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Antstream Arcade Receive Investment From Gaming Giant Tencent
Retro gaming start-up, Antstream Arcade, has become the next promising company to receive funding from publishing giant, Tencent. While details of the investment are currently still under wraps, Antstream Arcade embarked on their very first Series A funding round to...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Takeshi’s Challenge
It’s a popular trope to associate alcohol with brilliant writing. Writers like Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are examples of talented authors who seemed to find inspiration at the bottom of a bottle. However, in the interest of equal...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Rogue Legacy: Wanderer Edition
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Teddy Lee (Co-Founder and Lead Designer, Cellar Door Games) to find out why Rogue Legacy was ported to mobile devices and what makes this version a unique one. About Rogue Legacy: Originally released in 2013 to critical...
Missing Manuals (and Strategy Guides)
Video game manuals were such a staple when it came to console gaming. Not only did you learn HOW to play a game, but you also got story bits, character bios, and sometimes even hints on how to get an advantage early on. I remember instantly opening up the game just...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Patrick Wyrick
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Patrick Wyrick who currently is displayed on card number 2219, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Patrick “Indigo Ferret”, has been competing in Esports for years. He has a long resume of tournaments and 1st place...
Pixels and Peach Baskets BY Thomas Spychalski
Basketball is a pure American creation, being the one major sport to have it’s origins completely in the United States rather then being an altered version of a popular sport elsewhere in the world, such as baseball, which is derived from Cricket. A simple game with...
The Jaguar SD – a Newly Launched Flashcart for the Jag
RetroHQ, a small UK based aftermarket retro peripheral manufacturer, have just cornered a niche that won’t likely impact most, but will no doubt make those involved very happy indeed. Previously known for the Everdrive-like Neo Geo Pocket SD Flash – a niche in itself...
Two New Products From New Wave Toys
New Wave Toys is excited to be back on Kickstarter to introduce our next product line.. Our RepliTronics™ line brings back the heyday of 80s and 90s electronics with iconic devices reimagined for the modern electronic ecosystem. This campaign will help us launch our...
Street Fighter 2 By Josh LaFrance
In the mid 1980’s the once booming arcade industry was coming to an end. From 1981 to 1986 the arcade industry was cut in half, going from $8 million in revenue down to $4 million. By 1991, the industry was a shell of it’s formal self only taking in $2.1 million....
RetroStone 2 – Ultimate RetroGaming Console
With RetroStone 2 rediscover your childhood video games! Alone or with friends (up to 4 players) 8bcraft has released the second generation RetroStone on Kickstarter. This enables you to play all your childhood favorite retro games on this portable device. ...
G5: The Generation Without a TMNT Game
It almost happened, though.
RETROSPECTIVE: Playing the Sega Genesis Mini
Genesis Does What Nintendid In the event that you’ve been living under a rock, retro mini consoles are a hot commodity right now. Nintendo got the ball rolling with the NES Classic Edition (then again with the SNES), Sony did their best to compete with the poorly...
1942 By Brandon Poe
Each month in Retro Revisited, Classic Console’s very own Brandon Poe picks one classic game to play. This month’s classic: Capcom’s 1942. This month I decided to sit down with a game I really did not have much experience with. I had only heard of this game when I was...
Playstation: 20 years
The road to Sony’s involvement in the video game industry began way back in 1986. It is a story littered with broken promises, court cases and Sony almost walking away from ever being involved in video games. Eventually redeeming themselves with the creation of a...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Galerider: Free to Fly
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Galerider dev Daniel Choo, who lets us know how a love of Panzer Dragoon played a role in his beautiful iOS game. Old School Gamer: How was Galerider born? Daniel Choo: The original idea of Galerider came to me about five years...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Josh Houslander
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Josh Houslander who is displayed on card number 139, from the Twin Galaxies Superstars Collection of 2011. Josh was one of the creators of a podcast for Twin Galaxies website that discussed all things Twin Galaxies as well as...
32X Support is Finally Coming to the Mega Sg
The Mega Sg, by Analogue, is a jack-of-all-trades FPGA Sega console when it comes to the 80’s and 90’s. While it can play Genesis/Mega Drive and the Master System out of the box (as well as including an edge connector for the Sega/Mega CD), additional adapters can...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Moondust
In 1978, Brian Eno released the album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. It remains a landmark in the world of ambient music, a genre which said was, “as ignorable as it was interesting” and which was intended to “induce calm and a space to think.” The music was quiet,...
Activision
Prior to the creation of Activision, third party publishers did not exist. This is not just some statement thrown out to explain this publisher’s importance, it is a literal fact. Activision, formed in October 1979, was the first ever independent publisher to exist in...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Inferno’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Indinera Falls, Founder, Director and Game Developer of Aldorlea Games, who discusses his newest game, Inferno. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Indinera Falls: From the wanderings of my crazy and twisted mind......
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Shawne Vinson
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Shawne Vinson who currently is displayed on card number 440, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. He is also featured on cards 1076, 2412, and 3200. Shawne, who is known as the “Nintendo Master of Sacramento, can be seen...
FLASHBACK Returns… to Apple Store and Google Play.
Paul Cuisset presents a new FLASHBACK adaptation for mobile users. Following the 25th anniversary of the license and its Nintendo Switch port in 2018. Already available on more than 10 platforms the anthology action-adventure game FLASHBACK is making its way to...
Super Trash Truck
Every month we here at Classic Console Magazine are given the awesome task of looking at some of the best new up and coming homebrew and independent releases for the Atari 2600. A large amount of games are being created by the retro gaming community. Some are of such...
Wing Commander By Josh LaFrance
For a Sci-Fi fan growing up in the early 90’s nothing was more exciting than watching Star Trek: TNG on TV or one of my VHS tapes from the Star Wars trilogy. Although I did play a few Sci-Fi genre games growing up, (Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by Interplay and Space...
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