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We Stopped By The Pinball Hall of Fame
Old School Baby. That’s what Tim called me when he walked into A Gamers Paradise and saw the magazine and my embroidered shirt that I was wearing for the magazine. My potential interview with Tim Arnold the operator of The Pinball Hall of Fame was off to an...
Now Hear This: No the Cat Doesn’t Sing!
A few posts back, I wrote about someone sending me a link to a YouTube page that had a bunch of rock and classic songs redone in 8-Bit style. But after that, I received a couple different emails telling me about some other pages that you can subscribe to, So I felt...
OSGM Plays: Super Blood Hockey
Old School Gamer Magazine's Patrick Hickey Jr. plays a few periods of the retro hockey game "Super Blood Hockey" on Steam to see if the game lives up to its name and more. Inspired by classics on the Nintendo Entertainment System the likes of "Blades of Steel" and...
Blast Corps for N64 Review
Blast Corps involves demolishing buildings (using a range of vehicles and robots) before they're hit by a carrier transporting leaking nuclear missiles. It's as awesome as it sounds, and was developed by Rare! [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0"...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: It’s Not Cheating If the Company Made It!
There are several games that people will play over and over for either one certain reason or no reason at all. Trust me, there was a reason for this story. Back in 1983, Konami released some really great titles to the arcade. I can't remember how many quarters I...
Free Play Florida – The Land of Mickey and Sea World is Great For Gamers!
The adventures of the Old School Gamer crew continue....this time the weekend after Galaxies of Games in Iowa. We travelled down to Orlando Florida, again with our friends Billy Mitchell and Walter Day for Free Play Florida which I’m told is the largest such event in...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: Prologue
With rival SEGA a continued (albeit faltering) presence in the video game industry and Sony beginning to establish itself as a major player for years to come, Nintendo had to find a way to keep some of the spotlight on them in 1995 as they continued to work towards...
RETROSPECTIVE: DreamGEAR Data East Hits Gamestation Wireless Console
All in all, I would be remiss to suggest there isn’t shovel-wear to be found here but at this price-point, it’s almost like you are buying the Data East titles (with a bonus release that never before saw American shores for good measure). The remaining 300 titles are freebies; and there are a few really good ones along the way to boot.
This Day In Video Game History
