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Megaman Remakes are cheap? $800 for an Earthbound Ruler, Custom GameBoy for music, and creepy 8bit-real-life art!
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 thing went for US$800. So there you have it, tis the season to auction off priceless retrogaming collectibles (Although if anyone has a PAL copy of Secret of Mana to donate to the website, that would be great, thank you) ;)
Something that is worth grabbing either for fun, or for a band/music project (It’s given me ideas that’s for sure!) is a customised Game Boy from Thretris.
I’m verrrrry tempted! This is designed to use the Game Boy for audio sequencing, and that blue (backlit) screen looks amazing! Just as amazing as this T-Shirt:
Like we care about the non-gamers anyway, right folks? ;) Finally moving onto something quite creepy.. quite QUITE creepy… THIS artist by the name of Jimiyo has made some creepy, yet amazing artwork to pay homage to Link as well as Mario;
Bravo! See you folks tomorrow!
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NSFW? pic w/ Famicom controllers, love candy in games, Metal covers of game music, and Mario’s past careers
Okay, you probably notice that the forum is down at the moment, we’re working on getting that back up and running again. Apologies for any inconveniences caused!
So I came across this top 10 list right over on vgchartz, about all the other careers that Mario undertook through his entire time in games. I giggled a lot over the pictures more than anything:
That is meant to be that Mario was a dinosaur herder. I loved playing with my Dino Riders toys lonnnnnng time ago. I wish I had the T-Rex, okay I’m going off course here, might also be because of this picture that I came across on Tumblr today:
(WARNING: the following image may be unsafe for work, you’ve been warned)
Now that I posted that, I’ll post THIS:
Awesome piece of art I must say! Kind of like all the winners on Kotaku’s site, where they had a competition on how they can incorporate those love heart lollies with words on them:
Finally, being a Monday, we have for you the music of the week, coming from Brazil is the Heavy Metal sensation MegaDriver! They re-create tunes from classic video games into a brutish kind of sound. Here is a video of them playing at an anime convention in their home country
I hope there’s going to be bands at AVcon, I’ve never been, but I plan to go this year :) Well, we (as in all of retrospekt) are going to go!
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Weekend edition: Mario Land 2 review for Game Boy, Pac-Man Scarf and a Tetris loveheart tattoo!
Hope everybody’s been having a good weekend so far! Etsy.com once again has another great item for sale, this time being a Pac-Man Scarf:
I was told that I should get this as a tattoo, I’m not too sure personally, like for myself. But yeah that is one badass Tetris tattoo!
What is also pretty badass is the latest review submitted by our resident writer Paul, this time covering Super Mario Land 2 for the Game Boy.
Have a great evening, we’ll see you all tomorrow!
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Sonic 4 “leaked” Video, Neo Geo Love, Custom Game Boys, and kickass Earthworm Jim Posters
We got a lot to cover today, so lets get to it! Joystiq.com has gotten hold of a screenshot and a leaked video of Sonic 4:
I can’t wait for this, and yeah most likely will get this for the 360 on XBLA! As we talk about a retro-feeling title for a new-gen console, we better mention a new game on an old-gen console as spotted on Kotaku (Thanks Facebook fan Nik Newland), called Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril, by Sivak Games for the NES and here’s a video of the trailer:
Looks like a lot of fun, fresh looking retro platformer for sure, speaking of platformers, the artist Frenden made a great illustration/poster of Earthworm Jim and Psycrow. Check it out:
Very funky, kind of like this custom-made Game Boy made for Chiptune band Anamanaguchi, designed by Thretris.
Be sure to check out Anamanaguchi’s work as well HERE. Whilst on the topic of music, Facebook fan Adrian Ilsey has spotted this on Screwattack, a music video singing about Neo Geo arcade machines!
Thanks for that! :D Also my good friend Rachel Carger has spotted these cute Mushroom keychains on Dealextreme.
Props to everyone who have stumbled across these items, see you folks tomorrow!
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Monday 8th February 2010: SNES on N900, ROTT on iPhone, Nerdcore rap, Video game flops, and sexy retrogaming art!
Survived the day today of work or studies or other miscellaneous activities? I hope so!
So lets start off by mentioning, that our resident writer Paul Monopoli, has submitted a review of Wonderboy 3: The Dragon’s Trap, for the Sega Master System, PC Engine, and TurboGrafx 16. Cheers Paul!
No segue for this one, except that segue doesn’t rhyme with SEGA. How many of you own a Nokia N900? plenty of you, right? I should know, I have mates who use the words “bet, your, iphone, can’t, do, that” in every sentence when they talk to me about it. Well. I admit this is cool, but is it really worth it on such a small screen?
Engadget reports that someone has managed to hack the kernel of the N900 to pick up a Sixaxis Playstation 3 controller on one of these to play, oh I don’t know.. SNES ROMS?
I don’t know, personally I prefer the real deal, but nevertheless a very cool and respectably geeky concept! Which a lot can’t be said unfortunately for some of the items in this list provided by Sloshspot.com. 9 of the biggest Video Game Flops?
With that as an exception, I’m sure a lot of people here will be arguing about others.. dare I say that the Neo Geo is listed? Oh oh! Tell you what, why not argue about it in our flame-retardant forums :)
Another way one can calm down from such heated discussions, is of course looking at gorgeous artwork. This gallery is from Flickr user techthis. Not all of it is retrogame-themed, but those that are, are amazing! here’s one for example:
which is now my phone’s wallpaper! Another artist I’ve come across with a retrogame-theme to the artwork, is from the Behance network.
Artwork by Genaro Desia.
Not as artistic, but a memorable classic from the PC/DOS era, Toucharcade has reported that Rise of the Triad has been officially announced for release on the iPhone by Apogee and Mobillia Interactive. Most of you folks would have seen me briefly cover Rise of the Triad on Retrospekt’s first video? Do so if you haven’t, otherwise here is some footage of the upcoming title:
I’ll end today’s findings with a chiptune of the week. Every week Retrospekt will cover at least one new tune, be it an original chiptune, or something from a video game that has hit our nerves, I’ll leave you folks with this beautiful chiptune/hiphop piece from Nerdcore artist YTcracker, called Meganerd:
Download the album for FREE here: http://www.ytcracker.com/nes/
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From Deviantart user aninjaintheshadows | NES...WORD →
Bloody good work I say! Also can be purchased as a poster from his deviantart page!
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Polkadot.it | CONSOllection →
Looks to us like a book with pictures of every console made, from the Pong right up to the current gen consoles. Even showing the packaging they came in!
I need to get a hold of this book!
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Calling All Squirrels | Steamboat Mario art →
So there’s an art show on somewhere I’m guessing in Canada according to the artist Dan Helle’s location.
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VGBoxArt.com | Donkey Kong Country 4 Wii box art concept (unofficial) →
Believe me, I was going apeshit (excuse the pun) when I saw this, then went “hold on.. no… no.. no. no It’s not real :(“
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Newgrounds | Captain Low-Rez series →
Yup that’s him! Captain Low-Rez, the 8bit hero from a short flash series made by Kaizoboy.
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Desktopgaming.com - High quality (retro game-themed) Desktop wallpapers →
I’ve come across this site as I was looking for new wallpaper for my desktop as well as my notebook. So here’s my desktop now;
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So have a look at http://desktopgaming.com/ and poke around to see what they have in store. You might be surprised in what you’ll find!
Found any other sites around the web with high quality desktop wallpaper of games from the forums.
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Friendly reminder: Falling Blocks vinyl wall sticker competition!
Our great friends over at Vinyl Design are running a sweeeeeet competition!
Once 100 people sign up to the site via Google Friend connect (which looks like this button)
(NOTE: this is just a picture, the real button is on the VinylWallDesign website) :)
A random person will be selected to win a pack of Falling Blocks wall stickers!
http://www.vinylwalldesign.com/FALLING-BLOCKS-STICKER.html
So be sure to click on that link, and enter the competition with Google Friend Connect!
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walyou.com | Retro gaming characters on toast look cute →
Just as I’m about to make breakfast, I come across this site!
Discuss other creative food ideas similar to that on the forum.
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