Old School Gamer Magazine

Paul Drury: The Stories Behind Classic Coin-Ops

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Free spins are a casino marketing staple. Yet their history goes much further back than players may think.

As soon as you encounter any sort of casino marketing in the digital age, it is almost certainly going to involve an offer for free spins. Woven into the foundation of the digital age of gambling, the idea exploded during the online gambling boom ...

Zeus was raising the dead in Sega arcades back in 1988. Now he’s one of the busiest characters on Australian pokies, and the reasons go all the way back to the 8-bit era.

Gods sell games. Anyone who grew up with a Sega Genesis already knows this. The console’s North American pack-in was Altered Beast, where Zeus hauls a Roman centurion out of his grave...

Slot reels and card tables have been squeezed onto ever-smaller glass since the 1970s. Anyone who grew up on handhelds will recognize the design tricks that came out of it.

Slot reels used to be physical drums. For roughly eight decades after Charles Fey’s Liberty Bell, a slot machine meant springs and gears, plus a lever you yanked hard enough to feel...

Manual trio kills, guaranteed-drop packages and a remote-play option make Bald.GG’s Nex offering worth a closer look for established Old School RuneScape players.

Nex brings a demanding team encounter to Old School RuneScape.

Old School RuneScape still delivers the pleasure familiar to anyone who grew up with an RPG: a better weapon, a new a...