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Official PlayStation Home Furniture

November 13, 2018 By ausretrogamer

Let’s face it, some of us are better than others when it comes to furnishing and decorating our homes. So what would you say if things were made easier for us home furniture decorator noobs by PBTeen? Well, it is true – PBTeen have released an official range of Playstation inspired furniture – we know, we are spinning out too!

From bookshelves, coffee tables, TV wall units to comfy one seat beanbags, the PlayStation furniture has you covered when decking out your lounge area or games room. We gotta say it, this PBTeen PlayStation Collection is just so damn cool!

image source: PBTeen

[source: technabob]

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Furniture, PBTeen Collection, Playstation, Playstation coffee table, PlayStation Furniture, PS, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, Sony Playstation furniture

We are at PAX Aus!

October 24, 2018 By ausretrogamer

Yo peeps, the Ausretrogamer gang and their awesome friends (Weird and Retro, Press Play On Tape podcast, Bartronica, Bayside Pinball Club) are all at PAX Aus 2018 this coming weekend running the awesome and nostalgia inducing Classic Gaming area.

If you are attending PAX Aus, come over, say hi and most importantly, play and have fun!

We are here!
image source: PAX Aus

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Arcade, Atari, atari lynx, ausretrogamer, Bartronica, Bayside Pinball Club, C64, classic gaming, head 2 head pinball, IFPA, melbourne silverball, Mr Pinball, NES, nintendo, PAX, PAX Aus, PAX Aus 2018, PAX Australia, PAXAus, PAXAus 2018, PAXAus CGA, PAXAus Classic Gaming, PAXAus Classic Gaming Area, pinball, press play on tape podcast, Retro Gaming, River Raid, SNES, Super Nt, Weird and Retro, Zax Amusements

80s Baby: NKOTB Are Back Baby!

October 23, 2018 By ausretrogamer


New Kids On The Block are back, baby! Well, so are Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty By Nature, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson performing 80s Baby. Part of the ‘The Mixtape Tour 2019‘, this new single is a throwback to the awesomest decade of them all, the 1980s!

This song will have you bopping along with that familiar cool 80s tunes. Oh yeah, the video clip is a throwback to Sega’s cool OutRun arcade game – a nice touch indeed!

Huge thanks to Poop Face (aka: Freakin Frankie) for letting us know about this!


source: New Kids On The Block

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: !Arcade!, 80s, 80s baby, 80s Baby NKOTB, 80s music, Frankie, Freakin Frankie, Music, New Kids On The Block, NKOTB, OutRun, OutRun homage, Retro, retrogaming, sega

Pinball Browser: Customise Your Pinball Machine

October 22, 2018 By ausretrogamer


If you like to dabble in hacking and modding proprietary software, especially on pinball machines, you are in luck!

Pinball Browser, created by French Pinsider, Olivier (aka: OGA83), is your godsend tool to customise and personalise your Stern Whitestar, SAM and SPIKE firmware based pinball machines to your liking. Pinball Browser allows you to access, modify, add, remove sounds, images, videos, messages, adjustments and of course, high scores tables. So if you want to ensure you are the Grand Champion on your Stern The Walking Dead pinball machine, get this great software tool and get creative!

To learn more about its capabilities and download Pinball Browser (latest version is v6.50) go here now. Oh yeah, please consider donating 20 EURO (or more) to register this great piece of software. By registering Pinball Browser, your donated contribution unlocks unique features and will also support Olivier in including future improvements! It is definitely worth it.

We all owe our gratitude to Olivier, so from the entire pinball community, thank you for creating this most awesome and useful tool!

Pinball Browser is one POWERFUL modding tool!

Look who is now the GRAND CHAMPION on TWD 😉

Changing some DMD graphics – does orange look alright to you?

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: OGA83, pinball, Pinball Browser, Pinball Press, pinballpress, Pinside, SAM, Spike, Stern, Stern Pinball, Stern SAM, Stern SPIKE, Stern Whitestar, Whitestar, WPC

Cirque Electriq: The Cirque-Us Is Coming To Melbourne-Town

October 16, 2018 By ausretrogamer

Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq gives arcades and tricky ticket games a new life!

Roll up, roll up to The District Docklands, cause from October 18, the amazing and incredible circus-themed leisure-tainment wonderland, Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq will be in Melbourne town.

Bring your smallfry, bring your largefry! They will have fun things for young and old from the dodgem cars (aka: bumper cars), carousels, interactive XD motion theatres, crazy shakes, bowling, arcade games and of course, pinball! Yes, PINBALL! Oh yeah and prizes, lots and lots of prizes! To say we are excited would be the biggest understatement of the year!

We can’t wait to hit Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq, so we hope to see you guys there!

Let the FUN TIMES begin!

Important Deets:

  • Location: The District, 440 Docklands Drive, Docklands (Melbourne)
  • Opening Hours: Sunday to Thursday 12pm – 10pm, Friday and Saturday 12pm – late
  • Entry Conditions: Strictly Over 18’s from 8pm
  • Telephone: 1300 888 386

source: The District Docklands and Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Exploring, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: amusements at Docklands, Arcade Docklands, Archie Brothers, Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq, barcade, basketball, bowling, bumper cars, Cirque Electriq, Docklands, Docklands Melbourne, dodgem cars, dodgems, Funlab, kidult, Pinball Docklands, redemption, The District Docklands, ticket redemption

PAX Aus 2018: Classic Tournaments

October 12, 2018 By ausretrogamer

Sharpen your reflexes and get your fingers ready for the PAX Aus 2018 Classic Tourneys!

From tournaments on the Commodore 64, Sega Dreamcast, NES, Atari Lynx to arcade and pinball, we have your nostalgia covered! Check out the PAX Aus 2018 Classic Gaming tournament schedule below and make sure you come around to the Classic Gaming Area nice and early for your chance to become the retro gaming champion!

The PAX Aus 2018 Classic Gaming Tournaments are brought to you by these awesome community partners: Bartronica, Bayside Pinball Club, Press Play On Tape Podcast, Weird And Retro and us at Ausretrogamer.

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: !Arcade!, Amiga, Arcade comp, Atari Comp, atari lynx, Bartronica, C64, Classic Gaming Area, Classic Gaming Tournaments, Classic Tourney, gaming comp at PAX, IFPA, PAX, PAX Aus, PAX Aus 2018, PAX Aus Classic Tourney, PAX Aus Tournaments, PAX Australia, pax classic, PAXAus, PAXAus 2018, pinball, Pinball Comp, Pinball Press, Point Blank, PPOT, press play on tape, press play on tape podcast, Retro gaming competition, River Raid TE, tetris, Weird and Retro

2018 Reset C64 Craptastic 4KB Game Competition Results

October 11, 2018 By ausretrogamer

This year’s Reset C64 Craptastic 4KB Game Competition was a great success and we would like to thank all of the competitors for their participation and hard work. Also a big thank-you to the judges and competition sponsors: RGCD, Pond Software, Bitmap Books and Protovision.

Every single entry was produced in the spirit of the competition and contained humour, creative ideas, and a demonstration of amazing skills by the developers – which is exactly what Craptastic is all about! Alas, there has to be a winner (even though we are proud of all the entries) and this time it is Paul Koller for his amazing Conga 4096. The arena shooter, based on RGCD’s Pan Dimensional Conga Combat, is definitely a worthy winner and is an amazing achievement by Paul and unbelievable for a 4KB game!

The winner: Conga 4096 by Paul Koller

Judges’ comments and more details will be published in a special Craptastic Reset mini-issue which will be out soon. Until then, enjoy the games which can be downloaded from the 2018 Craptastic page, and congratulations again to all of the entrants.

PLACINGS

  1. Conga 4096 by Paul Koller (28.86)
  2. WTF by Misfit (26.71)
  3. Snake-a-Space (aka Molly) by Jamie & Molly Fuller, Wave Hero by Geir Straume (26.57)
  4. Chef Quest by Pond/Privy Software, Orbs by Raffaele Formato/Raffox (26.43)
  5. Dustin’ Pond/Privy Software (26.14)
  6. #2vABC by James (24.57)
  7. Kalle Kloakk 4k by Megastyle (24.43)
  8. Trump Tower by Megastyle (24)
  9. Endless Worlds by Derek, Mach-Tank by Malcontent (23.43)
  10. Space Poker by Karol Stasiak (23)
  11. Elevator Eric by Derek (21.43)
  12. Rabid Robots 4k by Richard Bayliss/Alf Yngve (21.14)
  13. Mind the Mines by Derek (21)
  14. Freaky Fish by Chris Page (20.43)
  15. Toxic by Richard Bayliss/Shaun Pearson (19.43)
  16. Memory Safe by Jamie Fuller (19.29)
  17. Parking Assist Chicken (PAC) by Goerp (17.58)
  18. 4kventure by Endurion (16.57)
  19. Sheeps! By Matthew Clarke (16.29)
  20. Roll Roll Roll by Cout (14)
  21. G7000 Racer by Igmar Coenen (13.71)
  22. I Found A Moon Rock In My Nose by Cout (12.57)
  23. Plunko by Cout (12.43)
  24. $100 Box by Cout (11.14)

Out of the comp: Shinobiden Gaiden by @_fou_lu.

Chef Quest

Dustin’

Snake-a-Space (aka Molly)

Orbs

Wave Hero

WTF

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Unkle K / Reset C64
Father, husband, teacher and retro gaming/computer enthusiast! Editor of Reset… C64 magazine.

Follow Reset C64 on Twitter

 

 

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Nintendo Files Patent To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Game Boy

October 10, 2018 By ausretrogamer

Just in case you have just come out of a cave with no internet access, let us tell you some massive news, Nintendo has patented a Game Boy case for touchscreen devices, like the smartphone in your pocket!

Check out the filed patent here, and then hit the Eurogamer feature story for more info on this cool throwback contraption!

source: Variety & Eurogamer

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: classic gaming, Game Boy, Game Boy Android, Game Boy Case Smartphone, Game Boy iPhone, nintendo, Nintendo Patent, Nintendo Patent Game Boy, retrogaming, Smartphone

Midway Gaming Box: The Perfect Christmas Gift

October 9, 2018 By ausretrogamer


We reckon we have just found our Christmas present!

If you are a retro gamer or know someone that is a retro gamer / classic arcade gamer (Midway, Atari, Bally, and Williams), then this USD$29.99 Midway Gaming Box is the perfect Xmas gift. This nifty gaming box includes a Rampage journal, Defender Teeny Tin, Joust Bumper Sticker, Defender bumper sticker, Paper Boy sheet magnet, Joust Boingler vinyl figure, and a Spy Hunter pin.

Pre-orders are now open, with the Midway Gaming Box landing in November – great timing for Christmas!

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: !Arcade!, Atari, Bally, Christmas, Classic Arcade Gaming, Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Midway, Midway Arcade, Midway Gaming Box, paperboy, Rampage, Retro Gaming, retrogaming, Williams

Introducing the RepliCade Mini Centipede Arcade Machine

October 4, 2018 By ausretrogamer

When we backed New Wave Toys‘ RepliCade: Mini Centipede Arcade Machine Kickstarter, we only imagined how good it would be. Well, we have received our limited edition RepliCade Mini Centipede and let’s just say, we are totally blown away by it!

The level of detail, from the cabinet styling, artwork, light-up marquee, control panel overlay, old school P1 and P2 player select buttons to the fire button, coin slots and the beautiful trak-ball, New Wave Toys should be commended for a prefect recreation of Atari’s iconic Centipede arcade machine – it truly needs to be seen to be believed!

The Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin approves of the RepliCade Mini Centipede Arcade Machine

OK, we know what you are thinking, it looks great, but does it play well? In short, it plays perfectly, we cannot fault it one bit! The trak-ball feels oh so right (you can adjust its sensitivity) even though it looks small, it feels great under the index finger. The concave fire button also feels right, with no lag at all. The emulation used is as if it was yanked right off the Centipede arcade board, it plays unbelievably smooth. Just on this, New Wave Toys are using their proprietary RepliCade high-performance chipset for smooth, lag-free gameplay. It runs on a closed system that boots directly into ROM. By pressing the right coin slot, you have access to all the options that the original machine had in the arcades. Seriously, these guys have thought of everything!

The RepliCade Mini Centipede Arcade Machine comes highly recommended. The design and level of detail of this replica mini arcade machine is simply sublime. Dona Bailey and Ed Logg would be quite impressed with what New Wave Toys have achieved. We now look forward to their next creation in their RepliCade series, the Mini Tempest Arcade Machine!

PS: The Atari 25c insert coin keychain (bottom of this article) was available to Kickstarter backers only! The generic 25c insert coin keychain is available via Amazon!

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: !Arcade!, 80s, arcade cabinet, arcade machine replica, Atari, Atari Centipede, Centipede, Dona Bailey, Ed Logg, insert coin, mini arcade machine, miniature arcade, New Wave Toys, Replicade, RepliCade Mini Centipede Arcade Machine, RepliCade Mini Centipede Arcade Machine 12" Replica

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