50 Years of Boss Fights – new book published

by Old School Gamer | Jul 1, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

50 Years of Boss Fights celebrates the history of video game bosses, starting from the first boss in 1974. The book features interviews and insights from the developers who helped to make the bosses as memorable as they are, including those who created the first ever...

King’s Bounty: Putting the “Heroes” Into “Might and Magic”

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 1, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Interviews, The Story Of...

Released in 1990 on PC and 1991 on the Sega Genesis, King’s Bounty is a strategy/RPG that even the most hardcore of gamers may have missed when it was originally hit shelves. However its place among the greatest strategy/role-playing games of all time should never be...

Mega Cat Studios just launched their Kickstarter project

by Todd Friedman | Jul 1, 2024 | 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Press Release

ZPF is a new game being developed for the good old SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis game consoles, made by the designer and developer of Tänzer. The game can be best described as being a good old fashioned horizontal shooter. Known in the community as a horizontal shmup...

Another Zelda Podcast S6 E17 – “The Music of Wind Waker”

by Old School Gamer | Jun 27, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Podcast of the Week

  CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEKS EPISODE Mallory swings through Chicago to share some of her favorite music from Wind Waker with David. DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY DAVID GEISLER | WRITTEN BY DAVID GEISLER AND ANDY BARNEY | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: DAVID GEISLER | EDITOR:...

Remaking Super Mario World from Memory

by William Schwartz | Jun 24, 2024 | 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews

An important foundational aspect of retro gaming as a hobby is the nostalgia factor. Which is to say, how we remember the games we played as kids informs much of our appreciation of them in the present day. Even when, as it happens, our memories are completely wrong....

Gridlock – A recommended game by Megastyle for your Commodore 64

by Indie Retro News | Jun 24, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Night Mission Pinball Extended wasn’t the only game to grace our Commodore 64 screens this weekend, as looking through my emails earlier today, I saw that Megastyle had released the C64 sliding puzzle styled game of Gridlock. A game in which the object of each...