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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!
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Video game droids, Why is retrogaming all the rage?, Pac-Man cereal, and Metroid Cocktails!
Yes.. So after discussing on Facebook with some of the great fans there, Facebook fan Adrian emailed me mentioning this website, called Import Monster. They get stuff for you from Japan’s Yahoo Auctions, and other sources.
And we all know how stressful it can be to try and win something from auctions, why not resort to drinking? In particular this beverage:
Yummy! Here’s what is in it. Local (as in here in Adelaide, Australia) blogger Ben has posted up an interesting post on his website covering The worst Nintendo games made. Sorry but I have to agree with Wayne’s World.. I guess that’s back in the days when THQ weren’t able to make decent games for the SNES.
In the business of making NES and SNES games? Then you might be interested in this site. Full of spare parts/pieces for putting together cartridges,
If it’s morning where you are, you might be having breakfast now.. If only they were still selling this:
As many of you feel and realise, that retro gaming is back, and in full force! I mean why would companies remake classics like Tecmo Super Bowl for the Xbox Live Arcade for example?
OH YEAH That’s right! Tecmo Super Bowl REMAKE! Either way, this article should explain in four good reasons why retro-gaming is all the rage! But we don’t need to explain to you folks as to why ;)
Finally we find that this is the droid I’ve been looking for… Thanks Facebook fan Nik for the find ;) Okay… *squinting* That thing has.. a Playstation, Mega Drive, SNES, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast and of course the NES.
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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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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!
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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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TG16 classic on iPhone, NES for $15,000, Apple II Chiptune Synth, tasteful Ms Pacman shirt
Our writer Paul hasn’t seen this yet, but I’m sure he won’t be too excited, even though he really digs the Turbografx-16/PC Engine, doesn’t take much interest in the iPhone platform as much.. Until he actually owns one methinks ;) Mentioning that, the game Military Madness: Neo Nectaris is out.
and Toucharcade.com has written up a great review.
Something else that’s been floating around the web which was worth reviewing as well, is that on eBay there is a NES going for sale with 5 games, for over US$13,500, here is what you get with it:
The winner’s amount earned would be music to their ears, as would be using say an Apple II for a live performance at a Chiptune gig
You can purchase a 5.25” Floppy Disk for around US$20 from 8bitweapon.com.
Whilst you’re at it, you might as well wear this T-Shirt on stage:
The site is down when I checked earlier today, but try again next day, as they’re doing maintenance.
Photo reblogged from Gamefreaks with 9 notes
My god.. I think I found what to do with the sides of my head… :O
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Technabob.com | Pac-Man bracelet chomps its way around your wrist on →
Whilst on subject of clothing, here’s something by the artist “ParAmour” on Etsy.
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Clipset | Pac-Man Christmas tree in Madrid →
It’s good to see that Spain is getting into the spirit of Christmas, but even more-so with the theme of Pac-Man! :D Check the video out as well folks!
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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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EVAC - Adelaide University's own Video Game Club →
(from evac.org.au)
EVAC is the Adelaide Universitys very own Video Game club! You can find us playing the some of our favourite latest and classic games every Friday evening during the course of each University term.
You can currently find us playing:
Rock Band, Naruto GNT 4, Street Fighter IV, Super Smash Bros, Tekken 6, Mario Kart, Pac-man VS, Muscle March and much more!
University may be over, and exams are coming up (good luck to all the students by the way!) 2010 will surely bring a whole new year for gaming whilst not studying at Adelaide Uni.
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