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Green (Hill) Zone, RockMan & CutMan comic, NES ads, and a SNES rom cartridge
So the Green Zone is coming out in the cinemas on March the 11th, so this Thursday apparently, so why not we get people even more excited with the film (if anyone is), with this masterpiece from Halolz:
On the topic of films and television, here’s a site which has an archive of old NES/Famicom ads from the US, Japan and Germany. Admittingly this still creeps me out:
*shiver* Okay.. onto another topic.. well okay shit still related.. An interesting blog about how SEGA should give Nintendo the rights to make Sonic games.. Agree? Disagree? Perhaps again can be asked about the 50 3D milestones in video games throughout history?
This is too cute not to share with you folks, same with this tattoo:
Do you live in the UK? Might want to pop down 386 Claremont Road, Manchester at some point. Why?
Talk about brotherly rivalry! Oh well.. and FINALLY from Engadget.com, they talk about this cartridge for the Super NES/Super Famicom which allows you to play SNES roms straight from the cartridge:
Although one could ask if it is worth the US$170 or not. It’s still and illegitimate (and I’m sure many would agree, improper!) Nevertheless, if it’s for you, then be sure to check the site out.
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Webcomic about a Megaman level design, High-res retro console pics, and the awesome music to Axelay
Okay lets get to it! Do you folks like electronic music? I guess if you’re in Adelaide, half of the population is most likely at the Future Music festival today.. well for those who aint!? Here’s a treat for you, granted I almost forgot that it’s a Monday today :D
To anyone who has had the privelege to play Axelay on the Super NES/Super Famicom would recall that not only that it was a Konami title, was also the fact that the music, and like many other titles at the time (including Super Castlevania IV) had excellent soundtracks. Well you can thank Taro Kudou. In particular the level music in this YouTube video is the tune of the week!
Now here’s a funky looking website. www.retroconsolepics.com is a collection of high quality photos of consoles/computers from the older days, which then you can order as a poster or framed pictures!
Finally we finish with a webcomic called Brawl in the Family. which centers around Kirby and other Smash Bros. Brawl characters. Granted most of the characters are from the olden days so this still applies ;)
Some of the comics aren’t related to the characters in SBB, like this one here:
So that’s it for the Monday, tune in tomorrow! :)
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Cute Hedgehog T-shirt, Atari Games at Taco Bell, Nethack “remake”?, and retro characters in new SEGA game!
Well I’m tempted to get this device actually, props to Paul for submitting the review for us so promptly! He only got that thing in the mail yesterday!
So I was reading up the other day about this new game that SEGA released, called Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, which fascinates me due to the amount of characters in the game, especially the fact they went into detail to include the likes of Alex Kidd and the Bonanza Brothers! But where is Bin and Pin from Dynamite Dux? :(
Probably just as well as the main character from Altered Beast isn’t in it, right?
Who here has or is still playing Nethack? Then you might be in luck, as I think this is meant to be a remake of that game, free to download for OSX, Windows and Linux! Here’s some game footage:
Oh and it’s free!
Taco Bell in the states have a promotion where you buy a meal, and then get an Atari game at a price
Although I think that top left one isn’t meant to be Breakout.. Oh well! Still pretty cool, and they’re flash-based on CD.
Although I’d be pissed if I get any salsa allover this shirt..
Okay folks, I hope you have a great long weekend (if you live in South Australia), get a couple of hours in to play some video games, as it looks like the weather may not be on our side!
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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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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
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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100 SNES games in 10 minutes, Super Ghouls n Ghosts, Space Invaders Jacket and Wonderboy VS Adventure Island
HAH! See how you like it! From Flickr user Seven_Hundred. So okay it’s that fortnightly Thursday, and that means I go to a store to buy one old game, I managed to get this untimely classic for the Super NES:
Bloody hard game, but a lot of fun nevertheless! Okay onto today’s posts: Another great Tumblr blogsite, this time from UK artist Forx. Covering a lot of great and geeky retro stuff as well as showcasing his own artwork. Bravo Tom :)
The adorable Rinry has posted a comparison of Adventure Island on the NES and Wonderboy on the SEGA Master System, as in they’re bloody identical! See for yourself:
Yeeaaaaaah :\ Another facet that has caused a bit of an argument, as I have heard in the past, is whether Mario hits the blocks with his head or his fist. Well this picture should clarify it for those who still think with their heads:
Okay now this is pretty awesome, from San Francisco, D-structure have for sale a jacket with back design resembling those pesky invaders:
Finally we all know how the SNES was a gorgeous console, and many can think of a few games off the top of their heads.. well how about 100? Here’s a video covering 100 titles in 10 minutes. Enjoy, and I’ll see you all tomorrow!
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Hadouken in Mega Man X, Space Invaders quilt set, Stupid Tetris, and Mana Bar official opening date!
Hi folks, it’s humpday today. Middle of the week, not long to the weekend! So a workmate told me about this video here, as I was talking about how awesome Tetris is, and THE theme music (not only my ringtone) is also part of a new tradition when a lot of delivery boxes come to our office, we play the song loudly when we’re trying to fit the boxes up against the wall, so here’s the video my workmate told me about.
I love Japanese television ^_^ Whilst on the topic of videos, one I saw just before as I got home, which reminded me that I needed to buy Mega Man X again, is that I totally forgot about this kickass easter egg, being able to obtain the Ha-Dou-Ken as a power-up!
Capcom you’ve won my heart once again! Just as much as this Space Invaders quilt spotted on Flickr user Meowypants’ album.
Sure as hell beats mine:
but I still adore my quilt set, generic, but shows that I’m a retrogaming geek at heart! Although one thing I’d love to master, if I had a coffee machine at home, is this amazing photo from Deviant Art user Monkdrew:
Lots of time and effort put into that no doubt! As is hunting for cool gaming gear on eBay.. Luckily THIS item is available for “Buy It Now”:
So if you have a spare NES or SNES controller, you can go right ahead and plug that in to your Wiimote for almost-proper classic gaming on a new-gen console!
Speaking of content related to new-gen consoles (BUT HOPEFULLY retro games later down the track), Australia’s first Video Game bar, the Mana Bar will be opening to the public on Saturday 20th March 2010. So be sure to start booking those tickets to Brisbane now. This will be a big event no doubt.
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Happy 20th Mario 3, Mario Paint music composer, local retrogaming stores and Super Play!
To start off today, I’d like to mention Paul’s review he did for Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles on the Amstrad CPC. Hell even I learnt something there :D Great post!
I don’t know about you folks, but to me, personally music plays a large role in the games we play, be it old and new, but of course we’re talking about the old. Raise of hands for those that had a SNES, right, lots of you, keep’em up if you had Mario Paint.. okay not so many hands then? Well for those that were lucky to have experienced it, by renting it or owning it would remember the music making part of it.
That of course is the Dr Wily Stage 1 music from Mega Man 2 done not with Mario Paint, but a program made for OSX and Windows to let you create the same tunes with the same style of sound in it. Available as a free download HERE.
One of our correspondents for Melbourne went on a mission to check out a store in Elizabeth Street called Dungeon Crawl.
Half of what they have in stock are PC games, as for console gear, most of it is modern as well. They do however have a handful of PS and N64 titles, so if you’re a fan of both consoles, and live in Melbourne? Check it out. That’s if you don’t live near any Gametraders stores that is.
Speaking about stores, if you live in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, be sure to drop on down to
Games 4 All
847 Main North Rd, Pooraka.
PH: 0414 616 815
Email: darrenmt68@yahoo.com.au
Superb selection of games/consoles, a lot of stuff boxed as well. Be sure to drop by if you’re in the area!
Speaking about collectibles, I won a bid on eBay for this magazine:
So happy I got it at last. Folks this was a great magazine from the SNES era, also the artwork of the featured game were anime versions of the characters! Very cool stuff!!
I’ll finish today’s post with an article from Gamesradar.com on Super Mario Bros. 3 considering it’s been 20 years since it came out. Gee time flies when we all have fun gaming!
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Pilotwings, Sonic 4 announced, Sonic 1-3 for DS, Activision on GOG, and Giana Sisters on DS!
Whew, late night shopping, fun stuff! I went to Gametraders Marion to score a few new games (Yes some of us are still current-gen gamers as well as retrogamers), like Mass Effect 1, and Bayonetta. But also scored Pilotwings for the SNES!
Folks take my advice, when shopping for old games at stores, it’s a hit and miss due to the fact that the carts may not work. But don’t fret! A clean-up on the pins and you’re good to go!
Although I luckily didn’t need to clean the pins on this one…
Okay, lets move onto today’s stories.. How can we not mention the recently-announced Sonic 4? It will be an episodic 2D game, yep that’s right, 2D! SEGA have gone for the classic style for this one, also I should mention that it will be a true sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Sonic 4 will be available around April-June (Summer in the US) on XBLA, WiiWare, PSN, and there are hints of it coming out on the iPhone as well! Time will tell folks :D
To tie things in until that comes out, another announcement made late last year, that the Sonic Classic Collection is (by now) out for the DS. Containing the first 3 Sonic titles (for the Mega Drive/Genesis no doubt), as well as Sonic & Knuckles.
I take it you folks have visited and even purchased some great tiles from GOG.com? Good Old Games. They deliver classic DOS/Windows titles to work on current versions of Windows (XP/Vista/7).
Well recently they’ve made an alliance with Activision to re-release a fair few classic titles, oh stuff like Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption. I cross my fingers in hope that they release Interstate 76 for it. Come on! Mechwarrior 2 with afros!
Over on the behance network, there is a great collection of art being submitted, in particular this one of a concept board game based on Super Mario Bros!
Finally a mate called me up today just to let me know that the C64 classic Giana Sisters is out on the Nintendo DS! So below are screenshots of the original, and then the DS version.
We hope you folks like the new layout of news we deliver to you on Retrospekt. If you have any feedback you’d like to give us, hit us on Facebook, Twitter, or even the email address on the side of the website. Cheers, and have a great weekend!
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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!
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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?
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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