AtGames Unveils Legends Pinball 4KP Jurassic Park [SE] Premium Starter Pinball Machine
Unleash the Adventures of Jurassic Park with Stunning Legends 4K™ Pinball Action
2024
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Your Own Arcade! by Ryan Burger
Old School Gamer surveyed its friend running nationally and regionally known retro arcades and found out that there are some games you have to have to consider ourself a retro arcade. We started by listing the most popular games on the KLOV.Com site (Museum of the Game / ®International Arcade Museum® – Killer List of…
Jordan Mechner and John Romero Interview
Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and John Romero (DOOM) speak out about historical preservation of video games Following GameStop’s abrupt shuttering of Game Informer and the total deletion of the 33-year-old magazine’s website last month, Jordan Mechner (Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express) and John Romero (Wolfenstein 3-D, DOOM, Quake) are speaking out about the importance of historical preservation in…
Arcade Memories – by Old School Gamer Staff
My memories of arcade machines start a little past my home video game history. My memory takes me back to Showbiz Pizza in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1983 for my 11th birthday. It was a small birthday party since we had just moved there that week from Ohio and I didn’t know anyone but…
Tetris 40th Anniversary
About This Episode Forty years ago, now, a Russian software engineer wrote a simple puzzle game in his spare time. It featured a variety of geometric shapes falling into a well, and in short order, the world was in love with his creation. In this episode, we dive into one of the most iconic and…
Four Classic Castlevania Titles Return at Limited Run Games!
September 4th, 2024— Konami Digital Entertainment（KONAMI) and Limited Run Games today revealed its full physical collection for Castlevania Dominus Collection! Pre-orders for Standard and Collector’s Editions launch on September 13th and run through October 13th, exclusively on limitedrungames.com. These collector’s editions will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X. Three of the best 2D Castlevania…
A review of Chrono Trigger from Boss Fight Books
It always bears repeating- retro gaming culture is, itself, so old at this point that we can look at retro game appreciation from ten years ago and find tropes about as archaic to us now as the retro games themselves seemed to the people making that content. The Chrono Trigger book from Boss Fight,…
8 Bit Adventures 2 – The Gem That Hooked PC Gamers Comes to Consoles
11th September, 2024 – Australian developer Critical Games released their hit JRPG 8-Bit Adventures 2 on PC last year. Flushed from its success, and the critical fanfare it received from media, they’re eager to announce that the console versions – PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch – will release on October 16th 2024. MEDIA QUOTES “..8-Bit Adventures 2 is a must-play!”-…
Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!
Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while avoiding not to get hit. Your task is to tunnel…
New Smurfs 3D Platformer coming in October
The Smurfs – Dreams launches across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One | Series, and PC on October 24. THE SMURFS: DREAMS The fate of the Smurf Village rests in your dreams: dive into a fantastic journey to save it! Discover enchanting locations and explore the dreams of your favorite Smurfs. Each dream is…