1st March 2010

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Ranma 1/2 Reviewed for SNES, Sad Story about a SNES, Mushroom Quilt, and Fan-based Kings Quest sequel got canned.

I hope you folks enjoyed today’s great review of Ranma 1/2: Super Battle for the SNES submitted by Paul. I just want to start today’s post with a bit of an emotional post I saw from FuckYeaNintendo. It was about a child who grew up and had a SNES to remind him of the better times of his life. I warn you, it is quite depressing, and very touching.

Click to enlarge (it’s worth it)

Seeing something like that makes you want to curl up under a quilt and play the SNES right? Perhaps with THIS quilt instead?

Wrap up in one of those for winter whilst playing games ^_^ Good times, goood times.. Not so good times for an independent games company who made a fan-based sequel to the 1998 release of Kings Quest 8! Slashdot reports that  the company Silver Lining were told by Activision (after buying out Vivendi Games, which bought out Sierra) to cease and desist production of the sequel. The entire blurb as to what happened is on their website.

Finally, since it’s a Monday, we have some music to share with you folks, this time it’s from Atarimusic.net, in particular the artist Army of 2600. Quite an abrasive electronic/Industrial feel to the sound. Very cool! Here’s an example

Jousting Time (MP3)

That’s it for today folks! Tune in tomorrow for more findings around the world wide web of wacky Retrogaming news and articles!

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23rd February 2010

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Missile Command as a movie, Mario bedspread, Rayman coming to iPhone, and Snoop Dog/Kirby mash-up

Site news, lets see.. well, we’re nearing 400 fans on Facebook, and the forums are back up and running again, and I’ll be starting to play and review Interstate 76 thanks to the wonderful folks at Good Ol’ Games! Okay onto today’s items:

My workmate has found this for me, which is from the Flickr user Gege_Crochet which is a Mario blanket.

Okay this has to take the cake of the most epic and most colourful bedspread I’ve ever seen. What also is quite a colourful game, was the original Rayman, I mention this game because of a mention of it on Toucharcade.com stating that it is heading for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform! Gameloft have also released a trailer on YouTube to share:

I tell you what folks, It’s great in this day and age to be involved in the games industry, especially the money that companies are raking in, even more so than the film industry. Some have thought, “well gee, lets combine both!” Sadly many have failed (The Street Fighter 2 live action film, need I say more?)

Well, LA Times have an article about how Missile Command might be turned into a potential movie franchise.. I don’t know.. I guess time will tell, right? Maybe I should do a competition on the forums regarding people’s favourite film based on a video game, and perhaps the winner will get 2 tickets to go see this if it comes out? IF I go, I’ll have to smuggle booze in to the cinemas, probably with this bag:

Finally to end today’s post, I’d just like to add this hilarious mashup of music from Kirby and Snoop Dog (originally from YTMND). Till tomorrow folks, keep playing those retro-games :)

Tagged: missilecommandmarioflickratarinesmegadrivegenesiscinemayoutubeiphonerayman

19th February 2010

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An Angry Nerd, King of Kong Winner reclaimed, Retro shirts and phone cases, and 70’s Afro Muscle Cars!

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I’d love to know who the band is there, but I saw that today and thought that’s just full of awesome!

UPDATE: yeah I DO notice the Xbox 360 controller in Reptile’s hand, no need to tell me :P

Last night a new Angry Video Game Nerd was released, talking about the Swordquest games on the Atari 2600, check it out HERE!

Onto other announcements, how many of you have watched the documentary King of Kong? You know, the story of two champions fighting for the world top score of Donkey Kong on the arcade? Well.. Steve Weibe has finally reclaimed the world record, proof is on Twingalaxies.com. I don’t know, perhaps Steve should be wearing THIS T-shirt instead?

Okay one would ask what game uses a Player 1 Joystick and a Player 2 Button, right? Either way, yet another brilliant shirt from Threadless.com.

Speaking of custom-made stuff, Michael Tesch has submitted his artwork on Infectious.com which is a skin of a NES controller for an iPhone or iPod.

Finally GOG.com has announced this morning that Interstate 76 is re-released for Windows XP/Vista/7 so what are you waiting for? GO TO THE SITE NOW! Or are you waiting for us to review it? Keep on them Facebook, Twitter or RSS feeds to stay up to date with Retrospekt :D Have a great weekend everybody!

Tagged: avgnnintendoatarispaceinvadersretronesiphoneinterstate76activision

8th February 2010

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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?

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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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