March 2011
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 25th March 2011
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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
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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...
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Happy 1st Birthday Mana Bar Brisbane!
Right on! Here’s the official word from Guy “Yug” Blomberg:
Mana Bar celebrates 1 year of consoles and cocktails
Tuesday, 15th March 2011 – Videogame cocktail bar, the Mana Bar, will celebrate its first birthday this Sunday, 20th of March.
The Mana Bar in Brisbane, Australia first opened its doors to the public on Saturday, 20th of March in 2010 and was universally praised...
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Retrospekt coming to AVCon 2011
Oh yes.. You bet we’re back for this year’s AVCon. Last year’s panel was a roaring success! Due to the positive responses, Team AVCon invited us back, and we will be back in a bigger way this time round!
We can’t disclose much as of yet, except that yes it is confirmed that we are going to collaborate with the video games team for the Ultimate Game tournament! What do we...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 11th March 2011
Image Source: Society6 Oh dear.. Mario got it right in this poster design. And what a design! Oh wait, I just realised something.. Mario.. March.. Tenth.. yesterday.. Mar10! AAAAARGH!!! Oh well…
Oh now this is very funny.. This is called “A primer for Biological control, Featuring Pac-Man”. Peculiar and quite geeky perspective on Pac-Man and the Ghosts in their natural...
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Dave's Weekly Retro Blog - 4th March 2011
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It’s been a while folks, we have been busily migrating the articles into the new website, don’t worry, you’ll know first at hand when it happens, and when the party will be so you can come along, and join in on the festivities. Alright, lets get to it! I have a fair bit to share with you:
On the Wii Virtual Console this week, we...
