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Bammsters Podcast – Rated-R #147 – Total Flashback!
Drac & G are joined this week by Ryan Burger of Old School Gamer, to talk about the Retro Gaming scene, and get utterly nostalgic in the good way! Hear them talk about classic gaming from the 1970s and forward and also bacon in the latest podcast. ...
Kool-Aid Man for the Atari 2600
Once upon a time, though you may not believe it, sugary, marshmallow filled breakfast cereals used to come with a toy hidden inside them. So did Cracker Jack, before they replaced it with a crumby sticker. In those way back times you could get all sorts of treasures...
Pratt at the Arcade: Rebooted: Making Old New Again – By Adam Pratt
In the articles I have crafted for OSG Magazine to this point, the focus has been heavy on history, covering decades worth of video arcade games. This month we’re going to take a different approach, focusing on titles that you are likely familiar with from “back in...
Crazy Controllers – The Resident Evil Pad a.k.a. Biohazard Dedicated Controller
The long-awaited remake of Resident Evil 2 comes out in two days, so I decided to look back at a controller that was designed specifically for Resident Evil games. The Biohazard Dedicated Controller (released internationally as the Resident Evil Pad) was released in...
Capcom Announces North American Street Fighter™ Pro League Sports Series
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 22, 2019) – Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced a new esports series for its legendary Street Fighter™ fighting game franchise. Titled the “North American Street Fighter® Pro League,” the series...
Raspberry Pi Zero MakeCode Mini Arcade
Gamers and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts who would like to build their very own pocket sized mini arcade console may be interested in a new tutorial published to the Adafruit website by Peli de Halleux. Created by Microsoft, MakeCode Arcade is open source And freely...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: SNES Favorites – By Brett Weiss
DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN AND SUPER STAR WARS My new book, The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A-M), is finally available, so I decided to focus this month’s column on Nintendo’s famous 16-bit console. Since the theme of the issue...
Game and Market Watch – By Dan Loosen
Most people’s game collections don’t consist simply of games. You may have read that sentence and thought that is obvious, those col- lections include things like consoles and controllers too, but that’s also not what I was to. Instead, I’m referring to the trinkets,...
This Day In Video Game History
