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Disney On the Nintendo Game And Watch System
Long before the Disney Afternoon games created by Capcom, Nintendo was creating other Disney themed video games. In fact, Disney’s first venture into the world of digital gaming came through Nintendo. In 1981, Nintendo released Mickey Mouse for the Game & Watch...
Retro-Bit® to Unveil First Wave of Officially Licensed SEGA Products at Gamescom 2018
Retro-Bit, a premier publisher and manufacturer of classic gaming products, is proud to announce the unveiling of their eagerly awaited SEGA controller lineup, featuring the same great quality as their original hardware counterparts like the original console port, but...
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Nintendo 64 Chronicles [7] Turok Dinosaur Hunter & Doom 64
#13 : Turok Dinosaur Hunter At a first glance, Turok seems to just be a mish-mosh of story ideas bundled into one. You take control of Tal'set, a Native American, time-travelling warrior who has been granted the title of Turok. The Turok's are the eldest male in each...
Flying the Not-So-Friendly Skies: TaleSpin for the NES
In retrospect, the concept behind Disney’s TaleSpin cartoon was hilariously bizarre. It took several of the principal characters from the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, and placed them in a world that was a mix between Indiana Jones and Casablanca, with just a...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Dustwind’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Dimitri Zatisev, Creative Director of “Dustwind,” a tactical RPG with a post-apocalyptic theme. Heavily inspired by the “Fallout” series, Zatisev lets us know what makes the game different and special and why the gameplay elements...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Wasn’t That a Movie?
Video Games, what can you really say about them? Some are the best you have ever played, some are the dumbest ones you have ever played. Some have original concept ideas, and some have to take ideas that have already been executed in some other form of media. From...
The Last Official Release: Sega Saturn – Undefined Japanese Game (2000)
Oh, Sega Saturn… you didn’t deserve any of this. You poor thing. It’s not your fault you were the awkward middle child between your more successful siblings, the Genesis and Dreamcast - and it’s definitely not your fault that you were a victim of hard-to-program-for...
How Super NES and Super Famicom Controllers are More Alike Than You Think
On August 13th, 1991, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released to an eagerly anticipating audience in North America. Or was it August 23rd? Oddly enough, I've seen several references for each, and even conflicting information from the same sources....
inXile Entertainment’s The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Remaster Now Available on Steam and GOG.com!
Tales of the Unknown, the first volume of this legendary RPG series, arrives today, with the final two volumes launching later this year NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 14, 2018 – inXile Entertainment, the studio led by Interplay founder and industry icon Brian Fargo,...
Let’s Get Dangerous: Darkwing Duck on the NES
He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the metal key in the sardine can of justice. He is...Darkwing Duck! Another classic of the Disney Afternoon, Darkwing Duck premiered on the Disney channel in 1991, before going into weekday syndication and becoming a...
Tanglewood Review for Genesis/Mega Drive/PC
I present to you, lovely readers, my review for Tanglewood! Not only is it a Mega Drive game, but it's a NEW Mega Drive game. It's even getting a cartridge run. Playing as a small fox called Nymn, this puzzle/platformer involves trying to escape a hostile environment...
Puregaming.org Collector Info: Sega 32X and SegaCD Pricer
All pricing below is based on Pure Gaming’s unique algorithm that scours online resoures looking for what actual product sold for in many different locations. It should be taken only as a guide and not a final value of any game. The real value is whatever someone is...
The Game Scholar: Keyboard Creations – By Leonard Herman
Labo, the do-it-yourself kits that released on April 20, 2018, are pure genius on the part of Nintendo. They’re somehow breathing new life into the Nintendo Switch, which right now is burning bright like a phoenix, while teaching kids (and adults) the principles of...
Numskull Designs is incredibly proud to team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment for the first in a series of Quarter Arcades exclusives!
The world’s most recognizable video game ‘PAC-MAN’ has gone back to where it began with one of the most realistically-presented formats of the original platform. ‘PAC-MAN’ as a character inspired generations and the original game is still one of the most addictive...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Aaron Laberge
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Aaron Laberge, who is displayed on card number 2642 from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. Aaron’s trading card will be presented and featured the weekend of March 18th, 2017 in Banning, CA. Living in Canada, Aaron has...
Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
Sometimes some crimes go slipping through the cracks, but these two gumshoes are picking up the slack… Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers debuted in early 1989 and went into national syndication that Fall. It featured the classic Disney characters Chip and Dale, but...
45 Years of Arcade Gaming: The 1990s – By Adam Pratt
This is an update & re-write of an original article that was published on ArcadeHeroes.com on June 27th, 2012 entitled ‘40 Years Of Arcade Games’. You can still read that post here: http://arcadeheroes.com/2012/06/27/ 40-years-of-arcade-games/ In our quest to...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Invasion of the Box People’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Blake Petersen (Founder, Angry Giant Games) to lets us know how the addicting and retro-inspired dual-stick shooter on Google Play came to be and who will enjoy it the most. About the Game: In Invasion of the Box People, it all...
The South Park for Game Boy Color That Almost Was
Back in the late 90's, Comedy Central's South Park burst onto the cable television scene and became an overnight success, the talk of the schoolyard and water cooler alike. As such, it stood to reason that numerous companies were eager to cash in on the craze, and...
The Last Official Release: Intellivision – Spiker! Super Pro Volleyball (1989)
Hello and welcome back to The Last Official Release – the genuine article as far as tracking what the last games released worldwide for your favourite console are. “Genuine article” is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but in this series, I search the interwebs...
Tales of Derring-Do: DuckTales on the NES
For a kid born in the early 80s, there were no better cartoons than the Disney Afternoon: Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Gargoyles. My favorite was DuckTales. I adored Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey,...
Why I Wrote ‘The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Video Game Developers’
Even though technology has changed the way we get information, writing your first book is still a huge accomplishment, especially for a 30-something who was the first in his family to graduate from college. My book, “The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult...
Man Vs. Snake Review – By Brad Feingold
One thing that I have noticed about video game documentaries is that it turns into “Six Degrees of Iowa”. Every one of the movies I have seen always links back to Ottumwa, Iowa. And it should because that is where Walter Day started Twin Galaxies. But even better, it...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Natalie Rossetti
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Natalie Rossetti who is displayed on card number 2078, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Natalie has been in the television and media world for many years now. She has worked on a variety of TV shows such as Fly Girls...
