
When you play any type of video game, you are experiencing several elements to make that game cool. There is the graphics, control, playability, characters, storyline and most important, the audio/music. There is not a day that goes by where I play Tetris and then...
RETROSPECTIVE: Making Sense of THEC64 Mini
The move to create a Mini makes perfect sense, however. All it takes is a passing glance at what Nintendo’s been able to accomplish with both the miniature NES and SNES Classic Editions to realize that a nostalgic looking box that emulates original titles legally and pumps the images into a modern display via HDMI is the hot ticket right now.
Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! for Genesis/Mega Drive Review
Remember Greendog? The lovable doofus of a surfer that has to find 6 pieces of Aztez treasure in the Carribean to lift a curse? No? Oh. It was made by the same developers as Sonic 2, though. Strange that it has fallen into obscurity... I wonder why? [wpdevart_youtube...
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! (Nintendo Entertainment System)
‘He’s Hurt Me Doc!’….. ‘Join the Nintendo Fun Club Today Mac.’ Doc really didn’t seem to know what he was doing when it came to coaching and training beyond late night jogs in lower Manhattan, and providing sometimes useful advice between rounds. He probably also...
Cancelled 40 Winks N64 Port to Finally See Release
“Move over Mario…” was the bold Nintendo Official Magazine quote that adorned the cover of the 40 Winks N64 port that was never to be… until this week, of course. Through the magic of Kickstarter and Piko Interactive, the platform/adventure featuring Ruff and Tumble...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Michelle Ireland
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Michelle Ireland, who is displayed on card number 446, from the Superstars of 2013. Michelle is also on Cards 1261, 1646 and 2287. The second half of the Team Mayh3m duo, Michelle is a true gamer in every sense of the word. ...
A Look at Super Mario Land’s 1-Up Hearts
This seemed thematically appropriate for today. In adapting the popular Super Mario franchise to the Game Boy, Nintendo's developers made numerous changes along the way which have helped the titles to stand out -- especially over the last decade or so, as the New...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: This is Starcade!
There were times in my childhood where I was unable to make it to the local arcade or the local corner store just to play a game for a couple minutes. There were even times when I couldn't make it down the street to play pinball at one of houses of a friend of my...
Mutant Football League Review: Same as it Ever Was-Fantastic
If you’re under 20, you’ve most likely never played a game of football like Mutant Football League unless you had a really cool Dad, friend or sibling. Hilarious, insane and fun, Mutant League Football on the Sega Genesis was and still is a cult classic game that...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Arda Ocal
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Arda Ocal who is displayed on card number 2813, from the Superstars of 2018 Collection. Arda is a broadcaster whose resume includes ESPN, NHL, WWE, MSG Network and many more. From being the weather reporter or a report for...
K.C. Munchkin (Odyssey²)
“How many Munchies can your Munchkin munch before your Munchkin’s all munched out????” That is the question posed on the manual & back of the box of this week’s game of the week, the controversial (at the time) Odyssey² game, K.C. Munchkin. That question also...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside Bevontule: Altar of Roots
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Derek Bradley (Co-Founder, Multithreaded Games), who lets us know how a story written in High School and a love of games the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics, Suikoden 2, Xenogears, Shadow Hearts, and Earthbound turned into a passion...
Great Games That Will (Probably) Never Be Released Again: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from Konami
Over the years, a lot of great games have been released which have little to no chance of ever being re-released for one reason or another -- or several. In this series, we're going to take a look at some of those titles which you'll more often than not have to seek...