The Amiga Story As hard as it is to imagine now, when the Amiga line of computers came on the scene in 1985, the Commodore 64 was only three years old. And, contrary to common misconception, the two Commodore personal computer platforms coexisted all the way until...
Over the last ten years I have accumulated around 150 books and nearly that many magazine issues (many of which we have the rights to make available to you with your account at OldSchoolGamer.Com) all about retro video gaming. In that time, I have NEVER seen a single...
Genesis Does What Nintendid In the event that you’ve been living under a rock, retro mini consoles are a hot commodity right now. Nintendo got the ball rolling with the NES Classic Edition (then again with the SNES), Sony did their best to compete with the poorly...
Last Fall, AtGames introduced its Blast! family of products. Old School Gamer ran a brief piece detailing the announcement: (https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/atgames-announces-blast-family-of-products/) For a brief recap, Blast! Is a series of plug and play...
A Big Step in the Right Direction DreamGEAR is one of those companies that’s been steadily releasing affordable plug and play (as well as handheld and mini) hardware for years. Well over a decade in fact. So it’s a safe bet nearly everyone with even a modicum of...