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Games That Haunt Me: Metroid Fusion
Metroid Fusion is a great game. It's fantastic and a staple for the GBA. Every time I talk to someone about Fusion they have nothing but good things to say about it. So why is it a game that haunts me? Well I'll tell you why, it's because, like Mega Man 8, I've...
Cleaning Your Cartridges By Lee K. Seitz
Finally, after months of searching, you find a new and sought after cartridge for your collection. You take it home, plug it in your system, and. . .nothing! The game appears to be dead. Maybe it's just dusty. You take it out, blow on it, and try again. Still nothing....
Rant: Gamers Today are Spoiled When It Comes to Ports
A special guest writer takes the reigns today. May there be mercy upon us all.
Worlds Collide in Fan-Made Banjo-Kazooie ROM Hack
Guh-huh!
Dragon’s Lair Arcade Machine Replica in Sixth Scale
New Wave Toys is proud to announce the latest addition to our RepliCade Amusements mini arcade line: Dragon's Lair x ReplICade! This 12 inch replica arcade machine Looks, Plays and Controls just like the vintage 1983 Dragon's Lair Arcade Machine! This fully-playable,...
Do Movies and Video games create an unholy mix? By Damien Quicksilver
Well, here’s the “movie” issue of Classic Gamer Magazine. I guess the focus is the blissful union between movies and video games. Wait a minute! BLISSFUL UNION? Generally, I’d say that movies and video games are like oil and water - they don’t quite mix. No, that’s...
Secret Sequels: The Games of Satellaview – Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium
Start your engines!
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair’s Callback to an Overlooked Game Boy Classic
I'm finally back after a bit of an unplanned hiatus. Long story short: The latest Windows 10 update straight-up killed my last computer, and getting a working replacement up and running has been a surprisingly long and twisted process. But now things are up and...
5 Retro Games You Can Still Play Today
Games have evolved beyond recognition, with impressive animations and cinematography. However, there are still some amazing retro games that have more than stood the test of time. Indeed, they have blazed the way for the industry and are still some of the most loved....
The Last Don: An Interview with Don Thomas
Classic Gamer Magazine: The birth of video games began with a couple of kids standing around in a soda place playing Pong. What would you say was the defining moment in history that transformed video games from being a casual, almost obscure, pastime to one that has...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Tim Hanson
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Tim Hanson who currently is displayed on card number 2309, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Tim is a huge Nintendo fan and gamer. Games like Super Metroid and Super Mario Bros. 3 to name a few. Tim finds himself...
Timeless Games That Span Multiple Decades
Recently I’ve been getting into my retro games, or retro style independent games that I stumble on for cheap in the PS Store. They not only give me a feeling of nostalgia, but they’re also just really decent games – good dynamics and gameplay, witty dialogue and...
Games From the Trenches
When George Lucas unleashed Star Wars into theatres in 1977, he created more than a great film. He forever changed how Hollywood would design and market movies, particularly on the merchandising front. After an avalanche of Star Wars action figures, T-shirts, plastic...
RETROSPECTIVE: The Theoretical Sega CD Mini
Next in Line for the Retro Mini Treatment from Sega? In my last column I talked about the Sega Genesis Mini and the fact that Sega actually managed to trump its arch rival of years past (Nintendo) in a few key areas of the retro mini market. In the time since, the...
Online Gaming: A Brief History
The history of online gaming is very long and storied, and we could take it all the way back to packet-based LAN games on the earliest versions of personal computers. And while there’s something to be said about how local network games came before online games, we...
Howard’s Revenge By Darrin Powell
In 1982, a daring archaeologist named Indiana Jones was thrilling movie audiences across the country as he battled poisonous snakes, runaway boulders, and ruthless Nazis in a fast-paced adventure film called "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Meanwhile, at the offices of the...
Designing Yars’ Revenge (Part 1 – The Inception) – By Howard Scott Warshaw
“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde My first game for Atari ultimately became what is now known as Yars’ Revenge. This is not how it started. Originally it was assigned as a coin-op conversion of a Cinematronics arcade game called Star Castle. The key to...
Classic Gaming: Video Shelf
"Joysticks" Review by Kyle Snyder One of the things the 80s was infamous for was the glut of teen sex comedies across the movie screens of America. This trend began in 1978 with "Animal House," and continued with films such as 1981's "Porky's" and 1984's "Revenge of...
What Nintendo SHOULD Do Next: A Suggestion.
I can hear you already, "Oh great another opinion piece from Ben. Nothing we haven't heard before!" Well if you would put your torches and pitchforks down for a hot second I think I'm on to something here. Now in the past I've written how Nintendo has been knocking...
Mini Street Fighter II Arcade Cabinet Released by New Wave Toys
New Wave Toys announced the launch of the limited edition Street Fighter II X RepliCade, a fully-playable 12-inch tall replica of the original Street Fighter II: Champion Editioncabinet. This 1/6-scale arcade cabinet fully licensed by Capcom, also includes Super...
Analogue’s $200 Pocket Could Be the Ultimate Retro Gaming Portable
A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workstation with a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A tribute to portable gaming. Out of the box, Pocket is compatible with the 2,780+ Game Boy, Game Boy Color & GameBoy Advance game cartridge...
NBA Jam (The book review)
Like many others in 1993, I spent a lot of money at the arcade, dropping token after token into NBA Jam. I was ten years old at the time, and our state basketball team, the Chicago Bulls were tearing through the NBA for championship gold for the third year in a row....
Entering the Digitized Era–Part3 – By Warren Davis
In Parts 1 and 2, I talked about the development of WTARG, the software I developed at Williams/Bally/ Midway to allow artists to incorporate digitized video of live actors in our games. My exploration into digitizing began in 1986, and the first version of WTARG came...
Ghostbusters By Skyler Miller
This year marks the 15th anniversary of Ghostbusters, the 1984 hit comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. Directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Akroyd and Ramis, the movie grossed almost $240 million in the U.S., spawning a sequel,...
