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Street Fighter 2 By Josh LaFrance
In the mid 1980’s the once booming arcade industry was coming to an end. From 1981 to 1986 the arcade industry was cut in half, going from $8 million in revenue down to $4 million. By 1991, the industry was a shell of it’s formal self only taking in $2.1 million....
RetroStone 2 – Ultimate RetroGaming Console
With RetroStone 2 rediscover your childhood video games! Alone or with friends (up to 4 players) 8bcraft has released the second generation RetroStone on Kickstarter. This enables you to play all your childhood favorite retro games on this portable device. ...
G5: The Generation Without a TMNT Game
Retrospective: Playing the Sega Genesis Mini
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...
1942 By Brandon Poe
Each month in Retro Revisited, Classic Console’s very own Brandon Poe picks one classic game to play. This month’s classic: Capcom’s 1942. This month I decided to sit down with a game I really did not have much experience with. I had only heard of this game when I was...
Playstation: 20 years
The road to Sony’s involvement in the video game industry began way back in 1986. It is a story littered with broken promises, court cases and Sony almost walking away from ever being involved in video games. Eventually redeeming themselves with the creation of a...
Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside Galerider: Free to Fly
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Galerider dev Daniel Choo, who lets us know how a love of Panzer Dragoon played a role in his beautiful iOS game. Old School Gamer: How was Galerider born? Daniel Choo: The original idea of Galerider came to me about five years...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Josh Houslander
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Josh Houslander who is displayed on card number 139, from the Twin Galaxies Superstars Collection of 2011. Josh was one of the creators of a podcast for Twin Galaxies website that discussed all things Twin Galaxies as well as...
32X Support is Finally Coming to the Mega Sg
The Mega Sg, by Analogue, is a jack-of-all-trades FPGA Sega console when it comes to the 80’s and 90’s. While it can play Genesis/Mega Drive and the Master System out of the box (as well as including an edge connector for the Sega/Mega CD), additional adapters can...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Moondust
In 1978, Brian Eno released the album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. It remains a landmark in the world of ambient music, a genre which said was, “as ignorable as it was interesting” and which was intended to “induce calm and a space to think.” The music was quiet,...
Activision
Prior to the creation of Activision, third party publishers did not exist. This is not just some statement thrown out to explain this publisher’s importance, it is a literal fact. Activision, formed in October 1979, was the first ever independent publisher to exist in...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Shawne Vinson
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Shawne Vinson who currently is displayed on card number 440, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. He is also featured on cards 1076, 2412, and 3200. Shawne, who is known as the “Nintendo Master of Sacramento, can be seen...
FLASHBACK Returns… to Apple Store and Google Play.
Paul Cuisset presents a new FLASHBACK adaptation for mobile users. Following the 25th anniversary of the license and its Nintendo Switch port in 2018. Already available on more than 10 platforms the anthology action-adventure game FLASHBACK is making its way to...
Super Trash Truck
Every month we here at Classic Console Magazine are given the awesome task of looking at some of the best new up and coming homebrew and independent releases for the Atari 2600. A large amount of games are being created by the retro gaming community. Some are of such...
Wing Commander By Josh LaFrance
For a Sci-Fi fan growing up in the early 90’s nothing was more exciting than watching Star Trek: TNG on TV or one of my VHS tapes from the Star Wars trilogy. Although I did play a few Sci-Fi genre games growing up, (Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by Interplay and Space...
TAITO’S 80’s cult Bubble Bobble gets sequel exclusively for Nintendo Switch
After more than 10 years, a sequel to the iconic video game classic will finally be released exclusively for Nintendo Switch via ININ Games and Strictly Limited Games. Bubble Bobble 4 Friends Official Site YouTube Trailer Press Pack & Trailer Stuttgart,...
SEGA’s Last Stand
The SEGA Dreamcast was a great system, but sadly not one that could keep SEGA in the home console market. After the console war with Nintendo and the SEGA Saturn getting just demolished by Sony and Nintendo, SEGA had one last chance to make it in the home console...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! Fan Game Recalls a Pixeled Past of Turtle Power
Gimme Five
Five videogame systems with varying degrees of historical importance will hit (or have hit) big milestones this year. Regardless of success or strength of library, they all deserve to be recognized, celebrated and perhaps most importantly, played! Each entry is ranked...
Nintedno Quest: The Interview By Ian N.P.U
Nintendo Quest began life as a kickstarter project and its original working title was “The NES Club”. This was later changed to Nintendo Quest. Nintendo Quest is an original idea and concept by Rob McCallum of Pyre Productions. Rob, a passionate gamer and film...
Showdown-5th Generation Game Consoles
The fifth generation of video games took place from 1993 to 2001. It was an era of transition from the 2D sprite based games of all previous generations to the 3d graphics of modern generations. The industry took a huge leap in making the transition from cartridges to...
The Last Official Release: Supervison – Kung-Fu Street/Classic Casino
Hello, my retro gaming pals, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. It’s been several months since an entry in this series, but if you’re new around here or you’ve simply forgotten (and that’s okay) here I explore the very last games to be released for your...
The Cabinet of Curiosities: ALF: The First Adventure
The 1980s were a glorious era for pop culture: the films of John Hughes, Aqua Net, Flock of Seagulls, the list is virtually endless. Of course, no list of 1980s icons would be complete without ALF. That’s right: the Alien Life Form from the planet Melmac. He is an...
Frenzy
For those who enjoyed the 1980 arcade hit Berzerk, Frenzy was very much a highly anticipated game. 1982’s Frenzy, released by Stern Electronics took the gameplay and mechanics of it’s predecessor and added to it. Although a great game in it’s own right, Frenzy failed...
