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The Cabinet of Curiosities: Color A Dinosaur
There is something you should probably know about me. I’m a grown man, who just had a dinosaur themed birthday party. There were dino party games, decorations, and an entire selection of dino inspired snacks. I adore the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World series, but I...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official NES Peripherals: NES Cleaning Kit
With just a touch of Mario Mania, for good measure.
Five Unusual Arcade Games
Arcade games are still a staple part of the gaming world. For every gamer enjoying surround sound and immense visuals in their gaming den, there is someone else at a hipster arcade gaming bar sipping a beer that was brewed by Monks who are always doing handstands....
Toe Jam and Earl Back in the Groove – By Conor McBrien
That’s right! After seventeen years away, the old-school alien duo from the planet Funkotron has returned. Crowdfunded through Kickstarter back in 2015, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is the fourth game in the series and the first to be independently published....
Entering the Digitized Era–Part2 – By Warren Davis
In the last issue, I told the story of how I was introduced to video digitizers in the mid-1980s while working at Williams and began to explore their use in obtaining photo-realistic images for arcade games. The first digitizer I played with was made for an...
AtGames® Announces the Legends Ultimate Arcade Machine
Full-Size Arcade Machine Features Legendary Video Games, Cloud Connectivity, and other Amazing Features Los Angeles – May 30, 2019 - AtGames® Digital Media Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment products today announced the Legends Ultimate arcade...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: The Coca-Cola Kid
As we tour the Cabinet of Curiosities, we will see all manner of oddities. There is a special section reserved just for product promotions, such as Yo! Noid, the Domino’s Noid video game, and Kool-Aid Man, the Atari game featuring...the Kool-Aid Man. All of this...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jerry Buckner
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jerry Buckner, who currently is displayed on card number 1345, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Jerry is also featured on cards 1832, 1981, 2388. As a musician and producer, Jerry Buckner created many memorable music...
Why they’re rare: Tetris for the Sega Mega Drive
Rare games often have their fair share of urban legends. The rarer the game, the most far-fetched the story. One of those game is assuredly Tetris but a specific version of it. Namely, the one released in extremely limited quantities for the SEGA Genesis or the Mega...
Dreamcast Version of Tanglewood on “Hiatus”
Released in the August of last year, Tanglewood was an enjoyable, endearing and inventive platformer to see a physical release for the long-discontinued Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. This came about after a successful Kickstarter campaign, in which 892 backers raised...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Tongue of the Fatman
The world of video games is filled with many weird and wondrous things, digital creations that would make John Waters scratch his head and say, “Well, that seems like a bit much...” It is my goal, nay, it is my QUEST to find and document those games here in the...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Epilogue
Sweet dreams…
Top Ten Underrated Retro Gaming Experiences on the Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch may be a sexy and capable console, but it’s also one that is filled with a plethora of amazing retro experiences. In this exclusive Old School Gamer Magazine list, we count down 10 awesome retro experiences you may have missed or skipped past on...
Ice Cold Beer and Arcade Tournaments – By Phil Day
By and large, the great achievements of early arcade gamers from the 80’s remained known only to the faithful few until 2007, with the release of the feature length documentary film, King of Kong. At first, the film seemed peculiar: a niche subculture of competitors...
Best old and new apps and games every US sports fan needs to have
Back in 2016, the number of smartphone users reached 2.1 billion. Interestingly, the rate of ownership will increased by over a third at end of this year, at which time an estimated over three billion people will own a handset across the globe. The growth and...
Williams Pinball Volume 4 – Available Now!
Buckle up! Williams Pinball Volume 4 is a wild ride with 3 new tables and revamped flipper physics. White Water, Red & Ted’s Road Show and Hurricane will be released on May 28 to PlayStation 4, Xbox One & Windows 10, Steam, Nintendo Switch and Mac. Also to the...
Brighten Your Room With Mario and Nintendo
Brighten up your room and dream of your next adventure with Mario and friends, with this super-fun and stylish NES Console Lamp. The lamp has a lampshade that features a classic Super Mario NES game, and the base is a classic NES controller. You can use the controller...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Warlords and Mega Bomberman – By Brett Weiss
I like a good, epic solo adventure like H.E.R.O. for the ColecoVision, or God of War for the PlayStation 2, as much as anyone, and I also enjoy playing (and replaying) any number of quickie twitch games, all by my lonesome. However, there’s nothing quite like facing...
Tag Team Wrestling
For my money, artists such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Fosse don’t hold a candle to men like Ric “Nature Boy” Flair or Kerry Von Erich. Nor can Pavarotti or Maria Callas match the passion and drama of performers like Gorgeous George or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson....
Two New Publishers Announced for the Evercade
The Evercade is an interesting new retro handheld we’ve been closely following at OSGM HQ for the last month or so. Starting off as something mysterious, it was soon revealed to be a completely self-contained console that would play retro games – but most importantly,...
Why they’re rare: Atlantis II
This is a tricky one as only a handful—not even—were ever made for a contest and they look exactly the same as the original. Let’s go back in time for a bit. The year is 1982, Imagic just released Atlantis for the Atari 2600 and other systems including the...
Knabber Rob – A Reverse Adventure for the Atari 2600
For the sake of expediency, I'm going to assume that anyone reading this is already familiar with the Atari 2600 game Adventure and not spend a lot of time explaining it. I'm not even going to do the thing where I say I'm not going to explain it but then do explain it...
Home Run for the Atari 2600
Canada Bill Jones was a con man and riverboat gambler from Yorkshire, England. An 1877 article in the Dallas Times Herald once described him as being, “gentle as a woman and cunning as a fox.” He is not particularly relevant to what follows, except in one regard....
The Duck Knight Returns: Where to Find More Darkwing Duck
“I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the dead pixel that isn’t covered under warranty! I am Darkwing Duck!”
This Day In Video Game History
MicroProse sign world-wide publishing and distribution deal with Team17.
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