To Non-Programming Idea Peddlers

Before the article starts, a quick word of explanation from Jason: this piece came about on the message board at Atari Age and the main reason for it needing to be written…

IFRIT

Format Indie Developer Zac Game Station Released 2003 Price Free Review Jason Main review Considering how often the phrase tends to be abused these days, Ifrit really is “retro themed”; it runs…

BLUE STAR game

BLUE STAR

Format Commodore VIC 20 Developer Steve McCrea Publisher Cronosoft Released 2008 Price Free Review Frank and Andy Download Available Main review Infiltrate the alien base and take out the CPU! Find equipment…

HEXXAGON XE

HEXXAGON XE

Format Atari 8-bit Developer Fandal Publisher Flop Magazine Released 2003 Price N/A Review Jeff and Frank Download Available Main review Flash games are a bit of a mixed blessing aren’t they? On…

MS. BULIMIA game

MS. BULIMIA

Format Atari 8-bit Developer Squo Quo Publisher BP’06 Party Released 2006 Price N/A Review Gordon and Mark Download Available Main review You just can’t keep a good dot-muncher down. Pac-Man is officially the most…

Two Years of Oldschool Gaming

We don’t usually do editorials at Oldschool Gaming because there’s no allowance for them in the overall structure, but it occurred to me the other day that this site is about two…

GETRIS game

GETRIS

Format Atari 8-bit Developer Mad Team Released 2006 Price N/A Review Jason and Gordon Download Available Main review Ahh… Tetris, eh? Ever since the first versions began, in Alexey Pazhitnov’s own words, to…

Dan Phillips interview

Dan Phillips has had a long and indeed illustrious career in computer game development, ranging from the 8-bit days all the way through to the current and indeed future generations of console.…

GENETOS game

GENETOS

Format Indie Developer Tatsuya Koyama Released 2009 Price Free Review Jason Main review When the final version of Genetos was released I’d already been excitedly waiting some fourteen months for it because…

COSMIC HERO

COSMIC HERO

Format Atari 8-bit Developer Pazur and Saint Publisher N/A Released 2004 Price Free Review Andy and Jason Download Available Main review In the early 1980’s (1982 for the precise of those amongst…