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PIK3A: Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA Cocktail Tables

May 1, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

There’s no better IKEA hack than a retrogaming IKEA hack, and these fantastic ‘PIK3A’ Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA cocktail arcade tables are the best! Even better, you can make your own by following spannerspencer’s detailed instructions on the element14 website (PIK3A mark I and PIK3A mark II).

The PIK3A mark I

The PIK3A mark II

Sources: element14 via @mattgillard, and element 14

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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‘Player Two’: Videogames Can Be A Spiritual Experience

April 30, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Player Two is a short film by John Wikstrom based on a YouTube comment by 00WARTHERAPY00 on the PBS Game/Show ‘Can Video Games Be A Spiritual Experience?‘ episode. This beautiful film tells the touching story of a boy discovering a ghost driver of his father’s fastest lap in RalliSport Challenge on an old Xbox console years after his death.

Source: John Wikstrom on Vimeo via Laughing Squid

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Donkey Kong In Real Life

April 24, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Have you ever wondered what Donkey Kong would look like in real life? Of course you have. Well wonder no more, Banks shows us exactly what it would be like – and it’s awesome!

Want more? Watch Tetris in real life or the making of the Donkey Kong in Real Life video.

Source: MyNameIsBanks via Cheezburger

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Supa Cosplay at Supanova Expo Melbourne 2016

April 23, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

We love watching cosplay – the wigs, the makeup, the lycra, the armor, the props – wow! We especially love seeing the amazing variety of characters and interpretations people come up with. Well, our fellow Melbournians did us proud at the recent Supanova Expo, here are our cosplay highlights from the 2016 Supanova Pop Culture Expo Melbourne.

Amazing dwarf makeup – we think this was done by the Weta Workshop

Kool Kylo Ren Kosplay

This – This is Negan, and he is awesome
(surprisingly, this was the only Negan we came across)

A stunning display at the Torb and Reiner booth

Punky Bowser

Ready… Fight!

Welcome to Silent Hill – quick, where’s my Rock Drill?!

So much Star Wars

Boba Link: The Zeldalorian bounty hunter

The steampunk elf king

You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper

Wow – Fallen Captain, Destiny

Marvel-ous cosplay by David Cunning a.k.a. Delta one cosplay

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Patti Lapel: Awesome Retro Pins

April 14, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Jensen Karp‘s Patti Lapel sells awesome retro pins among other weird things (check out the Ian Ziering/Led Zepplin mashup T-shirt for example). The latest pins include a N64 GoldenEye cart and a NES Game Genie.

And there’s plenty more – you’d better buy some more jackets because you’re going to start running out of lapel space!

Source: Patti Lapel

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Fancy Pants: Pac-Man Suit And Tie

April 9, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Do you have a big job interview or a wedding coming up? Well, Oppo Suits has you covered (literally) with this brilliant Pac-Man suit.

Source: Oppo Suits

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Ben Heck’s Giant Game Boy: The Game Man

April 8, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Ben Heck and co. from Element 14’s The Ben Heck Show made this amazing 670 percent scaled-up Game Boy (aptly named ‘The Game Man’) in just 4 days! It runs off an actual Game Boy connected to a VGA monitor and is awesome, see exactly how they made it in the video below.

Video source: The Ben Heck Show on YouTube

Source: Element 14’s The Ben Heck Show via Technabob

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Fury Fingers: ‘The Diversion’

March 11, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

We know it’s not retro, but we couldn’t resist sharing Fury Fingers‘ great new video with you.

The Diversion is an awesome funny film sponsored by Ubisoft (wow!) to celebrate the release of Tom Clancy’s The Division. Watch SHD agents hit the street and use the game’s many weapons and tools to take out bad-guys in all manner of creative ways.

The guys (Nick, Andrew, Daniel and David) have really outdone themselves this time with the comedy, action and visual FX. Congratulations also need to go to Cody Porter for make up, JusZCosplay in the female lead role, and Task Force Taipan for creating weapons and costumes (check out the full credits).

Source: Fury Fingers

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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CRASH: The Year Video Games Died – By Ahoy

February 29, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Ahoy neatly explains the 1980’s (North American) video games crash in just over seven minutes in this snazzy video, and they come to some interesting conclusions!

Source: Ahoy on YouTube via Cheezburger

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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Fury Fingers: ‘Pac-Man: Come Out To Play’

February 26, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Much to our delight, our favourite Aussie filmmakers, Fury Fingers, have gone retro with their latest offering: ‘Pac-Man: Come Out To Play‘ – a gritty Pac-Man reboot inspired by the classic movie The Warriors.

The film stars the talented fight choreographer Anthony Rinna as Pac-Man and the awesome Sweezy freerunning team as the parkour gang / ghosts. Impressively, it was filmed guerrilla-style in Adelaide over 5 nights for next to nothing.

Now enjoy Pac-Man: Come Out To Play – in Fury Fingers’ words ‘the grit has hit the fan!’

Credits:
Written and Directed by Andrew Shanks
Produced by Andrew Shanks, Anthony Rinna, Nicholas Cleary and Daniel Vink
DOP / Camera – David Gregan
2nd Unit Camera – Andrew Shanks
FX and Picture Grade – Daniel Vink
Post sound aid – Nicholas Cleary
Featuring:
Anthony Rinna as Pacman
Eddie Morrison as Blinky
Andrew Whitehead as Clyde
Henry Nash as Pinky
Thomas Berry as Inky
Ellie Duigan as the DJ
Poster design by Marina Budimir
Ghosts logo design – Mitchell Wheaton
Music by Ben Palk of Big Daddy’s Discotheque

Source: Fury Fingers on YouTube

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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

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