Pokemon TCG: 8 Simple Ways to Build a Monster Deck

by Old School Gamer | Jan 28, 2025 | Gaming

Building a good Pokémon TCG deck isn’t just about getting rare cards – it’s about making sure every card in your 60-card deck works together to win consistently. With over 64.8 billion Pokémon cards produced worldwide as of 2024, including a huge demand for Japanese...

A Developer’s Guide to Designing Fair, Fun, and Engaging Online Blackjack Games

by Old School Gamer | Jan 28, 2025 | Gaming

A great and competitive online blackjack game app or software is not easy; you can develop or create without exhaustive planning, research, and the proper strategic insight to make it better and more profitable. To replicate such an experience, developers must learn...

Grinding: Mindless Filler, or A Different Kind of Fun?

by William Schwartz | Jan 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Gaming, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform

  With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If...

A Review of Inspector Waffles: Early Days

by William Schwartz | Jan 21, 2025 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews

  What first stands out about Inspector Waffles: Early Days is just how cute the idea is. Inspector Waffles is a PC detective game from 2021. While Inspector Waffles also has a retro visual design, it’s more akin to early flash games on the PC in the early...

Is Dungeons and Dragons a Retro Video Game?

by William Schwartz | Jan 18, 2025 | 1970s, 2020s, Gaming, Opinions, Pinball, Reviews, Stern

  Last month, Amazon Prime’s Secret Level adapted fifteen video games to short, animated films. Some of these could fairly be described as retro video games, though the bulk of them dated to the twenty-first century. But one of the odder ones of the full...

Why retro games will continue to be popular in 2025 and beyond

by Old School Gamer | Jan 16, 2025 | Gaming

Most retro gamers would probably admit that today’s releases are highly impressive on the whole. Despite this, though, the allure of diving in for a retro gaming session on a classic console is still there. In fact, retro titles are popular among many members of the...