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Golden Axe Cartoon Getting Rave Early Reviews

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | September 17, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, News, Reviews | 0 Comments

Released on September 16 on Paramount+, the Golden Axe cartoon series is earning rave reviews from a few trusted media outlets. IGN admitted they weren’t too excited about the project, but now find themselves as big fans. “Having seen the entire first season, I can...

A review of The Echoes of Worlds

by William Schwartz | September 15, 2026 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Reviews | 0 Comments

Earlier this year, Broke Studio provided a physical release of The Echoes of Worlds, based on the Game Boy Studio project of the same name by TC Studio. It's perhaps the most fiendish Game Boy release in recent memory, and I'm not just saying that because one...

What to Expect When You Join a Minecraft Server

by Old School Gamer | September 14, 2026 | 2000s, Console/Handheld, Gaming | 0 Comments

Joining a Minecraft server means entering a version of the game shaped by its owners and players. The controls may feel familiar, but the spawn area, gamemodes, and ways to progress can be quite different from your single-player world. Knowing what to expect makes the...

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Toe Jam and Earl Back in the Groove – By Conor McBrien

by Conor McBrien | Jun 6, 2019 | 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine Preview, The Story Of... | 0 Comments

That’s right! After seventeen years away, the old-school alien duo from the planet Funkotron has returned. Crowdfunded through Kickstarter back in 2015, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is the fourth game in the series and the first to be independently published....

Entering the Digitized Era–Part2 – By Warren Davis

by Old School Gamer | Jun 4, 2019 | Arcade, Magazine Preview, The Story Of... | 0 Comments

In the last issue, I told the story of how I was introduced to video digitizers in the mid-1980s while working at Williams and began to explore their use in obtaining photo-realistic images for arcade games. The first digitizer I played with was made for an...

AtGames® Announces the Legends Ultimate Arcade Machine

by Old School Gamer | Jun 3, 2019 | 2010s, Arcade, Reviews | 0 Comments

Full-Size Arcade Machine Features Legendary Video Games, Cloud Connectivity, and other Amazing Features Los Angeles – May 30, 2019 - AtGames® Digital Media Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment products today announced the Legends Ultimate arcade...

The Cabinet of Curiosities: The Coca-Cola Kid

by Shaun Jex | Jun 2, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of... | 1 Comment

As we tour the Cabinet of Curiosities, we will see all manner of oddities. There is a special section reserved just for product promotions, such as Yo! Noid, the Domino’s Noid video game, and Kool-Aid Man, the Atari game featuring...the Kool-Aid Man. All of this...

Why they’re rare: Tetris for the Sega Mega Drive

by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | Jun 1, 2019 | 1980s | 0 Comments

Rare games often have their fair share of urban legends. The rarer the game, the most far-fetched the story. One of those game is assuredly Tetris but a specific version of it. Namely, the one released in extremely limited quantities for the SEGA Genesis or the Mega...

Dreamcast Version of Tanglewood on “Hiatus”

by Brendan Meharry | Jun 1, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s | 0 Comments

Released in the August of last year, Tanglewood was an enjoyable, endearing and inventive platformer to see a physical release for the long-discontinued Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. This came about after a successful Kickstarter campaign, in which 892 backers raised...

The Cabinet of Curiosities: Tongue of the Fatman

by Shaun Jex | May 30, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of... | 0 Comments

The world of video games is filled with many weird and wondrous things, digital creations that would make John Waters scratch his head and say, “Well, that seems like a bit much...” It is my goal, nay, it is my QUEST to find and document those games here in the...