It’s time for volume 3, and is the third time the charm? You bet it is! This mixtape is all about PC Engine HuCard shooters, and this one is my favorite tape so far! Shooters were one of the most popular genres of video game in the late 80s and very early 90s, and games … Read more
On the second episode of CGQ Mixtape, let’s head to the other side of the tracks to check out the music of the Super Nintendo in it’s first calendar year on the market. Konami was a major presence on the console with both Super Castlevania IV (which has some of my favorite SNES music) and … Read more
CGQ Mixtape Vol. 1 – The Sega Genesis in 1991 On this first episode of CGQ Mixtape, we take a look back at the music of the Sega Genesis in 1991. The year was noteworthy for the release of a couple of blockbuster titles; Streets of Rage and Sonic The Hedgehog, but there were other … Read more
One of the most exciting projects in the realm of retrogaming today is the MiSTer, an open-source, FPGA-based emulation device that uses hardware description languages to re-create the hardware from your favorite old home consoles, arcade games, and even home computers on a chip-by-chip basis. Unlike software-based emulation platforms like the Raspberry Pi, RetroArch, OpenEmu, … Read more
Classic Game Room was the first YouTube channel to which I ever subscribed, and is part of a small handful of things that inspired me to create Classic Gaming Quarterly. When the show re-launched in 2008 I had never heard of it, finding it on YouTube by happenstance. 8 years later, Classic Game Room is still going … Read more
Amory Wong started working at EA Canada when it was still independent developer “Distinctive Software”, or DSI. They developed a number of noteworthy sports and racing games in the late 80’s and early 90’s, including Hardball II, Test Drive, and one of my all-time favorite DOS games, Stunts (A.K.A. “4D Driving”.) DSI was eventually bought … Read more
Every month, we give you a spoiler-free run-down of what’s in the current (for the United States) issue of Retro Gamer magazine, letting you decide whether or not it’s worth buying. Of course, we don’t actually celebrate Boxing Day here in the U.S., but I couldn’t think of anything better for the title of this … Read more
Every month, we give you a spoiler-free run-down of what’s in the current (for the United States) issue of Retro Gamer magazine, letting you decide whether or not it’s worth buying. My local mag-monger calls me every month when Retro Gamer comes in, and today I actually made it in same-day to collect it! So … Read more
Every month, we give you a spoiler-free run-down of what’s in the current (for the United States) issue of Retro Gamer magazine, letting you decide whether or not it’s worth buying. OK, it actually hit last week but I was sick so I couldn’t go pick it up. What have they got cooking this issue? … Read more
Every month, we give you a spoiler-free run-down of what’s in the current (for the United States) issue of Retro Gamer magazine, letting you decide whether or not it’s worth buying. This month we’re getting some culture up in this B’ by going bilingual. Hopefully that doesn’t make people who see it in Google search … Read more
Every month, we give you a spoiler-free run-down of what’s in the current (for the United States) issue of Retro Gamer magazine, letting you decide whether or not it’s worth buying. The latest issue of Retro Gamer (#144) hit news stands here in the United States this week. Features of interest to North American gamers … Read more
Every month, we give you a spoiler-free run-down of what’s in the current (for the United States) issue of Retro Gamer magazine, letting you decide whether or not it’s worth buying. The new issue of Retro Gamer hit newsstands in the US this week. Issue 143 is full of awesome, including a 10-page spread on … Read more
The Nintendo Entertainment System is famous for a few things: resurrecting a dead home video game market here in the United States, launching a huge number of storied franchises that still exist to this day, and having an unreliable hardware issue centered around its 72-pin cartridge edge connector, manifesting itself in the form of a … Read more
Vintage Game Consoles: The Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time is a 2014 historical retrospective written by Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton. Loguidice is a well-known video game and technology author/historian with a myriad of books under his belt, and Barton is a professor of English and fellow video game historian who hosts and produces a … Read more
Bonus Episode 2 – This week on the show, the Classic Gaming Quarterly Book Club takes a look at Capcom’s 30th Anniversary Character Encyclopedia.
Episode 13 – This week on the show, I review Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl on the NES, which are both classics that you undoubtedly played if you grew up in the 80’s. I also take a look at Tecmo Super Bowl 2014 from the good folks at TecmoBowl.org, which gives you the same … Read more
During the 16-bit era, the Neo-Geo AES was the gold standard of home consoles. I remember staring at it sitting in the glass case at Toys ‘R Us, never to be touched by human hands. Not only were the carts amazing in their size, the controllers looked epic compared to those that I was used … Read more
by Anthony Norcia By now, the history of John Madden Football is well known. One can search Google and stumble upon dozens of articles about the genesis of the Madden franchise, but what these articles fail to give you however is a glimpse at how huge the birth of John Madden Football really was for … Read more
by Anthony Norcia Mention of the name “Kid Chameleon” to most classic gamers will typically be met with a shrug of casual indifference. The game has been included on a number of Sega Genesis compilations over the years, so most gamers have been exposed to it at some point but haven’t played it enough to … Read more
Atari joysticks are very simple devices, and as such there isn’t much that can go wrong with them. Their Achilles’ Heel however is the metal domes that, when pushed down by the joystick or fire button, complete the circuit to register the input. Over time, these domes wear out and lose their elasticity, drift out … Read more
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