What Makes Shopping at The Old School Game Vault So Great?
Dear reader, since you are on this page, allow us to make a few assumptions about you. You are a connoisseur. Your childhood was awesome because you spent it with Mario, Zelda and games without 15-minute cinematics. You are tired of the escalating gr...
Google Stadia Review & How it Stacks Up in the Video Game Market
The video game industry has never been short of innovations aiming at improving the gaming experience for gamers irrespective of the age. Today, gamers have access to a full range of gaming consoles, highly interactive titles and accessories.
Best survival horror games to play When the Lights are Out
Ever since the advent of the VCR, it’s been a tradition for kids to pop in some horror flicks when Halloween night rolls around. But a new generation is here, one that grew up playing console video games, and one that saw the rise of the “survival ho...
Why Hasn’t There Been a Great Movie Based on a Video Game?
When I saw the roller-coaster-like movie Gravity, I was surprised to realize that I occasionally felt like I was watching a video game on a giant screen. The film fluidly changed perspectives back and forth from third to first person, often fram...
Return & Refund Policy - Buying Games
https://theoldschoolgamevault.com/buy-videogames Updated: May 31, 2023 Thank you for shopping at The Old School Game Vault. If you are not entirely satisfied with your purchase, we're here to help. Returns Happen, So don't Worry Our products can be r...
The Ultimate Nintendo 64 Shopping & Online Selling Guide
Do you have a Nintendo 64 with games for sale, along with controllers and accessories? We can help you sell them! Or, are you looking to buy N64 games? The Old School Game Vault is the best place for that, too! The only question is, ho...
The Reasons XCOM'S Story Works Perfectly in Video Games
Partway through XCOM: Enemy Within (the expanded version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown), I realized that its video game story would never work in a movie.  It wasn’t that the premise wouldn’t work – alien invasions are hardly confined to video gam...
10 Facts Why Retro Gaming is growing at an Exponential Rate
Even though video game giants like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft continue to release their "latest and greatest" hardware in the form of the Xbox Series X, the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation 5, retro gaming is continuing to grow.  Happily, t...
Balancing the Old and the New in Video Game Sequels
I started playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones for GBA yesterday, and while on the Fire Emblem Wiki I glanced over the summary of the game’s reception, which went something like this: “This game isn’t different enough from the previous Fire Emblem ...