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Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure for the NES is On Kickstarter
Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure, a brand-new platformer game for the NES by Spoony Bard Productions, is currently up on Kickstarter and already funded! Bigger and better, but with everything that made the original so much fun, Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure is packed with tons...
Introducing the Intellivision Amico™!
Hello Intellivision Family! We are so happy to be able to share these details of the new Intellivision console. Please help us spread the word by sharing our reveal trailer and information on social media. Thank you for your support and we look forward to...
Remembering the Arcade Industry Trade Shows – By Q*Bert’s Dad Warren Davis
One of the most enjoyable aspects of a career in the video arcade industry in the 1980s was attending the industry’s trade shows. These events (not open to the general public) were like video arcades on steroids. Game manufacturers brought dozens of their newest...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jeffrey Wittenhagen
This week we look back at an interview I did with author and Retro Gamer Jeffrey Wittenhagen. Jeffrey has written a handful of retro gaming books with stunning illustration. You can access these books for purchase as well as other items from Jeffrey...
Shivers: Exploring Dr. Windlenot’s Mysterious Museum
Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual sits in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Opened by Sir Hubert Windlenot, the museum was intended to highlight the arcane knowledge Windlenot gathered over the course of his career with the The President, Council and Fellows...
Analogue Announces FPGA-Based Third & Fourth Gen Sega Console
Sega fans, prepare to be delighted. Analogue, known for such hits as the Super NT and Nt Mini, is following up on its Nintendo based success with a complete Sega solution. The Mega Sg is no one-trick pony; not only will it support games from the venerable Mega Drive...
Midwest Gaming Classic, Vintage Computer Festival East, Corgs Southern Fried and E3 Convention Update – By Old School Gamer Staff
Starting out this season of expos we go from Milwaukee to New Jersey to Ohio and end up in Los Angeles for the mega E3 expo! MIDWEST GAMING CLASSIC • MILWAUKEE, WI BY RYAN BURGER The Midwest Gaming Classic is the first video game expo I have ever attended. It started...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official Super NES Peripherals: Super NES Mouse
When the controller’s away, the Mouse comes out to play.
AtGames® and The Tetris Company Announce Iconic Puzzle Game Tetris® Featured in Legends Flashback Console and Upcoming Legends Ultimate Home Arcade
Value-Priced High Definition Console and Upcoming Home Arcade Machine Will Feature Legendary Video Games, Including Tetris® Los Angeles – October 17, 2018 - AtGames® Digital Media Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment products, and The Tetris Company, LLC,...
Soundtrack Review: Donkey Kong Country, Part II (SNES, 1994)
Welcome back! This is the second (and last) part of a two-part review. Last time around, I put down some of my thoughts on the first half (or so) of the SNES Donkey Kong Country soundtrack. If you want to catch up, here's the link. To listen to each track mentioned,...
Shenmue II for Xbox Review
With Shenmue III on the way and the remasters already out, I thought it would be prudent to finally play Shenmue II (I played the original about 7-years ago) but for the Xbox instead, since I'm too poor (cheap) for the Dreamcast version. It's a heck of a time...
Get Ready, PONG Just Got Way More Awesome!!!
Thanks to Kickstarter, the relaunch of the classic game of Pong was a successful reincarnation that has created a tremendous buzz across the video game world. The sit down cocktail marvel has people stopping by and staring at several video game conventions and even...
Wasteland II: Director’s Cut (Nintendo Switch) Review: Stellar
Wasteland II: Director’s Cut on the Nintendo Switch is like reuniting with a best friend you haven’t seen in a year. And when you lock eyes with them, you see them a little happier, with a fresh new outfit on and killer shades. Once you start talking, you see that...
Josh Neels – Collector Stories – By Josh Yawn
It was the fall of 2014. I had just purchased my first arcade machine on a whim. I had no idea what I was doing. I always wanted to own one (that one became forty) and was excited to get working on getting it running. I asked around in the mid-sized Texas city I’m...
The Evil Dead And the “Video Nasties” Menace
I believe I have made a significant find in the Kandarian ruins, a volume of ancient Sumarian burial practices and funerary incantations. It is entitled "Naturum De Montum", roughly translated: Book of the Dead. The book is bound in human flesh and inked in human...
The Last Official Release: N-Gage – Civilization (2006)
Hello again, retro gaming fanatics, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. Throughout these pixels, projected outwards into your eyeballs, I take you through the final games released for your favourite consoles. I’ve covered quite a few consoles thus far (a...
New Nintendo Patent Could Bring Game Boy Games to Mobile Devices (Officially)
Is Nintendo looking at bringing Portable Power to mobile devices? And would they consider going beyond that?
The Spooks and Chills of Atari’s Haunted House
Many years ago in the small town of Spirit Bay, there lived a mean old man named Zachary Graves… So begins the tale of Atari’s Haunted House, released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 console. As we lurch toward Halloween, let’s pay a brief visit to Old Man Graves’s house...
Go Retro Portable from Retro Bit hitting major retailers this fall and winter!
Pomona, Ca, October 3, 2018 -- Retro-Bit®, the leading manufacturer of classic gaming accessories, is bringing some of the most popular video games into your hands this holiday season with its new GoRetro! Portable handheld console. Available throughout North America...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin – This is Why I Hate Horror Games
I have always talked about video games and the arcade world. But this time I just want to take a step back because we are at the beginning of October and you know what that means. Stale candy to be gathered and eaten at the end of December. But all of the stories...
The Walter Day Report – G.O.A.T.s Of the 21st Century Part 2 – By Walter Day
March’s issue of the 20th Century G.O.A.T.s and May’s G.O.A.T.s of the 21st Century covered a lot of ground, but by no means are we done yet! Andrew Barrow With 157 registered high scores on the Twin Galaxies Scoreboard, Andrew holds 75 world records, mostly in the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Robert Racek
Our next Trading Card Spotlight Features Robert Racek/Sid Seattle who currently is displayed on card number 2293, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Robert also represents himself and "Arcade Culture" on cards 2735, 2849, and 2850 and a couple others with the...
The 11th Hour
Sixty years after the events of The 7th Guest, television producer Robin Morales goes missing while investigating murders that occurred in Harley-On-The-Hudson, New York. Carl Denning, a reporter and Morales’s lover, has gone in search of her. The story of Morales’s...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Warren Davis
This weekend Warren Davis will be inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. He is inducted in the category of Game Developer. This trading card spotlight was featured on January 19, 2018. Congratulations Warren on being in the Hall of Fame. Our next...
