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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ken Gage
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ken Gage who currently is displayed on card number 2594, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Ken started his gaming career on the Atari 2600. Adventure was his go-to game. He played so much, his parents had to take away the...
Video Game of the Day – February 14th – Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
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...
Video Game of the Day – February 13th – Star Control: Famous Battles of the Ur-Quan Conflict, Volume 4
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...
A Tale of Two Consoles – By Frank Schwartztrauber
In the fall of 1982, I decided to make my first major electronics purchase: a ColecoVision home video game console. I was married with a child on the way, assumed I would be spending more time at home in the future and thought it was a great idea. I had grown up...
The Odyssey 2 Goes to War! By Earl Green
Just because Atari had Combat and other titles representing the warlike side of the VCS doesn’t mean that players couldn’t wage war on other systems. The Odyssey 2 didn’t have a large slew of war games at its disposal. The earliest such title,Armored Encounter! / Sub...
Video Game of the Day – February 12th – Geneforge
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...
Modern Retro Programming: An Interview with Bob DeCrescenzo – by Brian Szarek, Editor
The retro community has been growing at a rapid pace, and one of the reasons are homebrew games, hacks and ports that attempt to faithfully recreate (or put a new spin on) arcade classics for vintage consoles. The Atari 2600 and 7800 libraries have been growing at a...
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry Switch Review – By Brad Feingold
Sex Seriously, how many times can you say you started writing an article saying that, where you weren’t on a dirty site? Now, that it’s out of the way, let’s talk about why I mentioned it. Disclaimer, we here at OSG try to keep our material family...
Video Game of the Day – February 11th – Rambo (NES)
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...
The Strategic Scenario By Leonard Herman
There are a wealth of games available that let your fingers do the walking...and your brain do most of the work! The centuries old notion of man v. machine has come to frivolous fruition with the introduction of video games. Alas, the human being seems to be the loser...
Video Game of the Day – February 10th – Outer Wilds
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...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: 40th Anniversary of the Intellivision – By Brett Weiss
Late in 1981, I discovered a trio of exclusive shooters for the Intellivision: Astrosmash, Space Armada, and Star Strike. Each is easy to find today, making them a great bargain for fans of the system. Complete boxed copies are worth only a few dollars each. Before I...
PSX Retrogames By Mark Androvich
In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past few months, you’re probably aware that Sony released its PlayStation 2 game system in October. Unfortunately, due to manufacturing problems and delays, very few people—namely, hardcore gamers who preordered in April,...
Insert Coin By Ken Jong
Way back in 1999, my friend Lon and I made a “guy” trip to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada to experience the CG Expo for the first time. Here was our Mecca! We were oooing and ahhhing over the marvelous exhibits and treasures we saw and bought there. The classic gamers,...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Robin Mihara
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Robin Mihara, who currently is displayed on card number 286, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. Robin is one of the top Tetris players in the world. His preference is the NES version and has been playing since its...
Designer of the Colecovision An Interview With Robert Schneck – by Ethan Johnson
The Colecovision was a remarkable console for its era, entirely stifled by market conditions well beyond its control. From its brief time in the spotlight and less than three years of production, it remains a console that many have experienced, but few know anything...
Bob “Rosha” Harris: Behind the Odyssey, Part 2
The Probe 2000 Story In mid-1983, North American Phillips began to preview a new console, the Odyssey 3. It would replace the Odyssey 2's membrane keyboard with a PC Jr.-style "chiclet" keyboard, and offer new high-resolution graphics - some of which would enhance...
The Philosophy of NOT Using a Rewind Feature.
I was scrolling through Twitter some time ago when I came across a tweet that got me thinking. It was from a twitter user back in the end of December where he basically said that if you use the rewind feature that's available in the NES and SNES games on the Switch...
Video Game of the Day – February 6th – Overcooked!
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...
Ghosts’n DJs Out Today on Steam
Retro-like run’n gun side-scrolling action platformer featuring deadmau5 and Dr. Kucho! Supporting Gaming Charities Madrid, Spain –February 6, 2020– Independent development studio Dr. Kucho! Games release Ghosts’n DJs on Steam today. The game will be free but...
Shooters That Deserve a Remaster
Remasters are a dime-a-dozen today, but what about the forgotten classics? In this exclusive Old School Gamer list, we share a few Shooters that deserve to be brought back from the dead. Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay: Starbreeze doesn’t get the credit...
A Conversation with Nolan Bushnell, Part 2 PART 2 OF 2 – Competition Thru Amazon Alexa – By Michael Thomasson and Todd Friedman with Ryan Burger
In issue #12, we started an interview with Nolan Bushnell that took us up to the VCS akaAtari 2600. Todd Friedman had also done a recent interview that we brought part of into this article. We pick up when competition in the home video game space kicks up with the...
Namco Museum By Kyle Snyder
I'm torn. When I recently purchased Namco Museum for the Sega Dreamcast, I sat down with a pen and paper to take notes on this classic compilation. How close did they get to the arcade games? Are there any detracting peculiarities? And then I was faced with a...
Video Game of the Day – February 4th – Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster’s Hidden Treasure
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...
