January 2012
22 posts
Dave's Daily - 27th January 2012 →
- Neo Geo making a comeback?
- Extremely detailed Smash Bros. artwork
- Game Boy’s Balloon Kid (3DS eShop)
- Game characters as brands
- Deus-Ex/Hitman on GOG.com
Childhood Memories of the Fond Kind (Amstrad CPC)... →
Paul, the resident writer for Retrospekt goes back on a nostalgic trip and talks about his childhood memories of the Amstrad CPC home computer.
Dave's Daily - 26th January 2012 →
- Reminiscing on Australian retro games
- Xray insides of gaming gear
- Sonic animated series now on DVD
- Happy 25th Street Fighter
- Heavy Metal Pac-Man
Dave's Daily - 25th January 2012 →
- NES controller hacked to work on iPad
- Soul Calibur (iOS)
- SEGA Dreamcast 2 graphic release concept
- GTA3/Vice City rated for PS3
- Bowser made on driveway with Duct Tape
Dave's Daily - 24th January 2012 →
- Controller Head Artwork
- Keep Flynn’s Arcade open
- Ctrix’s own gATARI (8bit instrument)
- Donkey Kong pixel cosplay
Dave's Daily - 23rd January 2012 →
- Doom ported to colour-screen calculator
- Official licensed NES character hoodies
- Chiptune of the Week
- Worlds largest NES controller
- Bit-1 (iOS)
Dave's Daily - 20th January 2012 →
- Back to the Future 2 (Super Famicom) Translated
- NES case mod tributes Legend of Zelda
- Play Command & Conquer on your browser
- Old and new company logos
- Caverns of Minos (iOS)
Dave's Daily - 19th January 2012 →
- Atari 2600 VCS as iPod dock
- Another World coming soon (Android)
- Final Freeway (Outrun clone) on iOS
- (Original) Syndicate out on GOG.com
Dave's Daily - 18th January 2012 →
- Prince of Persia (Wii VC & 3DS eShop)
- Sephiroth Soviet propaganda T-shirt
- SEGA-inspired iPhone 4 cases
- Star Ocean (SNES) translated
- Band performs entire Mega Man 2 music during speedrun
Dave's Daily - 17th January 2012 →
- THQ to close doors?
- Reggie Fils-Aime: Virtual Console not dead
- 8-bit inspired Half-Life 2 wallpaper
- Custom “Scorpion” artwork on SNES
Oz Comic Con brings the stars to town! →
Dave's Daily - 16th January 2012 →
- Chiptune of the Week
- Mario Fantasy Roleplay (comic)
- Neo Geo emulator (Android)
- RayForce (iOS)
- SNES button T-shirt
Dave's Daily - 13th January 2012 →
- Abobo’s Big Adventure (flash game)
- Final Fantasy thief steals wallet
- Tamagotchi (iOS)
- Marathon 2: Durandal (iOS)
- Super Kid Icarus (flash game)
Dave's Daily - 12th January 2012 →
- Team 17 Games on GOG.com
- NES controller controlling an Etch-a-Sketch
- Nerdy NES sneakers
- 8bit illustrations
- Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition (PSN/XBLA)
Dave's Daily - 11th January 2012 →
- Ultracade Live 2nd Birthday report
- Geeky vintage Apple cases for iPhone/iPad
- Game street art in Brighton, UK
- SEGA SC-3000 Multicart
Dave's Daily - 10th January 2012 →
- New iCade variants announced
- New XCOM game also announced
- Mario Tanooki Rug
- Sonic in car insurance ad
Dave's Daily - 9th January 2012 →
- SEGA Mega Drive shirt
- Chiptune of the Week
- Trip World (3DS eShop)
- Time Commando on GOG
- Super Mario Unlimited (ROM hack)
Dave's Daily - 6th January 2012 →
- Mortal Kombat Cosplay - Super Crate Box (iOS) - Pac-Man bras - Daft Punk’s ‘Derezzed’ on Floppy drives - Bubble Bobble re-created (Amstrad CPC)
Dave's Daily - 5th January 2012 →
- Ultracade Live 2nd Birthday this Sunday & JoyPad next Saturday
- ‘Love For Handhelds’ print
- Mega Man X (iOS)
- Super Mario 64 ‘revamped’ ROM
- Sonic & Knuckles playable on PS Vita
Dave's Daily - 4th January 2012 →
- Battlefield 3 Theme 8-bit rendition
- Isometric retrogaming artwork
- Space Quest 2 Remake
- Diarrhea Dan game from ‘Look Around You’
- Enormous Nintendo collection (eBay)
Dave's Daily - 3rd January 2012 →
- Sonic 4 Episode 2 teaser - Tetris played under Microscope - Portable Atari Jaguar - FMV game on a SNES
December 2011
6 posts
Blipfest Australia '12 1st wave of Artists... →
Dave's Daily - 16th December 2011 →
- Hidden messages in Mario Bros. 3
- Sonic CD out now (iOS)
- Tetris cufflinks
- Capcom Digital Collection (Xbox 360)
- GTA 3 out now (Android/iOS)
- Holiday message from Retrospekt.com.au
Dave's Daily - 15th December 2011 →
- Nostalgic NES memories (Comic)
- Kid Dracula reproduced for NES
- SEGA knuckle Tattoo
- Super T.I.M.E. Force teaser
- Ultima Online 2 mentioned in Garriot interview
Dave's Daily - 14th December 2011 →
- Shigeru Miyamoto’s retirement party (comic)
- GOG.com 50% off Xmas sale
- Nomolos (Homebrew for NES)
- Awesome animated Day of the Tentacle art
- ‘Lost’ Sonic video arcade game recently found
Dave's Daily - 13th December 2011 →
- HandyNES (portable NES)
- If Robo theme song had lyrics
- Dizzy out now (Android/iOS)
- Atari-inspired MAME console
- GIFs of Sonic running like an idiot
Dave's Daily - 12th December 2011 →
- Chocolate space invaders - Chrono Trigger out now (iOS) - Mega Man X coming soon (iOS) - Mario stomping turtles anime style - Chiptune of the Week
June 2011
1 post
New website launched!
Please visit our newly launched website at http://www.retrospekt.com.au/
May 2011
10 posts
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No Weekly Retro Blog for this week
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Sadly we won’t have the time to get a blogpost for you for this week as we need the time to migrate everything over to the new site. With that said, as of Monday the 6th of June, Retrospekt is going back to posting daily Retro Blogs from Dave!
So in the mean time, sit back and watch the count down, and don’t forget that if you’re in Adelaide, and free on Saturday...
Takahashi Meijin leaving Hudson Soft →
tinycartridge:
While the recent dismantling of Hudson Soft into a source of cell-phone game IP was disheartening, it didn’t really feel like the death of the company. But now, the dream is unquestionably over.
Takahashi Meijin is leaving the company on May 31. In a post on his 16Shot blog (which is also ending), he apologized for the abruptness of the announcement, and said that he doesn’t...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 20th May 2011
Source: Deviant Art user: NinjaInk
Awww… That’s what happens when you combine one of the most graphic fighting game franchises ever made with one of the more underdog Mario games. I couldn’t resist posting that one up for this week’s blogpost.
Source: iPwncase.com
Alrighty, do you have an iPhone or iPad? If so, then perhaps these cases might be for you? The iPad 2...
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Paul interviews Kyle Hebert (voice of Ryu & Teen...
Retrospekt Podcast - Interview with Kyle Hebert by retrospektpodcast
Paul aka Dizrythmia, interviews the voice of Ryu from Street Fighter 4, and Teen Gohan of Dragonball Z. Kyle Hebert joins him as he talks about his voice acting career in Video Games as well as Dragonball (amongst other well known Anime series).
Massive props to Paul for an amazing interview, and a massive thanks to Kyle for...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 13th May 2011
Source: Deviant Art user NinjaInk
You know.. I haven’t even seen A Fistful of Dollars.. Yes yes, shame on me.. Retro films? I hardly touch, yet should! But games? oh forget about it, I’m allover retro games like Butter at a Corn Convention.. SPEAKING OF CONVENTIONS…..
The first times on the AVCon 2011 timetable are now available on their website. It’s a simple one to...
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Super 8: The Ultimate Downgrade Peripheral
Written by Paul Monopoli
Console collecting… It can take up a lot of room can’t it? I love my SNES collection, but every now & again I feel like playing some Famicom or NES games. Trying to find the machines though & then dig them out of wherever they are means I normally can’t be bothered. For most people though, Famicom games aren’t even an option as they...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 6th May 2011
Eeeeeeeee! Just under 1 month to go till we celebrate the launch of the new retrospekt.com.au website!!!!
We have live visuals from none other than local VJ’s Hal Bird & BIG.DOS, with DJ Tr!p playing beat 8-bit beats, and of course we have some awesome local chiptune talent from Little-Scale and Xandox as well! It should be a lot of fun!
Whilst on the topic of Chiptunes, check...
April 2011
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 29th April 2011
Source: Gamer’s Mint
Here’s a gorgeous piece of art, the entire world of Super Mario RPG. If you go to the source page, you will find a link to a 3000x3000 image. WORTH checking out!!
There’s been a lot of controversy in the gaming news this week hasn’t there? Of course being the Playstation Network debacle. Quite horrific stuff to be perfectly honest. Time will tell if...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 22nd April 2011
Last night was a lot of fun! Loads of cocktails, loads of retrogaming, and loads of goosebumps from hearing untimely classic game music. For an event which had to finish at 11:30, it went off! The place got packed out by 8:15 pretty much :D Here’s some photos!
DJ Tr!p and La Boheme delivers once again!! Oh and I personally recommend the Espresso Martinis, extremely...
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Ultracade Live TONIGHT! (Round 1 Console Wars)
Alrighty friends, tonight is the night the Ultracade Live Console Wars at La Boheme cocktail lounge. Free entry, loads of cocktails available, 8pm start till 11:30pm (due to Good Friday happening) so what to expect??
SNES: Super Mario Kart [Vs.]
NES: Dr. Mario [Vs.]
PS1: Tekken 3 [Vs.]
N64: GoldenEye 007 [4 Player Vs.]
Don’t forget you get to win prizes as well in the tournaments,...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 15th April 2011
Yeah I just watched this film recently, and I must say that I’m very impressed with Tron Legacy. And here I came across an 8-bit homage to the film with Mega Man-inspired sprites and a chip rendition to Derezzed (which is I guess the “anthem” tune to the movie, by the way? whole film OST? done by Daft Punk). Either way, very cool little video!
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 8th April 2011
Source: Geeks Are Sexy
For the Jewellery-centric indeed, what an adorable looking box to store trinkets in! The stick is perfect for wedging rings onto it! (wedging, not wedding). Oh furthermore, that good ol’ resource Instructables have a guide on how you can make your own!!
Image Source: GameClassification
Sweet! Wonderboy Adventure Island 2 (NES) is out today for the Wii Virtual...
March 2011
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 1st April 2011
Source: Etsy
That’s right, show your alcoholism in style, with this hip flask from Etsy. Coin block design on the flask definitely to please, amuse and offend any plumbers when there’s no coins inside the container.
As I mentioned last week that there was a site with a collection of actual LCD electronic handheld games on the web to play via a browser, what about on your...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 25th March 2011
Source: Perpetualkid
Righto, so first there was those kickass ice-cube trays to make the ice shaped like Space Invaders, and now Pixel Ovenmitts??!? Haha!
Oh wow on a wow crispbread cracker!!! The Computerspiele Museum, located in Berlin, a museum dedicated to preservation of classic video game devices from allover the world, from all the eras. Finally, another reason to visit Germany!! I...
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Ultracade Live: The Console Wars
And what better way to start the long weekend of Easter? Why, with a war.. A CONSOLE WAR! Ultracade Live for those of you who don’t know, is a happening event every 2-3 months at the La Boheme cocktail lounge in the heart of the city of Adelaide.
Come along to barrack for your favourite retro-console in this all-out battle. With tournaments, themed cocktail drinks and a warm fuzzy gaming...
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Panels announcement for AVCon 2011
Alright friends, so we’re running two panels for this year’s Anime & Video Games convention from July 22nd till the 24th.
Saturday’s panel rating: MA15+
Join us as we host “Ready Steady Retro!” where the SNES and Megadrive battle it out for one last time. As an audience member you can be part of the voting panel and help battle it out to decide once and for...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 18th March 2011
Image source: FYnintendo
Amazing, one would never see the Capcom logo the same way again aye?
If I was to ask the What-If Machine, what Futurama would be like as a retro video game, this is probably what would appear on the screen. Pretty cool animation :)
After having a chat to Paul last night about remakes and games which mash up bits from one classic game and put it into another...
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Current status of Retrospekt 2.0
What in the jiminy jillikins is this 2.0 bizzo? WELL!!! As some of you know, we’re moving away from Tumblr, as well as the current design of the Retrospekt website. It’s done us well for the last couple of years, but it’s time to change the look of it, and trust me folks? You all will LOVE it!
From what I saw of the development of the site? I can safely approve that it will be...