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The Secret of Monkey Island: Point and Click Gaming on the Amiga
Disclaimer: I am obsessed with the Monkey Island series. Approximately 85% of my personality was lifted directly from the character of Guybrush Threepwood. The remaining 15% was culled from an odd stew of Saturday morning cartoons, the Indiana Jones movies, and the...
30 Years of Arcade Auctions in Iowa – By Brad Feingold
As Thanksgiving ends, the Christmas holiday season chaos begins. So many different things happen; not only on the day of Thanksgiving, but the days following as well. People continue to stuff themselves with leftovers, football games are watched, ridiculously long...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Steven Lucas
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Steven Lucas, who is displayed on card number 178, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Steven is the 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge National Champion, in which players contested over Super Mario Bros. 3, Pin-bot and Dr....
Secret Sequels: The Games of Satellaview – Radical Dreamers
Chrono Trigger was a role playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that exploded onto the scene in 1995, capturing hearts and critical acclaim while selling millions. As such, it only stands to reason that there would be those clamoring for a sequel --...
The Last Official Release: Dreamcast – Karous
Hello again, retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. If you’re new around these here parts, in this series I divulge the last official games ever released on consoles, focusing on a different system each post. Usually, I playfully integrate what...
Jupiter Lander and the Birth of the Commodore 64
LOAD "JUPITER LANDER" ,8,1 SEARCHING FOR JUPITER LANDER LOADING READY RUN By 1982, the video game industry already had two titans that dominated the home video game market. The Apple II and Atari 2600 were both released in 1977 and were wildly popular. That same year...
NES Oddities & The Homebrew Revolution Book Review – Old School Gamer
The original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), or Famicom in Japan, is one of the most popular gaming system ever made, and, as a result, is the most written about console system. There are dozens of books about the system, it’s games, it’s re-release as a Mini...
The LaserActive: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
In today's episode, I'm exploring Pioneers LaserActive. This 'converged' device could play TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis games (plus CD extensions for both consoles) plus a few propriety formats. However, it was a monumental failure. How so? Well, watch the video and find...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside ‘Safe House’
Labs Games’ Mark Collins discusses their newest game, “Safe House.” Inspired by a love of ‘60s spy films, it’s a nifty adventure making use of both new and old game mechanics. About Safe House: With an art style that harkens back to classic spy films, Safe House will...
Cave Fighter for the Commodore 64
Junior high was a rough time for me. Not for the reasons you might expect junior high to have been rough for a guy who's now in his forties and writes about video games. I wasn't harassed by bullies or painfully awkward around girls or constantly picked last in gym...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Toni Caven
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Toni Caven, who is displayed on card number 2724, from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. Toni is the creator of company in Finland called “Reprocade Ltd.”. He repairs, restores and operates arcade cabinets and pinball...
Happy Birthday Walter !!!
Happy 70th Birthday Walter !!! Today we celebrate Walter Day's birthday with a look back at his trading card spotlight done on December 02, 2016. The celebration today at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, CA is a fitting way for him to party with friends and...
Q*Bert’s Dad, Warren Davis and His Start In the Video Game Industry – By Warren Davis
People often ask me what they have to do to get a job making video games. If you asked me that today, I’d tell you I haven’t the faintest idea because the industry has changed so much from when I started. Ironically, when I was a young programmer just out of college,...
The Mystery of the Bold Game Boy
Shortly after the launch of the Game Boy and throughout the 90's, fans of Nintendo products might have noticed something a little bit strange in advertisements for the handheld gaming juggernaut. See if you can catch it in the following advertisement:...
Kickstarter for Retro Game Engine Launches
While there are plenty of freely available game engines out there that allow budding game designers to create and self-publish the next big indie hit, there’s a decidedly huge gap if you’re looking to do that on retro consoles. While game engines such as Unity or the...
Retro Gaming Archives – May/June 1991
Consoles When any sort of new technology is made available for public consumption, there’s a portion of the population that will resist it and a portion that will embrace it wholeheartedly. Consumers of video games are no different in this regard. 1991 was a couple of...
Retro City Festival in SoCal – By Old School Gamer Staff
Sunny Southern California is the scene, specifically Pomona, CA, which seems to be the home of so many great things for the retro gaming community: Hyperkin, RetroBit, and the Retro City Festival. This event in mid- January (moving to the first weekend of January in...
Farsights Pinball Arcade Is Losing 60 Tables From Their Library
After years of success with the Williams and Bally pinball licenses that were part of the Farsight Pinball Arcade, they are no longer going to have the games available after June 30, 2018. A press release was issued on May 4th on their Facebook page: "Our...
New SNES Game Raises Awareness About Mental Health, for Charity
In a noble bid to raise awareness about the mental health of game developers and a toxic game industry practice known as “crunch”, publisher, Devolver Digital and developer, Mega Cat Studios have partnered up to produce a new SNES game. Fork Parker’s Crunch Out has...
Raspiboy Review and Atari 2600 Arcade Companion Review – By Brad Feingold and Old School Gamer Staff
Flying at 30000 feet and I am bored. My laptop won’t fit in my lap and my PSP Vita died. And I can’t surf. I can only type on my iPad. Whee.... Ryan is sitting next to me as we are heading to Las Vegas to the 2018 CES and he was reading and gave me something to do. He...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official NES Peripherals: NES Satellite
There are certain things that are easy to take for granted in video games these days, and the overall capacity for multiplayer experiences is one of them. With today's tech, we can see anything from 8-player matches in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to the staggering...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Lode Runner Legacy’ on Switch
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Takuya Banno, Producer, Tozai Games, who gives us the inside scoop on the Nintendo Switch version of “Lode Runner Legacy.” One of the most important retro games of its time, the new version brings the experience to the Switch,...
Rainbow Brite and Robotech Coming to Coleco Evolved Mini Arcades
May 8, 2018 - Coleco today announced Coleco Evolved Mini Arcades, recreations of the 1981 classic tabletop arcade machines updated with two new games: Rainbow Brite: Journey to Rainbow Land and Robotech The Macross Saga. The Coleco Evolved Mini Arcades are available...
Introducing the Super Nt
There are many companies that are coming out with their own version of the reboot of games and game systems. Next on the list is no exception for the 16 bit generation and the Super Nintendo. Introducing the Super Nt. A reimagining of perhaps the greatest...
This Day In Video Game History
