Home Run for the Atari 2600
Canada Bill Jones was a con man and riverboat gambler from Yorkshire, England. An 1877 article in the Dallas Times Herald once described him as being, “gentle as a woman and cunning as a fox.” He is not particularly relevant to what follows, except in one regard....
New Books on Old School Gaming Topics – By Ryan Burger
We at Old School Gamer love a good book about video games, just like how we love putting out Old School Gamer for you! In this issue we have two new books to talk about that we have enjoyed over the last couple of months: one while traveling to cons as is the case...
Video Games Debut at Heritage Auctions – By Brett Weiss
It had to happen…Retro video game collecting has been mainstream for well over a decade, with prices for desirable games skyrocketing exponentially, and Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, one of the biggest auction houses in the world, is finally getting in on the...
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the...
Arcade 1Up – By Michael Thomasson
Coin-op nostalgia was in full swing this past holiday season, and odds are that your heart was elevated when you first gazed upon the 3⁄4 scale arcade cabinets by Arcade 1UP in your local mall. My initial impression was that they were made for small people or...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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