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Just 4 Qix: How High Can You Get? – By Michael Thomasson
When Donkey Kong’s cut-scene animation inquires, “HOW HIGH CAN YOU GET?,” it isn’t referring to recreational drug use, but to how many meters you can climb in the construction site that is the setting of the game. However, if you thought that a green leafy plant...
Atari Finally Showing the Ataribox Project
As the future of gaming is growing, one of the biggest kept secrets is from Atari and the Ataribox Project. Now, this month, people will be able to get first hand information about the system and experience some of the games and controllers that will be part of the...
Mr. Postman for the Atari 2600
I have no idea how the postal system works. Nearly every day, things from around the country, around the world even, appear in the metal box bolted to the front of my house and I don't have a clue how they got from those far away locations to my door. But, thanks to...
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive)
Blast processing. Sega had it, Nintendo didn’t. I had no idea what it was and most other kids didn’t either. Of course, we now know it was a made up term used by the Sega marketing department, but that didn’t matter to us in 1991. All we knew was that there was this...
Versus Mode: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game vs. the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game
A few weeks ago, I kicked off a new series that looks at games that may possibly never see a full release again, starting with Konami's wide range of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles. This week, I want to take a closer look at their first arcade game, as well as...
The Last Official Release: Atari 2600 – Klax
Hello retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release! Kicking off a few weeks ago with the Game Boy, in this series we investigate what the last official release of a console was. In today’s edition, we’re examining Atari’s long-lived 2600. Released on...
RETROSPECTIVE: What Ever Happened to Bits?
Making Sense of the Pieces and Bits Have you ever wondered why the numbers in the names of today’s consoles have more to do with the generation of the hardware family than they do processing power? Let’s cut to the chase on this one - technology has surpassed the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – David Klingler
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features David Klingler, who is displayed on card number 416, from the Superstars of 2013. David created an independent software company called Solanimus which has created games such as Signal to Noise and Crashland. You can view his...
We Stopped By The Pinball Hall of Fame
Old School Baby. That’s what Tim called me when he walked into A Gamers Paradise and saw the magazine and my embroidered shirt that I was wearing for the magazine. My potential interview with Tim Arnold the operator of The Pinball Hall of Fame was off to an...
Now Hear This: No the Cat Doesn’t Sing!
A few posts back, I wrote about someone sending me a link to a YouTube page that had a bunch of rock and classic songs redone in 8-Bit style. But after that, I received a couple different emails telling me about some other pages that you can subscribe to, So I felt...
OSGM Plays: Super Blood Hockey
Old School Gamer Magazine's Patrick Hickey Jr. plays a few periods of the retro hockey game "Super Blood Hockey" on Steam to see if the game lives up to its name and more. Inspired by classics on the Nintendo Entertainment System the likes of "Blades of Steel" and...
Blast Corps for N64 Review
Blast Corps involves demolishing buildings (using a range of vehicles and robots) before they're hit by a carrier transporting leaking nuclear missiles. It's as awesome as it sounds, and was developed by Rare! [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0"...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: It’s Not Cheating If the Company Made It!
There are several games that people will play over and over for either one certain reason or no reason at all. Trust me, there was a reason for this story. Back in 1983, Konami released some really great titles to the arcade. I can't remember how many quarters I...
Free Play Florida – The Land of Mickey and Sea World is Great For Gamers!
The adventures of the Old School Gamer crew continue....this time the weekend after Galaxies of Games in Iowa. We travelled down to Orlando Florida, again with our friends Billy Mitchell and Walter Day for Free Play Florida which I’m told is the largest such event in...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Prologue
With rival SEGA a continued (albeit faltering) presence in the video game industry and Sony beginning to establish itself as a major player for years to come, Nintendo had to find a way to keep some of the spotlight on them in 1995 as they continued to work towards...
RETROSPECTIVE: DreamGEAR Data East Hits Gamestation Wireless Console
All in all, I would be remiss to suggest there isn’t shovel-wear to be found here but at this price-point, it’s almost like you are buying the Data East titles (with a bonus release that never before saw American shores for good measure). The remaining 300 titles are freebies; and there are a few really good ones along the way to boot.
Donkey Kong 3: “The Great Counterattack” Finally Dumped & Emulated
When you think of game emulation in general terms, do you expect that everything is available to play? Clearly, no one who works for this website/magazine has ever traversed a legally dubious ROM site to see for themselves, but we’re under good authority that most...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Todd Rogers
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Todd Rogers, who is displayed on card number 100, from the Superstars of 2011. Also Todd can be found on card numbers 356, 397, 521, 551, 660, 1763, 1869, 2049, 2135 and 2516. The Video Games first “Pro Gamer”, Todd has...
Game and Market Watch – By Dan Loosen
It’s undeniable in the past 20 years, the market for retro games has changed a lot. The market changes have come for a lot of different reasons, and in this new column, Game and Market Watch, I’m going to explore some of the changes we’ve seen and the factors that...
Billiard Review: Vanilla, But Playable
D3 Publisher is known for their epic puzzle RPG experience Puzzle Quest, a game that married two genres no one ever thought could be mixed. Their latest effort, Billiard, is quite simply a no-frills version of the classic game that plays well enough but lacks the...
RetroStone – Ultimate RetroGaming Console: Available on Kickstarter
Recently, Old School Gamer Magazine was proud to talk about the Raspiboy and how successful it was funded on Kickstarter. Now, Pierre-Louis Boyer, the creator of the Raspiboy is at it again with a new and improved handheld marvel called the RetroStone. And this is...
Adventure (Atari VCS/2600)
Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979? Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we...
We Stopped By A Gamer’s Paradise In Las Vegas
When I go to Las Vegas, which is 3-4 times a year I have two places I have to go, A Gamers Paradise and the Pinball Hall of Fame, both of them are out on Tropicana Avenue about a mile or two from the Strip. A Gamers Paradise is a retro video game store owned by Sean...
The Last Official Release: Game Boy – Shikakei Atama o Kore Kusuru: Kanji/Keisan no Tatsujin
Greetings fellow retro gamers and welcome to a new series called The Last Official Release. Dramatic, I know. As you can likely imagine, in these articles I will be focusing on the last ever games released for consoles – highlighting a different system each post. It...
