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My Experience at Midwest Gaming Classic 2018
The first video gaming convention I ever attended was the inaugural Missouri Game Con held in St. Louis (where I live) in 2016. Gaming conventions always seemed like cool events that other people attended. Those lucky people that lived within a 2 or 3 hour drive of...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official Game Boy Peripherals: Four Player Adapter
Previously, we took a brief look at the Game Boy's Game Link Cable and how it helped prolong the life of the system, well past the point a successor would have rightfully taken its place. Today, we look at how Nintendo was effectively able to double its gameplay...
Shenmue I & II Re-Releasing Later This Year
In what has been a good few weeks for remasters and re-releases, it’s been announced that the original Shenmue along with its sequel is to be re-released together later this year. This makes loads of sense since the much anticipated, Kickstarter-driven Shenmue III is...
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Nintendo 64 Chronicles [2] Mortal Kombat Trilogy + Wave Race 64
Round 2...Fight! #3 : Mortal Kombat Trilogy After an amazing launch day of two great titles, the follow up release on the Nintendo 64 was...this. Now, Mortal Kombat is a pretty big title, it's a series that stands tall today with Mortal Kombat X having been...
Puregaming.org Collector Info – Playstation 1 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...
Stern Pinball Arcade: Close to the Real Thing
I am a person that loves video games, hands down. In case you didn't know that. But my all time dream and love is to own my own pinball machine. Problem is, they are big and expensive. And there really isn't an alternative to having one.... or is there? Farsight...
Old School Gamer on Billy Mitchell News
Dear Old School Gamers, Thank you again for being a digital subscriber to Old School Gamer. We hope that you enjoy the news, reviews, history and more that we provide in our young magazine. Issue #4 is about to go to press and you will be getting the digital link...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Eric Tessler
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Eric Tessler who currently is displayed on card number 519, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. He is also featured on cards 533, 1493, 2061, 2080, 2226 and 2282. Eric is the primary supporter of the Walter Day Trading...
Billy Mitchell Official Statement
At the Midwest Gaming Classic today, Billy Mitchell made this official statement to Old School Gamer Magazine. Note: Billy Mitchell is on the advisory board of this magazine. photos available below for usage with attribution to Old School Gamer Magazine -...
Tax Avoiders for the Atari 2600
Happy Tax Day everyone! Did you get your refund yet? I did. Ten big ones. Ten United States dollars, deposited directly into my bank account by Uncle Sam himself. And what better to spend my newfound wealth on than the game inspired by the IRS, conceived by a licensed...
Old School Gamer Magazine March 2017 Issue #3
In our third issue, we explore the world of some of the great maze type games. So we will cover Pac Man, Wizard of War, Mouse Trap and much more. Also, check out some of the newest gaming gadgets that are changing the world of retro gaming. And also check out the...
Controlling The Dragon – By Antoine Clerc-Renaud
Some might say that a system can be judged by the games it proposes; others say it’s by the way we play it. But what defines more a video game system than its controller? The ergonomics are indeed so important that a bad controller can ruin a game console. Just ask...
Why Does the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality End Up on Bad Games?
"This game sucks! So why does it have the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality on it?", or some variation thereof, is a common refrain from within the gaming community that has been around for... well, perhaps as long as the seal itself. A common misconception is that...
The Best Superman Video Games
Sadly we seem to have reached a point at which we can say the modern version of Superhero cinema is underwhelming. It’s a bit of a bummer for comic lovers everywhere. Even if some of the DC/Warner Bros. films have actually been quite true to the comics, the...
The Last Official Release: Game Gear – The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Hello my retro gaming friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release where we dissect and ever so carefully analyse the last official game released for a particular console. Previous entries in the series have included the NES, the Atari 2600 and the Game Boy...
Feature: Inside the PlayStation: Enter the Dragon – By Antoine Clerc-Renaud
Launched on December 3 1994 in Japan, September 9 1995 in North America and September 29 1995 in most of Europe, the PlayStation revolutionized the game industry in so many ways. But what role did the hardware play into this? If there is one name to remember when it...
Review: I Didn’t Know My Retro Console Could Do That! – By Old School Gamer
I have had an account at AtariAge. com for about five years and just got involved in it once we started to work on Old School Gamer Magazine. That is when I found out so much more about the community of gamers that is there and about the games that they release for...
Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! for PSone Review
It's very rare that anything I release is topical, but this video was uploaded on the eve of the Reignited Trilogy being formally announced. So, here it is - my review of Spyro 2! The topical-ness of the video is purely coincidental, of course. [wpdevart_youtube...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: The Race to the Finish
Folks, as you may or may not have been aware, I have been away from the computer for a little while trying to get things back together in life. It was like someone took a video game apart and said put it together. For someone who has never done that, it was very...
The Pac-Man Card Game
When I was in college and Magic: The Gathering was the new hotness, I tried my hand at creating a Pac-Man card game. Bear in mind, this was before the World Wide Web was littered with print on demand operations and making a card game meant going to a print shop,...
RBI Baseball 18 Review: Standup Double
When RBI Baseball made its return a few years ago, there were plenty of skeptics. And although the game has been a fun retro experience overall, RBI 17 proved the developers had to take the series to the next level. With remodeled players, ballparks and the same...
System Spotlight – Fairchild Channel F
Atari gets a lot of credit for pioneering the ROM cartridge based home video gaming system craze and for good reason. They were the company that bought the rights to port popular arcade games and bring them into families living rooms. All anyone really wanted back...
The Game Scholar: The Nintendo Odyssey?? – By Leonard Herman
A question had arisen regarding whether a statement in my book, Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame Industry, was correct or not. The book stated that Nintendo had imported the first videogame console, the Magnavox Odyssey, into Japan. Shortly after the book’s...
Mini Doom II – Relive the Classic in 16-Bit, Until You Die
Years ago, ID software came out with what was considered to be the game changer with the Doom franchise. The object of the first person shooter was simple, survive the depths of hell while destroying demons, skeletons and other painful monsters. The series was one...
