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The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest Demo Is Now Live on Steam

Independent games publisher Retroware is excited to announce that the free Steam demo for The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest is available to download now. The demo offers players their first public hands-on look at the completely rebuilt version of the game — a...

Lethal Wedding’s New Dev Vlog Pulls Back the Curtain on the Genesis Co-op Shooter’s Creation​

Creative-first publisher Mega Cat Studios has released a new developer vlog for Lethal Wedding, the upcoming 16-bit co-op run-and-gun shooter for Sega Genesis that has already surpassed 250% of its Kickstarter funding goal. Click here for the KICKSTARTER Clocking in...

A review of Red Dead Redemption from Boss Fight Books

  As far as "retro" games go, Red Dead Redemption is kind of pushing it. The 2010 open world game was already released well into the modern AAA game production environment. Matt Margini's tome from Boss Fight Books implicitly acknowledges how this is a different...
The Many Identical Faces of Fast Eddie

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

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 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....

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Old As Pong

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...

Phoenix IV: Mario Meets Sonic

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

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...

Old School Gamer Exclusive: Inside ‘We Got Dungeons’

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...

Snail Against Squirrel for the Atari 2600

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...

Stunt Race FX for SNES Review

Stunt Race FX for SNES Review

Super FX games on the SNES (which have rudimentary 3D graphics thanks to the dedicated chip) have always been an interest of mine and this is the 4th game of which I've reviewed. Stunt Race FX is a racing game, but also includes a few extra modes including...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Mitch Meerman

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Mitch Meerman

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Mitch Meerman, who is displayed on card number 1587 from the Superstars of 2014 Collection.   An avid arcade player at Star Worlds Arcade in DeKalb, IL, Mitch is a true contender at the arcade games such as Avalanche and...

This Day In Video Game History

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