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OSGM Plays: Super Blood Hockey
Old School Gamer Magazine's Patrick Hickey Jr. plays a few periods of the retro hockey game "Super Blood Hockey" on Steam to see if the game lives up to its name and more. Inspired by classics on the Nintendo Entertainment System the likes of "Blades of Steel" and...
Blast Corps for N64 Review
Blast Corps involves demolishing buildings (using a range of vehicles and robots) before they're hit by a carrier transporting leaking nuclear missiles. It's as awesome as it sounds, and was developed by Rare! [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0"...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: It’s Not Cheating If the Company Made It!
There are several games that people will play over and over for either one certain reason or no reason at all. Trust me, there was a reason for this story. Back in 1983, Konami released some really great titles to the arcade. I can't remember how many quarters I...
Free Play Florida – The Land of Mickey and Sea World is Great For Gamers!
The adventures of the Old School Gamer crew continue....this time the weekend after Galaxies of Games in Iowa. We travelled down to Orlando Florida, again with our friends Billy Mitchell and Walter Day for Free Play Florida which I’m told is the largest such event in...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Prologue
With rival SEGA a continued (albeit faltering) presence in the video game industry and Sony beginning to establish itself as a major player for years to come, Nintendo had to find a way to keep some of the spotlight on them in 1995 as they continued to work towards...
RETROSPECTIVE: DreamGEAR Data East Hits Gamestation Wireless Console
All in all, I would be remiss to suggest there isn’t shovel-wear to be found here but at this price-point, it’s almost like you are buying the Data East titles (with a bonus release that never before saw American shores for good measure). The remaining 300 titles are freebies; and there are a few really good ones along the way to boot.
Donkey Kong 3: “The Great Counterattack” Finally Dumped & Emulated
When you think of game emulation in general terms, do you expect that everything is available to play? Clearly, no one who works for this website/magazine has ever traversed a legally dubious ROM site to see for themselves, but we’re under good authority that most...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Todd Rogers
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Todd Rogers, who is displayed on card number 100, from the Superstars of 2011. Also Todd can be found on card numbers 356, 397, 521, 551, 660, 1763, 1869, 2049, 2135 and 2516. The Video Games first “Pro Gamer”, Todd has...
Game and Market Watch – By Dan Loosen
It’s undeniable in the past 20 years, the market for retro games has changed a lot. The market changes have come for a lot of different reasons, and in this new column, Game and Market Watch, I’m going to explore some of the changes we’ve seen and the factors that...
Billiard Review: Vanilla, But Playable
D3 Publisher is known for their epic puzzle RPG experience Puzzle Quest, a game that married two genres no one ever thought could be mixed. Their latest effort, Billiard, is quite simply a no-frills version of the classic game that plays well enough but lacks the...
RetroStone – Ultimate RetroGaming Console: Available on Kickstarter
Recently, Old School Gamer Magazine was proud to talk about the Raspiboy and how successful it was funded on Kickstarter. Now, Pierre-Louis Boyer, the creator of the Raspiboy is at it again with a new and improved handheld marvel called the RetroStone. And this is...
Adventure (Atari VCS/2600)
Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979? Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we...
We Stopped By A Gamer’s Paradise In Las Vegas
When I go to Las Vegas, which is 3-4 times a year I have two places I have to go, A Gamers Paradise and the Pinball Hall of Fame, both of them are out on Tropicana Avenue about a mile or two from the Strip. A Gamers Paradise is a retro video game store owned by Sean...
The Last Official Release: Game Boy – Shikakei Atama o Kore Kusuru: Kanji/Keisan no Tatsujin
Greetings fellow retro gamers and welcome to a new series called The Last Official Release. Dramatic, I know. As you can likely imagine, in these articles I will be focusing on the last ever games released for consoles – highlighting a different system each post. It...
The 25th Anniversary of the Super FX Chip
February 21st, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but by proxy, it also marks another anniversary of note: The debut of the "Mathematical, Argonaut, Rotation & Input/Output" chip, or "MARIO" for...
Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn: Are You Shaqin’ With Me?!?!?!?
For the past years, unknown how many to be exact, retro gaming has become a popular concept to not only to the gaming community, but to the manufacturers as well. We have seen so many retro systems created by major companies as well as the everyday user too. We look...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Listening to Slipknot in the 8 Bit Universe
When you play any type of video game, you are experiencing several elements to make that game cool. There is the graphics, control, playability, characters, storyline and most important, the audio/music. There is not a day that goes by where I play Tetris and then...
Nintendo 64 Anthology Book Review – By Kelton Shiffer
Want to know where OSG will be this year? Check out our current schedule and come on out to join us and the fun. Read the rest of this article on page 13 by clicking here! Also, read the latest book review by Kelton Shiffer for "Nintendo 64 Anthology." ...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside ‘Technolites’
Old School Gamer chats with Branden Sloane (Co-Founder & CEO, zugalu) about his awesome retro-inspired Shoot-Em-Up, “Technolites’” which is currently looking for funds via Kickstarter. Discussing the development process and goals for the game, Spokane lets us know...
RETROSPECTIVE: Making Sense of THEC64 Mini
The move to create a Mini makes perfect sense, however. All it takes is a passing glance at what Nintendo’s been able to accomplish with both the miniature NES and SNES Classic Editions to realize that a nostalgic looking box that emulates original titles legally and pumps the images into a modern display via HDMI is the hot ticket right now.
Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! for Genesis/Mega Drive Review
Remember Greendog? The lovable doofus of a surfer that has to find 6 pieces of Aztez treasure in the Carribean to lift a curse? No? Oh. It was made by the same developers as Sonic 2, though. Strange that it has fallen into obscurity... I wonder why? [wpdevart_youtube...
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! (Nintendo Entertainment System)
‘He’s Hurt Me Doc!’….. ‘Join the Nintendo Fun Club Today Mac.’ Doc really didn’t seem to know what he was doing when it came to coaching and training beyond late night jogs in lower Manhattan, and providing sometimes useful advice between rounds. He probably also...
Golden Age Classic Arcade Cabinets Coming to a Home Near You
Tastemakers, LLC., a growing global powerhouse company with products available in more than 50 countries, is bringing the hottest arcade games of all time into your home with the affordable Arcade1Up line of consumer arcade cabinets. The Arcade1Up is a...
The Walter Day Report – When President Ronald Reagan Almost Came to Twin Galaxies
It never happened -- but we got really close to having the President of the United States come to Ottumwa to meet with Iowa Governor Terry Branstad in Twin Galaxies and make a statement on video games. Most serious gamers already know that Iowa Governor Terry Branstad...
This Day In Video Game History
