Keep Calm and Insert Coin: May the Force Be With You
Ok, ok. I know that a person like me should have talked about this first when I started blogging since I am an avid fan of Star Wars. So much that, as my bio says, I was accepted into the local 501st Central Garrison here in Des Moines. But on October 9, 2017, Star...
Phoenix IV: Sony’s Trojan Horse
Nuon consoles were basically DVD players that played games. The PlayStation 2 (PS2) was a game machine that also played DVDs. And it was the console from the three major hardware manufacturers, Nintendo, Sega and even SCE, that could play DVDs. While the Xbox...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Creepin’ It Real’
Old School Gamer chats with Nick Mann, Mega Cat Studios, who discusses the developer’s upcoming game, Creepin’ It Real. Discussing his love for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Mann lets us know why it’s a special game, perfect for the Halloween season. Old School...
Downright Bizarre: Super Mario Brothers – “Here We Go!”
When one thinks of Mario, a squeaky clean image of a true hero saving a damsel in distress usually comes to mind. That is far from the truth! It is really a story of corruption, gluttony, and lots and lots of sewage. If you read page four of the manual, it clearly...
Can you name all of the characters on our cover!
At the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this past weekend, over 2,000 copies went out of our first issue of Old School Gamer, and they (and all print copies) go out with our cover as a foldout poster. Alot of people were asking who all the characters were on it. So here...
The Microvision: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
While not the first gaming handheld ever, the Microvision was the first to use interchangeable cartridges all the way back in 1979. This would not be replicated again until 1989's Nintendo Game Boy. [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0" theme="light"...
Game Link and You: How Game Boy’s Least-Used Accessory Gave It New Life
It's a rare thing for a hardware developer to release a peripheral at launch that sees use throughout the entire life of a system. But perhaps even rarer still is for such an accessory to see even more use at the end of its respective system's lifespan. Enter the Game...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Wulverblade
Old School Gamer sits down with Michael Heald (Founder, Fully Illustrated; Creative Director, Wulverblade) to find out what inspired this ass-kicking Golden Axe-infused arcade experience on the Nintendo Switch and how retro games and a love of the Mega Drive helped...
GameShell going Kickstarter!
Redefine Portable Game Console Get GameShell $99 Play 1000s of amazing indie retro games, emulate your favorite GB/GBA/NES games, and create your own game in the embedded GNU/LINUX system. Portable game console with 1000s of free games Emulators for GB/GBA/NES games...
Analogue Announces new FPGA SNES Console, the Super Nt
Remember the Mini Nt? If your memory is a bit foggy (happens to all of us as we age, don’t worry) the Nt was an aftermarket NES manufactured by Analogue, Inc. It wasn’t just any run of the mill NOAC console, though, as it ran on FPGA hardware, was fabricated from a...
Phoenix IV: Controversial Gaming
One third-party vendor, Acclaim, managed to raise controversy with several stunts that it pulled throughout the year. The first occurred in late-February (2002) when it released Shadow Man: 2econd Coming for the PS2. The game dealt with death, so Acclaim offered to...
Downright Bizarre: Earthworm Jim – Groovy!!!!
Wanna see a worm flex his muscles before dropping his drawers? If so, then Earthworm Jim is the game for you! Once upon a time, a lowly invertebrate named Jim overheard a lot of ruckus above. He peeked his head up and out of the safety of his underground hole, only to...
Old School Gamer Magazine – Issue #1 ONLINE NOW!
And it's waiting for you! Remember, the digital edition is totally free for all OldSchool Gamers! This issue contains: Event Updates - Classic Game Fest, National Video Game MuseumWe Stopped By - Galloping Ghost Arcade Michael Thomasson's Just for Qix Ed Averett is...
Retro Bit Power Stick Coming Soon!
Replay your favorite NES® games with the new Power Stick controller from Retro-Bit®. Featuring a 6 ft. cable and an eight directional joystick, give any game that classic arcade feel with micro switches that allow for precision inputs. Features Original NES®...
SR3® Plus from Retro Bit Coming Soon!
Step up your retro-gaming experience and relive three classic systems like never before, in crisp 720p resolution! The SR3® Plus is the premium top loading console for all of your original NES®, SNES®, and Genesis® games. Custom built with three cartridge slots, six...
Billy Mitchell and Walter Day join Old School Advisory Board
Old School Gamer Magazine hasn't put out its first print magazine yet (coming this week) but it has just made a couple additions to the team that is guiding and writing for the magazine and website. Walter Day who started the competitive e-sports industry and is...
The Vectrex: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
The Vectrex was the first and only console for the home market that used vectors instead of raster graphics. It was also the first to support a peripheral for 3D (several years before the SMS's 3-D Glasses). For all its merits, though (including the fact it had a...
Shadowgate from 1987 Returns with Friends
Set the date to 1987 and get ready to revisit the classic 8-bit adventure games that mesmerized a generation of console junkies. Now is the opportunity to play cult favorites Shadowgate™, The Uninvited™ and Déjà Vu™ the way they were supposed to be played, with...
Phoenix IV: Tony Hawk Ride Skateboard
Activision released another game with a deluxe controller on November 17 (2009) in North America, and this one had been designed with teens in mind. Tony Hawk: Ride was the latest in a series of Tony Hawk-branded skateboard games, and was the first to feature its own...
SNES Mugs, Lights and More!
Merchoid has today revealed a variety of officially licensed SNES merchandise, including coasters, heat changing mugs and lights. With the recent fun-sized release of the SNES Classic Mini, this new range of products offers fans a chance to reboot their childhood...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Poor Stacking
This is probably one of the few timely blogs that I am going to do. But recently, my family and I finally moved out of our hell hole of an apartment and moved into a new house. Well, not so new. It was built in 1952, but you know what I mean. And this happens to...
Seedi System on Indiegogo!
Just finished watching Metal Jesus doing his review of the Seedi Indiegogo project and had completely forgotten that I was able to get a cool interview with Bryan and Chris a couple weeks ago, the developers of the Seedi unit, so lets move right in. The Seedi is...
Sega Saturn Prototype, Armed, Sells for $2500
Armed, also referred to as Aftermath, was to be a game released on the Sega Saturn and PlayStation towards the end of 1996. Developed by Point of View and originally to be published by Interplay, Armed had you playing as a special agent named Vic as he blasted robots...
Rumored Game Boy Classic Poses Many Questions
Following the success of the NES Classic and Super NES Classic, it seemed all but inevitable that Nintendo would continue the line with another vintage video game system packed with classic games. Common belief in the gaming community is that the Nintendo 64 would be...
Downright Bizarre: Kool-Aid Man “OH YEAH!!”
This eighties pop-culture icon was so cool that it burst through the brick wall to become one of the most unmistakable product placements on record. OH YEAH! The game was available through conventional retail channels, but could also be acquired by submitting a mere...
SUPERBRIEF: Star Trek
So far, SUPERBRIEF has focused on interactive fictions such as Zork and Colossal Cave Adventure as some of the earliest standout computer games. While both of these (and many, many others) claimed tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as one of their...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Wonder Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Wonder Boy and the Cursed Kingdom co-producer Philipp Döschl, who details the origin and creative process behind the newest original game based in the world of the cult-classic retro adventure RPG. With the blessing of original...
A Review of “Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution”
In the new book, Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution, the author, David L. Craddock, covers about two dozen influential Apple II computer games along with the companies and people who created them. For the book, Craddock states that he...
The World’s best-selling Home Computer – Reborn!
29 September 2017 – A timeless classic is being given a new lease of life with the launch of THEC64® Mini. Developed by Retro Games Ltd. - and distributed by Koch Media – THEC64® Mini is a fully licensed reimagining of the 80’s bestselling home computer. Half the...
The Nintendo 64 Controller: What Was With That Weird Thing?
Over the course of the history of the video game industry, few controllers -- first-party controllers, especially -- have ever been able to measure up to the sheer strangeness of the accessory Nintendo revealed as its input device for what was then known as the...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: You Got Balls!!
Ok, the blogs that I normally do involve anything from my old school arcade days. But after leaving the Old School Pinball and Arcade in Grimes, Iowa, I had this burning in my head and figured it would be cool to let this out in this special blog. You pay one low...
Another day. Another SNES clone.
Hot on the re-emergence of the SNES in the public eye thanks to the Mini, SNES fever is rampant. That might be the reason the website, Old Skool Games (in partnership with the distributor, Video Game Advantage) have announced pre-orders for a new console called the...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Giving the Game the Middle Finger!
I was trying to think back to some of the memories of some of the games that I played. I was starting to ask myself why are they always the bad memories that I don't want to remember? I guess it's cause I loved the games so much. Guess it really doesn't matter if...
The SEGA Channel: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
It's time for another episode of Wonders of the Retro Gaming World! After checking out the Satellaview and the Net Yaroze, today we're taking a look at the SEGA Channel. Released in 1994, this service allowed SEGA's Genesis to hook up to cable networks and temporarily...
Downright Bizarre: Smash TV! “Good Luck! You’ll Need It!”
It’s a hands-on, no-holds-barred, do-or-die adventure! “The year is 1999. Television has adapted to the more violent nature of man. The most popular form of television remains the game show. One show in particular has dominated the ratings. That show is Smash TV, the...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside Citadale: The Legends Trilogy
Old School Gamer chats with Ezekiel Rage (Lead Developer) of Citadale: The Legends Trilogy, who lets us know how a love of 8-Bit action platformer on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Master System gave birth to a game that could one day end up on the Switch....
Review: Arcade Archives Mario Bros. for Nintendo Switch
Even though Nintendo got their video game start in arcades and became the stuff of legend via Donkey Kong, they've always been a bit shy about bringing genuine ports of their coin-op hits to home consoles. However, that all changes this week thanks to Hamster, Co. and...
New Ataribox Details Emerge
Remember the Ataribox? The “new” console by Atari? While not much was known originally about the console apart from what was revealed in a twenty-second video showing nothing but 3D renders (so, nothing) - recently, Atari sent out an email newsletter exposing some new...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: HEY, I’M SKATIN HERE!!!!!
One thing I remember happening when Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace movie trailers came out was people were so dedicated to Star Wars went to any movie that was showing the trailer. They went into the movie, watched the trailer and left. Wait, pay $12.00 to...
Five Retro Themed Games on the Nintendo Switch You Must Play
Although the Nintendo Switch has- and will have titles that show off its graphical prowess and its bevy of useful features at home and on the go, it is very much a system rooted in retro-styled gaming. From modern retellings of classics, to the inclusion of original...