The year was 1982. I went to Time Out, my local arcade, and there I found my cousin playing this new game where a cook had to make burgers while avoiding hot dogs, pickles, and other food items. That game was BurgerTime and I was immediately hooked! BurgerTime was...
That’s the first law of Hollywood. The video game industry always wanted to be like Hollywood. Who would know this better than me, the man who did the most notorious movie conversion of them all? But then again, nobody knows anything. If anybody knew anything then why...
With the exception of an issue or two, two artists have done nearly every cover of Old School Gamer since its start in 2017. Starting out with Thor Thorvaldson for approximately the first 1/2 of our existence and then, most recently, Dexter Morrill for the last couple...
Jeff Minter’s Psychedelic Arcade Shooter Akka Arrh Gets a March 8 Release Date The Retro-Inspired Headbanger is a Kaleidoscopic Tapestry of Colors, Shapes, and Sounds Where Players Must Think on Their Feet to Create Dazzling Exposions New York, NY (February 15, 2024)...
Everyone knows the story of Tetris… most everybody. Tetris is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the...