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The Legends Flashback Blast!
Last Fall, AtGames introduced its Blast! family of products. Old School Gamer ran a brief piece detailing the announcement: (https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/atgames-announces-blast-family-of-products/) For a brief recap, Blast! Is a series of plug and play...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Alan Radue
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Alan Radue, who is displayed on card number 383, from the Superstars of 2012. He is also featured on card 2210 from the Superstars of 2015. Alan is the current world record holder on the arcade games Sea Wolf & Sprint 2....
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Flap Happy’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Flap Happy” creator and Refresh Games CEO Ryan Carson, who discusses the development process and why the experience was a lifelong dream for him. A nifty new NES project developed for Mega Cat Studios, Flap Happy definitely has...
The National Videogame Museum
This weekend I took a trip to the past, and I didn’t even need a DeLorean to get there. All I had to do was make the short drive to Frisco, Texas to visit the National Videogame Museum. Opened in 2016 by Joe Santulli, Sean Kelly, and John Hardie (founders of the Las...
The Last Official Release: Neo Geo AES – Samurai Shodown V Special (2004)
Welcome again, retro-playing friends, to another instalment of The Last Official Release. So far, I’ve chronicled the last games released for 25 different consoles and handhelds (all linked below). To say I’m running out of content wouldn’t be a lie – the list of what...
Global Gladiators for Game Gear Review
New review! Get it while it's hot! Of all the companies that shouldn't be involved in video games, I'd say McDonald's rates pretty highly. But they are, and this game, Global Gladiators found its way onto the Sega Game Gear in 1992. [wpdevart_youtube width="640"...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Hero-U’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Corey Cole, President, Transolar Games (Formerly programmer and game designer – Quest for Glory, Castle of Dr. Brain, Shannara.), who lets us know what makes his newest game, Hero-U a special one. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was...
ARpiCADE – Raspberry Pi Your Jamma Cabinet – By Old School Gamer
ARpiCADE is the solution to a whole slew of issues that retro video gamers have. It is an extra board set that you hook up to your Raspberry Pi computer. It allows you to do the equivalent of RetroPie, which so many people are using to build handheld computers and...
Deja Vu
The term “film noir” traces back to 1946 and the French film critic Nino Frank. He used the phrase in an article titled, “A New Kind of Police Drama: the Criminal Adventure,” which focused on films like Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, and Murder My Sweet. They...
Unannounced, Unreleased Pre-World Championship Wrestling NES Game Discovered
A curious curio for oldschool video game and wrestling fans alike.
GameShell – You Can Build It….I Did! – By Old School Gamer
My interest in the GameShell began when I heard about it back in November 2017, right as Old School Gamer was in its infancy. I often find myself backing many retro gaming related products that I see popping up on crowdfunding sites, especially on Kickstarter, which...
Video Game Industry Veteran and Former Atari COO, Todd Shallbetter, Joins Medical Video Game Company, Level Ex
Shallbetter to lead video game studio’s strategic partnership efforts CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (MARCH 6, 2019) — Level Ex, creators of industry-leading video games for doctors, announced today the hiring of former Atari Chief Operating Officer, Todd Shallbetter, as Senior...
The C64 Mini World’s Best Selling Home Computer – Reborn! By Michael Thomasson
The marketing boldly promotes the C-64 Mini as “The World’s Best-Selling Home Computer – Reborn!”, and in many ways, that proves to be true. At a buck and a quarter per game, the C64 Mini has a lot to offer. While not perfect, most of the promises made by this new...
About Atari:Two Books by Jamie Lendino – By Bill Lange
Jamie Lendino, the Editor-in-Chief of ExtremeTech, recently released (June, 2018) a new book on the Atari 2600 titled Adventure: The Atari 2600 At The Dawn Of Console Gaming. It is his second Atari-related book and is the follow up to his earlier (March, 2017) Atari...
Pole Position and Michael Klug – By Joel West
COINS DETECTED IN POCKET Welcome to the premier installment of a column dedicated exclusively to Old School Gamers. These gamers, back in the day, had to physically use a coin to start a video game. The earning of coinage was mostly accomplished after some form...
Grim Fandango
All good things come to an end. Beginning with the 1986 release of Labyrinth, Lucasfilm/LucasArts released some of the greatest adventure games ever created. Games like The Secret of Monkey Island, Zak McKracken and The Alien Mindbenders, and Maniac Mansion still...
Just For Qix By Michael Thomasson
This issue’s arcade game of choice is none-other than the immensely popular side scrolling beat-em up Double Dragon. The initial game was released in 1987 by Technos in Japan, and licensed to Taito for manufacture and distribution in the United States and Europe. The...
Beavis and Butthead – By Jacob Pruitt
IMMATURITY IN AN ARCADE... NO WAY Alot of us can remember sitting in front of the television set late at night on our carpet and watching our heroes sing on MTV. Our smiles appearing on our faces once the two teenage idiots appeared on the screen sitting on their...
The Last Official Release: TurboGrafx-16 – Magical Chase (1993)
Welcome back, welcome back! This - THIS is The Last Official Release. I’m not sure why I keep repeating myself, but let’s just roll with it. I’m having fun. Here, I delve into the last games officially released for your favourite consoles. A pretty darn extensive list...
Fighters Before the Dawn of the Street Fighter Age – By Adam Pratt
In any discussion about the influence and history of fighting games in entertainment at large, it is impossible to ignore the contribution that arcades made to the genre. Naturally, everyone first thinks of Street Fighter II when such games are brought up, and this...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Crunch Out’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Crunch Out’s Senior Developer, Artur Bujdoso to find out what inspired the game and how Devolver Digital and Take This played a role in the developer’s first Super Nintendo game. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born?...
Remembering Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside (1998)
Even as a young upstart, Kobe Bryant looked like a superstar in the making. It is not much of a surprise then that the former Los Angeles Laker already had a video game to his name at the tender age of 19. In 1998 Nintendo released the Left Field Productions-developed...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin – Street Fighter II Turbo – By Brett Weiss
My forthcoming book, The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 2 (N-Z), is now available for pre-order. The book won’t release until April 28, 2019, but I decided to give Old School Gamer readers an advance look at one of the entries. Since the...
Caveman
Pinball has a long and varied history, with roots that stretch back hundreds of years. In the 18th century, the game Billard japonais (Japanese billiards) introduced the spring launcher that is a staple of all modern pinball machines. A little under 200 years later,...
This Day In Video Game History
