11th March 2010

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In Retrospekt: ‘Bent But Not Broken’ Workshop (Chiptune making/Circuit Bending)

Written by David Kudrev

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11th March 2010

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Ski-Free shrine, funniest Pac-Man chase, Street Fighter 4 out for iPhone, and the decline of Donkey Kong

Alrighty, I’m a keeping this one short, as I’ve got to head off to this event in the city of Adelaide tonight. Which is a workshop for circuit bending portable consoles/toys. Hosted by local Chiptune artist Little-Scale. I’ll try to post up pictures through the evening as well :)

Street Fighter IV is finally out for the iPhone. Looking forward to trying that one out, might need a 3GS however.

To those of you who were lucky to go through the right era of PC-gaming (1994-2000), chances are you would have had Windows 3.X at some point.. Do you folks remember this game?

Well this website is dedicated to this free classic title. There’s talks on there about them making an iPhone version as well. Brilliant!

There’s quite a depressing article on Wiipotato.com, talking about the decline of the Donkey Kong franchise. Covering a lot about about it’s more successful eras (the beginning, and Donkey Kong Country naturally).

I haven’t had the privilege to play any of the recent Donkey Kong titles, but I figured once Rare has stopped any involvement with the series, that the games would turn into tripe. I’ve been told that was the case (not my opinion).

Finally I leave you folks with a hilarious Pac-Man chase from none other than France’s favourite guerilla prankster/ex Pro Soccer player, Remi Gaillard:

Alrighty, I’ll hopefully get some decent shots from tonight’s workshop and DJ set as well. Should be an interesting evening!

Tagged: pacmanremifrancechiptuneworkshopdonkeykongdeclineretronintendorarecapcomskifreesfivappleiphone

18th February 2010

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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!

Tagged: retroearthwormjimgameboyanamanaguchichiptunesonic4seganesnintendoart

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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