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Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Log Jammers’
Old School Gamer Magazine Mega Cat Studios’ Nathan Wilson, who discusses the inspiration behind Log Jammers, the retro, couch-co-op fun-fest and their current Kickstarter campaign, which will cover the cost of porting and console certification for Switch, Xbox One,...
The Last Official Release: Virtual Boy – 3D Tetris (1996)
Hello again, retro gaming friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. It’s been a while since the last entry of this series – the retro gaming news cycle has instead been quite fruitful thanks to E3 – but with all that simmering down, it’s back to...
Kid Chameleon on the Sega Genesis
Mark Cerny began working in the video game industry at the tender age of 17. In the early 1980s, he joined Atari and worked on titles like Major Havoc and Marble Madness. Over the course of his career, his name has been connected to some of the industry’s most iconic...
Intellivision To Reveal Extensive Details of New Video Game Console On October 20th
Intellivision Entertainment President Tommy Tallarico to Keynote the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in Portland, OR IRVINE, CA, September 10, 2018 – Intellivision® Entertainment is proud to announce that it will be revealing extensive details about its upcoming new family...
Going For Golden Eye – By Ryan Burger
Sometimes Reality is Too Close to Fiction I’m a fan of the movie of King of Kong and I have the pleasure of knowing many the personalities from the movie. So when I heard about this mockumentary, I had to see it. Clocking in at just under an hour, it starts out with,...
Just for Qix: From Pigskin to Pixels: Going Long for Atari Football – by Michael Thomasson
A t first glance, Atari Football (1978) appeared to be a no-thrills gaming experience. The monochrome screen displayed simple field lines and a few statistics in a rudimentary sans-serif font. The single-channel rarely beeped, and when it did, it was a muffled sound...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Tennis
For this week's "Mario Mania," we've got something of a two-for-one special on that ever-popular sport, Tennis! It's no secret that Mario has starred in many a tennis game, from the simplistic Mario's Tennis that was packed in with the Virtual Boy to the more recent...
StarTropics for the NES
What do you do if aliens abduct your archaeologist uncle? Well, if you’re a young, baseball playing boy named Mike Jones, you set out to rescue him armed with a yo-yo that the chief of the Coralcola people of Island-C gave you. Of course, I’m talking about the 1990...
This Day In Video Game History
