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God of War for PS2 Review
Released in 2005 on PS2, God of War kickstarted a killer IP for Sony which has resulted in a highly rated entry (of the same name) on the PS4 this year. Since I own most of the games but haven't played any, I thought it would be prudent to start with the original!...
The Temple of Apshai
It began with Dungeons & Dragons. In the late 1970s, Jim Connelly acquired a Commodore PET to assist in his work as a Dungeon Master. He led a regular game in California. One of his players was a man named Jon Freeman, the author of books like The Complete Book of...
The Last Official Release: SNES – Metal Slader Glory: Director’s Cut (2000)
Howdy, retro gamers and welcome back to The Last Official Release. In this series of words, punctuation and (usually) low-resolution imagery, I take a look at the last official games to grace discontinued consoles. Gone, but not forgotten. A full list of what I’ve...
Preserving History – By Ken Horowitz
In September 2017, I had the opportunity to do a panel on video game history and preservation at Dragon Con in Atlanta. The convention was divided into several tracks, including one for video games, and I felt that I could offer my experience of writing about Sega...
Convention Update: Start of 2018 – By Old School Gamer
This is another of those big seasons where Old School Gamer visited/ exhibited at four expos since the last issue. Enjoy the most recent coverage! ARCADE EXPO • BANNING, CA BY RYAN BURGER The Arcade Expo is held at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, California, and is...
Backup’s Kart-Fest 2018 raises £23,500
On a hot and sweaty day at beginning of July, the industry rose to the occasion for backup– the technical entertainment charity, with the charity’s fourth annual karting challenge, Kart-Fest 2018, achieving an amazing £23,500, the biggest total for any backup fund...
The 35th Anniversary of the Famicom and the 30th Anniversary of Nintendo Power
Two big anniversaries took place over the course of July 2018: July 15th marked the 35th anniversary of the release of the Nintendo Famicom in Japan (as well as the SEGA SG-1000, but sadly, I'm not paid to talk about that), and five years later, Nintendo Power...
Key Quest: The Holy Grail of the VIC-20
The Ark of the Covenant. The search for the Holy Grail. The Lost Dutchman’s Mine. All are legendary treasures that have inspired exhaustive quests. Epic literature, poems and folklore have been created about the subjects. Over the centuries, heroes and rogues have...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Oh Crap, My Mom Was Right!!!!!
This is going to pretty much be a short and sweet post because there is so much that I am getting ready to write about from the ReplayFx event this past weekend in Pittsburgh, PA. But here is the thing. My mother used to tell me when I was younger that used to play...
XtensionTMPremium Arcade Gaming Equipment as marketed by Rec Room Masters is introducing the all-new Alpha-Cade Series
These arcade video game products that are built and ready to be shipped now are ¾ scale arcade and bar top units that you just add your monitor and arcade board or Raspberry Pi or PC to and you are ready to go. Yes, with August just around the corner, the summer heat...
I Have The Power! Arcade and Console Power Super Retro-cade – By Todd Friedman
Bring the power of an arcade to your home with the Super Retro-Cade plug and play console by Retro-Bit. Packed with over 90 popular retro games from Capcom®, Data East, Technos, and Irem, this stylish console re-introduces such gems as Mega Man 2, BurgerTime, Joe and...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside ‘Cargo Cult’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Cargo Cult” creator Ryan Kwok, to find out how “Mad Max” and pod racing lended themselves to one of the most intriguing survival horror games on the indie scene today. Powered by sinister retro visuals, it’s a game OSGM is...
The World Inside Your Computer: Little Computer People
Before The Sims, before Tamagotchi, there were Little Computer People. It’s hard to know what to say about Little Computer People. The concept was profoundly, wonderfully bizarre: Little people have been found living inside your computer. Players were given an open...
Interview With Video Games Monthly – By Jonathan Polan
Video Games Monthly is a monthly subscription service that delivers video games to gamers who own classic gaming systems from the 1980’s-2000’s. Play the past into the future! OSG: Can you tell us about the origins of Video Games Monthly? VGM: The concept actually...
A Closer Look at Nintendo ASCII’s Official Super NES Peripherals: Super Advantage
Several months ago, we took a look at a peripheral released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Nintendo themselves called the NES Advantage. The device was created to bring an arcade-like feel home for players of the NES, and offer a few additional flourishes...
The Last Official Release: Sega Genesis – Frogger (1998)
Well, hello there. Welcome back to the Last Official Release: the semi-frequent series I tippity-tap that discusses the final official games to be released on your favourite consoles. An extensive and well-formatted list of what I’ve already covered can be found...
Arcade 1Up pre-orders now available!
New York, USA – June 12, 2018 – Tastemakers, LLC. is opening the doors to the past on July 25. Eager consumers will be able to place pre-orders for the first wave of affordable Arcade1Up smaller-scale arcade cabinets stocked with classic games like Atari’s Centipede...
Run Through The Jungle: Remembering Pitfall!
Growing up, I wanted to be an archeologist. Not a real archeologist mind you. I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I wanted to carry a whip, wear a leather jacket, and travel the world searching for rare (and possibly cursed) historical items. I even built a museum of...
VGM Classics Starts Crowd-funding Campaigns for New Orchestral Albums of Video Game Music
On July 20, 2018, VGM Classics (NM, USA), a classical record company specializing in video game music, has started three crowd-funding campaigns for new orchestral CD albums featuring music from the video games: “Star Fox,” “Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon,” and “Suikoden...
Nostalgia Comes Alive with the C64 Mini – Coming to North America October 9
Pre-order now, this Holiday’s Must Have Gaming System Ontario, Canada - July 23, 2018 – Retro Games Ltd. and Solutions 2 GO announced today that the THEC64® Mini is coming to North American retail stores on October 9, 2018. THEC64® Mini, a 50% replica of the of...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Rowdy Wrestling’
Old School gamer chats with Rowdy Wrestling developer Colin Lane, who details the development process and inspiration behind the mobile wrestling game that takes simplicity and fun as its main inspiration and combines it with a ton of video game and wrestling...
A Few Minutes with Buck Stein of Retro Game Treasure – By Old School Gamer
Buck Stine, of Retro Game Treasure, grew up as a Nintendo kid in the 1980s and got his NES for his fifth birthday. If you were to assess his NES inventory at Retro Game Treasure at any given time, he may have the largest collection of Nintendo games around. But his...
The C64 Mini has almost made it to North America!
Ontario, Canada - July 23, 2018 – Retro Games Ltd. and Solutions 2 GO announced today that the THEC64® Mini is coming to North American retail stores on October 9, 2018. THEC64® Mini, a 50% replica of the of the world’s bestselling home computer that launched in...
Retro Gaming Archives – Nintendo Edition: July/August 1987
The summer of 1987 proved quite the landmark season for a certain gray toaster-shaped home video game console. By the summer of ’87, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was wildly outselling both the Sega Master System and the Atari 7800. Their technique of...
