As I sit in a coffee shop trying to do work, my mind yet again drifts off to my gaming childhood. Video games were not the only ways I was able to get my fix. I remember always bugging my parents to let me use a check to subscribe to …
Read More »A day or two ago, someone put up a Nintendo Entertainment System on Ebay for $35k. In the description he details that he needs the money to pay off some bills. That’s a pretty dam fine Nintendo, but is it worth $35k? I don’t know, but I’m really tempted to …
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Racketboy, a retrogaming blog, recently posted an article that details a 2 day workshop hold in New York. The special thing about this workshop is that the students learn how to program and design 8 bit games that can be used to disseminate important and helpful information to different communities. …
Read More »I have recently been inspired by the video I placed below. So to be very clear, my theme will NOT be as nice as this theme. I do not have the time nor attention span to make such a nice theme. The theme that I do end up creating will …
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I stumbled upon several sites that display galleries of Vintage Video Game ads and thought they might be a cool thing to share. I personally grabbed these images from a UG torrent. The Torrent lists Boing Boing as the source. When visiting the boing boing page, they give credit to …
Read More »So I spent months trying to figure out how to make lists for Hyperspin. I tried using dir2xml like everyone kept suggesting. It never worked. I grew frustrated and left Hypersin for a while. I went back and thanks to Lashek and Badboybill now know that I was using the …
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I’m not sure if this is a phenomena that’s particular to San Francisco or if it is widespread. I’ve read many a list of hipster culture (PBR, tight jeans, huge plastic sun glasses, etc etc..), but I’ve never read anything that detailed the role of retro gaming. In the picture …
Read More »Squaresoft and Bandai-Namco have asked users in Japan to request their favorite ps1 and tg16 games via tweet. I had forgotten that you can download ps1 games to your psp via your ps3. When I had a PSP (R.I.P. my little friend) I remember trying to play ps1 games on …
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Its not very retro (the prize) but we are giving away a free video game to the user who can complete this task first. The user to submit 25 news articles first wins the grand prize of: The PS3 title Dante’s Inferno.. Its been played but in great shape. I’ll …
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Death Duel is a tactical side-scrolling first-person shooter. Platform – Sega Genesis Release Date – October 1, 1992 The game consists of different time-limited rounds against a single enemy. Before each game, the player can spend Pheelae (money) on repairs and determine what weapons to take into battle. Each opponent …
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HyperSpin, making retro gaming pretty again. Don’t forget to check out the interview we had with BadBoyBill here. So what is HyperSpin? HyperSpin is a front end for video games! What the hell is a front end? A front end is a nice graphical interface for an emulator. What is …
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Its safe to say HyperSpin is the best looking front end there is. We had a little chat (question and answer) with one of the hyperSpin authors BadBoyBill. You can also read our HyperSpin review here. 1. What are some of your first video game experiences? The first games I …
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Puppy Arcade 8. Bringing Emulation to a distribution near you. Feel free to read the Interview with Creator Scott Jarvis here. Emulator front ends and Live distribution CD’S have come a long way since the days of Knoppix and TuxNES. Knoppix being the first Live CD I ever used, TuxNES …
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Scott Jarvis is the creator of Puppy Arcade, a Live Distribution of Linux Geared towards making emulation under Linux fun, simple and easy. We grilled Scott with a few questions for fun. Before the interview we had a chance to review Puppy Arcade 8 and fell in love with it. …
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