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There’s A Party In My Pocket And Every Console Is Invited

07/02/2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

pic 1No, this is not a new Game Boy; it is a new mobile emulator from Rose Colored Gaming. This cute little guy is called ‘Pascali’. He is Raspberry-Pi based and plays over 10 systems at full speed including:

  • NES
  • SNES
  • MAME
  • CPS-1
  • Neo Geo
  • Game Boy
  • Game Boy Color
  • Game Boy Advance
  • Game Gear
  • TurboGrafx / PC-Engine
  • Sega Master System
  • Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
  • DOS
  • Apple 2
  • Atari 2600

And he can even be plugged into a TV via HDMI and used as a console with a USB controller!

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Apparently Pascali is still in development, but not too far away. If you can’t wait, you should check out the other cool things Rose Colored Gaming have on offer:

The Yoshi-themed ‘Little Green Machine’ – customised SNES
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Refurbished original portables (choose from Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket Color, SEGA Nomad and Game Boy Micro)
GBA

GBC

nomad

NG

micro

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Source: Rose Colored Gaming on Facebook via Game Zone and Rose Colored Gaming

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msausretrogamerMs. ausretrogamer
Editor and Researcher 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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Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Handheld Emulator, Portable Gaming, Retro Gaming, Rose Colored Gaming

Free To Play Retro Game Mash-Ups

06/02/2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Mash-ups aren’t anything new, but when you can play them, things start to get quite interesting. Check out this Super Mario site that mashes our favourite video game characters in other games or pop culture scenarios and then allows you to have a go!

All the mash-up games are Flash based and can be played on your Android devices.

The games are quite cute and fun – who wouldn’t like to beat-up Koopas, Lui Kang-style in Mario Combat!

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There is also Tuper Tario Tros – a Super Mario Bros. and Tetris mash-up where you use your tetraminos to build a safe path across the level.

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And who wouldn’t like to have Sonic speeding through Mario’s familiar landscape in Sonic Super Marioland – I guess Dr Robotnik has kidnapped Amy Rose.

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There are many more strange and wonderful knock-off Super Mario games, from the fun Super Mario Truck Driver to Super Mario Space Shuttle with the awesome Can’t Touch This soundtrack! If you like to experience Mario in a Mafioso Godfather styled game, then have a crack at God Father Super Mario, you’ll be a ‘made man’ in no time.

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msausretrogamerMs. ausretrogamer
Editor and Researcher at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

Follow Ms. ausretrogamer on Twitter

 

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Flash retro games, free games, mashup, retrogaming, sonic, super mario, Super Mario mashups, The Godfather

NES Cartridge Gaming On The Go

04/02/2015 By ausretrogamer

nesp_titleWant to take a piece of your NES on the go and play games on it? Yep, you read that question right – take a piece of your NES, in this instance, a NES console stuffed into a NES game cartridge that can be played on the go!

The specifications of this Nintendo Entertainment System Portable (nesP) are:

Screen: 2.8″ TFT LCD
Control: D-Pad, Select, Start, and two fire buttons
Storage: 4GB internal / SD card slot for additional storage
Battery: rechargeable Li-Ion
Players: MP3 audio player and recorder, FM radio, photo viewer and video player
Emulators: NES, Game Boy and Game Boy Color
Speaker: Mono
Output: TV-Out

All in all, a pretty cool one-of-a-kind handheld device that would definitely send tongues wagging on public transport. The TV-Out is a nifty feature, so take that Sega Arcade Nano!


source: robotswillkillyou

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: NES, NES Gaming On The Go, NES portable, nesP, nintendo, retrogaming

Gore & Watch: Zombie Feeding Frenzy

02/02/2015 By ausretrogamer

ZombieFeedingFrenzyHave you got a hankering to play a Game & Watch style zombie game on your Android device? Well, look no further! Pixelation Studios have mashed together some zombies and humans with Gunpei Yokoi’s handheld wonderment to bring you Zombie Feeding Frenzy.

With two distinct game modes, everyone is catered for – from the nostalgists wanting a classic G&W style game, to the arcade enthusiasts wanting to immerse themselves in a full-on feeding frenzy with awesome graphics and power-ups. Both game modes have their own individual highscore tables for the competitive types, so get munching on some humans and get Zombie Feeding Frenzy now, it’s free!

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Android, Free game, Game & Watch, Zombie Feeding Frenzy, Zombies

Geek Nirvana

30/01/2015 By ausretrogamer

Nirvana_HouseThere are those of us with great ideas that never execute them, even with meticulous planning, we are gripped with the fear of failing. Then there are the entrepreneurial types that don’t care for the consequences and take risks. Somewhere in-between are hardcore geeks that decide to open up their house for business, mitigating that dreaded rental risk that plagues bricks-and-mortar shopfronts.

So, what does one do when they have lots and lots of freaky, geeky, nerdy, weird and wonderful items that they would like to share with the general public? They convert their house into ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and open it up for business! It’s about 14,466 km between Melbourne and Denton, so here we go…………..

Who doesn’t like glass cabinets? There is only one right answer!
Nirvana_stand1
Don’t you just want to drool over the glass? Again, there is only one right answer!
Nirvana_stand2

Splatterhouse runners? WTF? *Mind Blown*
Nirvana_Splatterhouse

Getting bored of the comics? Then blast some baddies!
Nirvana_Arcade

Feeling very lightheaded! Click to enlarge and find out why
Nirvana_Amiibo_large

Care for some Sega 16-bit goodness? (click to enlarge)
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Another Great Wall Of Action Figures! (click to enlarge)
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Nintendo Entertainment System represent! (click to enlarge)
Nirvana_NES_LArge

Flick through some comics. (click to enlarge)
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Sega 8-bit and some hybrid 32(x)-Bit!
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Let’s play….. pick a game! (click to enlarge)
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Source: imgur

Head on over to imugr to see the rest of the photos from Freaks and Geeks! Drool not included.

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Freaks and Geeks, Freaky, Geeks, Nerds, Nirvana, Retro Gaming, retrogaming

Classic Video Game Characters Breaking All The Rules!

24/01/2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Breaking_Title“Whose turn is it?”. “Who cares, let’s rush him!” – imagine if classic video game characters could break all the rules! This video from Dorkly shows us exactly what crazy things might happen if our favourite character just did what they wanted. Let the antics begin!


source: Dorkly
Via: Laughing Squid

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msausretrogamerMs. ausretrogamer
Editor and Researcher at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.

Follow Ms. ausretrogamer on Twitter

 

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: classic gaming, Retro Gaming, video

Hot Wheels Battle: Star Trek VS Star Wars

21/01/2015 By ausretrogamer

HotWheels_SWvsSTI may have been a Matchbox fan in my younger years, but it’s all about Hot Wheels right now! Starting with the Atari Nostalgics, Hot Wheels (well, Mattel) have definitely piqued my interest in their little cars.

It seems that Hot Wheels have jumped on the pop culture bandwagon and are hurtling down to your local toy store. Not only have Hot Wheels fused their cool toy cars with one sci-fi cult classic, Star Trek, but they have given us the equivalent of a boxing one-two sucker punch by also giving us the Star Wars collection(s).

Considering it is a new year, and in the spirit of giving (thank you Ms. ausretrogamer), I wasn’t going to deny myself either of these collections. Star Trek or Star Wars – let the battle for the sci-fi universe begin!

The Star Trek collection
HotWheels_StarTrek

Star Trek Collection explained
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Oooooo, Spock!
HotWheels_StarTrek_Spock

The Star Wars Hot Wheels gang!
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Looking good Mr Skywalker
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Join the dark side of the Hot Wheels force!
HotWheels_Darth
The Battle Of The Hot Wheels Universe!
HotWheels_SWvsST_2

Vader is all over Bones!
HotWheel_Darth_over_Dr

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Hot Wheels, Star Trek, Star Wars, Toys

Partying With My Retro Gaming Brethren

18/01/2015 By ausretrogamer

Party_groupWhen I first ventured into retro gaming, little did I know that I would meet such awesome and like-minded people. Since establishing a great bond with the locally based Retro Domination and Weird and Retro guys, we have shared many a good time, not least of all, at our annual Classic Gaming extravaganza at PAX Aus.

With family priorities keeping me away for most of the 2014 PAX Aus event, the rest of the Classic Gaming crew, including the Adelaide based Retrospekt team, were hugely supportive, which was greatly appreciated.

As a thank you, Ms. ausretrogamer and I invited our Victorian based retro gaming colleagues to celebrate the grand opening of our new games room. Between the consumption of pizzas, beer, soft drinks and Ms. ausretrogamer’s famous Black Russians, there were pinball high score challenges, Frisbee action via Windjammers on the Neo Geo MVS and a lot of laughter and reminiscing. It was also great to meet Mrs. Daz Retro and their three lovely kids.

I was humbled to receive many gifts, which were totally unexpected. Matt Cawley handed me a few custom MVS boxes, Ultimate Body Blows and a number of other Amiga CD32 goodies. As per usual, Daz surprised me with a boxed (Last) Ninja 3 for the C64 and the equally awesome, Dracula – The Undead for the Atari Lynx. However, the biggest surprise came from Mr. Mark Cassar. Without any fanfare, Mark handed me an awesome custom-made ausretrogamer C64 t-shirt. To say I was rapt, would be a great understatement!

Since the new games room has now officially been opened, I hope to host many more retro gaming parties with great friends. Game on!

The calm before the retro gaming storm!
Party_Before

Pizzas, Drinks and great company = perfect ingredients for a party
Party_Pizzas_Drinks

Matt having a crack at the Pin*Bot high score!
Party_Matt_Pinbot

The great Mark Cassar taking a swing on the Neo Geo!
Party_Mark_NeoTurf

Daz showing the boys his flipper skills!
Party_Daz_Pinbot

The next generation of retro gamers
Party_Kids

The awesome gifts! I have been spoiled.
Party_Gifts

Filed Under: Pinball, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Amiga, C64, Neo Geo, pinball, Retro Gamers, retrogaming

Screen Scene: Screenshots of Awesome 80s Arcade Games

15/01/2015 By ausretrogamer

WinnersWhen I first began playing video games in the early 80s, arcade games were the pinnacle of the gaming experience – they had huge cabinets, great graphics, booming sound, and if you were good enough (or had lots of 20 cent coins), gameplay that would keep you coming back.

Being a nostalgist, I was recently reminiscing about arcade games I played at the local darkened arcade parlour, the corner milk bar and also the fish and chips shop near my school. With a smile on my face, I compiled a number of screenshots of arcade games that kept me mesmerised in the 1980s. I hope these bring back great memories for you, as they have for me. Enjoy and remember, “Winners Don’t Use Drugs!”.

My favourite beat’em up of all time. Nothing beats the kneeing to the head and wrapping a baseball bat around a the Black Warriors head!
screens_DD

Save Ronnie and grab some burgers and coke! We are bad dudes fighting the dragon ninja!
screens_DN_badDudes
Still my go-to vertical shoot’em up! Plenty of 20c coins were spent on Galaga!
screens_Galaga

The little yellow dot muncher never let me down
screens_Pacman



The droning sound of this most awesomest of  dungeon-maze crawlers is still sublime
screens_WoW

Wrestling was huge in the mid 80s, and Wrestle War was a laugh!
Wrestling

Saving the kidnapped Madonna, one kick at a time!
screens_vigilante
Who could forget this aerial dogfighting classic from Yu Suzuki!
screens_afterburner
Another Yu Suzuki classic!
screens_space
The game that ushered in the Golden Age of Arcades
screens_space-invaders
The helicopter cockpit version of Thunder Blade was simply awesome!
screens_thunder



The ninja craze was huge in the 80s. Everyone wanted to throw shurikens like Joe!
screens_shinobi
My beat’em up love began with Kung Fu Master
screens_kungfu
It was either Salamander or R-Type. I chose Irem’s blaster!
screens_rtype

Yu Suzuki’s Out Run will always be associated with coolness!
screens_outrun

Ikari Warriors – guerrilla warfare with a mate
screens_ikari

Heavy Barrel – just like Ikari Warriors, but with a rotary stick to shoot baddies in 8-directions!
screens_heavy
Another Sega classic. This was as close as I got to riding a motocross bike in the 80s
screens_enduro

The seminal Nintendo classic will always be on my favourites list
screens_donkey
The timeless Taito platform beauty – I love you Bub and Bob
screens_bub_bob
A bomb disposal hero in leotards = perfect!
screens_bombjack
4P dungeon exploring never got any better than this!
screens_gauntlet
Tempest – the vector splendour!
screens_tempest
Going to Flashbacks on Swanston Street was always about Discs of Tron
screens_discoftron

Special agent action via Elevator Action
screens_Elevator

I wasn’t much of a skateboarder, but I was pretty good on 720 Degrees!
screens_720

The ultimate single-screen blaster!
screens_Robotron

There was something about Moon Patrol that I can’t even explain now!
screens_Moon

What would any 80s arcade list be without TMNT. Cowabunga!
screen_TMNT

Double Dragon started the 2P co-op beat’em up genre, Final Fight took it to another level!
screens_finalfight

 source: various – supplied on request



Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 1980s, 80s, 80s arcade, retrogaming, screenshots

Nintendo Quest: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Nintendo Documentary

13/01/2015 By ausretrogamer

NintendoQuest_titleDon’t you just love good news stories – I know I do! With 25 days to go, the Nintendo Quest – An Unofficial Nintendo and NES Documentary has already smashed its pledge target of $1,000! With alluring stretch goals, this Kickstarter project is bound to break all kinds of records! Let’s see how high it can go.

Jay_Nintendo_QuestFor those of you that want to know more about this documentary – it is a fun film that follows Jay Bartlett, a fanatic video game collector, who, on a dare, tries to collect all 678 original NES games – a long-time dream of his. The kicker is, Jay must achieve this tall order in 30 days without using the Internet in any way. While following Jay on his adventure, the film also examines Nintendo’s cultural history, their on-going legacy, and specifically, the endurance of the NES. I can’t wait to watch the finished product of this most unofficial and unauthorised Nintendo documentary ever!

Hit Kickstarter now!


source: Robert McCallum

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Kickstarter, NES, Nintendo Documentary, Nintendo Quest

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