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Time Crisis – by Ryan Burger

It was all about Time Crisis and The House of the Dead. Time Crisis hit me harder overall. This rail shooter takes you through different missions across the series. Each mission typically has three stages, and each stage has four areas you fight through. I have never...

Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Ground Zero Hero’

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Ground Zero Hero” developer Rowan Edmondson, who details the creative journey behind the upcoming game. About Ground Zero Hero: Featuring a vibrant hand-drawn art style inspired by The Simpsons and Rick and Morty, Ground Zero Hero...

PinkSweets and Muchi Muchi Pork! Ports Confirmed for Modern Systems

  On Friday May 29th, Clear River Games confirmed that they would be rereleasing the classic CAVE shooters Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara and Muchi Muchi Pork! on modern consoles. The developer City Connection is responsible for bringing the games to the PlayStation...
Hidden Gems: Vice: Project Doom

Hidden Gems: Vice: Project Doom

What do you get when you combine the over head perspective of the amazing Spy Hunter, the stellar side scrolling game play of Ninja Gaiden and the killer First Person Sniper game play found in games like T2: The Arcade Game? You get the kick ass Hidden Gem, Vice:...

Made in Japan: Bangai-O

Made in Japan: Bangai-O

Most everyone in the classic gaming community knows of the Japanese game developer Treasure and their impeccable track record for making some of the best action games to ever grace a video game console (and even a candy cab or two). So this being an article on...

Hidden Gems: Total Recall

Hidden Gems: Total Recall

According to the June 1990 issue of Videogames & Computer Entertainment, Acclaim took an unexpected turn in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Total Recall. It commissioned Interplay to transform the expected summer blockbuster into...

Aliens Vs Predator Games

Aliens Vs Predator Games

Very few film and comic franchises have yielded positive results when translated into the video game medium. Pick any random five video games based on either a film or comic and the odds of just one of those games being remotely decent are pretty slim. As gamers we‘ve...

Intellevision

Intellevision

As a kid in the late 1970s, before I had a video game system of my very own (Santa didn‘t come through until 1982, when he brought a ColecoVision to our house), I would make any excuse I could think of to visit friends who owned an Atari 2600, an Odyssey2,or even a...

Splatterhouse

Splatterhouse

Imagine if you will: you and your girlfriend, both parapsychology majors from a local university, decide to take a trip to an abandoned mansion that had the reputation of housing evil experiments run by the mad scientist known as Dr. West. On the way, you‘re hit by a...

Panzer Paladin: A Review

Panzer Paladin: A Review

As much as I love video games, and really I LOVE video games, there are many other things in this world of ours that I enjoy as well.  One of those things is anime, and one of my favorite series is Mobile Suit Gundam.  Giant robots fighting each other and stuff...

Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling

Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling

With perspiration splattering and hands blistering, the children of the ̳80s and ̳90s ascended to the heights of spectacular televised main events - by wearing out A buttons and dislodging the directional pad in marathon sessions of Nintendo‘s Pro Wrestling. They did...

The Legend of Zelda Game Maker

The Legend of Zelda Game Maker

It all began when we were first introduced to Link, a small elven boy charged with the task of finding the scattered pieces of the Triforce of Courage and saving Princess Zelda from the evil clutches of Ganon. I am talking, of course, about Nintendo‘s The Legend of...

Missing Older Sports Games.

Missing Older Sports Games.

With the world being in the shape it is it was nice to have one of my favorite things come back.  Baseball.  I love baseball, ever since I was little I've loved the game.  Watching it, playing it, going to Dodger games on the weekends with my family.  Even playing...

This Day In Video Game History

Midway was released for Sol-20 in United States.

The Joker's Wild was released for TI Programmable Calculator in United States.

Game & Watch Multi Screen: Donkey Kong (Multi Screen (DK-52)) was released for Dedicated handheld in Japan.

Bird Week was released for NES in Japan.

Super Mario Bros. 2 (Famicom Disk System release) was released for NES in Japan.

R-Type II was released for TurboGrafx-16 in Japan.

Cosmo Police: Galivan was released for NES in Japan.

Dragon Slayer Gaiden: Nemuri no Ōkan was released for Game Boy in Japan.

Star Fox was released for SNES in Sweden.

Torarete Tamaruka!? was released for Game Gear in Japan.

Great Air Battles: 1941-1942 (demo v1.5a (final release)) was released for DOS in Worldwide.

The Black Box (shareware release) was released for Windows 16-bit in Worldwide.

Wanderlust's Board of Directors proposes to change the company name to Adrenalin Interactive, Inc.


Forever Legend was released for DOS in Worldwide.