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Five Retro Themed Games on the Nintendo Switch You Must Play
Although the Nintendo Switch has- and will have titles that show off its graphical prowess and its bevy of useful features at home and on the go, it is very much a system rooted in retro-styled gaming. From modern retellings of classics, to the inclusion of original...
Downright Bizarre: PaRappa the Rapper – Kick, Punch, It’s All in the Mind!
Parappa Rappa is a young scrappy pup that has a serious case of “puppy love” for Ms. Sunny Funny, an anthropomorphic flower. Accompanied by his peers PJ Berry, a/k/a “PJ the DJ” and disco diva Katy Kat, Parappa desperately competes with his arch-nemesis Joe Chin, an...
SUPERBRIEF: Colossal Cave Adventure
Although many early computer games had their start in stuffy and sterile MIT research labs, the people that created them often set out to recreate places that provided that same sense of belonging. One of the first computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure (or Adventure) was born of this sense.
Orange is the New Grey: The Evolution of the NES Zapper
The Zapper light gun is an icon of classic gaming for the Nintendo Entertainment System, appearing across multiple forms of media, including as the trusty sidearm for the eponymous protagonist of the 1989 DiC Entertainment animated series Captain N: The Game Master....
NES’s Golf Found as Easter Egg on Switch Consoles
Satoru Iwata, who was the 4th President and CEO of Nintendo, was a programmer and game designer decades before he was a businessman. Long before his tragic death in 2015, he successfully wrote and initiated his own data compression tool to fit the NES’s Golf (which...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘A Robot Named Fight’
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Matt Bitner – Lead Developer of A Robot Named Fight, now available on Steam. A combination of classic retro adventures the likes of Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Contra and Diablo, it’s a wild retro meets modern experience...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Drink Up Y’all
Every so often, you run into a game that you look at and think to yourself, who the heck came up with this? I thought the standards of a video game are to drive a car, rescue a princess, shoot an alien or even jump into your lily pad. So how is a game like Tapper...
The show that kicked our retro in the rear has moved!
Fellow Gamers, I'm extremely excited to be writing to you to inform you that we just released the Midwest Gaming Classic web site for 2018, and we have BIG news! The Midwest Gaming Classic will be moving from our long-time home of the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield...
This Day In Video Game History
