A Few Minutes with Buck Stein of Retro Game Treasure – By Old School Gamer

by Brad Feingold | Jul 23, 2018 | Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

Buck Stine, of Retro Game Treasure, grew up as a Nintendo kid in the 1980s and got his NES for his fifth birthday. If you were to assess his NES inventory at Retro Game Treasure at any given time, he may have the largest collection of Nintendo games around. But his...

Retro Gaming Archives – Nintendo Edition: July/August 1987

by JasonBreininger | Jul 23, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

The summer of 1987 proved quite the landmark season for a certain gray toaster-shaped home video game console. By the summer of ’87, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was wildly outselling both the Sega Master System and the Atari 7800. Their technique of...

Pirate Adventure and the Story of Adventure International

by Shaun Jex | Jul 14, 2018 | 1970s, The Story Of...

Robert Louis Stevenson published his classic novel Treasure Island in 1882, telling the story of Jim Hawkins, the pirate Long John Silver and their quest for buried gold. Almost 100 years later, the book would serve as the inspiration for the classic adventure game...

Wiz(ardor) Talk: Memories of Wizardry – By Kevin Butler

by Kevin Butler | Jul 6, 2018 | 1980s, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

During my sophomore year in August, 1981, our high school was gifted a black (Darth Vader) Bell & Howell Apple computer.  These were given to select secondary educational institutions around the country.  Additionally, our school purchased three or four more of...

Just for Six: Cadash – By Michael Thomasson

by Michael Thomasson | Jul 2, 2018 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

The game design model that shouldn’t have worked in the arcade… BUT DID! In an industry designed to capture a quarter every ninety seconds, the role-playing genre seemed nearly impossible to bring into the arcades. However, during the summer of 1989, Taito Corp....

Blockbuster Moive Tie-Ins For the Sega CD

by JasonBreininger | Jun 26, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews, The Story Of...

Crazy special effects that make you feel like you’re in a virtual reality movie. Big (bigger! biggest!) budgets! A-list movie stars and directors! Summer blockbuster season is officially here. Beyond the traditional summer movie fare of superheroes and sequels...