February 2011
24 posts
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regarding Dave's Daily Blog
Hey folks, Dave here, I’m going to be posting the daily blogs on Friday, so umm well.. really that makes it a Weekly blog instead. Oh yeah and that photo was yet another one of them Racoon Mario street art pieces found around the corner from the Duke of York Hotel in Adelaide, Australia.. Here’s hoping there’s even more than the one on Peel street and the one above.
The...
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Mortal Kombat remake REFUSED CLASSIFICATION in...
Screenshot from GameSpot’s twitter
Written by David Kudrev
Yeah I’m going to first person on this rant… This is upsetting, yet no surprise due to the artistic content in the game. For those who know me, I’m a huge Mortal Kombat fan, I bought every MK game from all the different platforms I’ve owned over all these years.
Yesterday I went and pre-ordered it at...
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Friday's Blog
Source: Bunny Love
Thanks to Sam W for the submission of this picture. Wow this is a gorgeous shower getup, is that pixel art from Donkey Kong 2 or Junior?!?
Have any of you ever read the book The Great Gatsby? Well it’s been made into a NES game, but never seen the day of release.. Fret not! greatgatsbygame.com delivers! Play it online, check the history around it’s...
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Thursday's Blog
Source: Custom-Art
Hmmmm *ponders at the art* Indeed, an exquisite approach on combining retro on top of retro. One would hope that it is not a workable cartridge of course! ;)
Okay this is an interesting concept. Cities are being re-done Google Maps style (as in zooming in on suburbs/towns/roads) but in 8-bit. 8bitcity.com is the project, and their plan is to cover more cities around the...
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Wednesday's Blog
Source: Firebox
Advertise your gaming nerd-dom in style! A welcome door mat with flashing LED Space Invaders. Wipe your feet on it, and they start flashing. Brilliant!!!
Have you guys had a punt of the new Super Smash Land homage yet? It’s what Super Smash Bros. would be like if it were on Game Boy. Well either way the 1st demo came out a couple of months back, now Demo 2 is...
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Tuesday's Blog
Source: 80stees.com
A perfect companion for anyone who likes to keep their bevvies cold, and also appreciate Atari’s achievements in classic gaming history. Alright, growing a common trend.. toilets, beer warmers.. Lets change the topic to something game-related aye?
Source: Esuteru
This will be yet another big bomgshell from Square Enix, regarding releases of classic RPG’s for...
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Monday's Blog
Image Source: DeviantArt user Jukajo
Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda games, that’s right, February 21st 1986 was when the first Zelda game embraced the Nintendo console in Japan, the Famicom Disk System (FDS). From then spawned many awesome sequels/prequels/whatevers. Except for the ones on the Philips CDi, lets forget those, right?
Image Source: Games Radar
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Friday's Blog
Source: Boxerhockey (click image to enlarge)
Gold. The facials are just too much! hahahahahahahahahahhaha!
Source: Etsy
Awww shyiiiiiiiiii! Get dat 8-bit bling bling awwwwwwwwwwn. Etsy is an absolute goldmine for cool stuff like that!
Yes that’s the Reviews page of our site, but why is it pixelated? Well.. If you have Mac OS on your computer, then you should check out...
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Thursday's Blog
Source: Technabob
Awwwww heaps good! Pac-Man and ghosts neon’d!! Would be kickass to put in a retro-gaming lounge or something identical ;) If only they were still for sale.. Bugger!!
If you’re okay with using controls in a game on a touchscreen-orientated portable device, then maybe You’ll be okay with getting this app for your iOS device. Just get this application...
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Wednesday's Blog
Source: Deviant Art user Shampooteacher
We would love to post a link and screenshots, and talk more about the fact that DotEmu has re-released the controversial game which started the franchise: “Postal” and is for sale on their site, but due to the Australian Laws on Classifications, we best not to test them by posting said links or screenshots. So instead here’s photos of...
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Tuesday's Blog
Source: Flickr user Burlisaurus
Good to see there are still fans of Alex Kidd out there, especially of those horrid Janken stages.. Friggin rock paper scissors.. PFFFF!
This cabinet, is what a bulldog would be like, as a puppy. Adorable little play thing, but full of anger and gore.. uh one way or another.. A fully working mini Mortal Kombat arcade machine. Re-created from a Mortal Kombat...
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Monday's Blog
Source: Walyou
You can’t have too much Tetris in your life right? Exactly, here’s some photos of Tetris-shaped foods.
This is clever, albeit pretty slack at the same time, so this contraption pre-records this bloke’s Super Mario Bros. speed run. Quite an effort to achieve this in under 6 minutes as well!
Toucharcade has posted a trailer for an up and coming...
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Ultracade Live: Street Fighter Mash-up Special...
Written by David Kudrev
Those of you who frequent Retrospekt would by now know about Ultracade Live (especially those of you who live in the sweet city of Adelaide). For those of you who don’t, it’s a two-monthly event hosted at La Boheme cocktail lounge in the heart of the city and consists of cocktails, video game tournaments/freeplay, and of course chiptune/game music played by DJ Tr!p.
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SEGA Monster; 6 games that shouldn't have been...
Source: Deviant Art user RichardTheRough
Sure why not? They released enough hardware to allow some kind of amalgamation here! :P
Last night was a lot of fun wasn’t it? No doubt some would still be hungover or asleep from the mayhem. Expect a write-up from us shortly of the night!
Cracked have conjured up a great list of 6 games which were too insane to be released! If anyone has...
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Ultracade Live is on TONIGHT!; Doom on ZX...
Alrighty folks Ultracade Live is on tonight! La Boheme (Opposite Coles) on Grote Street, Adelaide. Free entry, 8pm start, and loads of chiptunes, Street Fighter games/competitions, and delicious cocktails. We’ll see you there folks! :D
(NOTE: There’s been a lot of confusion with people that assume we run Ultracade Live? Well we don’t. Retrospekt covers events around the world...
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Music Videos inspired by video games; Luxurious...
Source: Dorkly (click to enlarge)
This is no doubt to offend the fanboys and fangirls, so we’ll leave it up here!
There’s no denying it. Video Games are making an influence in every day life and those who dislike that concept must accept that fact, one way or another. JoystickDivision have a list of music videos inspired by Video Games. Not all tracks here are 8-bit sounding...
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Puyo Puyo art by Paul Robertson; Awesome Video...
(Source: DeviantArt user Paul Robertson)
Ah yes, Puyo Puyo, or Kirby’s Avalanche (Ghost Trap depending on the region), or even Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine to name a few clones of Puyo Puyo. Great puzzle game, and great artwork from the man who did the artwork for the Scott Pilgrim VS The World video game :)
Here’s a hilarious series on YouTube, called Awesome Video...
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200 followers on Tumblr!
Wow! AWESOME! We want to thank all 200 of you folks for supporting our site on the Tumblr Network (whilst we’re still on here that is)…
Here’s to 200 more followers!!
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Speedball 2 Evolution screens/trailer (iOS);...
(Source: Flickr user Fatheed)
Indeed. If only email spam was this entertaining! Oh well!!
Toucharcade recently scored screenshots and a trailer for the up and coming Speedball 2 Evolution reboot of the classic brutal sports title from Bitmap Brothers.
Looks like a lot of fun when this comes out! Especially with the Career and Multiplayer modes inclusive with this reboot. Later this...
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This week on Wii Virtual Console; Iwata Asks...
We hope you had fun plowing through the review of Legend of Zelda for the PC. A classic for DOS which had it’s quirks, yet stayed local as a clone.
(Image Source: Giantbomb)
This week on the Wii Virtual Console, for 600 points we see S.C.A.T. for the NES.. No.. nothing rude, just the Special Cybernetic Attack Team! Another classic from Natsume (creator of Pocky & Rocky, aka Kiki...
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Retrospekt Review: Legend of Zelda (PC)
Written by Mike Towns
I’ve been playing Video Games for quite a while, nearly two decades in fact. I was first introduced to the medium by my siblings who let me play their Commodore 64 when I was around three years old. My brother had me programming in Basic and even though I couldn’t exactly read or write proficiently I was able to create a little bouncing ball on the screen and I was...
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NES tissue box; C64 GS on eBay; Pac-Man Battle...
(Source: Flickr user LostMitten)
Wow, very handy for those crying at endings to intensely story-driven Anime RPG’s on the SNES, or anyone playing Tomb Raider 2 perhaps? ANYWAYYYYYY…
Whilst combing the ever lovely eBay, we come across this interesting post about a games console made by Commodore.. not a computer, and no it’s not the Amiga CD32 either, but it’s the...
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Blipfest '11 dates announced; adorable SNES...
Alright folks, planning on going to the US in around May? You might want to do it around the dates mentioned above, and in New York City. Why? Because Blip Festival, a huuuge 3-day chiptune music festival is on, and worth checking out! Line-ups in the past included many well-knowns in the scene, even Adelaide’s own Little-Scale got to strut his stuff :D
(Source: Fangamer)
Nyawwwww!...
January 2011
26 posts
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Funny GIF of Sonic waiting for a Bus; SEGA Mega...
We hope you got a chance to check out an in-depth unboxing of one of the rarest and lesser known consoles ever created by Apple and Bandai.. That’s right.. Apple.. Cheers for the write up Paul :)
(Source: Lulinternet)
Oh wait, it says it in the bottom left corner of the animated gif.. Oh well, poor Sonic having to wait for a bus.. Such an impatient little so and so. And funnily enough...
