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Arcade Games That Have Never Gone Out of Style: What Keeps Them Popular?
Arcade games have been a staple of entertainment since they first appeared in the 1970s. While the gaming industry has evolved dramatically, with new consoles and advanced graphics, some classic arcade games have never gone out of style. But what exactly keeps these games so popular after all these years? Simplicity That Hooks You InOne…
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Italy’s Crackdown on Counterfeit Retro Consoles Highlights Industry Failures in Game Preservation
In a major crackdown, Italy’s financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry’s failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive. Read More From: N4G: retro news feed
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Hydrogenese – A game missing for 35 years appears as a preview for the Commodore 64!
Year after year we usually go on about the latest games and unreleased titles seeing the light of day for the very first time, well here are with another unreleased game for you to play test, as thanks to our good friends GamesThatWeren’t, you too can try out a preview download of the unreleased game…
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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 Game / ®International Arcade Museum® – Killer List of…
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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 (Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express) and John Romero (Wolfenstein 3-D, DOOM, Quake) are speaking out about the importance of historical preservation in…
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Midnight Streets – A new Arcade Platformer available for the Amstrad CPC by Cyrille Ayor61 and team
Thanks to another double heads up from Youtubbers Saberman and Xenomporph, they have told us that Mr Lou, Cyrille Ayor61 (GGP), S_A GGP, Manshovel and Maitrejoe GGP have released the Arcade Platformer of Midnight Streets for the Amstrad CPC. A game in which you must fight a seedy gang to rescue your girlfriend Sandy who has been taken captive. To…
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Xenon 2 Megablast – Manic retro shoot ’em up could be getting a 50fps AGA Amiga edition via mcgeezer!
For those of you who played the shoot em up of Xenon 2 – Megablast on the Amiga in the year of 1989. A game that was developed by The Bitmap Brothers and also released on systems such as the Atari ST, IBM PC, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive and Sharp X68000. Then you…
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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 know anyone but…
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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 one of the most iconic and…
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Forest of Illusion – Mickey is still coming to the Commodore Amiga CD32/1200 and it looks awesome!
If you remember playing Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion or Mickey Mania back in the day, especially on consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive, then you are going to love this latest news story . As we have found out that DomKid, who is behind games such as the Castlevania fan game of…
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