cartridgeGamer80s90s
Welcome to cartridgeGamer80s90s!
Step into a world where nostalgia meets authenticity. This is your ultimate destination for celebrating retro games, focusing exclusively on original cartridges and the unforgettable experiences they deliver.
Here’s what makes us unique:
🎮 Cartridge-Only Gameplay: No discs, no flash memory—just pure cartridge classics from the golden age of gaming.
🕹️ Authentic Hardware: We play on original consoles or carefully chosen modified systems to preserve the authentic feel of each game.
📺 Modern Meets Retro: Adapted A/V output brings the magic of retro games to modern screens, while CRT TVs are used when required for an authentic experience—yes, that includes epic light gun showdowns!
🎥 Original Footage: Almost every frame you see is captured directly from original cartridges. Occasionally, we may use emulation for supplemental footage, but we’ll identify if and when we do.
Subscribe and relive the pixels, the music, and the memories—one cartridge at a time.
Portable Racing Games Either Suck or Rock, Depending If You’re Any Good At Them ~~~ Episode 38
The Best and Worst Retro Spider-Man Games ~~~ Episode 37
Gradius and Gradius III: One of Us Loved the Konami Code a Little Too Much ~~~ Episode 36
Sonic Spinball: Your Only Xmas Present in 1993 was this Sonic Spinoff ~~~ Episode 35
We Got Mad Playing These Retro Puzzle Platformers ~~~ Episode 34
Jet Force Gemini: You Probably Didn’t Play This Rare N64 Shooter ~~~ Episode 33
++More Helicopter Noises++ EA’s Strike Games: Urban and Nuclear Strike ~~~ Episode 32 Part 2
++Helicopter Noises++ EA’s Strike Games: Desert and Jungle Strike ~~~ Episode 32 Part 1
Quake and Quake II on N64: Multiplayer Deathmatch ~~~ Episode 31
The Simpsons: The Early Video Game Years for Bart and His Family ~~~ Marquee Episode 30
Bassmasters 2000: The Fishing Minigame That Got an Entire N64 Cartridge to Itself ~~~ Episode 29
It’s Time for Animaniacs on 3 Cartridge Consoles - Are They Playable 30 Years Later? ~~~ Episode 28
Jaleco’s Whomp ‘Em (NES) and Maru’s Misson (GB): Surprisingly Excellent Retro Games ~~~ Episode 27
Gex Games: A 90s Time Capsule ft. the Gecko Mascot You Forgot About ~~~ Episode 26
3 Different Lion King Games: SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Gear ~~~ Episode 25
The Most Patriotic SNES Game Ever: Liberty or Death ~~~ Episode 24
You Didn’t Know Street Fighter was on NES? ~~~ Episode 23
Zero Tolerance, Total Success (Sega Genesis) ~~~ Episode 22
Do the Bartman: Acclaim’s NES and Game Gear Superhero Fail ~~~ Episode 21
Retro D.K.: From 8-bit to 64-bit - A Decade of Donkey Kong ~~~ Marquee Episode 20
NES vs. Genesis: Who Can Draw the Videomation Tiger Worse ~~~ Episode 19
Winback (N64) Have You Tried This Super Rare 3rd Person Shooter? ~~~ Episode 18
Welcome to Jurassic Park - see how Genesis, SNES, and Game Gear compare from 1993 ~~~ Episode 17
The Very First Rogue Squadron (N64) has Lots of Pew Pew Pew Yay Droids and X-Wings ~~~ Episode 16
Shatterhand (NES) Should Have Been More Popular Than Contra ~~~ Episode 15
How to Beat Jaws (NES) in 15 Minutes: It’s Not Intuitive ~~~ Episode 14
Back to the Future has the Worst NES Game Adaptations ~~~ Episode 13
Can Diddy Kong Racing (N64) Hold Up? Retro Racing on a “Rare” Cartridge! ~~~ Episode 12
It’s South Park on N64 a.k.a. Turkey Gobble Simulator 64 w/Fart Jokes ~~~ Episode 11
Super Mario-thon: Over a Decade of Cartridge Games ~~~ Marquee Episode 10