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Brighten Your Room With Mario and Nintendo
Brighten up your room and dream of your next adventure with Mario and friends, with this super-fun and stylish NES Console Lamp. The lamp has a lampshade that features a classic Super Mario NES game, and the base is a classic NES controller. You can use the controller...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Warlords and Mega Bomberman – By Brett Weiss
I like a good, epic solo adventure like H.E.R.O. for the ColecoVision, or God of War for the PlayStation 2, as much as anyone, and I also enjoy playing (and replaying) any number of quickie twitch games, all by my lonesome. However, there’s nothing quite like facing...
Tag Team Wrestling
For my money, artists such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Fosse don’t hold a candle to men like Ric “Nature Boy” Flair or Kerry Von Erich. Nor can Pavarotti or Maria Callas match the passion and drama of performers like Gorgeous George or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson....
Two New Publishers Announced for the Evercade
The Evercade is an interesting new retro handheld we’ve been closely following at OSGM HQ for the last month or so. Starting off as something mysterious, it was soon revealed to be a completely self-contained console that would play retro games – but most importantly,...
Why they’re rare: Atlantis II
This is a tricky one as only a handful—not even—were ever made for a contest and they look exactly the same as the original. Let’s go back in time for a bit. The year is 1982, Imagic just released Atlantis for the Atari 2600 and other systems including the...
Knabber Rob – A Reverse Adventure for the Atari 2600
For the sake of expediency, I'm going to assume that anyone reading this is already familiar with the Atari 2600 game Adventure and not spend a lot of time explaining it. I'm not even going to do the thing where I say I'm not going to explain it but then do explain it...
Home Run for the Atari 2600
Canada Bill Jones was a con man and riverboat gambler from Yorkshire, England. An 1877 article in the Dallas Times Herald once described him as being, “gentle as a woman and cunning as a fox.” He is not particularly relevant to what follows, except in one regard....
The Duck Knight Returns: Where to Find More Darkwing Duck
“I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the dead pixel that isn’t covered under warranty! I am Darkwing Duck!”
This Day In Video Game History
