Friends, Family & Colleagues, I’m thrilled (and relieved) to share that our new doc – Arcades & Love Songs: the Ballad of Walter Day – is now available through all major video-on-demand platforms – https://linktr.ee/arcadesandlovesongs As my first feature as a director, it has been incredibly rewarding to see audiences reactions (and reviews) be so positive. Our…
Many of you probably remember the 1980’s Isometric games of Batman and Head Over Heels by Ocean Software: two great games for systems such as the Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, and the more recent MSX2 remake. So here’s a great news update for fans of these games. As we have recently been told by Saberman, that…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Echoes of the Unread creator Matt Tuttle to find out what inspired the game and more. Check it out on Kickstarter. About Echoes of the Unread: Developed by Clever Cat Games and published by Mega Cat Studios, Echoes of the Unread puts players in the shoes of Rhapsody, a young girl…
NYC 2055: a city beyond salvation. Blast your way through this dense cyberpunk jungle in Neon Inferno, an explosive fusion of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter, and help the Family dominate its streets! Three decades from now, New York City is at war with itself. A war with no battlefield: criminal syndicates control four of its five boroughs,…
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Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Ruyn developer Paul Marrable, who discusses the FPS’ creation cycle and so much more. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Paul Marrable: It actually started from messing around with creating level editors and tools for a pre-existing game. I was playing around with an open-source raycasting…
Who Else Misses Football?! Football is an integral part of American culture, but it’s an even bigger part of video game history. From its roots on the Atari 2600 to the eight-bit classics that revolutionized the genre, football games are the rock that helps keep the industry afloat. Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. details…
While not, strictly speaking, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Everquest has a notorious reputation as the first such title to truly break into the mainstream. In his Boss Fight history, Matthew S. Smith covers pretty much everything that both led into Everquest’s original creation, and then, the controversies it inspired. Then…
How often do you play games that are quite old, but still relevant and nostalgically appealing to you? Surely everyone has a couple or three games that are pleasant to remember, noting any events associated with them, or just to note how far ahead of time the game was, made you dive in and left…