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Kickstarter for Retro Game Engine Launches
While there are plenty of freely available game engines out there that allow budding game designers to create and self-publish the next big indie hit, there’s a decidedly huge gap if you’re looking to do that on retro consoles. While game engines such as Unity or the...
Retro Gaming Archives – May/June 1991
Consoles When any sort of new technology is made available for public consumption, there’s a portion of the population that will resist it and a portion that will embrace it wholeheartedly. Consumers of video games are no different in this regard. 1991 was a couple of...
Retro City Festival in SoCal – By Old School Gamer Staff
Sunny Southern California is the scene, specifically Pomona, CA, which seems to be the home of so many great things for the retro gaming community: Hyperkin, RetroBit, and the Retro City Festival. This event in mid- January (moving to the first weekend of January in...
Farsights Pinball Arcade Is Losing 60 Tables From Their Library
After years of success with the Williams and Bally pinball licenses that were part of the Farsight Pinball Arcade, they are no longer going to have the games available after June 30, 2018. A press release was issued on May 4th on their Facebook page: "Our...
New SNES Game Raises Awareness About Mental Health, for Charity
In a noble bid to raise awareness about the mental health of game developers and a toxic game industry practice known as “crunch”, publisher, Devolver Digital and developer, Mega Cat Studios have partnered up to produce a new SNES game. Fork Parker’s Crunch Out has...
Raspiboy Review and Atari 2600 Arcade Companion Review – By Brad Feingold and Old School Gamer Staff
Flying at 30000 feet and I am bored. My laptop won’t fit in my lap and my PSP Vita died. And I can’t surf. I can only type on my iPad. Whee.... Ryan is sitting next to me as we are heading to Las Vegas to the 2018 CES and he was reading and gave me something to do. He...
A Closer Look at Nintendo’s Official NES Peripherals: NES Satellite
There are certain things that are easy to take for granted in video games these days, and the overall capacity for multiplayer experiences is one of them. With today's tech, we can see anything from 8-player matches in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to the staggering...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Lode Runner Legacy’ on Switch
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Takuya Banno, Producer, Tozai Games, who gives us the inside scoop on the Nintendo Switch version of “Lode Runner Legacy.” One of the most important retro games of its time, the new version brings the experience to the Switch,...
This Day In Video Game History
