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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Lauren Featherstone
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Lauren Featherstone, who is displayed on card number 2752, from the Superstars Collection of 2017. Lauren is the current World Record holder on the arcade game “Tapper.” With a score of 14,000,600, she played for more than 24...
Mutant Football League Dynasty Edition Hits Retail Shelves This Fall
Tear Into Exclusive Content and All New DLC with the Mutant Football League Dynasty Edition, Coming to Retail This Fall Chicago, IL - June 13, 2018 - Hellishly brutal arcade-style football game Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition is blitzing onto Nintendo Switch™,...
Mayhem in Monsterland: The Swan Song of the Commodore 64
All good things come to an end. By the early 1990s, the golden age of Commodore 64 games was past. The world of technology was moving on, but the system had one last surprise in store for the gaming world. It came in the form of a little dinosaur. The dinosaur’s name...
Mini Arcades / MyArcades! – By Old School Gamer Staff
Late last year MyArcade/DreamGear released a series of three mini arcade games (with more hopefully in the works). MyArcade sent Old School Gamer the full set to review. These mini arcade games are shaped and housed inside a 6” plastic cabinet reminiscent of arcade...
Great Games That Will (Probably) Never Be Released Again: Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues for Game Boy by Ocean
In the early to mid-90s, Jurassic Park was big business, and every company who had a piece of the license was understandably fully intent on capitalizing on it to the fullest. However, there was something of a problem with that: Once they'd adapted the 1993 movie,...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside: ‘INC $D020: Guide to C64 Intro Coding’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with INC $D020: Guide to C64 Intro Coding author Damian Caynes to find out what inspired the upcoming book and why it’s different from any tutorial you’ll find on the web. About INC $D020: Guide to C64 Intro Coding: A ground breaking...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Don Atreides
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Don Atreides, who is displayed on card number 2439, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Don is one of the top Tetris Players anywhere. After maxing out NES Tetris at the age of 16, Don took some time off and came back...
Jelly Monsters: The Battle Between Commodore and Atari
In the great pantheon of video games, few titles loom so large as Pac-Man. Developed by Namco and released in 1980, the game was wildly successful, creating legions of devoted fans. That same year, Commodore released the 8 bit VIC-20. It marked an important step in...
My Arcade To Launch Classic BANDAI NAMCO Titles On Two Unique New Portable Devices
Namco Museum Mini Player and PAC-MANTM Pocket Player will be Featured at E3 LOS ANGELES, CA - June 12, 2018 - MY ARCADE, US Based Retro Gaming specialist, and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., have joined forces and are set to announce two new gaming devices filled...
The Last Official Release: PS1 – Schnappi: 3 Fun-Games
Hi! How’s it hanging? Welcome back to the Last Official Release – the consecutive article series that delves into the last official game release for whatever console I happen to choose. An evolving list of previously covered consoles can be found at the end of this...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Why Must We Fight So Much?!?!?!
In the past blogs that I have posted, I have always discussed my childhood memories of video games that I used to play in the past. And I will actually do that from time to time. But sometimes, I might wander off and talk about something but it will still remain in...
The Game Scholar: Revisiting History – By Leonard Herman
During my freshman year of college I took two semesters of a compre- hensive world history course. For the first semester class I had to purchase an expensive, hardcover history book, which was fine. However, when I returned for the second semester, which was being...
Dungeon of Death: An RPG For The Commodore PET
I don’t remember the first text based adventure game I ever played. It seems like the sort of thing I should know given my love for the genre, but the title has vanished from my memory. Because of this I suspect, the games have attained something of a towering,...
45 Years of Arcade Gaming: 1984-1989 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 last issue’s...
Great Games That Will (Probably) Never Be Released Again: Jurassic Park by Ocean
Welcome to Jurassic June! This month marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the movie Jurassic Park in theaters, and with a new entry in the series on the way, I'm celebrating all month long by looking back at where it all began -- in video game terms, at least....
Polymega Announce Included Controllers and their Snazzy Boxes
On the cusp of Polymega re-revealing its self in late April with a tantalising, if short video of a 14-layer PCB being printed, they’ve made an additional announcement about the included controllers. Let’s rewind a bit, though. If you’re not aware of the Polymega...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ryan Burger
Our next Trading Card Spotlight Features Ryan Burger of Old School Gamer Magazine who is displayed on card number 2761, from the Superstars Collection of 2017. Ryan is the founder and creator of Old School Magazine, which is an online and publication magazine. The...
Impossible Mission And the Rise of Digital Voices in Video Games
Another visitor. Stay awhile...stay FOREVER!!!! Those sinister words, spoken by the maniacal Professor Elvin Atombender, welcome players to the perilous world of Impossible Mission. Released for the Commodore 64 in 1984, the game has long been regarded as one of the...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin – By Brett Weiss
Welcome to the third installment of Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin, where I direct you to games worth playing that won’t send you to the poor house. This time the spotlight is on the Atari 2600 version of Mouse Trap, which is good despite its shortcomings, and Ms....
Dog Star Adventure And the Foundation of Text Based Gaming
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… George Lucas released the film Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977, beginning a pop culture phenomenon that continues to this day. People around the world latched on to the story of Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, and the...
King of Arcades Next Up, Picks Up After King of Kong – By Brad Feingold
A long time ago, in a.... wait, wrong movie...Another video game documentary has surfaced, but what is nice is that it’s not about competition or egos. And I do want to point out that egos are NOT a bad thing during competition. All the people that I have been exposed...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Phil Day
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Phil Day who is displayed on card number 124, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Phil is one of the best Galaga players in the world. From the land down under, Phil resides from Australia and is an avid gamer, author and...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: DMA Design
The Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team studio we're looking at this week bears some interesting parallels to the last one we looked at, Angel Studios. Like Angel, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based DMA Design began in 1984 as Acme Software, though unlike Angel, they were all...
The Wonderful Weirdness of IK+
If you created a Venn diagram with circles for the Commodore 64, Jackie Chan, John Travolta, and the ancient art of karate, the overlap would be International Karate +. The game, typically referred to as IK+ (released in the United States as Chop N’ Drop), was not the...
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