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Trivial Pursuit
About This Episode For most GenX’ers, board games were a big part of how we played together. In 1981, a new game came along where rolling the dice and moving your piece was secondary to your knowledge of trivia and pop culture. In this Backtrack, we’re going around...
New LEGO X Sonic Shadow The Hedgehog Shadow Set Announced
An awesome preview of the upcoming LEGO x Sonic the Hedgehog Shadow’s Escape set has just dropped, making both Sonic and LEGO fans incredibly happy. The Sonic The Hedgehog collection on the LEGO website has been growing like crazy, and we couldn’t be happier. It was...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – “ZapCristal” Cristal Laboy
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features “ZapCristal” Cristal Laboy, who is displayed on card number 3968, from the Superstars of 2021 Collection. Cristal is host of her own YouTube Channel with over 6,000 subscribers and counting. Her passion for video games is...
20 Years Ago: The End of An Era: The Last NFL GameDay on PS2
Nine years isn’t a tremendously long amount of time, but in video games, particularly sports games, it’s essentially a lifetime. From its early beginnings as one of the founding fathers of the original PlayStation experience, the NFL GameDay series not only held its...
Out now! Strike Force Heroes for Steam
About Strike Force Heroes - Strike Force Heroes is an action-packed, old-school arena shooter rebuilt with modern mechanics. First introduced as a Flash game in 2012, publisher IndieArk and developer Sky9 Games have completely reimagined Strike Force Heroes from the...
Atari Nano Player Pro | Review & Comparison | Atari VCS/2600 Classics from My Arcade
Atari® is a pioneer in the video game industry, responsible for some of the most iconic games of all time, including Pong®, Breakout®, and Asteroids®. Atari® was founded in 1972 and, with a rich history that spans over 50 years, is one of the oldest video game...
The Italian Amiga Demo Scene & Darkage Software – The Retro Hour EP402
In week's show, dive deep into the 1990s Italian Amiga scene with Paolo D'Urso. From his days as a demo coder and cloning Super Mario 64 with the late Amiga classic 'Tales of Heaven', to the publication of 'Passione Amiga' magazine. Now, Paolo's reigniting his Amiga...
Why Paradroid For the C64 Was So Awesome!
The Commodore C64 was a great little machine for its day, and its games were worthy successors to the Atari games which came before it. One game will always stand out for me as particularly enjoyable, due to its innovative concept, progression, style, and overall...
Atari Revitalizes a Crown Jewel of the 80s Arcade Era with Berzerk: Recharged, Available Now on PC and Consoles
NEW YORK, Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — is delighted to announce the launch of its latest retro-charged reimagining of a beloved gaming classic, Berzerk: Recharged....
The Week In Retro Gaming – November 7th
Welcome to our weekly newsletter, all the latest retro gaming news in one place. Halloween has been and gone, which can only mean one thing... Christmas is just around the corner! Can you remember a game or console that you got at Christmas that has stuck with you...
Ten Dates Puts You In the FMV Dating World – Press Release and Review By Brad Feingold
Ten Dates is the sequel to the interactive rom-com, Five Dates, taking place in the post-pandemic world. Misha, a millennial from London in search of that elusive in-person connection, tricks her best friend Ryan into going to a...
Shadow Dancer – A 1989/91 game released for the Amiga could be getting a Mega Drive to Amiga port instead
While many of you have probably played Shadow Dancer back in the day on the Amiga, some of you felt while the game was fun, it was lacking in graphics, noting by many as having an Atari ST colour-palette and no Parallax. Well one such user might be changing that...
Atari 2600 Games in our November 3-4 Video Games Signature Auction
Video Games — Auction Preview by Brett Weiss Offering several Atari 2600 games in our November 3-4 Signature Auction warms my heart. As the Lead Video Game Cataloger with Heritage, and as a gamer who enjoys all eras, I love “everything from Atari to Xbox,” as the...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Andrew Marsh Talks The Meating, Kickstarter & More
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Mega Cat Studios’ Andrew Marsh, who discusses the development process behind their new NES adventure on Kickstarter, The Meating. Check the game out on Kickstarter, Here. About The Meating: Become a ghost minotaur on the quest to...
Fusion
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Game Boy Adventure arrives on the C64 and it’s super cool!
Funnily enough during today I've been trying my utmost to find my original Gameboy which was given over to my Brother some years ago. Sadly I haven't been able to find it, but at least this latest release by Roman Werner of the original Gameboy game Bill & Ted's...
Atari enters into an agreement to acquire Digital Eclipse
PARIS, FRANCE (October [31], 2023 - 8.00 am CET) - Atari® (the “Company”) — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Digital Eclipse Entertainment...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Zack Hample
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Zack Hample who currently is displayed on card number 552, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. Zack has been the Arkanoid world record holder since the year 2000 and has put up numerous scores on the arcade version. He is...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Pickleball: Smash
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Tobi Saulnier, CEO (1stPlayable, a 1PXL studio) who lets us know why you got to play Pickleball: Smash on Switch, PS4/5 and Xbox this Fall. About PickleBall: Smash: Pickleball: Smash arrives this November for PlayStation®5,...
Game Over II – MSX
Released in 1987 by Dinamic Software, "Game Over II," known as "Phantis" in Spain, is a classic title that combines elements of a scrolling shooter and a platform game. Available on multiple platforms, including the ZX Spectrum, MSX, MS-DOS, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64,...
Halloween 2024 on Antstream Arcade
Are you looking for some spooky games to play this week on Antstream Arcade? Look no further, as we present a spectral septet of some of the spookiest games ready to stream, for free, right now! From classic Eighties horror to goblins, ghouls, vampires and slobbering...
Atari® Reveals Sunnyvale, A Massive New Experience in The Sandbox
Step Into the Golden Age of Video Games and Explore Atari Sunnyvale, Which Celebrates the Birthplace of Atari, and Experience Your Favorite Games in the Metaverse Within Atari Sunnyvale players will be able to explore and interact with each other, and with NPCs based...
40 Years of MSX: A Look Back at Gaming History
It's hard to believe, but the MSX platform is turning 40 this year! For those of us who grew up in the '80s and '90s, the MSX was more than just a computer; it was a gateway to a world of gaming adventures, a source of creativity, and a symbol of innovation. As we...
Atari 2600 Donkey Kong: Was This Port TANKED to Make ColecoVision Look BETTER?
Donkey Kong is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Mario, the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong...
