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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Chris Cavanaugh
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Chris Cavanaugh who is displayed on card number 512, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. Chris is also featured on card number 588. Chris is the Co-founder of Classic Gamer Magazine which was founded in 1999. Chris was...
Video Game of the Day – April 17th – Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
ARCADE…TO GO By Skyler Miller
Despite its promise of evolution, Atari Classics Evolved can't help but feel a bit stale. It contains the familiar lineup of Atari arcade games -- Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede, etc. -- found in other compilations, with 11 games in total. Each game comes in...
Airborne Ranger or MMU812A – By the writer formerly known as The Jaded Gamer – Bill Donohue
Airborne Ranger is a very intense military combat simulator that requires careful planning and stealthy execution in order to win over a numerically superior hostile force. These ops take place in a number of different environments; everything from the baking desert...
Shooters Not Available On the Atari 2600-By Brett Weiss
When the word “shooter” is brought up among gamers, first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Halo typically come to mind, or maybe vertical scrolling “bullet hell” games like Ikaruga and Raiden IV. That’s not the case for this old-school gamer. My mind goes...
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
It's in with the old, out with the new for the developers of The Forgotten Sands. Casting aside the cel-shaded, “new age” prince from 2008's Prince of Persia, Ubisoft returns to familiar ground for the movie tie-in to The Sands of Time, itself inspired by the 2003...
Duck Hunt: The Ultimate Shooter – By Todd Friedman
If you ask a gamer to name some popular shooter titles, they will tell you games like Call of Duty, Doom, Halo, Grand Theft Auto and Goldeneye. Before all of these hit the shelves, Nintendo had a vision of providing a shooter game with the new Nintendo Entertainment...
The Konami Arcade Classics – Review – By Brad Feingold
In a previous issue, I talked about the Switch collections from Konami: the Contra Collection and the Castlevania Collection. But did you know that there was a third one... or should I say a first one? Prior to these two awesome classic collections, in April 2019,...
Pixel Memories By Kyle Snyder
Nowadays, children will never know the bliss kids in the ‘80s experienced when even a mundane trip with your family to run errands typically meant playing coin-op machines in several different places. The gaming industry referred to them as “street locations” --...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Frankie Cardulla
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Frankie Cardulla who is displayed on card number 201, from the Twin Galaxies Superstars Collection of 2012. When it comes to Atari, Frankie is one of the best. Back in the 1980s, Frankie competed in major Atari tournaments...
The Age of Remakes, Remasters, and Reboots (And Why That’s Not A Bad Thing).
The past few years we have seen so many games get the 21st Century upgrade. Games that we loved back in the day getting facelifts and being introduced to the younger generation makes me smile. It's also a change of pace because unlike another industry I know of,...
Shovelware Alert! Astro Invaders!
If you blinked, you may have missed this one. If you didn’t, you may have wished you had. Not to be confused with Stern's classic coin-op Astro Invader, this Nintendo DS shoot-em-up from Zoo Games attempts to replicate the frantic, fixed-screen action found in...
The Pacman Legacy By Scott Marriott
If you had to name the first three significant arcade games in the industry -- and we're talking historically significant, not the game you first fell in love with -- the answer would have to be Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), and Pac-Man (1980). Each helped...
Revenge of the Birds By Chris Cavanaugh
Angry Birds has soared through the list of killer app titles for the iPhone and iPod touch, and it's not hard to see why. This highly accessible title has players seeking revenge on a herd of green pigs that have stolen a collection of bird eggs. Reprisal comes in the...
Podcast Review: RetroGaming Roundup
Classic gaming podcasts are becoming as common as Combat cartridges, so finding a quality one can become an exasperating experience. Too often the hosts forget to make the show about the games and focus too much on themselves. Fortunately, the guys at RetroGaming...
Top ways to make money as a gamer
Gaming has come a long way since the glory days of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Technology has naturally been a big driver here as the way that consoles and games have developed has seen massive changes in how we play. The whole essence of what being a gamer means...
Five Atari 2600 Games Worse Than E.T.
It is a common belief that E.T. for the Atari 2600 is “the worst game ever!” -- a notion repeated ad nauseum on internet forums -- yet this couldn’t be further from the truth. The following five games are closer to the bottom of the Atari 2600 barrel, and they...
It’s War! Classics Vs Remakes
In Classic Gamer Magazine Vol. 1, Issue #6, five classic games were compared to their modern day, upgraded remakes. The classics won in decisive fashion, 4 to 1. The only remake in the list that bested its progenitor was the PlayStation version of Q*bert, which takes...
BRINGING THE PAST BACK TO LIFE
For many video game lovers, the closest they'll come to owning their own bona fide home arcade is a large-screen television fed by their choice of home console systems. For Rodney Minch, however, it began by collecting and repairing classic arcade machines. Fueled by...
Retro Gaming is Officially Making a Comeback!
The technological advancements in the gaming industry are huge. When you compare a game from the 80s or 90s, with another from recent times, you will outrightly see the superiority of the present games. The gaming environment and graphics are much better, and the user...
Super NES VS Sega Genesis
In an industry where originality is at a premium, it is not surprising to see the same games appearing on as many platforms the market will support. After all, companies need to be profitable and not every console system has the user base to justify spending the added...
198X Review – Nintendo Switch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0TXCvVD-8E&lc=z231dhdaeue0fx2npacdp4324zscthgvliajadwdewpw03c010c No one in their right mind would get on the subway in this city at 2 AM, but you know exactly why you got on it. With your fists taped up and bloodlust on your...
Karaoke Revolution By Scott Alan Marriott
Konami’s ongoing Bemani series (short for the company’s first interactive music game, Beatmania) has proven that rhythm-based games are more than the flavor of the month. Yet their overall appeal caters more to Japanese tastes than the American palate, especially when...
Age of Mythology: The Titans
Expansion packs are notorious for providing minimal additional content at a premium price. Age of Mythology: The Titans is a glorious exception. There's plenty of new content -- a whole new single-player campaign, a new civilization (The Atlanteans) and adjusted...
