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First Look: Echoes of the Unread

Old School Gamer's Patrick Hickey Jr. plays Echoes of the Unread on the NES from Mega Cat Studios. https://youtu.be/uLC7HyUXlnY  

Most Influential Football Games of All-Time

Who Else Misses Football?! Football is an integral part of American culture, but it’s an even bigger part of video game history. From its roots on the Atari 2600 to the eight-bit classics that revolutionized the genre, football games are the rock that helps keep the...

Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Heikki Repo Talks Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Heikki Repo, creative director and co-founder of Cornfox & Brothers and the creator behind Oceanhorn to find out what makes this new dungeon explorer a special one. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Heikki...
Phoenix IV: Playstation Portable

Phoenix IV: Playstation Portable

PlayStation Portable It was expected that the GBA SP would be another hit in Nintendo’s stable of handheld successes that no other manufacturer could penetrate. But that wasn’t from a lack of trying. When SCE attempted to take a stab at it, everybody paid attention....

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Now Boarding

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Now Boarding

As a kid, I didn't really travel that much.  Sure I went on those fun loving car rides with my mom and dad and my brother once in a blue moon.  But it seemed like those trips took forever.  Why, oh why didn't we have iPhones back then.  Oh yeah, they weren't invented...

What Happened to the Nintendo “Ultra” 64?

What Happened to the Nintendo “Ultra” 64?

The much-delayed third home console from Nintendo saw numerous name changes along its way to finally reaching store shelves in mid-1996. Code-named "Project Reality" early on in its development and announcement phase, the machine would be well known for a brief span...

Sega Forever Review: Phantasy Star II

Sega Forever Review: Phantasy Star II

In the past, Sega has often released its Genesis games in collections for consoles, and a few titles also found their way onto mobile platforms. Now, the “Sega Forever” line is slated to bring all of Sega’s past releases onto mobile formats in a uniform manner. The...

Coleco Announces New Mini-Arcade Based on Robotech Anime

Coleco Announces New Mini-Arcade Based on Robotech Anime

Originally announced at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, Coleco is returning to manufacturing the mini-arcade tabletop machines they were so renowned for in the 1980’s. This time around, it will be based on the popular anime, Robotech, that was the first anime viewed by...

Monaco GP – My First Arcade Game

Monaco GP – My First Arcade Game

Monaco GP is the first arcade game I ever played. I was so young at the time I didn't even know it by name. It was simply the racing game right inside the entrance to the arcade that was right inside the entrance to the mall. It was loud and fast and simple, an ideal...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Richard Booth

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Richard Booth

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Richard Booth, who currently is displayed on card number 704 from the Superstars of 2014 Collection.  Richard has devoted the last 7 years to Twin Galaxies and is determined to keep Walters vision he had in 1981 alive.  ...

Driver for PSone Review

Driver for PSone Review

Released in 1999, Driver is basically a 70's cop show hiding within a PSone game. Playing as an undercover detective named Tanner, the goal is to infiltrate local gangs by being a driver for them (the fact that Tanner originally was a racecar driver is beneficial). A...

Phoenix IV: Polygonal Graphics

Phoenix IV: Polygonal Graphics

Polygonal Graphics Ironically, one of the last projects that the old Atari, Inc. released to the arcades reaffirmed the fact that the company's designers could be as innovative as ever: I, Robot was the first game that featured state-of-the-art 3D polygonal graphics,...

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600

The first place I saw Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600 was an in-store display sometime in late 1982 or maybe early 1983. By this time my family owned a Colecovision and I'd played the arcade game a few times, so I had a pretty good idea what Donkey Kong should look...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Michael Sroka

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Michael Sroka

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Michael Sroka who is displayed on card number 25, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection.   Michael is also featured on card 1311.  Michael is one of the driving forces behind the old online podcast known as the “Twin Galaxies...

WinBack for N64 Review

WinBack for N64 Review

WinBack (Operation: WinBack in PAL regions) is widely considered to be the first 3rd person shooter to use a cover system (like in Gears of War etc.). It was also developed by Omega Force who is mostly known for Dynasty Warrior - so not only was it a pioneer, it was...

An Atari 8-bit Home Computer Review: War Room

An Atari 8-bit Home Computer Review: War Room

Welcome to the War Room! War Room is a new, fast-action, shoot 'em up arcade game for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. The game was written by Rob Schlortt and Eric Henneke. It was released on Halloween, October 31, 2017. From the game manual: You have 3...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin:  Pac Man Fever

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Pac Man Fever

Ok, normally I write about the video games that I played in my youth years.  But this time, I am going to do something different.  I want to talk about music for a moment.  Oh man, the 80's.  I don't care what you say, I think that the best music of MY years was the...

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