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