Retro Blog 🕰️

#Zelda #intros Enjoy the evolution of all of the intros that appear throughout the Zelda series. The music, the sights, and the tingling excitement of starting a new adventure. Watch it evolve from it’s humble 8 bit beginnings. source

A complication of video game start up screens from the early eighties until present. Enjoy. source

Enjoy this new year perfect collection of #Dreamcast commercials from the late 90s and early 2000s. The Dreamcast system is, in a word, awesome. Fireup Soul Calibur, and instantly you’ll appreciate that the graphics and gameplay are even better than in the arcade version. And Sonic Adventure, with its light-speed gameplay, is sure to wow even the most jaded gamer. source

#shorts a vintage atari 2600 commercial. #videogames source

old school Sega Genesis retro commercial. Sega does what #Nintendont. #segaGenesis source

This is an upcoming theme by the author Finbarr for the amazing FE Pegasus. When the download is available we will link. It’s based off of the Coin Ops Next theme. This is an android OS frontend! Can you believe it. Please download the frontend at https://pegasus-frontend.org/ source

Sonic the hedgehog drowning over and over and over again in every game he’s ever starred in. #shorts #sega source

Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo started and iconic era in gaming. watch them evolve in the first three of the series for the Nintendo entertainment system. source

This was captured on my Nvidia Shield. Metal Slug 6 returns to the Rebel-Martian alliance featured in Metal Slugs 2, X, and 3, but on a much broader scale. Rather than repeating the previous games’ events of the Martians breaking the alliance and the Rebels assisting the player in turn, the player now teams up with the Rebels and Martians to combat an even greater threat. Metal Slug 6 introduces …

Colossus is an ANIMAL. Arcade playthrough. source

This Mortal Kombat arcade version was captured with my Nvidia shield. first time playing in 25 years so let me tell you it was exciting going four rounds with Goro. I can’t remember a single fatality time to look up some game cheats. source

Is there a better beat him up in the arcade so you were kids? this was captured on my Nvidia shield and believe it or not my 10 year old play through this one. who says kids aren’t into Retro games? The Simpsons!! Konami. Woah. source

Super Metroid released in 1994 was an amazing game for its time. This bad boy was captured on a SNES mini and played by our very own Thomas H. source

First world. Super Mario world, captured with a SNES mini. Played by Thomas H. source

Definitely an underrated beat em’ up. This game was captured on a Super NES mini and played by our very own Thomas H. source

Watch Donatello take down the evil Shredder in this ultimate arcade beat em’up. captured with my nivida shield. source

The ultimate quarter gobbling beat em’ up. Captured on my Nvidia shield. source

Michael Jacksons Moon Walker. The best arcade game, EVER. Captured with a Nvidia Shield. Yeeeheeeee. source

A side-scrolling fighting game starring Rick and Allen, two private detectives on a case to retrieve a “Rich Man’s” kidnapped daughter, set in October, 1939. Captured with my shield. source

Ever hear of the arcade game Bal Cube? I stumbled into it accidentally playing with emulators back in the early 2000s. I never actually saw this arcade machine out in the wild. Have you? It’s one of my favorites after Arkanoid. source

Captured with my Nvidia shield. San Drad, California, has been overrun by the Aliens, and the cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa have been abandoned by their superiors and are cornered by a swarm of the Alien drones. Before they can be killed, a pair of the Predators appear and destroy the Aliens. The Predators offer an alliance with the two humans in order to stop the Alien …

#shorts Johnny Cages easter egg game #MortalKombat source

A unique beat em’ up released in the Arcades in 1999. Gaia Crusaders’ story involves the world being destroyed by demons in the year 20XX. Chosen warriors, the Gaia Crusaders, are sent in by an ancient spirit to destroy the demons and rebuild the world. There is a lot of post apocalyptic imagery including ruined skyscrapers, vast desert wastelands and a ruined Statue of Liberty possibly inspired by Escape From …

My son and I played through this one. It was different that’s for sure. Dyna Gear: An Action Adventure On The Era Of Dinosaur is a 2D arcade platform game. The player can choose from two characters – Roger and Wolf. Gameplay is fast and simple – just run left and shoot enemies. Heroes can use various weapons, like swords, flails or arrows. The world in Dyna Gear: An Action …

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, released in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shinseiki, is a 1993 arcade game by Capcom. It is a side-scrolling beat ’em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales.  Played by us casually on April 25th 2021. source