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Shadowgate from 1987 Returns with Friends
Set the date to 1987 and get ready to revisit the classic 8-bit adventure games that mesmerized a generation of console junkies. Now is the opportunity to play cult favorites Shadowgate™, The Uninvited™ and Déjà Vu™ the way they were supposed to be played, with...
Phoenix IV: Tony Hawk Ride Skateboard
Activision released another game with a deluxe controller on November 17 (2009) in North America, and this one had been designed with teens in mind. Tony Hawk: Ride was the latest in a series of Tony Hawk-branded skateboard games, and was the first to feature its own...
SNES Mugs, Lights and More!
Merchoid has today revealed a variety of officially licensed SNES merchandise, including coasters, heat changing mugs and lights. With the recent fun-sized release of the SNES Classic Mini, this new range of products offers fans a chance to reboot their childhood...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Poor Stacking
This is probably one of the few timely blogs that I am going to do. But recently, my family and I finally moved out of our hell hole of an apartment and moved into a new house. Well, not so new. It was built in 1952, but you know what I mean. And this happens to...
Seedi System on Indiegogo!
Just finished watching Metal Jesus doing his review of the Seedi Indiegogo project and had completely forgotten that I was able to get a cool interview with Bryan and Chris a couple weeks ago, the developers of the Seedi unit, so lets move right in. The Seedi is...
Sega Saturn Prototype, Armed, Sells for $2500
Armed, also referred to as Aftermath, was to be a game released on the Sega Saturn and PlayStation towards the end of 1996. Developed by Point of View and originally to be published by Interplay, Armed had you playing as a special agent named Vic as he blasted robots...
Rumored Game Boy Classic Poses Many Questions
Following the success of the NES Classic and Super NES Classic, it seemed all but inevitable that Nintendo would continue the line with another vintage video game system packed with classic games. Common belief in the gaming community is that the Nintendo 64 would be...
Phoenix IV: Tamagotchi
The toy was called the Tamagotchi, Japanese for "loveable egg." The Tamagotchi was a small, plastic egg-shaped unit attached to a keychain, with a tiny dot-matrix screen and three buttons. When the device was turned on, a virtual on-screen pre "hatched" from an egg....
Downright Bizarre: Kool-Aid Man “OH YEAH!!”
This eighties pop-culture icon was so cool that it burst through the brick wall to become one of the most unmistakable product placements on record. OH YEAH! The game was available through conventional retail channels, but could also be acquired by submitting a mere...
The PlayCable: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
After covering Nintendo's Satellaview and the SEGA Channel, we're taking a look at the actual first instance of video game 'streaming' on demand - The PlayCable. Using a cable TV connection (much like the SEGA Channel) but instead all the way back in 1981! Nearly 15...
SUPERBRIEF: Star Trek
So far, SUPERBRIEF has focused on interactive fictions such as Zork and Colossal Cave Adventure as some of the earliest standout computer games. While both of these (and many, many others) claimed tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as one of their...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Wonder Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Wonder Boy and the Cursed Kingdom co-producer Philipp Döschl, who details the origin and creative process behind the newest original game based in the world of the cult-classic retro adventure RPG. With the blessing of original...
A Review of “Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution”
In the new book, Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution, the author, David L. Craddock, covers about two dozen influential Apple II computer games along with the companies and people who created them. For the book, Craddock states that he...
The World’s best-selling Home Computer – Reborn!
29 September 2017 – A timeless classic is being given a new lease of life with the launch of THEC64® Mini. Developed by Retro Games Ltd. - and distributed by Koch Media – THEC64® Mini is a fully licensed reimagining of the 80’s bestselling home computer. Half the...
The Nintendo 64 Controller: What Was With That Weird Thing?
Over the course of the history of the video game industry, few controllers -- first-party controllers, especially -- have ever been able to measure up to the sheer strangeness of the accessory Nintendo revealed as its input device for what was then known as the...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: You Got Balls!!
Ok, the blogs that I normally do involve anything from my old school arcade days. But after leaving the Old School Pinball and Arcade in Grimes, Iowa, I had this burning in my head and figured it would be cool to let this out in this special blog. You pay one low...
Another day. Another SNES clone.
Hot on the re-emergence of the SNES in the public eye thanks to the Mini, SNES fever is rampant. That might be the reason the website, Old Skool Games (in partnership with the distributor, Video Game Advantage) have announced pre-orders for a new console called the...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Giving the Game the Middle Finger!
I was trying to think back to some of the memories of some of the games that I played. I was starting to ask myself why are they always the bad memories that I don't want to remember? I guess it's cause I loved the games so much. Guess it really doesn't matter if...
The SEGA Channel: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
It's time for another episode of Wonders of the Retro Gaming World! After checking out the Satellaview and the Net Yaroze, today we're taking a look at the SEGA Channel. Released in 1994, this service allowed SEGA's Genesis to hook up to cable networks and temporarily...
Downright Bizarre: Smash TV! “Good Luck! You’ll Need It!”
It’s a hands-on, no-holds-barred, do-or-die adventure! “The year is 1999. Television has adapted to the more violent nature of man. The most popular form of television remains the game show. One show in particular has dominated the ratings. That show is Smash TV, the...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside Citadale: The Legends Trilogy
Old School Gamer chats with Ezekiel Rage (Lead Developer) of Citadale: The Legends Trilogy, who lets us know how a love of 8-Bit action platformer on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Master System gave birth to a game that could one day end up on the Switch....
Review: Arcade Archives Mario Bros. for Nintendo Switch
Even though Nintendo got their video game start in arcades and became the stuff of legend via Donkey Kong, they've always been a bit shy about bringing genuine ports of their coin-op hits to home consoles. However, that all changes this week thanks to Hamster, Co. and...
New Ataribox Details Emerge
Remember the Ataribox? The “new” console by Atari? While not much was known originally about the console apart from what was revealed in a twenty-second video showing nothing but 3D renders (so, nothing) - recently, Atari sent out an email newsletter exposing some new...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: HEY, I’M SKATIN HERE!!!!!
One thing I remember happening when Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace movie trailers came out was people were so dedicated to Star Wars went to any movie that was showing the trailer. They went into the movie, watched the trailer and left. Wait, pay $12.00 to...
