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Downright Bizarre: Kool-Aid Man “OH YEAH!!”
This eighties pop-culture icon was so cool that it burst through the brick wall to become one of the most unmistakable product placements on record. OH YEAH! The game was available through conventional retail channels, but could also be acquired by submitting a mere...
The PlayCable: Wonders of the Retro Gaming World
After covering Nintendo's Satellaview and the SEGA Channel, we're taking a look at the actual first instance of video game 'streaming' on demand - The PlayCable. Using a cable TV connection (much like the SEGA Channel) but instead all the way back in 1981! Nearly 15...
SUPERBRIEF: Star Trek
So far, SUPERBRIEF has focused on interactive fictions such as Zork and Colossal Cave Adventure as some of the earliest standout computer games. While both of these (and many, many others) claimed tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as one of their...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Wonder Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Wonder Boy and the Cursed Kingdom co-producer Philipp Döschl, who details the origin and creative process behind the newest original game based in the world of the cult-classic retro adventure RPG. With the blessing of original...
A Review of “Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution”
In the new book, Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution, the author, David L. Craddock, covers about two dozen influential Apple II computer games along with the companies and people who created them. For the book, Craddock states that he...
The World’s best-selling Home Computer – Reborn!
29 September 2017 – A timeless classic is being given a new lease of life with the launch of THEC64® Mini. Developed by Retro Games Ltd. - and distributed by Koch Media – THEC64® Mini is a fully licensed reimagining of the 80’s bestselling home computer. Half the...
The Nintendo 64 Controller: What Was With That Weird Thing?
Over the course of the history of the video game industry, few controllers -- first-party controllers, especially -- have ever been able to measure up to the sheer strangeness of the accessory Nintendo revealed as its input device for what was then known as the...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: You Got Balls!!
Ok, the blogs that I normally do involve anything from my old school arcade days. But after leaving the Old School Pinball and Arcade in Grimes, Iowa, I had this burning in my head and figured it would be cool to let this out in this special blog. You pay one low...
This Day In Video Game History
