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The Explosive Fun of Bazooka Bill
What can you possibly say about Bazooka Bill? It wasn’t a particularly brilliant game. It didn’t contain any major firsts in video game history. It was a fairly standard side scroller action game. So, why bother writing about it? Well, Bazooka Bill was one of the...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Brian Fargo Talks ‘Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep’
Old School Gamer Magazine talks with video game icon Brian Fargo, who discusses the newest addition to the Bard’s Tale series, Bard’s Tale IV, which is currently in development. Fargo also discusses InXile’s future Wasteland title, as well as Wasteland 2’s eventual...
The Last Official Release: Game & Watch – Mario the Juggler
Greetings, fellow retro gaming comrades, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. Within this article and throughout these words, I explore the last official games ever to grace our favourite consoles. A full list of what I’ve already covered can be found at the...
Hyperkin Announces Retail Version of SmartBoy for US and Korean Markets
Hyperkin, a video game hardware development company from Los Angeles, has announced it will be releasing the SmartBoy through the Samsung Mobile Accessory Partnership Program (SMAPP) to the U.S. and Korean market. Originally a development kit in late 2016, the...
Great Games That Will (Probably) Never Be Released Again: Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues for Super NES by Ocean
Whereas Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues for the Game Boy was fairly standard as far as platformers of the day go, Ocean Software displayed a bit more ambition when creating a sequel to Jurassic Park for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This is...
Maniac Mansion: A Campy Classic
The teenage years are a difficult and confusing time. They’re even more difficult and confusing if your girlfriend Sandy has been kidnapped by a mad scientist who is being mind controlled by a sentient meteor. Such are the trying circumstances that Dave Miller must...
My Arcade® to launch classic BANDAI NAMCO Titles on two unique new portable devices
LOS ANGELES, CA – June 12, 2018 – MY ARCADE, US Based Retro Gaming specialist, and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., have joined forces and are set to announce two new gaming devices filled with Classic NAMCO games at this year’s E3. The new machines further expand the...
Puregaming.org Collector Info: Sega Genesis Pricer
Sega Genesis Pricer PRESENTED BY PUREGAMING.ORG’S RETRO GAME COLLECTOR APPLICATION 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...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Lauren Featherstone
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Lauren Featherstone, who is displayed on card number 2752, from the Superstars Collection of 2017. Lauren is the current World Record holder on the arcade game “Tapper.” With a score of 14,000,600, she played for more than 24...
Mutant Football League Dynasty Edition Hits Retail Shelves This Fall
Tear Into Exclusive Content and All New DLC with the Mutant Football League Dynasty Edition, Coming to Retail This Fall Chicago, IL - June 13, 2018 - Hellishly brutal arcade-style football game Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition is blitzing onto Nintendo Switch™,...
Mayhem in Monsterland: The Swan Song of the Commodore 64
All good things come to an end. By the early 1990s, the golden age of Commodore 64 games was past. The world of technology was moving on, but the system had one last surprise in store for the gaming world. It came in the form of a little dinosaur. The dinosaur’s name...
Mini Arcades / MyArcades! – By Old School Gamer Staff
Late last year MyArcade/DreamGear released a series of three mini arcade games (with more hopefully in the works). MyArcade sent Old School Gamer the full set to review. These mini arcade games are shaped and housed inside a 6” plastic cabinet reminiscent of arcade...
Great Games That Will (Probably) Never Be Released Again: Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues for Game Boy by Ocean
In the early to mid-90s, Jurassic Park was big business, and every company who had a piece of the license was understandably fully intent on capitalizing on it to the fullest. However, there was something of a problem with that: Once they'd adapted the 1993 movie,...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside: ‘INC $D020: Guide to C64 Intro Coding’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with INC $D020: Guide to C64 Intro Coding author Damian Caynes to find out what inspired the upcoming book and why it’s different from any tutorial you’ll find on the web. About INC $D020: Guide to C64 Intro Coding: A ground breaking...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Don Atreides
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Don Atreides, who is displayed on card number 2439, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Don is one of the top Tetris Players anywhere. After maxing out NES Tetris at the age of 16, Don took some time off and came back...
Jelly Monsters: The Battle Between Commodore and Atari
In the great pantheon of video games, few titles loom so large as Pac-Man. Developed by Namco and released in 1980, the game was wildly successful, creating legions of devoted fans. That same year, Commodore released the 8 bit VIC-20. It marked an important step in...
My Arcade To Launch Classic BANDAI NAMCO Titles On Two Unique New Portable Devices
Namco Museum Mini Player and PAC-MANTM Pocket Player will be Featured at E3 LOS ANGELES, CA - June 12, 2018 - MY ARCADE, US Based Retro Gaming specialist, and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., have joined forces and are set to announce two new gaming devices filled...
The Last Official Release: PS1 – Schnappi: 3 Fun-Games
Hi! How’s it hanging? Welcome back to the Last Official Release – the consecutive article series that delves into the last official game release for whatever console I happen to choose. An evolving list of previously covered consoles can be found at the end of this...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Why Must We Fight So Much?!?!?!
In the past blogs that I have posted, I have always discussed my childhood memories of video games that I used to play in the past. And I will actually do that from time to time. But sometimes, I might wander off and talk about something but it will still remain in...
The Game Scholar: Revisiting History – By Leonard Herman
During my freshman year of college I took two semesters of a compre- hensive world history course. For the first semester class I had to purchase an expensive, hardcover history book, which was fine. However, when I returned for the second semester, which was being...
Dungeon of Death: An RPG For The Commodore PET
I don’t remember the first text based adventure game I ever played. It seems like the sort of thing I should know given my love for the genre, but the title has vanished from my memory. Because of this I suspect, the games have attained something of a towering,...
45 Years of Arcade Gaming: 1984-1989 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 last issue’s...
Great Games That Will (Probably) Never Be Released Again: Jurassic Park by Ocean
Welcome to Jurassic June! This month marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the movie Jurassic Park in theaters, and with a new entry in the series on the way, I'm celebrating all month long by looking back at where it all began -- in video game terms, at least....
Polymega Announce Included Controllers and their Snazzy Boxes
On the cusp of Polymega re-revealing its self in late April with a tantalising, if short video of a 14-layer PCB being printed, they’ve made an additional announcement about the included controllers. Let’s rewind a bit, though. If you’re not aware of the Polymega...
