First DLC for ‘Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration
Atari and Digital Eclipse Announce First DLC for ‘Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration’ Releases on September 26 Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are excited to share a significant addition to Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. The Wider World of Atari, which...
Five PS1 Games That Were Ahead of Their Time
Love the original PlayStation? So do we! Here are five PS1 games that we can all agree the world wasn’t ready for. Jumping Flash!: Why?: It was a first-person platformer that played like a FPS, but had characters that felt like a Ubisoft game. It was amazing. Dev...
GALLOPING GHOST ARCADE – by Todd Friedman
BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST ARCADE ONE GAME AT A TIME August 12th, 2024 was a historic day in the world of arcade gaming. The largest arcade in the world, Galloping Ghost Arcade, unveiled its 1,000th arcade game on the floor. This number has been talked about for...
Your Own Arcade! by Ryan Burger
Old School Gamer surveyed its friend running nationally and regionally known retro arcades and found out that there are some games you have to have to consider ourself a retro arcade. We started by listing the most popular games on the KLOV.Com site (Museum of the...
Jordan Mechner and John Romero Interview
Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and John Romero (DOOM) speak out about historical preservation of video games Following GameStop's abrupt shuttering of Game Informer and the total deletion of the 33-year-old magazine's website last month, Jordan Mechner...
Arcade Memories – by Old School Gamer Staff
My memories of arcade machines start a little past my home video game history. My memory takes me back to Showbiz Pizza in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1983 for my 11th birthday. It was a small birthday party since we had just moved there that week from Ohio and I didn’t...
Tetris 40th Anniversary
About This Episode Forty years ago, now, a Russian software engineer wrote a simple puzzle game in his spare time. It featured a variety of geometric shapes falling into a well, and in short order, the world was in love with his creation. In this episode, we dive into...
Four Classic Castlevania Titles Return at Limited Run Games!
September 4th, 2024— Konami Digital Entertainment（KONAMI) and Limited Run Games today revealed its full physical collection for Castlevania Dominus Collection! Pre-orders for Standard and Collector’s Editions launch on September 13th and run through October 13th,...
A review of Chrono Trigger from Boss Fight Books
It always bears repeating- retro gaming culture is, itself, so old at this point that we can look at retro game appreciation from ten years ago and find tropes about as archaic to us now as the retro games themselves seemed to the people making that content....
8 Bit Adventures 2 – The Gem That Hooked PC Gamers Comes to Consoles
11th September, 2024 - Australian developer Critical Games released their hit JRPG 8-Bit Adventures 2 on PC last year. Flushed from its success, and the critical fanfare it received from media, they’re eager to announce that the console versions - PlayStation...
Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!
Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while...
Super Charge Bros Achieves Goal on Kickstarter in Less Than 24 Hours
Dallas, TX –September 6, 2024– Independent publisher The Retro Room Games has announced that the Kickstarter campaign for Super Charge Bros went live and has reached its goal in less than 24 hours. The accomplishment of this goal will help the team in the production...
Five Modern Games/IP That Would Be Well-Served With Retro-Reboots
So many franchises today focus on delivering high-end visual experiences to tell their stories. They often forget that people played their games when visuals weren’t at a premium, because they were easy to play and had a level of fun needed to inspire long gameplay...
New On Antstream This Week: Worms Armageddon: Motor Mash
Two classic PS1 titles join the library just as Antstream are about to launch on PlayStation. As Antstream prepare to launch their retro streaming service on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, two PS1 titles join the Antstream library, bringing top-down racing and...
Bring in Your Bounty! Limited Run Games Brings STAR WARS
APEX, North Carolina — Limited Run Games and Aspyr have teamed up to bring STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™ to players with an all-new physical release. Standard, Premium, and Master Editions will be available to pre-order for four weeks beginning on Friday, September 6th,...
Mother: Cognitive Dissonance and the Recursive Nature of Retro
Retro gaming and its fandoms have been around for quite some time. So long, in fact, that in the year 2024, we are at the point where the retro appreciation projects of past eras are now, themselves, retro in their own right. Such is the case of Mother: Cognitive...
Stern Pinball’s The Uncanny X-Men
The Uncanny X-Men Pinball Machine CLICK HERE Rally Heroes in the Past to Save the Future in Stern Pinball and Marvel's All-New "The Uncanny X-Men”! Based on the legendary X-Men “Days of Future Past” and “Mind out of Time” comic book stories originally from 1981,...
Atari’s Lunar Lander Beyond | The 2024 Reimagining of the Arcade Original
In this narrative-centric revival of Atari’s classic IP, players are placed in the shoes of a newly appointed captain of the Pegasus corporation with the task of leading a fleet of landers. What begins as a simple task of completing risky (but standard) landing...
Five Comic Book Characters That Would Have Been Great for Retro Games
The What Ifs in video game history keep the lights on in gamers’ heads and the imaginations burning. The thought of the number of concepts that never see the light of day is staggering. With over 40 years of consoles and games in video game history to look back on,...
Atari THE400 Mini’s THECXSTICK: Does it Have Problem & Can it be FIXED?
Atari brings the computer age home. Again! Welcome back to the Atari 8-bit world of computing! The powerful Atari 400 set a new standard of capability with its release in 1979, and along with its subsequent models, has been loved by gamers and computer enthusiasts for...
An Interview with JSR and the dog that plays Gyromite
Humanity has long pondered the question- can a dog play basketball? Well, speedrunner JSR taught his dog Peanut Butter to do the next best thing- to play baseball. Specifically, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB for the Super Nintendo. If you're...
New On Antstream This Week: B.O.B. and Premier Manager 98
A quirky robot run and gun platformer football team management sim are this week’s newly added titles. The Antstream library just keeps growing as more titles are added. This week we have the robot run and gun platformer B.O.B. (SNES) and the chance to manage a...
Nostalgic Gaming: Retro Games Are Making a Comeback
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, it's no surprise that video game sales have increased. What is unexpected, though, is the number of old games that are making a comeback. Perhaps it's because so many of us have nostalgic feelings for our youth, for simpler times. Many...
Antstream Arcade Retro Gaming History: The Nintendo Famicom
Here at Antstream Arcade, we’re big fans of the Nintendo Famicom, or the Nintendo Entertainment System, as it’s known to Western audiences. Today marks the 41st anniversary of this iconic console’s debut, so join us as we delve into the history behind the Famicom and...
Q*bert 1983 Tabletop Restoration | Vintage Parker Brothers Arcade Machine
Tabletop arcade toys were all the rage in the early ’80s. Coleco was well known for its tabletop machines (Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.), but slightly lesser known were those by Parker Brothers. In 1983 they released this version of Q*bert by Gottlieb. Jon...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Rob McCallum
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Rob McCallum whose documentary is displayed on card number 585 from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. Rob is the writer and director of "Nintendo Quest", a documentary following one his friends on a quest to collect ALL North...
Nintendo 64 Quest – The Most Unofficial N64 Documentary Ever
CLICK HERE FOR KICKSTARTER Follow video game collector Jay Bartlett on an adventure to collect all 296 N64 games in 14 days with no online purchases! After more than a year of filming we're offering the exclusive chance to own our 13-episode doc series on disc or...
On the possibly exaggerated death of romhacking.net
On August 1st, Nightcrawler left a bombshell of an announcement on romhacking.net, moving the site to news only and releasing its database to the Internet Archive in the wake of financial and legal hardship. For the typical retro gamer who enjoys rom hacks, whether...
7-Eleven Slurpee + Tetris Handheld is SOLD OUT and in HIGH DEMAND!
You may remember last year when 7-Eleven was running a Pac-Man promotion collaborating with Namco Bandai. Well, they’re at it again this year, but this time around they’ve partnered with Tetris on the occasion of the 40th anniversary celebration. They’ve got hats...
Atari and PLAION Announce the Atari 7800+ Game Console
NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, and PLAION, a global leading publisher and developer of video games, are proud to announce the Atari 7800+ – a faithful...
Atari 2600 Yars’ Revenge – The Ultimate Variation of the Ultimate VCS Game!
Yars’ Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and is Atari’s best-selling original game for the 2600. The player controls an insect-like creature called a Yar who must nibble or shoot through a barrier in...
Atari 2600 Donkey Kong: Was This Port TANKED to Make ColecoVision Look BETTER? — – COPY
Adventure is a video game developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice...
The Last Starfighter
About This Episode Four decades ago, young Alex Rogan got the highest score ever on his favorite game: Starfighter. He’s shocked to find out the game was a training & recruitment tool for actual intergalactic pilots, and his performance has earned him entry into...
Fighting Force: Failed Streets of Rage Pitch With Thunderstrike Engine= PS1 Beat-Em-Up Classic
Beat-em-up games have always been a cornerstone of the arcade experience, as well as consoles from the Eight-Bit Nintendo Entertainment System to the 16-Bit consoles that redefined the industry and put games in more homes than ever before. From Double Dragon on the...
RUMOR: American Pinball to Push Back Debut of Next Game to Avoid Another Release Avalanche
Here's an interesting rumor to start the week off. Flash back to March of 2023, that month saw an absolute avalanche of new pinball machine reveals. The Texas Pinball Festival featured the first public appearances of Chicago Gaming Company's Pulp Fiction, Stern...
A review of Minesweeper from Boss Fight Books
A major factor of retro gaming isn't just what the games themselves are so much as the context of where they were played. Kyle Orland's Minesweeper from Boss Fight Books is an excellent demonstration of this philosophy in action, simply because Minesweeper isn't...
Less Than 2 Weeks Until KC Retro
Step into the time warp and join the ultimate gathering of retro enthusiasts, gamers, and nerds in Overland Park this summer. Don't miss out on the nostalgia-filled experience of KC RETRO! Dive into a world where retro meets modern at KC RETRO! Explore a vibrant...
World premiere of BOULDER DASH® 40th Anniversary
August 13, 2023 – BBG Entertainment, the Munich-based game developer and publisher, is enriching the popular Retro Area (Hall 10.2) at this year's gamescom with a spectacular line-up of classics in original and reboot format as well as an innovative quiz game...
River Raid II Refueled the 2600
The name River Raid was- and still is- synonymous with high-energy shooting action. A classic on the Atari 2600 when originally released during the holiday season in 1982, Carol Shaw’s creation is regarded as one of the most enjoyable and original arcade dogfighters...
Full Motion Video Games
About This Episode Photo-realism in video games is commonplace now, but for decades, storage and technology limitations meant blocky figures were the best we could get. But as the tech evolved, the use of actual video started to enhance the game experience. In this...