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Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Tennis
For this week's "Mario Mania," we've got something of a two-for-one special on that ever-popular sport, Tennis! It's no secret that Mario has starred in many a tennis game, from the simplistic Mario's Tennis that was packed in with the Virtual Boy to the more recent...
StarTropics for the NES
What do you do if aliens abduct your archaeologist uncle? Well, if you’re a young, baseball playing boy named Mike Jones, you set out to rescue him armed with a yo-yo that the chief of the Coralcola people of Island-C gave you. Of course, I’m talking about the 1990...
The Sporting Life – By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History
Since the beginning of videogame history, sports have always played a major role. Higinbotham’s Tennis For Two, Baer’s video table tennis, and Bushnell & Dabney’s Pong are also video versions of tennis or table tennis. But no matter how much you tell yourself that...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Greg Mott
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Greg Mott, who is displayed on card number 34, from the Superstars of 2011. Greg has been around the gaming scene since 1999 when he joined UKvac group on line and first met up with other UK collectors. He holds a record on...
Attack of the Mutant Camels
It is a truth universally acknowledged that hostile aliens in possession of advanced technology and a desire to invade a planet, must be in want of camels. At least, so we are led to believe by the 1983 game Attack of the Mutant Camels. The game was developed...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘3 Minutes to Midnight’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “3 Minutes to Midnight” Game Director Jan Serra, who discusses the origin and creative process behind the game and how the team got inspiration from classic point-and-click adventures the likes of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Sam...
I Didn’t Know My Retro Console Could Do That! – Old School Gamer Staff
One of my favorite games to play in the yard when I was a kid was Pickle, and now Good Deal Games is bringing it to the Atari 2600! A simple game that kept me playing for much longer than any baseball game that Atari put out back in the day! gooddealgames.com AtariAge...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Sooner Or Later Everyone Goes to the Zoo
In life, there are too many games to even think of that creates memories. And ever since my trip to Pittsburgh, PA for the ReplayFx, my brain almost went into self destruct mode. The question of why is that? Because I pretty much have played 99% of the retro games...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Miles & Kilo’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Four Horses director Mick Waites, who discusses the indie smash hit “Miles & Kilo” on the Nintendo Switch, inspired by the “Adventure Island” and BIT.TRIP RUNNER, it’s the perfect combination of old-school fun and modern-age...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Wrecking Crew
Labor Day was this past Monday, and what better way to (belatedly) celebrate than with a look at a Mario game in which our plumber hero puts his nose to the grindstone and performs a little hard labor himself? Wrecking Crew was released just months apart for the...
Old School Gamer listed as a Top 10 Gaming magazine
Check us out at https://blog.feedspot.com/gaming_magazines/ there are some great publications in there, and we are excited that we are showing up. Check it out and continue to spread the word about Old School Gamer!
Microsurgeon: An Intellivision Classic
A few months ago I had a brilliant idea for a video game: players would control nanotechnology that had been injected into a human body. As the nanotech, you would battle things like disease and infection as they sprang up through the body. You could also repair...
Pinball Hall of Fame to MOVE to the strip!
For many of you this is older news but Old School Gamer just heard about it last week and this is exciting! One of our favorite places to play arcade games and pinball has a very bright future that is moving along nicely. As covered in this story on PinballNews.Com,...
Big News: NEOGEO mini International Version will land in USA and European Markets
NEOGEO mini has attracted a lot of attention from many retro gamers, SNK super fans and other gamers and animation enthusiasts in Europe and America since the first official appearance of the E3 exhibition. With the selling in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and...
The PS2 has Finally Officially Kicked the Bucket
While it’s debatable if the PlayStation 2 is actually retro or not (I mean c’mon, it’s two generations behind and was launched 18-years ago) one thing is now for sure – Sony has stopped supporting it completely. While the hardware its self was discontinued in 2013...
Early Computer Baseball – By Bill Lange
The earliest computer baseball games felt like pencil and dice tabletop baseball simulation games like Sports Illustrated Superstar Baseball, or the much more influential Strat-O-Matic Baseball, with the computer simply taking over the role of the dice, the pencil,...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Stuart Rankin
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Stuart Rankin who is displayed on card number 192, from the Twin Galaxies Superstars Collection of 2011. From Glasgow, Scotland, Stuart is a huge Space Harrier collector. He holds many Space Harrier World Records on the Twin...
Arkyology for the Atari 2600 – Released at Last!
NES fans have 678 licensed games to collect. Intellivision collectors have The 125. But if you're an Atari 2600 collector, things are a bit more nebulous. There are, of course, the first-party games Atari itself released. Then there are the big-name third-party...
Tron: Deadly Discs
In 1982, Disney released the film Tron starring Jeff Bridges. The story gave the world iconic characters like Kevin Flynn, a software engineer who gets transported into a computer mainframe, the artificial intelligence known as the Master Control Program (or MCP),...
Interview With Michael Mendheim and Tim Kitzrow – By Brad Feingold
Recently, I had a stand up interview with Michael Mendheim, the creator of Mutant Football League and Tim Kitzrow, the voice behind the announcer of MFL at the Midwest Gaming Classic. And as a professional, I had complete and total control of the interview. OSG - Why...
“Never” is a Short Time Coming: Night Trap Finally Arrives on Nintendo Switch
There are a lot of sayings and songs about saying "never," because never is a long time to try accounting for. Back in the 90's, Nintendo stood resolute in its defense of its own business practices, specifically with regards to the content it would allow to be...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Don’t panic. Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s double check the essentials. Do you have a towel with you? A towel is the most massively useful item an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Next, find your copy of “The Best Vogon Poems of 1984.” Once you’ve got that,...
The LightGunVerter: Universal Light Gun Compatibility with Modern TV’s… Finally
Several years ago, an enterprising chap named Charlie Cole uploaded a video on YouTube of a prototype device which allowed compatibility of retro light gun games on newer, flat screened TV’s. There has been a huge demand for this sort of thing since… well, flat screen...
New 8-Bit Style Card Game Havenfall Shown at Replay FX
ReplayFX in Pittsburgh, PA was a mega outlet for a wide variety of gaming sources. The pinball, arcade, music, vendors, artists and even the independent game creators. They were all there to display and sell their product. But one vendor/booth that was there was a...
This Day In Video Game History
