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Video Game of the Day – February 21st – Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
The Game Scholar – Let’s Go to the Videotape By Leonard Herman The Father of Video Game History
Video game software can reside on many different types of media. In the early dedicated consoles of the seventies, the games were built into the consoles themselves. The introduction of cartridges in 1976 eventually gave way to CDs in 1988 and DVDs in 2000. Magnetic...
Growth of Online Gaming in the 2020s
The online gaming industry has grown rapidly since several countries began legalizing online betting. The market is expected to continue booming through the 2020s, as its popularity spreads globally. The more high speed internet improves, the most this trend will...
The Best Atari 2600 Games (That Never Existed)
Some do it to fulfill a fantasy of a game they wish had existed. Some do it just to see if they can create something that reminds them of past joys. Others just want to mess with your head. They are the creators of fake Atari labels. Surprisingly, there are several...
Video Games That Have Aged Like Fine Wine
Online games are at the height of their popularity as more and more gamers opt for them. The competitiveness is what gets the attention of the younger audience today, along with the graphics. Besides the usual top-ranking titles, people can play various browser games...
Video Game of the Day – February 19th – Shadow Bug
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Coins Detected in Pocket Galaga: Versus Armando Gonzalez, Mike Thompson, and Jordan Dorrington – by Steve DeLuca
Welcome to another installment of a column dedicated exclusively to Old School Gamers and Old School Games from the Golden Age of gaming. These gamers, back in the day, had to physically use a coin or token to start a video game. The earning of these coins was mostly...
Join the Club
Video gamers are always interested in finding out what new games are coming out for their systems. It’s nice to get a sneak preview by seeing some screen shots and descriptions. It is a natural curiosity, because one might consider a particular game as a future...
The Story of a Happy Child and a Cabaret Ms. Pac-Man
In addition to tons and tons of classic home video game consoles, I also collect the full size coin-operated models. I currently have six machines crammed into a small "game room" in my apartment. One of these, and the one that gets the most play from visitors, is...
The Mutual Influence of the Casino and Gaming Industries
The gaming industry and the casino one are avid followers of the trends in technology and make sure not to advance without them. Thanks to stronger processors and better RAM memory computers can support games with better graphics and provide smoother gameplay...
Video Game of the Day – February 18th – Akalabeth: World of Doom
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
New Galaga World Record!
There are only a few arcade games that are considered part of the golden age of video games. Some think of Pac-Man, Defender, and Donkey Kong. There are a huge number of gamers out there who think Galaga. Galaga is one of the most popular old school games ever. The...
AMAZON or Big Brown River! From the man formerly known as THE JADED GAMER by Bill Donohue
The following are excerpts from a tattered notebook recovered from the mummified hand of an unknown explorer. How the explorer got into his leathery condition is still a mystery that maybe these notes can solve. A bigger mystery is how this explorer was found under a...
Video Game of the Day – February 16th – Until Dawn
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Great Games To Play With Your Better Half.
Yep, it's that time of year again, when all the stores are decorated red and pink, florists and greeting card stores are bracing for the last second rush and others are still stressing out because they have no idea what to get their special someone for Valentine's...
Video Game of the Day – February 15th – Hoshi wo Miru Hito (Stargazers)
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ken Gage
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ken Gage who currently is displayed on card number 2594, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Ken started his gaming career on the Atari 2600. Adventure was his go-to game. He played so much, his parents had to take away the...
Video Game of the Day – February 14th – Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Video Game of the Day – February 13th – Star Control: Famous Battles of the Ur-Quan Conflict, Volume 4
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
A Tale of Two Consoles – By Frank Schwartztrauber
In the fall of 1982, I decided to make my first major electronics purchase: a ColecoVision home video game console. I was married with a child on the way, assumed I would be spending more time at home in the future and thought it was a great idea. I had grown up...
The Odyssey 2 Goes to War! By Earl Green
Just because Atari had Combat and other titles representing the warlike side of the VCS doesn’t mean that players couldn’t wage war on other systems. The Odyssey 2 didn’t have a large slew of war games at its disposal. The earliest such title,Armored Encounter! / Sub...
Video Game of the Day – February 12th – Geneforge
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Modern Retro Programming: An Interview with Bob DeCrescenzo – by Brian Szarek, Editor
The retro community has been growing at a rapid pace, and one of the reasons are homebrew games, hacks and ports that attempt to faithfully recreate (or put a new spin on) arcade classics for vintage consoles. The Atari 2600 and 7800 libraries have been growing at a...
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry Switch Review – By Brad Feingold
Sex Seriously, how many times can you say you started writing an article saying that, where you weren’t on a dirty site? Now, that it’s out of the way, let’s talk about why I mentioned it. Disclaimer, we here at OSG try to keep our material family...
This Day In Video Game History
