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Pop Culture – The Movie Favs
WE ASKED WHAT YOUR FAVORITE DOCUMENTARY AND VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE TYPE FILMS ARE... DOCUMENTARIES, LONG FORM Atari Game Over The King of Kong Video Games: The Movie Bits of Yesterday Chasing Ghosts Indie Game: The Movie The Power of Glove From Bedrooms to Billions:The...
Symphony Orchestra Performs the Most Beloved Music and Songs from METAL GEAR! The official concert US Premiere in New York and Los Angeles!
More than 70 Musicians on Stage - Giant Screen HD Game Video Projection - with Singer Donna Burke The official METAL GEAR orchestral concert series will premiere in the US in 2019, starting in New York (March 23) before moving to Los Angeles (April 6). The concert...
A Momentary Lapse of Reason: The Story of Ecco
What do ketamine, mysterious cosmic entities, Pink Floyd and dolphins have in common? They all played a role in the development of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive classic Ecco the Dolphin. The game, released in 1992, featured you as a dolphin named Ecco. Naturally enough,...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Geoffrey Lin
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Geoffrey Lin, who currently is displayed on card number 16, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Geoffrey Lin is a full time college student. Geoffrey offers his insight on various games and systems. He holds many world...
Bit Quest II for the Atari 2600
After the conclusion of the first Bit Quest game, the evil Baron von Darkbit turned his back on forty years of video game tradition and, instead of recapturing the Princess for the sequel, captured the Hero. In Bit Quest II it's up to the Princess to defeat the Baron,...
Top-5 Rarest Sega Master System Titles
Hello, retro maniacs! If you look for something mega old and specific, you came to the right address! In this GamesMojo.com guest article, I’m going to tell you about 5 rare-&-worthy games for the Sega Master System. This console was released in 1985 and is still...
List of Super NES Titles Rumored for Nintendo Switch Online Emerges
Including some rather rarely re-released titles.
The Last Official Release: Sega CD – Shadowrun
Hello, modern humans who are inclined to play games created by those less modern, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. Here, we dissect the final official games released for your favourite consoles with much vigour and candidness. Ending 2018 with the Sega...
Missing Classics – Star Ocean: The Second Story
You would be forgiven for not knowing about the Star Ocean series. In the pantheon of Japanese role-playing games, Star Ocean sits well below the likes of Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest despite all of them being published by the same company—Square Enix. Today, I'd...
Beware Dread Dragonfire!
Today is Appreciate A Dragon Day, so why not pay a visit to an old video game built around the fire breathing beasts? There have been more than a few. Spyro and Skyrim leap immediately to mind, but I want to drift back a bit further in video game history. Let’s travel...
Autofire Power Hour: Episode 44: Billy Mitchell Returns
First of all, thanks to everybody who stopped by and checked us out at the Retro City Festival in Pomona, CA. We had a blast and recorded a lot of cool interviews and content that we are starting to release. These recordings were done on the show floor and are going...
R-Type Dimensions Ex Thoughts
For decades, the R-Type series has been heralded by gamers and critics alike for being a revolutionary shooter. At the same time, its difficulty often has left casual gamers in the dust. Its newest edition, R-Type Dimensions Ex, silences any naysayers, with an awesome...
Sega & Nintendo Retro-Bit Goodies at CES 2019
Way back in the December of 2017, Retro-Bit signed a deal with Sega of America to manufacture officially licenced accessories for consoles such as the Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast. We didn’t hear much about this arrangement until last August, where prototypes for...
Captain Skyhawk
If you are like me, you probably have halcyon childhood memories of Saturday mornings spent in front of your television, clutching an NES controller in your hands. Maybe you complimented the experience with a bowl of cold cereal (if you were an early riser) or a bag...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Bill McEvoy
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Bill McEvoy who is displayed on card number 2116, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Bill is the main editor of an online magazine called “Arcade Culture”. Bill and his wife Stephanie reside in Ontario Canada and...
Boy, Oh Game Boy: A Look at the Varied Versions of Nintendo’s Landmark Handheld
Portable power playing prologue.
Wolverine for the NES
Stan Lee was an entertainment titan. His creations have touched every conceivable realm of entertainment. It’s difficult to wrap your arms around the scale of it. When I try to reach for comparisons, only the name Walt Disney comes to mind. His mark on the video game...
Adventures in Controller Swapping
Perhaps the most common complaints about the Super Nintendo Classic Edition and its predecessor are that the controller cords are too short and that the controllers themselves don’t have home buttons. Without a home button, players using the NES Classic or SNES...
Five Classic Games That Would Play Great on the Nintendo Switch
With remakes and ports on the Nintendo Switch quickly racking up over the last year, Old School Gamer lets you know what other games deserve to find their way to Nintendo’s hybrid home/portable console. Maniac Mansion: The most influential point-and-click game of...
Stern Pinball Announces New Munsters Pinball Machines
CHICAGO, IL – January 8, 2019 – Stern Pinball, Inc., a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball, proudly announced today the availability of a new line of pinball machines celebrating the iconic American TV hit...
CES: My Arcade Unveils New Retro Hardware w/ Taito and BANDAI NAMCO
My Arcade just announced their latest lineup of retro-themed hardware to the world, including new officially licensed Micro Players and Pocket Players from TAITO featuring rare games never released in the West and BANDAI NAMCO’s iconic MS. PAC-MAN. It also unveiled...
Mole Mania for Game Boy Review
New review is up! This time around, one of Miyamoto's least known titles. It's a puzzle game that involves a mole; it's Mole Mania for the Game Boy! [wpdevart_youtube width="640" height="385" autoplay="0" theme="light" loop_video="0" enable_fullscreen="1"...
Sound Bytes: NES SimCity Prototype (NES, Unreleased)
You may have recently heard that a SimCity prototype for the NES was unearthed near the end of 2018. Although not 100% finished, the game (which was never released on the NES, but instead developed for the SNES) does have a full score composed by Soyo Oka, who also...
The Commodore 64 is still alive, long live the C64!
Following its drawn out demise in the early 1990s, as 8-bit personal computers started heading to garbage scrap piles all around the world, the Commodore 64 gaming scene laid somewhat dormant for a number of years before enthusiastic hobbyist programmers started to...
