March 2010
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Star Fox 2, Zelda SNES mod, Paper SNES, Zombie...
A great site for anything SNES-related is snescentral.com. I mention this in particular as there’s an amazing article about StarFox 2 and it’s potential release, as well as fan-recreations of the never-released title.
Whilst on the topic of things that fans took to their own hands, is this mod of a Super Nintendo with the Zelda theme.
Although if you can’t be bothered to...
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Pac-Man on Moon, Eminem's high score in Donkey...
So… A NASA probe sees ‘Pac-Man’ on the moon, which obviously is more various temperature patterns. Would it be wrong to graffiti an actual Pac-Man on the moon?
4 hours ago, infamous rapper Marshall Mathers (aka Eminem) tweets his high score on Donkey Kong:
Good on him I say. When I get my own Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, I’m a try to reach a high-ass score too!...
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Game Room on Xbox 360, Amusementworx, Spicy...
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I can’t help it, it made my Sunday that’s for sure! Check out http://cannotunsee.tumblr.com/ for other cannot-unsee’s. Okay that’s pretty bad grammar. Moving on!
My oh my, we have a lot to cover today, also to mention the review of the Xbox 360’s Game Room. A new service which lets you play the old retro arcade games against other mates on Xbox...
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In Retrospekt: Amusementworx "Come & Play" Weekend
Written by Paul Monopoli
Amusementworx is a South Australian business that specialises in amusement machines. Whether you’re interested in arcade machines, pinballs or redemption machines, these guys know their stuff & can help start your arcade/pinball collection or service a troublesome machine. Recently they made the move from Magill Rd to a new location at 285-287 Torrens Rd,...
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Retrospekt Review: Game Room (XBox Live...
Written by David Kudrev
The good old arcades, the first mainstream exposure to video games for me. Back in 1984, of course at 3-4 years of age anything that is loud and noisy in a confined space would excite me. This is the period, that home consoles would come and go, but arcades always stuck around, but not for long. Sadly the home console invaded the arcade market and the video arcades that...
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This week on Wii VC Store, Mortal Kombat VS Oregon...
TFIF right? Friday also means new games on the Wii Virtual Console store. Two this week:
Ogre Battle 64 for 1200 points (Nintendo 64)
and Fatal Fury Special for 900 points (Neo Geo)
Any of you played Mortal Kombat? OF COURSE a lot of you have, but what about Oregon Trail? Well here’s a great mashup done by Daneboe on the two universes. Enjoy;
Here’s something that’ll...
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Zombies t-Shirt, Gundaaam!, Gobliiins on GOG, Game...
Take a look at that artwork, absolute badass homage to Zombies ate my Neighbours (which we also have reviewed).
I hope you folks also dig the review Paul submitted today on SD: The Great Battle 3 for the Super Famicom/SNES. Zany looking game, which I would personally want to play :)
Did any of you go to the Public Chiptune Lecture at Adelaide University today? If so drop us an email to...
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Retrospekt Review: SD The Great Battle 3...
Written by Paul Monopoli
Released 1993 System: Super Famicom / Nintendo By Banpresto If you’ve never heard of the “SD The Great Battle” series, it’s basically a collection of games featuring SD (Super Deformed) versions of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Gundam & Roa. Different versions of these characters appear throughout the series, but I believe Roa was specifically...
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New bar in Japan, 30 defining moments in gaming,...
Hi folks, well today is hump day, thankfully! Not long to go till the weekend :D
Perhaps if you’re in Japan you could be looking forward to going here?
So according to the google translator, it’s a bar, and a store in which you buy and play games at, old and new. For more information, check out http://www.famicomcity.com/. It seems to be a growing trend around the world with...
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Pac-Man for Neo Geo, Xbox Game Room this week,...
Have you folks read the review Paul submitted of Pac-Man on the Neo Geo Pocket Colour yet? If not, then do so now! That’s right, make a new tab on your browser, and then type in retrospekt.com.au to continue reading this! :)
I have to ask, how many of you folks have an Xbox 360? Don’t be shy, three of us (including me) in the team have one, and I mention this because later this...
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Retrospekt Review: Pac-Man (Neo Geo Pocket Colour)
Written by Paul Monopoli
Released: 1999
By: Namco System: Neo Geo Pocket
Ah Pacman. Not a lot you can say that hasn’t been said already. The game’s 30th anniversary is this year (2010 for those reading in 2011 onwards) so I thought it might be appropriate to do a review on one of the home ports for the little yellow guy. Which to choose though? There are a lot of unique ports...
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One step closer to R18+ rating in games, Princess...
(from flickr user Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal). Figured something to celebrate the fact that the Health care reform bill has been passed).
But that’s not the only big news from the weekend, Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, will no longer be an Attorney-General! Meaning a potential repeal for the R18+ classification in video games (which has been something important to...
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Retrospekt Review: Eye of the Beholder (DOS/Amiga)
Written by Rusty (Quiva)
System: Dos, Amiga
Publisher: Strategic Simulations Inc. & Westwood
Released: 1990
To this day one can often find reference in any official Dungeons & Dragons game to “the Heroes of Waterdeep”. This game is what they are referring to and i count myself lucky to have played this and its 2 sequels (Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon...
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This week on Wii VC Store, $10,000 NES cartridge...
From Flickr user alittlestranger.com. That’s right, the one who made those awesome pendants from yesterday’s post.
Well comrades, it’s Friday! Meaning that there’s new games on the Wii Virtual Console. After turning it on, I noticed a couple of new ones this week (also it’s the Hanabi festival at the moment, meaning exclusive and rare titles ahoy!):
Castlevania:...
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The Last Days of Dr. Wily, innovative retro-style...
As well as a report on the Belgian retrogaming scene, we got a whole lot of this to cover tonight, so here we go!
Here is a hilarious video about the main villain from Mega Man (Dr. Wily) and his reality-check that he’s finally going broke and has to throw in the towel.
Here are some screenshots of a cute little flash game over at http://www.ninjadoodle.com/ called One Button...
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In Retrospekt: Retrogaming in Belgium
As promised, here is a report on Retrogaming in Belgium, from our correspondent Yannick Schandené:
Retrogaming is a thing that is happening everywhere in the world. Im from Belgium and here we have some great books that come out thanks to a young publisher called pix’n love editions (http://editionspixnlove.fr/) It is all published in French but it is from a great quality.
First they...
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Ultracade: Super Nintendo Special Edition Thursday...
(from the official facebook event, which you all should RSVP for!)
DJ TR!P Presents | ULTRACADE LIVE | Super Nintendo Special Edition
Thur 8th Apr | La Boheme | 8pm | Free
8-Bit | Classic Game Themes | Game Wave | Arcade | Chip Tunes | Cosplay| Nerd Core | Tournaments | Prizes | Game Inspired Cocktails | Hi-Scores | Bleeps
ULTRACADE LIVE a nostalgic evening celebrating the games, the...
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Chiptune lecture at Adelaide Uni Tomorrow,...
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Hot day today wasn’t it? It would be if you live in Adelaide, Australia. Well, if you’re in town tomorrow and got a spare hour or so (Thursday)? Then you should head on down to Adelaide University at 2:00 at the EMU Space, Level 5, Schulz Building.
Seb Tomczak (aka Little-Scale), will be doing a lecture about the history of chiptunes and the technology behind it, as well...
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Xbox Arcade Games Room, Our loved ones hate Video...
I hope you folks liked the blog post from Paul about the music in video games and how much it can make an impact to us all one way or another.
So who here remembers us mentioning the announcement of the new Xbox Game Room application (coming to the Xbox Live Arcade this month)? Well over on Joystiq, they’ve got hands-on footage of the Xbox Game Room. For those who don’t know, Game...
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In Retrospekt: Memories of Videogames & Music
Written by Paul Monopoli
Music is a powerful thing. It can bring out different feelings & emotions in people, whether they be happy, sad or nostalgic. I felt it would be interesting to focus on the latter, as in which music makes you feel that childhood gamer who was plugging away at the latest game on their Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, or Commodore 64, or maybe you had a NES or SMS. Maybe...
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The Joydick (NSFW), Donkey Kong T-Shirt, Dreamcast...
I want to thank Ben Rosenthal of PostHumourComedy.com for today’s submission on Retrospekt covering his 10 least favourite games to embrace a Nintendo console.
Okay, onto other stuff!
THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK AND MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME VIEWERS:
Remarkable! If you’re into that kind of thing I guess.. But what is even funnier is that IT WORKS! Kind of like...
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In Retrospekt: Top 10 Worse Games to appear on any...
Written by Ben Rosenthal
I was recently asked to compile my top 10 Nintendo games to appear on any Nintendo system (something that I will post here, eventually). These could be 3rd party games, or from the shiny land of Nintendo itself. After writing my little essay on my preferred games, I thought “So what are the games I can’t stand”? Fear not…..um,...
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Sunday Edition: Mario and his trip to Mexico,...
Okay, I hope you all had a great weekend and relaxing today with your Beroccas and other remedies to boot :) Right, lets get down to it!
We’ll have a few articles for this week, including top 10 worst Nintendo games made, plus covering the Retro-Gaming scene in Europe from a Belgian’s perspective. Something to look forward to this week no doubt :)
Mario of course went on a...
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Dark side of Pac-Man, Lament of Video Game Bosses,...
Alrighty.. We’ve been busy (this week especially). I hope you folks enjoyed reading our report on the ‘Bent But Not Broken’ Workshop on Chiptunes and Circuit Bending, which was in junction with the Format music festival in Adelaide:
as well as the report on the Sharp SF-1 Super Famicom/TV hybrid!
So Gamesradar has a great article with well-done pictures of what would...
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In Retrospekt: 'Bent But Not Broken' Workshop...
Written by David Kudrev
If you live in Adelaide (which is in Australia), then you’ll know of the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Part of the festivities is this music festival called Format. It covers experimental music at this great venue down Peel Street. (Google Maps Link).
Tonight was a workshop, which was hosted by local chiptune artist Seb Tomczak (aka Little-Scale), and supported...
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In Retrospekt: A Look At The Sharp SF-1
Written by Paul Monopoli
I’ve said it once & I’ll say it again: The Japanese are electronic geniuses. That’s it, that’s my opening statement & I stand by it. Why do I have this opinion? Well, not only do some of the finest TVs in the world come from Japan, but so does the Super Famicom / Nintendo. Not only that (this is where it gets good!!), but the...
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Ski-Free shrine, funniest Pac-Man chase, Street...
Alrighty, I’m a keeping this one short, as I’ve got to head off to this event in the city of Adelaide tonight. Which is a workshop for circuit bending portable consoles/toys. Hosted by local Chiptune artist Little-Scale. I’ll try to post up pictures through the evening as well :)
Street Fighter IV is finally out for the iPhone. Looking forward to trying that one out, might...
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Video game droids, Why is retrogaming all the...
Yes.. So after discussing on Facebook with some of the great fans there, Facebook fan Adrian emailed me mentioning this website, called Import Monster. They get stuff for you from Japan’s Yahoo Auctions, and other sources.
And we all know how stressful it can be to try and win something from auctions, why not resort to drinking? In particular this beverage:
Yummy! Here’s what is...
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Green (Hill) Zone, RockMan & CutMan comic, NES...
So the Green Zone is coming out in the cinemas on March the 11th, so this Thursday apparently, so why not we get people even more excited with the film (if anyone is), with this masterpiece from Halolz:
On the topic of films and television, here’s a site which has an archive of old NES/Famicom ads from the US, Japan and Germany. Admittingly this still creeps me out:
*shiver*...
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Webcomic about a Megaman level design, High-res...
Okay lets get to it! Do you folks like electronic music? I guess if you’re in Adelaide, half of the population is most likely at the Future Music festival today.. well for those who aint!? Here’s a treat for you, granted I almost forgot that it’s a Monday today :D
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To anyone who has had the privelege to play Axelay on the Super NES/Super Famicom would recall that...
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New AVGN, Mario Amigurumi, SEGA addon-overkill and...
We hope you folks are having a great weekend so far. Onto today’s posts:
As most of you who are retro-gamers, would know that the new Angry Video Game Nerd is out, this time covering the Pong consoles. Fascinating stuff, I need to find a solid pong-playing device one day…
This is adorable, somebody made a Mario Amigurumi doll. For those who don’t know, Amigurumi is the...
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Cute Hedgehog T-shirt, Atari Games at Taco Bell,...
Well I’m tempted to get this device actually, props to Paul for submitting the review for us so promptly! He only got that thing in the mail yesterday!
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So I was reading up the other day about this new game that SEGA released, called Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, which fascinates me due to the amount of characters in the game, especially the fact they went into detail...
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Retrospekt Review: NES/SNES to Wii Adapter
Written by Paul Monopoli
A few months ago we had a look at the SNES Classic Controller, which was a Japanese exclusive for Club Nintendo members. Now they’re fairly common though they do fetch upwards of $70AU in most cases. For most people that’s a bit out of reach for a controller, & what if you don’t like using the original SNES controller? What if you prefer to use...
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Dragonball review!, Total Annihilation...
This just in of course a review for Dragonball on the Wonderswan portable submitted by Paul. I’m tempted myself to dig up one of those to check this out, granted I’ll have to learn some Japanese too :)
Okay for today’s news:
Total Annihilation, you know that intense Real-Time Strategy game with 3D landscapes and units which was well beyond it’s time? Well it’s...
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Retrospekt Review: Dragonball (Bandai Wonderswan)
Written by Paul Monopoli
System: Bandai Wonderswan Released 2003 By Bandai What the… I though this was a retro review? 2003? That was only 7 years ago, what’s going on? OK, calm down people! This is actually a remake of Dragonball 3 for the Famicom which came out in 1989. Better now? Phew… Also, I’ve chosen to use “dub names” for this review. I figured everyone will...
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Interstate 76 reviewed, Skull art of Pixel Aliens,...
I noticed that a lot of you on Facebook really digged the review of Interstate ‘76 (somebody even asked us on Twitter for a poem from Stampede) :P Brilliant! Well I’m glad I’ve made an impact somehow and even got folk to go to the site where I got the game from and buy it for themselves.
Okay, so for today.. lets see OOH Okay let me start with this awesome artwork of Space...
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Retrospekt Review: Interstate '76 (Windows 95)
Written by David Kudrev
Oh yes, A lot of people that know me, tend to forget that I was once deeply involved in what I consider to be the dark ages of my gaming journey. The PC-gaming era.. It wasn’t all bad, it started great with the DOS/Windows 3.1 era where I didn’t have to worry about performance of games or anything, as I was still getting used to the simple factor of console...
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Megaman Remakes are cheap? $800 for an Earthbound...
Hopefully there’s not too much blood spilt after our writer Paul has decided to have his say about the modernised remakes of the Mega Man series? I’m having a good giggle at the article! Hope you folks enjoy it too!
Okay, so many of you have heard about Stadium Events going for ridiculous amounts of money on eBay right? Well how about loads of money for a friggin ruler?
THAT...
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In Retrospekt: How to cheapen Megaman
Written by Paul Monopoli
OK, it’s time to go on a rant. This time I’ll be looking at the Megaman/Rockman series, but we’ll stick to calling it Megaman as it’s the name the majority of us use in the English speaking world. Now I’m not talking about Megaman X, Megaman Zero, Megaman NT, or any of the other variations out there. I’m talking about the original...
February 2010
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Ranma 1/2 Reviewed for SNES, Sad Story about a...
I hope you folks enjoyed today’s great review of Ranma 1/2: Super Battle for the SNES submitted by Paul. I just want to start today’s post with a bit of an emotional post I saw from FuckYeaNintendo. It was about a child who grew up and had a SNES to remind him of the better times of his life. I warn you, it is quite depressing, and very touching.
Click to enlarge (it’s worth...
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Retrospekt Review: Ranma 1/2: Super Battle /...
Written by Paul Monopoli
Released 1994 System: Super Nintendo
By: Rumic Soft
NOTE: This review contains images from both the game & the anime.
The history of Ranma fighting games is a bit of a tale. The first game which is known in some fan circles as “Neighbourhood Combat” was released in the US under the rebadged title of “Street Combat”. The game was already...
