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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...
Five Retro Themed Games on the Nintendo Switch You Must Play
Although the Nintendo Switch has- and will have titles that show off its graphical prowess and its bevy of useful features at home and on the go, it is very much a system rooted in retro-styled gaming. From modern retellings of classics, to the inclusion of original...
Downright Bizarre: PaRappa the Rapper – Kick, Punch, It’s All in the Mind!
Parappa Rappa is a young scrappy pup that has a serious case of “puppy love” for Ms. Sunny Funny, an anthropomorphic flower. Accompanied by his peers PJ Berry, a/k/a “PJ the DJ” and disco diva Katy Kat, Parappa desperately competes with his arch-nemesis Joe Chin, an...
SUPERBRIEF: Colossal Cave Adventure
Although many early computer games had their start in stuffy and sterile MIT research labs, the people that created them often set out to recreate places that provided that same sense of belonging. One of the first computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure (or Adventure) was born of this sense.
Orange is the New Grey: The Evolution of the NES Zapper
The Zapper light gun is an icon of classic gaming for the Nintendo Entertainment System, appearing across multiple forms of media, including as the trusty sidearm for the eponymous protagonist of the 1989 DiC Entertainment animated series Captain N: The Game Master....
NES’s Golf Found as Easter Egg on Switch Consoles
Satoru Iwata, who was the 4th President and CEO of Nintendo, was a programmer and game designer decades before he was a businessman. Long before his tragic death in 2015, he successfully wrote and initiated his own data compression tool to fit the NES’s Golf (which...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘A Robot Named Fight’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Matt Bitner – Lead Developer of A Robot Named Fight, now available on Steam. A combination of classic retro adventures the likes of Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra and Diablo, it’s a wild retro meets modern experience...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Drink Up Y’all
Every so often, you run into a game that you look at and think to yourself, who the heck came up with this? I thought the standards of a video game are to drive a car, rescue a princess, shoot an alien or even jump into your lily pad. So how is a game like Tapper...
The show that kicked our retro in the rear has moved!
Fellow Gamers, I'm extremely excited to be writing to you to inform you that we just released the Midwest Gaming Classic web site for 2018, and we have BIG news! The Midwest Gaming Classic will be moving from our long-time home of the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield...
Atari and Fig
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (SEPTEMBER 18, 2017) - Atari®, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and developers of interactive entertainment via its subsidiary, Vagabond Production Corp., and Fig, the community publisher behind such games as Phoenix Point, Pillars of...
New NES and Genesis Games? Mega Cat Studios Has You Covered
With the resurgence of retro games, thanks to the NES Classic, more gamers than ever have gone back to their pixel roots. But what if you're looking for new games for your favorite retro consoles? While there are a plethora of homebrew developers out there,...
This Day In Video Game History
