Old school explained

Old school, Old School, or Old Skool may refer to:

Computers and gaming

Old school gaming or retrogaming, playing and collecting obsolete computer, video, and arcade games
Old School Renaissance, a trend in tabletop gaming
Old School RuneScape, a playable 2007 version of the MMORPG RuneScape
Oldskool, in demoscene, a production made before the mid-1990s

Film and television

Old School (2003 film), an American comedy film
Old School (2002 film), a Nigerian comedy film
Old School (TV series), a 2014 Australian drama series
"Old School" (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), a 2013 television episode
"Old School" (Runaways), a 2018 television episode
"Old School" (Yin Yang Yo!), a 2006 television episode

Literature

Old School (novel), a 2003 novel by Tobias Wolff
Old School: Life in the Sane Lane, a 2017 book by Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein
, a 2015 book by Jeff Kinney

Music

Genres

Old-school hip hop
Oldskool hardcore or breakbeat hardcore
Urban oldies, or Old School, a radio format

Performers

Old School (quartet), an American barbershop quartet
Ol' Skool, an American new jack swing group

Albums

Old School (Helix album), 2019
Old School (Nils Lofgren album), 2011
Oldschool (Nena album), 2015
Ol' School, by Ohio Players, 1996
Old School (EP), by Tebey, 2016
Old Skool (EP), by Armin van Buuren, 2016
Old School, a box set by Alice Cooper, 2011

Songs

"Old School" (Hedley song), 2008
"Old School" (John Conlee song), 1985
"Old School", by Aaliyah from Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, 1994
"Old School", by Boss Hog, 1999
"Old School", by Danger Doom from The Mouse and the Mask, 2005
"Old School", by Overkill from ReliXIV, 2005
"Oldschool", a 2015 song by Baby Alice
"Old School", by Toby Keith from Peso in My Pocket, 2021
"Old School", by Tupac Shakur, a B-side of "Dear Mama", 1995

Other uses

Old school (tattoo), a traditional tattoo style
Old School–New School Controversy, a schism of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Old School, or arm twist ropewalk chop, a professional wrestling aerial technique used by The Undertaker
Koryū, translated as "old school", a category of Japanese martial arts

See also