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SNK fought alongside their greatest rival Capcom to define the “traditional” 2D fighting game. The King of Fighters (KoF) and Fatal Fury are as classic as Street Fighter, but SNK was more willing to walk on the wild side than Western audiences may realize, often placing their iconic characters in more absurd scenarios than Capcom […] The post Kings & Vagabonds – by Noah Lapointe appeared first on…
We’ve featured a lot of Arcade to Amiga conversions/ports throughout the years, from the more recent Final Fight Enhanced to Super Xevious, Flying Shark and even Green Beret. Well if you’re looking for even more Arcade like updates on the site, then we have just been told by our good friend Tom, that AcidBottle together […] The post Breakthru – An Amiga port of a Data East Arcade game is still…
For three decades, the Sega Genesis versus Super Nintendo debate has refused to die cleanly. Sega’s marketing was loud and confident, positioning the Genesis as the technically superior machine. The actual hardware, however, told a more complicated story, one where speed traded against depth, and a famous marketing phrase turned out to be entirely theoretical. […] The post Sega’s Blast Processing…
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Xbox, toy giant Mattel, alongside Microsoft have released a 3,509-piece Brick Shop premium building set featuring the iconic gaming console, as well as its classic “Duke” controller and three iconic “game experiences.” According to a press release from Mattel, the set, which will SRP for $329.99 will […] The post Mattel Unveils 3,509-piece Brick…
Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. But third-party developers often took […] The post One Game, Five Systems – Donkey Kong appeared first on Old…
The fighting game genre dates back about five decades. It has been a major pillar in the gaming industry for much of that time. The genre is built on a simple premise: two opponents fight in close-quarter, one-on-on combat. They battle across (typically) best- of-three rounds until one emerges victorious. High-stakes combat and a unique […] The post The History of Fighting Games – by Matthew Adams…
A Design That Never Needed a Rewrite Charles Fey built the Liberty Bell in the back of his San Francisco workshop in 1895: three spinning reels, a handful of symbols, a single payline, and a mechanism simple enough to run on nothing but springs and gravity. According to Britannica’s history of the format, Fey’s design […] The post The One-Armed Bandit Never Really Left the Arcade appeared first on…
Once your classic cartridge collection reaches a certain size, you’ll discover you’re finding few new cartridges at thrift stores. In order to “get their fix,” so to speak, many collectors start collecting label variations to keep their number of “finds” up. “Label variations” simply means different types of labels on the same game. For Colecovision […] The post When is a Combat not a Combat? By…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Aiden Friedman, who currently is displayed on card number 2820, from the Superstars of 2018 Collection. Aiden is an up and coming gamer who is heavily involved in the gaming community and contributes his time to be a junior editor and writer of Little Player Magazine. He also is […] The post Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Aiden Friedman appeared first…
Carly Kocurek is what you call a gamer for life. She is dedicated to spreading the word of gaming and the importance of it in our history and our everyday lives. She loves to give her opinion on the good and the bad of video gaming in the world today as well as the past. […] The post Carly Kocurek – Teacher, Author and Gamer appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine .
The first major expansion for the “Dragon’s Dogma” series, “Dark Arisen” comes with plenty of new weapons and enemies. For those who haven’t played the series yet, Capcom provides the type of title here that like an “Elder Scrolls,” “Fallout” or “Diablo” fan can quickly get attached to. But unlike the afformentioned games, regardless of […] The post Retro Review: Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen…
According to an official press release from Bethesda, the classic 1996 FPS, Quake, is receiving a brand new episode called “Dawn of the Machine. This update, which is free for owners of the recent Quake remaster on platforms like PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. In addition to 19 new levels, the anniversary update offers fresh achievements, multiplayer […] The post Quake Gets New Levels for 30th…
Though clearly a fan of GoldenEye 007 herself, Alyse Knorr has a surprisingly functional depiction of the Bond Team at Rare in the late nineties. Her Boss Fight book, centered as it is around the working environment of the developers, provides a compelling argument that GoldenEye 007 may well have been the last major […] The post A review of GoldenEye 007 from Boss Fight Books appeared first on…
Some game mechanics are trends, and some are permanent. The ball-drop, where a disc, a ball, or a coin is released from the top of a pegged board and allowed to find its own path down through a maze of obstacles to a prize slot at the bottom, belongs firmly in the second category. It […] The post Why Ball-Drop Games Will Never Go Out of Style appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine .
Pixels the size of postage stamps still fill Discord chats, school clubs, and handheld screens in 2026. Retro gaming keeps pulling in players who never blew dust from a cartridge or waited for a CRT to warm up. The draw is plain. Old games start fast, ask little, and put skill on display after one […] The post Why Retro Gaming Continues to Attract a New Generation of Players appeared first on Old…
I’ve been a fan of games based on the Rogue formula for quite some time. It probably stems from my love for the dungeon crawls in RPGs like Phantasy Star and Eye of the Beholder. For the uninitiated, the basic formula for a Rogue game, or “roguelike”, is pretty simple. You are presented with a […] The post Review – Roguecraft GB for the Game Boy Color appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine .
Ninety-seven copies of a previously undocumented Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge variant for the Nintendo Entertainment System have surfaced at a retro game store in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the first of them are now heading to auction. The find, reported by UPI News, is being described as one of the most significant discoveries in video […] The post Undocumented NES Variant Found in…
Tvrtko Horvat, a casino expert and iGaming industry advisor who tracks Croatia’s online-gaming market closely, noticed something in Commodore’s TAC-2 announcement that resonated well beyond the retro hardware circuit. The company’s explicit commitment to authentic feel — a steel shaft replacing a flawed original component, a tactile response preserved unchanged — mirrors precisely the test […] The…
A writer at XDA Developers skipped the impulse purchase of yet another dedicated handheld and instead pulled out a refurbished 2013 MacBook Pro, loaded it with OpenEmu and Dolphin, and rebuilt it as a capable retro gaming rig. The machine no longer fits into a modern daily workflow, but it runs emulation software well and […] The post A Refurbished 2013 MacBook Pro Became a Retro Gaming Machine —…
