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In Retrospekt: Imitating the Pixelated World
Written by Bethany McCarthy
Cosplay - the much loved and probably just as much laughed at phenomenon of dressing up as ones favourite character from a video game, anime series or film. Once a Japanese only novelty, the craze has rapidly spread throughout Europe, the West and abroad since the late nineties. Almost any major city will nowadays host some kind of convention where you can go to see the efforts of costume-loving con goers… Some do it right.
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In Retrospekt: A Guide to Yahoo Japan Auctions
Written by Paul Monopoli
Japan: The land of the console. The place where the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Megadrive, Mark 3, PC Engine & most other consoles in the world started out. There are exceptions of course such as Atari systems, the Amstrad GX4000 & Commodore 64GS among others, but Japan is where most of the big hitters were born. It’s a magical land for gamers & if you know where to look online you can find a multitude of treasures. The most common place for collectors to find rare (outside of Japan) collectables is Japan Yahoo Auctions.
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In Retrospekt: Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone, Zone...
Written by Paul Monopoli
Television shows based on video games were just starting to make their mark in the early 90s. Britain had Games Master Live which was quite popular. This was aided by the fact that Games Master was also a magazine released by Future Publishing, which is what the show was based on. Future Publishing had some of the best video game magazines around in the 90s & naturally cross promotion took place across all of Future’s publications including: Game Master, Total, Super Play, Amstrad Action, Commodore Format, Amiga Format etc etc…
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In Retrospekt: Adelaide Arcade Guide
By Andrew Gray
Greetings, dear reader, and welcome to the first Adelaide Arcade Guide!
If you’re tired of gaming at home in nothing but your underwear, this guide will help you find an arcade or venue where you can game instead. Whether you’re only wearing your underwear or not remains entirely your decision, however. And the law’s.
This is the first version of our guide, and as such is rather modest, like my handsome self. We hope to develop it with your help! Know of more places to game? Or perhaps you have something to say about one of the locations listed? Found some information we listed that is incorrect? Why not leave a comment or start a thread in the forums?
Why not, indeed!
Now, on with the guide.
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In Retrospekt: Super Famicom Nintendo Power Cartridge System
Written by Paul Monopoli
In Japan Nintendo doesn’t dump its systems for the next big thing like the Western world seems to. Being that most video game systems debut there you would think they’d be the first to drop one generation & hop onto the next, but this is not the case. For example, they were still making Famicoms (the Japanese NES) right into the new millennia. So too, the Super Famicom had a life that extended way past 1996 when the rest of the world had moved to the N64, Saturn or Playstation.
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In Retrospekt: Super Famicom Barcode Battler Interface (FAIL!)
Written by Paul Monopoli
So, riddle me this Batman. What happens when you take 1 Super Famicom,
& one Barcode Battler 2?
Well, the answer is: Not a hell of a lot. Add in the specially designed Barcode Battler Interface for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo however,
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In Retrospekt: Who we are, and what we stand for!
Seven months in to the return of Retrospekt, we’ve gone full speed ahead! We have a forum with people in there buzzing around building up the community there, as well as Facebook with over 150 fans and Twitter with over 300. With daily findings around the web as well as a healthy dose of articles, videos and reviews provided, this is only the beginning folks! Next year expect the Podcast to come back into fruition, as well as hearing more about our website here and there where expected, and unexpected as well ;)
In case you haven’t figured out what Retrospekt is yet, it is a website, a community, a hub for you, the passionate gamers out there who appreciate the older era of gaming (and we’re talking 2000 and prior), by covering topics with videos, reviews, blogs, podcasts, forums, you name it!
With the current competition still going and also plenty more to come, this is and will be a lot of fun, for us and hopefully for you to get back into old-school gaming once again.
There is going to be a lot more content day by day, so keep track in your RSS applications or even Google Reader, Keep Tweeting, and facebooking (if they are even verbs in this day and age), and of course keep following us on Tumblr (which is this very site).
If you want to email to us directly, his us on retrospektmail@gmail.com as well.
Cheers for being a part of Retrospekt for 2009, bring on 2010 and beyond!!!
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In Retrospekt: Super NES (Famicom) controller for Virtual Console (Wii)
Article & Photos by Paul Monopoli.
Nintendo have released their classic games many times on many of their systems. From Super Mario All Stars on the SNES to the limited edition Zelda collection on the Gamecube, Nintendo have seized every opportunity to release their most popular games over & over again. The Wii added a new dimension, allowing you to buy games online & store them on the console itself. This way you don’t need a disc, or a cartridge to play your favourites. Just switch on the console, point & press the A button.
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In Retrospekt: The Sufami Turbo unit (SNES)
Article and Photos by Paul Monopoli.
Here’s the rundown on the Sufami Turbo. It was released in 1996 by Bandai in a rare agreement with Nintendo. In an effort to cut the costs of cartridge manufacturing, Bandai created this little system to go on top of the Super Famicom & use smaller cartridges that Bandai themselves could make in house without using Nintendo’s own expensive process. This saved Bandai money which in turn ensured they could sell their games for a cheaper price. The Sufami Turbo is often compared to the Aladdin Desk Enhancer, which was a similar device created by Codemasters to be used on the NES. The difference is that the Sufami Turbo was an official device, while the Aladdin was unofficial.
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