Old School Gamer Magazine

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 ...

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 predates the video game industry by decades, outlasted the golden age of the arcade, survived...

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 minute.

Clips travel well too, because a twenty-second boss fight on Tik...

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.

Roguecraft GB Title Screen

For the uninitiated, the basic formula for a Rogue game, or “roguelike”, is pretty simple. You are presented with a procedurall...

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