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How Super NES and Super Famicom Controllers are More Alike Than You Think
On August 13th, 1991, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released to an eagerly anticipating audience in North America. Or was it August 23rd? Oddly enough, I've seen several references for each, and even conflicting information from the same sources....
inXile Entertainment’s The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Remaster Now Available on Steam and GOG.com!
Tales of the Unknown, the first volume of this legendary RPG series, arrives today, with the final two volumes launching later this year NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 14, 2018 – inXile Entertainment, the studio led by Interplay founder and industry icon Brian Fargo,...
Let’s Get Dangerous: Darkwing Duck on the NES
He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the metal key in the sardine can of justice. He is...Darkwing Duck! Another classic of the Disney Afternoon, Darkwing Duck premiered on the Disney channel in 1991, before going into weekday syndication and becoming a...
Tanglewood Review for Genesis/Mega Drive/PC
I present to you, lovely readers, my review for Tanglewood! Not only is it a Mega Drive game, but it's a NEW Mega Drive game. It's even getting a cartridge run. Playing as a small fox called Nymn, this puzzle/platformer involves trying to escape a hostile environment...
Puregaming.org Collector Info: Sega 32X and SegaCD 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...
The Game Scholar: Keyboard Creations – By Leonard Herman
Labo, the do-it-yourself kits that released on April 20, 2018, are pure genius on the part of Nintendo. They’re somehow breathing new life into the Nintendo Switch, which right now is burning bright like a phoenix, while teaching kids (and adults) the principles of...
Numskull Designs is incredibly proud to team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment for the first in a series of Quarter Arcades exclusives!
The world’s most recognizable video game ‘PAC-MAN’ has gone back to where it began with one of the most realistically-presented formats of the original platform. ‘PAC-MAN’ as a character inspired generations and the original game is still one of the most addictive...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Aaron Laberge
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Aaron Laberge, who is displayed on card number 2642 from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. Aaron’s trading card will be presented and featured the weekend of March 18th, 2017 in Banning, CA. Living in Canada, Aaron has...
Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
Sometimes some crimes go slipping through the cracks, but these two gumshoes are picking up the slack… Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers debuted in early 1989 and went into national syndication that Fall. It featured the classic Disney characters Chip and Dale, but...
45 Years of Arcade Gaming: The 1990s – 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 our quest to...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Invasion of the Box People’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Blake Petersen (Founder, Angry Giant Games) to lets us know how the addicting and retro-inspired dual-stick shooter on Google Play came to be and who will enjoy it the most. About the Game: In Invasion of the Box People, it all...
The South Park for Game Boy Color That Almost Was
Back in the late 90's, Comedy Central's South Park burst onto the cable television scene and became an overnight success, the talk of the schoolyard and water cooler alike. As such, it stood to reason that numerous companies were eager to cash in on the craze, and...
The Last Official Release: Intellivision – Spiker! Super Pro Volleyball (1989)
Hello and welcome back to The Last Official Release – the genuine article as far as tracking what the last games released worldwide for your favourite console are. “Genuine article” is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but in this series, I search the interwebs...
Tales of Derring-Do: DuckTales on the NES
For a kid born in the early 80s, there were no better cartoons than the Disney Afternoon: Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Gargoyles. My favorite was DuckTales. I adored Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey,...
Why I Wrote ‘The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Video Game Developers’
Even though technology has changed the way we get information, writing your first book is still a huge accomplishment, especially for a 30-something who was the first in his family to graduate from college. My book, “The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult...
Man Vs. Snake Review – By Brad Feingold
One thing that I have noticed about video game documentaries is that it turns into “Six Degrees of Iowa”. Every one of the movies I have seen always links back to Ottumwa, Iowa. And it should because that is where Walter Day started Twin Galaxies. But even better, it...
God of War for PS2 Review
Released in 2005 on PS2, God of War kickstarted a killer IP for Sony which has resulted in a highly rated entry (of the same name) on the PS4 this year. Since I own most of the games but haven't played any, I thought it would be prudent to start with the original!...
The Temple of Apshai
It began with Dungeons & Dragons. In the late 1970s, Jim Connelly acquired a Commodore PET to assist in his work as a Dungeon Master. He led a regular game in California. One of his players was a man named Jon Freeman, the author of books like The Complete Book of...
The Last Official Release: SNES – Metal Slader Glory: Director’s Cut (2000)
Howdy, retro gamers and welcome back to The Last Official Release. In this series of words, punctuation and (usually) low-resolution imagery, I take a look at the last official games to grace discontinued consoles. Gone, but not forgotten. A full list of what I’ve...
Preserving History – By Ken Horowitz
In September 2017, I had the opportunity to do a panel on video game history and preservation at Dragon Con in Atlanta. The convention was divided into several tracks, including one for video games, and I felt that I could offer my experience of writing about Sega...
Convention Update: Start of 2018 – By Old School Gamer
This is another of those big seasons where Old School Gamer visited/ exhibited at four expos since the last issue. Enjoy the most recent coverage! ARCADE EXPO • BANNING, CA BY RYAN BURGER The Arcade Expo is held at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, California, and is...
Backup’s Kart-Fest 2018 raises £23,500
On a hot and sweaty day at beginning of July, the industry rose to the occasion for backup– the technical entertainment charity, with the charity’s fourth annual karting challenge, Kart-Fest 2018, achieving an amazing £23,500, the biggest total for any backup fund...
The 35th Anniversary of the Famicom and the 30th Anniversary of Nintendo Power
Two big anniversaries took place over the course of July 2018: July 15th marked the 35th anniversary of the release of the Nintendo Famicom in Japan (as well as the SEGA SG-1000, but sadly, I'm not paid to talk about that), and five years later, Nintendo Power...
Key Quest: The Holy Grail of the VIC-20
The Ark of the Covenant. The search for the Holy Grail. The Lost Dutchman’s Mine. All are legendary treasures that have inspired exhaustive quests. Epic literature, poems and folklore have been created about the subjects. Over the centuries, heroes and rogues have...
This Day In Video Game History
