Looks like we all made it another year. 2010 should be a big year for Old School Apps. We've taken another person on the team and we have plans to redesign the site and finally add some forums to the site.

Game Gavel, the site formerly known as Chase the Chuckwagon is an auction site exclusively for gaming related auctions. On this site you can find old games, gaming consoles, and even old game manuals or toys. I've even seen arcade machines and old computer hardware there too.

Just recently Chase The Chuckwagon changed it's name to GameGavel. Shortly after (actually it's in the process now), they've paired up with Screw Attack. Some of you may already be familiar with this site if you read IGN.com. I think they (GameGavel) have a good chance at pulling in better and more frequent gaming auctions with this new exposure. I know I've slowly been poking around there more and more for games rather than eBay or Amazon. There listing fees are substantially less than the big E and they still provide you with all bells and whistles to get your auction noticed (bold font for example). Prices for auction listings range from $0.05 to $0.50 (for larger priced items) as oppose to eBay's price which goes upwards of $2.00.

Although this site has only been around a short while, it's already a rapidly growing community of gamers and older generation "geeks". If you haven't been to this website you should consider giving it a gander. They have a roaring message board and release blogs & Podcasts regularly.

One thing I've found easier to dig up here are games from some of the older systems such as Intellivision and Colecovision, which are two consoles I had when growing up.

Nintendo always seems to be reusing their old content and characters on every generation of gaming console since the very beginning. Just recently though, Nintendo decided to revive a corpse from the far past. The original game was released 20 years ago (1989 for those who refuse to learn Math!) You can check out A Boy and His Blob right here on Old School Apps if you've never tried it. It's a game where you play a boy (duh) with a pet blob (duhx2!). You are on a mission to help your pet Blob save his home planet. To do this you must feed your gooey friend jelly beans - but be warned, different jelly beans have different effects. You can use your blob as a trampoline, a rocket ship, an air bubble, as an umbrella, and even to create holes in the ground. After transforming your blob, you can whistle to get him to return to his original blob-like shape.

Just recently (in October), Nintendo decided to bring these guys back to the gaming industry with a huge face lift from the original gameplay experience. It has a more cartoonish look than the original game and seems to be more kid-friendly (not that the original game isn't), I'm sure my brother will try this game out since he has a Wii and was a fan of the original game. We'll see

Read on to see "A Boy and His Blob" media for both the old game and the new game.