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Firebrand is a young warrior in training in his hometown of Etruria. Platform – Nintendo Entertainment System Release Date – July 17, 1992 One day, while Firebrand is training in a small, alternate dimension, the Black light suddenly appears and destroys his home. When he returns successfully from his training, …

I recently read a magazine article in my first issues of killscreen magazine. The writer, whose name escapes me at the moment, discussed whether gaming research contributed anything valuable to the design of video games. Does gaming research inform industry? He gives a brief history of how video games actually originated from within academic …

Clean it good! I recently read that Nintendo changed a commercial they maid for Mario’s 25th anniversary. I looked up the videos and noticed the difference.  The first video is the original video that shows this kid come home, turn on his old tv and change it to channel 3.  …

If I had this bed as a kid I don’t think I would have ever had a problem making it. This kid has the coolest grandma ever for making something like this. Wait the NES came out 25 years ago, this was made by a total geek! Anyway we think …

Orange Crush This person or group put an awful lot of work into this soda masterpiece of Mario going after a question box! Ill never look at orange crush the same again. At least they took a picture because you know that wont last long! Not sure where this picture …

Ed Fries, the old VP of Microsoft game publishing, also a big player in the Bungie Title HALO, has returned to the old school with a new old game, Halo 2600. It was presented at the Classic Game Expo in Las Vegas last weekend. Thank Ed from Atari Age. I …

In the spirit of procrastination I decided to post about a mini arcade I found.  I’m not sure if this is old news, but it’s interesting.  This guy built mini arcades using a turbo grafx 16 and a sega genesis.  He used these mini ps1 portable screens, a retro arcade …

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 …

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 …

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.  …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …