4th March 2010

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Dragonball review!, Total Annihilation re-released, Comical pictures, Zelda 64 for the Blind, Retrogame Wedding Invitations, and 10 mario facts

This just in of course a review for Dragonball on the Wonderswan portable submitted by Paul. I’m tempted myself to dig up one of those to check this out, granted I’ll have to learn some Japanese too :)

Okay for today’s news:

Total Annihilation, you know that intense Real-Time Strategy game with 3D landscapes and units which was well beyond it’s time? Well it’s been released on Impulsedriven.com.

I’ve stumbled across a few funny pictures today as well, like so:

Ahhh.. Old meme.. Still though!

Okay! Now THIS is amazing, 3 guys create a script with 100,000 keystrokes for a blind gamer to play through Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Simply amazing! A lot of effort put in, that’s for sure, here’s another example of amazing effort put in.

Here’s a Wedding invitation with a twist.

Instead of a traditional card sent out to attendees, they sent out a game they made which works on OSX, Linux and Windows. And the object of the game is to play it to the end to get the information on the location/time/place for the wedding! My hat goes off to them!

Although my hat stays on (which doesn’t have a big M on it sadly), for this article, a top 10 things you didn’t know about Super Mario Bros. on the NES.

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For example I didn’t know it was released on Friday the 13th! Nevertheless a very interesting read, some facts I already knew (naturally), and others I honestly never did. Would go well at a pub discussion no doubt ;)

Okay folks, see you all tomorrow!

Tagged: dragonballtotalannihilationpcwonderswanbattletoadscomedykanyememezelda64weddingmariofacts

26th February 2010

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Pac-Normal Activity, T-Shirt of all the controllers, and Final Fantasy on the iPhone

Heh, great movie that one, okay onto today’s posts.

YES You would already know that Final Fantasy 1 & 2 are out on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Toucharcade has the scoop on the gameplay and first impressions.

Playing games on the device would cause sore thumbs, but so would all of these controllers, over at Emptees they have a shirt dedicated to the blood, sweat and tears we’ve produced over the games we’ve played all these years:

Although other ways to minimise stress can be used, like this modification of a NES controller:

Without having that feel of paranoia, at least Pac-Man now knows what he was running away from in this comic strip here:

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Tagged: comedypacmannamcofinalfantasynescontrollertshirtweediphone

22nd February 2010

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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!

Tagged: retronsfwcomedyartfamicomnesmariolovemetalbrazil

15th February 2010

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Mario teaching Sex-ed, Tetris bling, NES wallets, and Final Fantasy I & II Trailer for iPhone

Hope you folks managed to absorb the review for Pang on the Amstrad GX4000 which Paul submitted yesterday.

What I have noticed today around the web is that I’ve come across a lot of gift ideas, many crafty kind of stuff like this one.

It’s a wallet with containment space for keys, usb sticks, and plays video game sounds of your choice. Great guide on how to make one, same goes with this clever design:

Which is well, a coin purse or wallet thing from a NES controller. Be sure to check Instructables.com for more DIY guides for many many useful items. Whilst on the subject of crafts, here’s some official bling:

The J piece from Tetris. Be sure to send US$450 to my account before I go and get one ;) What I don’t want however, unless I get married (BHAHAHAHAHHA) is this Super Mario wedding cake, granted it is pretty bloody epic looking:

Although I guess one aspect to look into before and after marriage of course, is safe sex. That’s okay, just laugh it out, I said SEX!

(WARNING: not only is the following content possibly NSFW, but also having to stress out that YES it is a legitimate video from Nintendo and Nintendo Power. You’ve’ been warned)

Okay I do apologise if anyone was offended by this video, be it for the racial stereotypes, or the imagery. To make it up to you, how about I show you artwork a friend of mine made recently? good! here it is:

Artwork by Dale Keogh

Finally to end today’s post with some amazing news. Not only is Rise of the Triad finally out for the iPhone, more screenshots of the iPhone version of Final Fantasy I & II are available. Enjoy this trailer for the game coming very soon!!!!

Tagged: finalfantasyretroneswalletblingtetrissexmariocomedy

9th February 2010

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Tuesday 9th February 2010: Confused portable console, abrasive SNES shirts, unheard Nintendo franchises, and old modems!

Okay lets get to it, here’s a T-Shirt which really stood out for me:

It’s amazing how a controller can be so symbolic, for me personally the SNES controller stands out as a classic, I mean Nintendo wouldn’t have made a Wii peripheral based on it otherwise, right?

Moving onto a new platform building up to be on par with PSP and DS, I’m talking about the iPhone. The folks at Toucharcade have been informed that Doom II RPG has been released onto the App Store today. I’ve never played a single RPG version of any of the ID Software titles. If you folks want a review done, let us know, and we’ll get one done!

Whilst on the topic of handhelds, thegadgetsite has spotted this device. As many other news sites have stated, I agree, it seems to be confused itself on what the device’s purpose is in life.

It apparently plays GameBoy/NES ROMS as well as movies, music and .SWF files. It seems to favour Nintendo platforms a lot as the choice on what it supports, which brings to an interesting top ten article, from Joystick Division. We all know the most famous franchises from Nintendo right? You wouldn’t be a gamer or retrogamer for that matter otherwise, but what about ones which were either one-off’s or just somehow didn’t make it as a name that everyone will murmur in their sleep.. not that I do.. But how many of you actually heard of Unirally? or Odama? Click here to find out more.

Granted that article does cover a lot more of the recent-gen consoles like the GameCube, at least this next article covers something which belongs in a museum! Over to Retrothing.com, is an article about connecting a 300 baud modem from 1964 to a Linux notebook to hook it up to the Internet. Even more so the video:

And finally, to end the evening on a manic, yet funny mode, is this tumbleblog dedicated to anything and everything nintendo, mostly in pictures. Simply called FuckYeaNintendo!

No idea where these guys find most of these pictures, but they are downright hilarious and also cool in a geeky way, like here’s some examples;

Amazing. Keep playing those old games folks :) Same bat time tomorrow!

Tagged: snesmarionesnintendogamecubeengadgetdoom2tshirtfuckyeanintendocomedyhumor

11th December 2009

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Video #4: Air Rescue on Sega Master System 2

Dan checks out the first level of Air Rescue on the Sega Master System 2.

Tagged: videocomedysegamastersystem