July 2010
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Games.on.net write-up on AVcon 2010, New on App...
(source: fuckyeanintendo) Oh dear god… no.. NOOOOOOO! can not erase out of brain!
Oh my.. Well, it’s been a few days since AVcon 2010 embraced the lovely city of Adelaide, still buzzing/recovering from the fun we all had :)
We got a mention in an awesome write-up by our good mate Matt over at Internode’s Games.On.Net!
Nothing new this week on Wii Virtual Console today once...
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Rejected Mortal Kombat Fatalities, Pac-Man...
(source: dealextreme) Here’s a cool (and cheap) piggy bank to save up for that next big event! Or put a coin in every time you see a games site mentioning something to do with Mario.. oh wait..
Okay okay, lets start today’s blog with a funny video aye? It feels like one of those days :)
Daneboe once again shocks us with another video of rejected Mortal Kombat Fatalities!...
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HTML 5 demo of Colour Cycling, Ultracade!, on Game...
(source) One of many places where good arcade machines go to die..
Now this is pretty cool, some HTML5 demos resembling something out of classic PC/Amiga gaming, like a point-and-click game or something. There’s the Waterfall one like in the pic above, and many many others.
To all the Adelaide folk who read frequent our site: Don’t be sad now that AVcon is over for the...
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Painted games consoles, Amiga is 25 years old,...
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Wow! The first photo we came across from our Retro-Gaming panel at this year’s AVcon :) Glad everyone had fun! Any more photos of the event? hit us up on email
<—- somewhere on the left there ;)
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Spotted on AcidCow, 25 or so photos of painted video game consoles, some new, most old.
Yeah a bit late to post up this tidbit (We were occupied with AVcon...
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Scott Pilgrim Punch-Out clone (iOS), 16 worst...
Okay so slight delay on today’s post, it’s been a huuuuuge weekend for Retrospekt (especially the afterparty, ow my friggin head, Ed.), what with AVcon 2010 which happened over the weekend.
There was so much on, and over 5,000 attendees for the entire weekend (around half of them were pre-registered tickets), so bravo to the AVcon team for doing an amazing job on the convention. Oh...
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What's on Wii Virtual Console?, N64 in a Game...
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Nice to see something on the Wii Virtual Console for this week, in particular the SNES version (the better version) of Aero the Acrobat for 800 points, here’s some footage:
The level 1 music guarantees to give goosebumps, especially if you’ve played this before!
What do you do with a broken (or at least hoping it’s a broken) SEGA Game Gear? Bin it?...
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1991 Nintendo/KoolAid poster gone for US$99, Top...
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Admittingly, much coffee was coming out of the nose from this strip, Bravo to VirtualShackles.com!
Okay, so this poster came and went on eBay for US$99, pretty much a promo poster circa 1991 of Nintendo and Kool Aid… Oh yeah!
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UGO.com post up a great top 25 of fighting games. Good to see the likes of Clayfighter and Samurai Showdown hitting...
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Tokidoki VS Street Fighter, Scott Pilgrim coming...
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Not much can be said about the awesomeness of that picture, besides that it is a fine way of recycling bottle lids!
Adorable! If you are a fan of Tokidoki designs and Street Fighter, then you would want to get on the plane to San Diego for Comic Con. 400 of those T-shirts are being made for the convention. This is an official mashup by the company too by the way. (cheers for the find...
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Retrogames section now on App Store, NES sold for...
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Seriously, Threadless is an absolute GOLDMINE for retrogaming shirts! As in clever ones like that one above!
Okay, this should make things a lot easier for you folk who have an iOS device, now when you go to the iTunes App Store, there is a section dedicated to retro games as well as reloaded retro games (remakes and what have you)! Very handy!!
Oh come on, really? That NES, with...
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Ultracade: SEGA Special Edition, Family Feud on...
Once again it’s on at La Boheme, last Ultracade was all about the Super NES. This time it’s a SEGA bonanza! La Boheme is on Grote Street, Adelaide (opposite Coles).. Free entry too! RSVP on Facebook
Who here was unfortunate enough to play the Family Feud game on the Super NES?
Well it did have a fascinating word-prediction system.. or so people thought.. (VIDEO POSSIBLY...
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AVCON AVCON AVCON! oh nothing new for this week's...
OH IT IS ON PEEPS! Yes there’s yelling there, because we now have an official day/time for the retro-gaming panel that we are officially hosting for this year’s AVcon Anime and Video Game Conference! Sunday 25th July at 1:00PM is the golden day/time.
We have drummed up a Facebook event as well for you all to attend/maybe attend or not attend as well! We hope you all can make...
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SuperNova gaming poster, Console War pin badges,...
(source) Oooh a new poster for the office! A gorgeous Supernova illustration of gaming consoles/peripherals!
Ohhhhhh YES! A MUST HAVE for any retro-gamer who survived any console wars. There’s that one above, plus 5 others (NES, Mega Drive, PS3, Xbox 360, and Dreamcast)
Any Ultima fans here? Thought so, well you lot might be interested to know that the fan-based remake of Ultima VI...
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Starcraft video on APM, Game Room games for this...
(source) Ohhhh if only this WAS a comic!!! GO DONKEY!
This really deserves a post, as a reminder that yes Starcraft is an old old game, yet is still played and thrashed out thoroughly, in fact this video is of a typical Korean Starcraft champion, who demonstrates APM’s or Actions Per Minute.
Games for this week’s release on Game Room are as follow (Note: the servers may go...
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it's Tumblr Tuesday VOTE FOR US PLEASE!
so you awesome followers know what that means!? VOTING TIME!!!
Simply go to http://www.tumblr.com/directory/recommend and in the drop down list of blogs you follow, select Retrospekt, then click on Gaming, and away you go!!!
And to all of you who have started to follow us in the past month or two.. You are AWESOME! Thank you! :)
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Tetris demo'd on 3D Liquid Display, Asteroids wall...
(source) One to definitely stir the nay-sayers of Video Games ;)
So what better way to demonstrate new bad-ass technology like a Liquid 3D TV? Why, with TETRIS! (amongst other demonstrations) at around 4 minutes in.
Here’s some cool decals for your bright-coloured wall in the house or office!
If this doesn’t give you goosebumps, then well.. that’s a shame!
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New AVGN, Joystick gum, Expendables 8-bit game,...
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Ah it must be hard to be a cyborg ninja assassin.. Especially since Sektor is in the new Mortal Kombat, as opposed to both Sektor and Cyrax.. OH WELL!
New Angry Video Game Nerd is out, covering several game glitches. Fantastic episode, and entertaining as usual. Check it out :)
Something to nibble on after dinner, especially with lots of garlic in it. A gorgeous looking tin of...
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What's on Wii VC this week?, Tetris Tetris...
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Nice artwork! This piece is a good reminder to mention the CollegeHumor series: Street Fighter - The Later Years. Highly recommended for a good chuckle!
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This week on the Wii Virtual Console, we see Shadow of the Ninja (NES) for 600 points. This game by the way is made by Natsume (of the Pocky & Rocky, and Harvest Moon fame).
Who doesn’t like Tetris? you...
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Classy GameBoy T-Shirt, rise fall & return of NBA...
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Just goes to show that retro consoles are built to last, just as well, right folks!?
I hope you peeps liked the review of Super Mario Bros. from Ben of http://PostHumourComedy.com/ Cheers for the review!
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It’s been a while since we posted a T-shirt, so here’s a classy T-shirt right here! Threadless is just a goldmine!
1up.com has a great story about the...
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Retrospekt Review: Super Mario Bros. (Movie)
Written by Ben Rosenthal
In 1993 a movie came out. Not such a big deadly, I mean a lot of movies come out in a year. That is true, however once in a while, a movie comes out and changed the game. A movie with such mind-blowing special effect, fantastic acting and brilliant plot and characterisation, all of humanity “awwwww’s” at its awe. Super Mario Bros is not one of...
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Growing up with PC games, Amazing 8-bit costume,...
It’s amazing what one can find on Etsy. One would hope that the cartridge was already broken. One would hope..
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Hah, a hilarious comparison chart for certain PC games folk would have played and still play nowadays.
Cosplay for AVcon anyone? A pixelated costume for a Toshiba commercial. More pictures of production of the costume here.
Okay we got...
