New Party Member Unlocked: Andrew Joins the Cast

For the past decade, Andrew has been a familiar face on The Vintage Gamers YouTube channel, making appearances here and there. Now, he is stepping into an official role as a host on The Vintage View Podcast. With his new position, listeners can expect to hear much more from Andrew as he shares his insights […]

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A Fresh Look for The Vintage Gamers – With More to Come

As many of you may have noticed, The Vintage Gamers website recently underwent a visual and structural overhaul. This change wasn’t simply aesthetic—it was a necessary evolution. Our previous theme, while nostalgically charming, had grown incompatible with modern PHP standards. As newer versions of PHP rolled out, the old theme began causing functionality issues behind […]

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Peripheral Vision: Movies and TV Shows That Repurposed Game Controllers

Peripheral Vision: Movies and TV Shows That Repurposed Game Controllers In movies and TV shows props are often integral to the sights, sounds and sometimes even the plot of the overall story. Set designers are faced with a choice to either create something from scratch or to repurpose something that already exists. I’ve managed to find a few examples of movies and TV shows having […]

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Castlevania Anniversary Collection

Castlevania Anniversary Collection I rarely spend money on video game franchise anniversary collections, even if it does include one of my favorite games of all time. When it comes to the Castlevania Anniversary Collection, well, I’m still not about to break that habit. At the time of writing this Epic Games is giving it away for free (November […]

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Beating Breath of Fire: The 20 Year Saga

Beating Breath of Fire: The 20 Year Saga In late summer of 2001 I was gifted my first Super Nintendo console and some games. In about 2002 or 2003 I purchased a copy of Breath of Fire and went straight to work on getting to the game’s end. After many hours had been invested something else took my interest and Breath of Fire […]

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Never Meet Your Heroes: Rally Cross 2

I can not fully express what demo discs meant to me during the Playstation era. Demo discs opened up a door to a world that most people had never even seen the door to before. Demo discs not only gave us a glimpse of what was up and coming, but often times gave us a […]

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