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New On Antstream This Week: Risky Woods ; Wonder Planet
An action platformer and a vertical shoot ‘em up join the Antstream library this week. A big welcome to retro gamers on PlayStation! There are two new titles for Antstream players to enjoy this week. Risky Woods (Mega Drive) and Wonder Planet (Arcade) will both be...
The Story Of Namco
As one of the cornerstones of arcade gaming, Namco has produced some of the most famous arcade video games of the last 50 years. Join Antstream Arcade as we celebrate the life of this legendary coin-op manufacturer. Formation The history of Namco stretches back to the...
5 WAYS TO BRING FUN HOME – by Patrick Hickey Jr.
The arcade experience is something you have to have lived through to truly understand. The clinking of change in your pockets as you played your favorite machines, all eating quarters at a breakneck pace. The sweat drips down your forehead and the grease accumulates...
A Roundtable Discussion on the Mega Man Mania Project
Mega Man is a famous name in the gaming world, but not so well-known are some of his earliest games. Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge in 1991, or Rockman World, simply refurbished content from Mega Man 1 and 2. The next three Rockman World games did the same with...
ROBOTIC REMEMBRANCE – by John Michonski
For kids today, singing animatronics are a staple of the horror video game genre, with Five Nights at Freddy’s raking in millions of dollars and launching a movie series. For the older crowd, however, they’re a nostalgic, yet sometimes off-putting memory of birthdays...
RETRO AIRBNB, AND ARCADE ANIMALS – by Ryan Burger
For Scott Leftwich, the '80s were the peak of existence! He has taken this hobby to a different level than anyone I have met in my ten years of networking with video game hobbyists, and Old School Gamer is going to tell you the story. For him, it starts out with...
The Antstream Arcade Guide #1: Adventure
Greetings, brave retro gamers! Retro games can sometimes be tricky and puzzling – in a good way! But if you’re struggling, we are here to help with a new feature on the Antstream Arcade blog. Each Antstream Arcade guide will include tips and help on how to play and...
First DLC for ‘Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration
Atari and Digital Eclipse Announce First DLC for ‘Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration’ Releases on September 26 Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are excited to share a significant addition to Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. The Wider World of Atari, which...
Stern Pinball announces Pop-Up Arcade for Riot Fest in Chicago this weekend
In a recent announcement, Stern Pinball confirmed that they'll be coming back to Riot Fest this year at Douglass Park in Chicago. The full title of the event is Stern Pinball Pop-up Arcade at Riot Fest 2024. The free pinball machines will be available from...
Five PS1 Games That Were Ahead of Their Time
Love the original PlayStation? So do we! Here are five PS1 games that we can all agree the world wasn’t ready for. Jumping Flash!: Why?: It was a first-person platformer that played like a FPS, but had characters that felt like a Ubisoft game. It was amazing. Dev...
GALLOPING GHOST ARCADE – by Todd Friedman
BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST ARCADE ONE GAME AT A TIME August 12th, 2024 was a historic day in the world of arcade gaming. The largest arcade in the world, Galloping Ghost Arcade, unveiled its 1,000th arcade game on the floor. This number has been talked about for...
Your Own Arcade! by Ryan Burger
Old School Gamer surveyed its friend running nationally and regionally known retro arcades and found out that there are some games you have to have to consider ourself a retro arcade. We started by listing the most popular games on the KLOV.Com site (Museum of the...
Jordan Mechner and John Romero Interview
Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and John Romero (DOOM) speak out about historical preservation of video games Following GameStop's abrupt shuttering of Game Informer and the total deletion of the 33-year-old magazine's website last month, Jordan Mechner...
Arcade Memories – by Old School Gamer Staff
My memories of arcade machines start a little past my home video game history. My memory takes me back to Showbiz Pizza in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1983 for my 11th birthday. It was a small birthday party since we had just moved there that week from Ohio and I didn’t...
Tetris 40th Anniversary
About This Episode Forty years ago, now, a Russian software engineer wrote a simple puzzle game in his spare time. It featured a variety of geometric shapes falling into a well, and in short order, the world was in love with his creation. In this episode, we dive into...
Four Classic Castlevania Titles Return at Limited Run Games!
September 4th, 2024— Konami Digital Entertainment（KONAMI) and Limited Run Games today revealed its full physical collection for Castlevania Dominus Collection! Pre-orders for Standard and Collector’s Editions launch on September 13th and run through October 13th,...
A review of Chrono Trigger from Boss Fight Books
It always bears repeating- retro gaming culture is, itself, so old at this point that we can look at retro game appreciation from ten years ago and find tropes about as archaic to us now as the retro games themselves seemed to the people making that content....
8 Bit Adventures 2 – The Gem That Hooked PC Gamers Comes to Consoles
11th September, 2024 - Australian developer Critical Games released their hit JRPG 8-Bit Adventures 2 on PC last year. Flushed from its success, and the critical fanfare it received from media, they’re eager to announce that the console versions - PlayStation...
Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!
Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while...
Super Charge Bros Achieves Goal on Kickstarter in Less Than 24 Hours
Dallas, TX –September 6, 2024– Independent publisher The Retro Room Games has announced that the Kickstarter campaign for Super Charge Bros went live and has reached its goal in less than 24 hours. The accomplishment of this goal will help the team in the production...
Five Modern Games/IP That Would Be Well-Served With Retro-Reboots
So many franchises today focus on delivering high-end visual experiences to tell their stories. They often forget that people played their games when visuals weren’t at a premium, because they were easy to play and had a level of fun needed to inspire long gameplay...
STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – SEPTEMBER 2024
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: The Uncanny X-Men: [embedded content] Don’t be in “Danger” of missing out. A very limited number of The...
Sterns Unveils Images for new “The Uncanny X-Men” Cabinet
On September 4th, Stern Pinball confirmed the opening for sales of its new cabinet based on The Uncanny X-men. Specifically, this cabinet is based on the Days of Future Past and Mind out of Time stories from 1981. Though the art is based on comics from that era of the...
New On Antstream This Week: Worms Armageddon: Motor Mash
Two classic PS1 titles join the library just as Antstream are about to launch on PlayStation. As Antstream prepare to launch their retro streaming service on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, two PS1 titles join the Antstream library, bringing top-down racing and...
