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Gene Medic – A Homebrew Edutainment Game for the Atari 2600
I've always liked being edutained. As a kid I'd keep an eye out for interesting episodes of Nova to watch instead of whatever the family TV would normally be tuned to that night. I even played the educational video games my parents bought for me. Some of them anyway....
Downright Bizarre Games: Shaq Fu – No balls!
Shaq Fu Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Sega Game Gear and Nintendo GameBoy 1994 Professional basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is sightseeing in Tokyo before his all-star charity game. During a chance encounter, he meets Leotsu, an elderly martial arts grand master at...
Carly Kocurek – Teacher, Author and Gamer
Carly Kocurek is what you call a gamer for life. She is dedicated to spreading the word of gaming and the importance of it in our history and our everyday lives. She loves to give her opinion on the good and the bad of video gaming in the world today as well as the...
BurgerTime (Arcade, Colecovision, Intellivision)
Data East’s BurgerTime was one of my go-to arcade games as a kid. I dug the concept of controlling the frantic and portly chef Peter Pepper, moving up, down and left and right across the stages, or dropping ingredients (buns, lettuce, tomatoes, burgers, etc.) down...
The Many Identical Faces of Fast Eddie
No ones blames you for not giving Fast Eddie much of a chance. After all, it looks like what you'd get if you asked a four year old to make a Donkey Kong game. Its combination of crude graphics, garish colors and grating sound effects assaults your senses from the...
Phoenix IV: The Jaguar
Meanwhile, the oldest videogame company was also making its plans for 1993. Unlike 3DO, gaming pioneer Atari initially was highly secretive about its forthcoming Jaguar. In an early 1992 press release, Bob Schuricht, Atari’s National Sales Director, claimed that the...
Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer
Limbo, if you’re not aware, was a fantastic platform puzzler released for a glut of platforms in 2010 by a studio called Playdead. It’s one of my personal favourite indie games of the era, involving a boy travelling through an eerie and treacherous environment....
Sega Forever Review: Ristar
Sega’s star-faced hero joins its mobile games lineup but can’t manage to stretch past problematic gameplay and slowdown issues.
Billy & Walter Go To The Library of Congress By Walter Day
I once calculated that I had spent more than 1,000 hours writing the 1st edition of the Twin Galaxies’ Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records. I started on Thanksgiving Day 1996 and worked diligently until the 984- page volume was finished in October,...
Sega Forever Review: Streets of Rage
Sega’s classic beat-’em-up joins its lineup of portable games, giving phone owners another great download to play on the go.
Review: Arcade Archives Vs. Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo Switch
Arcade Archives Vs. Super Mario Bros. is not the same game as the one you grew up with on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Arriving in arcades the year after that version sent shockwaves throughout the video game industry, this version of the game will challenge...
Old School Gamer is now the official Retro Gaming Magazine for the Retro World Series
Retro World Series and Old School Gamer are now working together to benefit the retro gaming community. The Retro World Series was founded in 2015 by Hal Hawkins to build a competitive esports gaming competitive network for those that want to experience classic...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Old As Pong
So I will admit, there have been a small handful of women I have dated. And sometimes I like to see if they share the same interests as me. Be it video games, movies, Legos, etc. I mean, my current wife and my kids love Legos. That really makes me kick myself when...
Recognition from Free Play Florida
Just received a nice picture from our friends at Free Play Florida, recognizing us for best Retro Gaming Magazine. We look forward to seeing you all in Orlando again next year in November!
Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago and Phoenix IV
For this inaugural issue of Old School Gamer, I went to the what must be the largest single collection of arcade machines in the world... Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield (Chicago area), Illinois. Bursting at the seams with over 600 games operating at one time...
Downright Bizarre Games: Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – He won’t say a word
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Sony Playstation and Nintendo Game Boy 1997 Abe was a simple and content Mudokon janitor and “Employee of the Year” for the biggest meat-processing plant on Oddworld. That was, until he accidently stumbled upon a disturbing revelation while...
System Spotlight Christmas Edition – Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
I am not going to bore anyone with previously well documented historical details, facts, stats and the like for Nintendo's first home gaming console, the Nintendo Entertainment System. There are hundred of blogs, webpages, YouTube channels and even hardcover books...
Phoenix IV: Mario Meets Sonic
Sega released a Wii game on November 6 that received much more exposure. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games marked the first pairing of the iconic characters from Nintendo and Sega in a game together. The two companies had worked together previously in 2001, when...
An Atari 8-bit Home Computer Review: Tensor
Tensor is a new logical puzzle game for the Atari 8-bit home computer platform which was released at the Ironia Party that took place in Wysoka, Poland, the weekend of August 11th through 13th, 2017, where it won first place in the game competition. Professor...
Classic Game Fest and the National Video Game Museum Coverage in Old School Gamer
Classic Game Fest - Members of the Old School Gamer crew (even before we were the Old School Gamer Crew) drove 14 hours for the Classic Game Fest in Austin TX. We had previously gone to Midwest Gaming Classic, CES and other events but never another classic gaming...
Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside ‘We Got Dungeons’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Mega Cat Studios’ Milosh, the lead developer behind the developer’s nifty rogue RPG on the Sega Genesis, “We Got Dungeons.” Detailing the creative process and why the game was created on Sega’s iconic 16-bit console, Milosh lets us...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official N64 Peripherals: Controller Pak
The fifth generation of video game consoles was an interesting time in the medium's history. Games were becoming larger, not only in the size of their data, but also in their scope, and the days of completing a title in a single sitting were quickly fading. This led...
Snail Against Squirrel for the Atari 2600
Something like 400 games were released for the Atari 2600 in North America during its commercial life. Another 50 or so, at least officially, weren't. Bizarre games with thought-provoking titles like Hell Driver, Dead Ray, Hole Hunter and Square Game. While these...
Retro-Bit Strikes Deal with Sega to Manufacture Official Retro Accessories
Retro-Bit, who make lots of nice stuff, have signed a deal with Sega of America to manufacture officially licenced accessories for (but not limited to, it’s pointed out) the Genesis, the Saturn and the Dreamcast. While no specific products have been announced yet, a...
This Day In Video Game History
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