by Leonard Herman | Sep 29, 2024 | 1970s, 2020s, Atari
From late 1975 and throughout 1976, work proceeded on Atari’snew programmable home system.Bushnell and Atari’s president, Joe Keenan, hoped to release it in time for Christmas 1977, but realized they didn’t have the finances to do so. Bushnell wanted to take the...
by Eugenio Angueira | Sep 27, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s
In 1978, Taito/Midway took the arcades by storm with their release of a game called Space Invaders. The game was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, who spent a year developing the game itself as well as the hardware necessary to make the game possible. His concept gave...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 25, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Antstream
The arcade experience is something you have to have lived through to truly understand. The clinking of change in your pockets as you played your favorite machines, all eating quarters at a breakneck pace. The sweat drips down your forehead and the grease accumulates...
by John Michonski | Sep 23, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, Arcade, Other Magazines Preview
For kids today, singing animatronics are a staple of the horror video game genre, with Five Nights at Freddy’s raking in millions of dollars and launching a movie series. For the older crowd, however, they’re a nostalgic, yet sometimes off-putting memory of birthdays...
by Ryan Burger | Sep 21, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade
For Scott Leftwich, the ’80s were the peak of existence! He has taken this hobby to a different level than anyone I have met in my ten years of networking with video game hobbyists, and Old School Gamer is going to tell you the story. For him, it starts out with...