5th March 2010

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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!

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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

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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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2nd March 2010

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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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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!

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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!

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