The music from the Final Fantasy series has always been special. The first official video game concert held in the US was a Final Fantasy show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in May of 2004. While not the first video game concert to be held ever, it...
Summer so far has been quieter than some of the past years, as we have taken more time at home working on the magazine and other things all our readers will be finding out in August more about. So, we only have a couple Midwestern events to talk about in this issue....
When an opportunity to get involved in a Mini-Con in Kansas City came up with about 10 days to go before the event, I jumped at it. Contacting Cat, who runs the King Arcade for its owners Billy and Derek,I found out that they had done one of these events before but...
With one day left for 2021 and something I’ve personally not done on Indie Retro News before, I thought it was about time I also did an Indie Retro News game of the year award for the C64 with the winner being announced at some point on Jan 1st 2022. Yes we may...
On October 29th and 30th,2021, Old School Gamer Magazine and iiRcade will be guests at the 2021 Pinball/Gaming Expo. Come out to see members of the writing staff and creator Ryan Burger as well as the new iiRcade machine that has been out this past year. Founded in...
Nintendo has a love-hate relationship with retro gamers. Sometimes Nintendo puts out games from series that are tried and true and almost every new entry is cause for celebration. Other times they let a series run its course and never speak of it again. Even with...