Retro Gaming ๐ŸŽฎ

Dive into the world of retro gaming with reviews, guides, emulator tips, platform deep-dives, and classic game features. Relive the golden age of video games.

Super Mario Bros 2. Longplay [NES] 1993 #guide #walkthrough #tutorial

Unlike our previous play of the remaster on the SNES Allstars edition by Ryan McQuinn, this one is played on the original NES using warps. Marioโ€™s back! Bigger and badder than before! This time itโ€™s a fierce action-packed battle to free the land of Subcon from the curse of the evil Wart. Itโ€™s up to you, along with Mario, Luigi, Toad and the Princess, to fight your way through bizarre …

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kung fu [Longplay] (1985) NES #guide #walkthrough #tutorial

My kids think I am some sort of god now ๐Ÿฅด. #nes #nintendo #kungfu You’ll need lightning fast reactions to knock out the Knife Thrower, stop the Stick Fighter, and trip up the evil Tom Tom Brothers in this action-packed martial arts contest! Are you sure you’re tough enough? Because it’ll take all your strength and skill to master the moves in KUNG FU, beat your opponents, and rescue the …

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Super Mario Bros 3 [Longplay] All worlds (NES) #guide #walkthrough #tutorial

We beat this game along with everyone else in the early 90s but only now have we decided to play through each world. It took a while!!! Fight monsters and mini-bosses, avoid ghosts and the burning sun. Make your way through water and quicksand. Dodge cannon balls and bullets and rescue the Kingโ€™s wand! In Super Mario Bros. 3 there are more warps, more chances at extra lives, and new …

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Nintendo donates 10,000 respirators to American 1st responders

There has been and epic global shortage of face mask respirators, endangering the health our men and women on the front lines. To fight back against Covid19, Nintendo has found almost 10,000 n95 particulate respirator masks which are now being donated to the brave 1st responders near the company’s North American operations. It is being reported by North Bend Washington, where Nintendo of Americaโ€™s packaging and distribution center is based, …

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Wolfenstein 3D (Atari Jaguar)

Wolfenstein 3D (Atari Jaguar) – Leftover Culture Review The Leftover Culture Review is premiering on Retro-Replay! And to celebrate, we wanted to start out by Schtompfing Nazi arsch im spiel WOlfenstein 3D fur die Atari Jaguar. http://blip.tv/leftover-culture-review/wolfenstein-3d-atari-jaguar-leftover-culture-review-6311117 LOCR Producer: When talking about first person shooters for the Jaguar, most peoples first thoughts are Alien vs Predator or Doom, and the Jaguar did have a great port of Doom, but with …

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OUYA: Open source video game console for under 100 bucks.

This could be the ope source home video gamea console we have been looking for since iNDREAMA. Anyone remember that? Itโ€™s been less than a week since the OUYA open-source video game console first debuted on Kickstarter, and the project is already closing in on the $5,000,000 mark. And yes, you read that right โ€” 5 million dollars. Considering that the guys behind the project were originally aiming for slightly …

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New Super Nintendo game: Super Road Blaster

I’m Matthias Nagler and have recently released a new game for the SNES. It’s an unlicensed port of a 1986 Laserdisc arcade game, the first full-motion movie game and the biggest game on the Super Nintendo yet at 6320 Mbit. The game is called Super Road Blaster and uses a special enhancement device called the MSU-1 that enables CD quality audio and a vast amount of storage space on the …

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The Lego of Zelda

How cool would it be to have our very own Lego theme? Well Mingles has gone out of his way to work on his own rendition in hopes to bring this to light. Nintendo, Lego, do you copy? Over the last year I have personally spent a huge amount of time designing these 3D models of LEGO scaled items from the Legend of Zelda series. Despite being able to manufacture …

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Nintendo spoils a great commercial

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.ย  The first video is the original video that shows this kid come home, turn on his old tv and change it to channel 3.ย  He then blows on the cartridge , pops it in, and starts playing.ย  I loved this commercial! It turns out …

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Mini Arcades

In the spirit of procrastination I decided to post about a mini arcade I found.ย  I’m not sure if this is old news, but it’s interesting.ย  This guy built mini arcades using a turbo grafx 16 and a sega genesis.ย  He used these mini ps1 portable screens, a retro arcade stick you hook up to a tv, and old systems.ย  They came out pretty nice! The post is in Spanish, …

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Retro-arcades and Hipster Culture

I’m not sure if this is a phenomena that’s particular to San Francisco or if it is widespread.ย  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 you can see one of my friends playing pac man.ย  He took me to this bar, full of hipsters, table …

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New old games

It’s oldschool! It’s back in 3d form! Withall these advancements in 3d games we always come back to good ‘ol 2d (and by 2d I mean on a 2d plane) game play. It’sย  interesting to see the new innovations that developers bring to 2d games, platform games, and fighting games. Maybe there is some space for us retro fans in this generation of gaming after all. What do you all …

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Metroid Fan Comic

I recently found this comic and really enjoyed the art.ย  I was surprised how well some of the later images were illustrated.ย  The story is a little odd, and the writing needs a bit of work, but the art is top notch! Some nsfw illustrations, but overall it’s fine.ย  For those of you not used to reading manga, remember you read from right to left then move down. I remember …

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Pop Fiction Episode 3

Remember the days when you and your friends would talk about rumors and claim to be able to do things in games that seemed impossible? I particularly remember the blood code for Mortal Kombat1, in Mega Man 3 if 2nd player held specific buttons you could fall in gaps and not die (and jump super high), street fighter II gamepro april fools, and more.ย  This new series at gametrailers investigates …

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Mario Marathon for sick kids

Pretty cool idea. A group of guys play through 25 years of Mario games in the name of sick children, for charity! QUOTE: “Mario Marathon is an annual fan run fundraiser for Child’s Play Charity. Child’s Play provides toys, games and books to patients of children’s hospitals worldwide. The multi day internet event, broadcast live online, attracts an audience from around the world to watch as the team plays through …

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5 Good Games You Forgot About (Retro-ish)

There are quite a few games out there that were awesome growing up that you have not played in years I am sure. There are thousands of classics, and many have slipped your mind. Here are some titles that you have forgot about. 5. Kid Icarus for the NES. (Nintendo Entertainment System) Everyone has fond memories of timing a jump wrong and falling to your death, Fudge, it was tough …

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