September 2010
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Nintendo 3DS details announced, Final Fantasy 1 &...
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Now that is a gritty looking Pac-Man shirt. Quite minimalistic, yet getting the message across with style!
(image source: IGN Forums)
For anyone interested, yes the Nintendo 3DS is coming out on February 26th for US$297 (March in Europe, which may include Australia). Why mention this on Retrospekt? Well there is going to be a plethora of classic titles, and...
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gorgeous japanese retro arcade photo, 10 hardest...
(Source: Flickr user Chillhiro)
What a gorgeous photo, showing that time stood still for these lonesome, yet well-looked after arcade machines.
We all like a challenging video game right? Well AskMen.com have a top 10 list of what they reckon are the hardest games out. Number one is quite intriguing, but it seems that those folks haven’t played Robocop 2 on the Amstrad GX4000....
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Cross-Stitch Space Invaders, N64 Logo coincidence,...
Hope you folks got a chance to read our review of Master of Darkness, a decent SEGA Master System clone of the classic Castlevania.
(Source: Flickr user sparklygreenknickers)
What a lovely present to give to a friend! Cross stitching is one of the most organic ways of depicting pixels in art form :)
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You really need to click on the image to enlarge. So it seems that the...
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Retrospekt Review: Master of Darkness (SEGA Master...
Written by David Kudrev
The SEGA Master System was quite a unique console, especially with it’s titles, and later in the years (as in the mid 90’s) many 3rd party companies continued to develop titles for the platform, take Tectoy’s port of Street Fighter 2 for example. Due to the overwhelming competition that SEGA had with the NES in the 8-bit era, it was hard for SEGA to...
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Retrospekt Competition over, Pac-Man Moleskine...
The competition to celebrate the 500 fans on both Twitter and Facebook, is now over! We will declare a winner on Friday’s post of the 1st of October. Thank you to all who submitted :) The answers were great, and will be a tough challenge for us to decide on which one deserves it.
(Source: Wired)
Fancy blogging/journalling/writing with a pen and paper still? Then look no further!...
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On Wii VC Friday, animation of Retro VS Modern...
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Oh come on! You didn’t laugh?!?
Alrighty, wait a week on the Wii Virtual Console, and you get an alright RPG! Mystic Quest Legend (or Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, depending on your region) on the SNES for 800 Points!
This is one amazing animated piece of art.. The struggle of Retro VS Modern gaming laid out in this 7 minute...
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gog.com is coming back, Modded Game Boys, on Game...
So it seems that GOG.com is coming back, as the previous site was in Beta. Also the managers have made quite an apology. A countdown timer is placed on the current site to indicate when the new Good Old Games will kick in.
Chippopotamus.com host pictures of some work they’ve done with modified Game Boys, aimed for the chiptune musician in everybody :D Also it seems they modify the...
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Space Invaders stickytape, Manic C64 chiptune...
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Sticky tape.. we all need it, but space invaders Sticky Tape? HELL YEAH! Available at Officeworks, which is an Australian equivalent to Staples over in the USA.
Happy Computer music video paying homage to the Commodore 64, thanks to Facebook fan Michael Burt for the submission. Quite a manic video which is just.. well.. too addictive!
(Source: Geeky Gadgets)
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update on GOG.com closure, Lego NES casemod,...
As you folks already know and have heard that GOG.com (Good Old Games), a service which offered DRM-Free DOS/Windows games, which were reconfigured/reprogrammed to work on XP/Vista/7 has closed their doors yesterday, with strong rumors brewing in forums around the internet regarding this apparently being an marketing stunt. Time will tell either way by the end of this week.
An update has been...
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Breaking news: Good Old Games have closed their...
This came to Retrospekt with quite a shock. It was a great store full of awesome titles. Many we were priveleged to review, and many we couldn’t due to Australia’s classification laws.
Nevertheless, we would like to thank GOG.com for supporting us with supporting them :D In other words, Thank you to the kind staff for letting us review a couple of their games, and best of luck in...
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Pac-Man Graffiti, C64 (iOS) 2.0 includes BASIC,...
(Source: Flickr user Maria Imaginario)
Some awesome gaming graffiti spotted in Portugal.
The wait is over! Version 2.0 of the C64 app for the iOS device is now out, and finally, includes BASIC (which was what caused the delay in getting the app onto the App Store in the past due to certain guidelines with the store). As well as the BASIC being included, many bug fixes have been implemented...
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Cloud as a cloud, Mario 3 fail scenarios, NES...
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This has to be one of the funniest pics related to Final Fantasy 7 around :D
In relation to Mario’s 25th Birthday celebrations this week, why not with hilarious failures in playing the game, like the following videos (From Super Mario Bros. 3);
and of course this one;
(Source: Technabob)
Alright, folks, if you’re already making some cool...
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In Retrospekt: 10 Pokemon you WANT!
Written by Ben Rosenthal (of Post-Humour Comedy)
Early next year, two new Pokemon games will be released for the Nintendo DSi (and 3DS by default). However, these games are not a complete rehash of the same old Pokemon formula since the Red and Blue days. No, these new games Black and White will feature new battle systems, new locations and most interesting of all, 100% completely new...
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UK gets SNES controller (Wii), others make...
(Source: Nintendo UK)
Everyone besides Australia are going ape over Mario’s 25th Anniversary in style, Club Nintendo UK are offering Super NES controllers for the Wii Motes! Japan already got their Super Famicom controllers (article) so now the UK get’em too! Not to worry, if the UK citizens get that, at least anyone in the rest of the world could either make, or order one of these...
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Minimalist retro-gaming art, Human Pac-Man...
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A fine painting representing the symbols that identify the meaning, the fun, the passion from classic arcade games. There’s the one above, plus more here!
Now this is epic.. lots of effort put into this one, and you can tell! Stop-Motion PacMan done with people in a lecture theatre. Be sure to check out the rest of the artist’s work HERE.
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Super Mario Allstars Official boxart (Wii), Silly...
(Images Source: Nintendo Japan)
Yes we do apologise for posting what we THOUGHT was the boxart the other day, no.. what you see above IS the pack!
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Happy 25th Birthday Mario! 13th of September 1985 was when you embraced the world with Super Mario Bros on the NES and Famicom. The gaming community in Japan embrace nostalgic gaming more than any other...
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NES bed, Unboxing of GameBoy Micro 20th...
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Anyone want a bed like this? Anyone? Don’t deny it! ;)
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So here is a photo of the 20th Anniversary GameBoy Micro released in December 2005. Quite a gorgeous little device for classic-gaming on the go, with a very well designed artwork resembling a Famicom controller.
(Image source: Let’s Play Archive)
Question, what is better...
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Facebook statuses from VG characters, Android...
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One of many comical status updates from game characters from the old days. There’s even a plethora of Chrono Trigger characters and their status updates on that site! Awesome! Oh lovely… no Wii Virtual Console title for this week.. Move along..
So what do you do with an Android-based phone with a NES emulator, some Bluetooth parts, and a NES controller?
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What Kid Icarus would be like on DS, Mega Man VS...
(Source: KennethFejer Deviantart)
So with Kid Icarus being one of the launch titles for the up and coming Nintendo 3DS, it’s interesting that it’s one of few IP’s of Nintendo which hasn’t had a reboot or sequel for a while. The last Kid Icarus game was on the Game Boy back in 1991 (the Smash Bros. series doesn’t really count). So this is art of what Kid Icarus...
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Console controller sand sculptures, Super Mario...
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Summer is getting close.. well, it’s getting there slowly. Time to prepare those buckets and little shovels for crafty sand sculptures at your nearest beach! These photos were taken at Clam Beach, Canada.
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So as mentioned yesterday that Super Mario Allstars is coming to the Wii in Japan, well here’s the alleged boxart, we won’t...
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Duke Nukem Forever, Gunpei Yokoi Exhibition,...
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Yes, yes yes.. Old news by now, but it looks like Gearbox Software (famous for the kickass addons made for the first Half-Life game, as well as Borderlands) has resurrected Duke Nukem Forever, and it’s is FINALLY coming out in 2011! (I’ve been waiting since 1997 for the game to be released, recalling the screenshots of the game in the Quake engine.....
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Battle VS Chess coming late sept, Interactive...
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Heh, quite humorous animated gif there of Link and his carelessness with fire..
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How many people here played Battle Chess? (review) Well it looks like it’s coming back in a big way, enter Battle VS Chess. Developed by Southpeak Interactive and coming out by end of this month on a plethora of modern platforms. One to keep an eye out for...
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On Wii VC this week, Neo Geo Merch, Donkey Kong...
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Yeah Mario, suck it up!
Sweet! Samurai Shodown 3 is out on the Wii Virtual Console store for the Neo Geo at 900 Points!
You like the Neo Geo? Who doesn’t? Well if you’re after some merchandising, then THIS is the site to check out!
(Source: GoNintendo)
There you have it friends, this is the box art for the up and coming...
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7 nintendo games not made by them, 1bit symphony,...
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It’s an animated gif.. or at least SHOULD be animating! Either way, toooooo close right?Now if there only was a movie.. Or not. Never mind! But still.. Expendables vs Aliens? And the world will implode.
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Just about everyone here loves Nintendo right? Well not every game using original I.P. (that’s Intellectual Property) was made by the...
August 2010
27 posts
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RETROSPEKT REVIEW : Pitfall vs Tom Boy (Atari...
Written by Joseph Tobin
As this is my first review I’m going to do a quick review of my personal experience with the Atari 2600. When I was seven years old (way back in 1984) my sister and I were given an Atari 2600 with some games for Christmas. It was a black ‘vader’ style console (as they are known amongst Atari enthusiasts) and we had a bunch of games. Over the years we...
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Vendetta (Jap version) included umm..., NES...
This is one sweet and highly detailed shirt design, an exploding Game Boy with all its bits and pieces flying off. Can be purchased HERE.
So how many of you played the beat’em up Vendetta in the arcades? Right? Well did you get to play the Japanese version?
(I can’t remember this scene at all, and I played this game a lot at the local video arcade Ed.)
Got a beefy...
