About Old School Gamer...

Old School Gamer started it's existence as a small service provided to other video game collectors. When I first started to collect classic consoles, it became obvious to me that many old consoles suffered from various technical failures. Some easy to fix, and some not. Once I had fixed my first IntelliVision, I was hooked. I decided to offer the service to others, in hopes of saving some early systems from the dumpster, and maybe making a few dollars to fund my growing collecting hobby. I offered my services to game stores that sold older systems, and soon proved OSG's value to these shops. It wasn't long before they started asking me to look at more modern systems. At first I was reluctant, but with some arm twisting I was convinced to give it a go.

That was in 2002.

During this period I became very active in the forums at Digital Press, at Atari Age, at Neo-Geo.com, and at the then fledgeling CGCC (I go by the handle 'omnedon', or 'omne' at these places). I petitioned for the existence of the Technical and Restoration forum at DP, and am proud to have been the moderator of such a fantastic resource, and collection of experience. At the CGCC, I also had the honour of having moderator duties, and am pleased to have been associated with such a fine community of Canadian game enthusiasts. I've written  'How To' articles for the CGCC, and have had an article about the refurbishing of Atari 5200 controllers published in a classic gaming print magazine. Being an active and contributing member of the online game collecting/restoring community has been very rewarding.

Here we are, in 2010. OSG has  hands on experience with more different consoles than any other service on Earth. We have successfully fixed and improved each and every game console listed on the main page, in many cases, consoles numbered in the 1000+ quantities. OSG has a large parts inventory, with parts available for OSG to install ranging from the common modern parts, to the arcane IC's and microswitches for the likes of the IntelliVision and ColecoVision, and rare laser optics. Things have grown far beyond what was ever envisioned for OSG. It's been very rewarding and a real pleasure to to help people play games and to breathe life into treasured classic consoles, and future classics. Someone needs to support the consoles and hardware that are no longer supported or not well supported by their manufacturers, and that's where OSG comes in. When all the others have left the Wii, and PS3 behind, OSG will be here, continuing to support your favourite system, even when no-one else is. The entire OSG family and myself want to Thank all of OSG's customers, past, present, and future for helping make the OSG dream a reality.

"Old gamers never die, they just need their contacts cleaned."