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GoldenEra – The Film About The N64 Video Game, GoldenEye 007, Is Now Available for Pre-Order!

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The fantastic documentary on the most awesome FPS game, GoldenEye 007, is now available for pre-order!

In case you weren’t aware of this fantastic film, GoldenEra is a celebration of a magical moment in video games history, when 3D games burst onto screens and into our imaginations. The film showcases GoldenEye 007, a game that would inspire a generation with innovative gameplay and a multiplayer mode that would change gaming forever. Who doesn’t remember their 4-player death-matches with mates on their Nintendo 64?! Ah, it was so much fun!

GoldenEra is a nostalgic celebration of one of the most important video games of all time. A game that broke all the rules and defined a generation of gamers. The story is told by academics, journalists, celebrities, fans and the game’s designers.

GoldenEra the feature length film, explores the passion, ambition and naive exuberance of the team from countryside England that produced countless hours of joy to millions of gamers around the world.

Featuring hours of content, including:

  • Art of GoldenEra
  • GoldenEye and Obsession
  • GoldenEye inspired VR
  • In Game Reenactments
  • Mick Gordon on Rare
  • Music of GoldenEra
  • The Memes
  • The N64 Hardware
  • Writing GoldenEra
  • Bringing Back GoldenEye (Feature Length GoldenEye Movie!)

You can now pre-order the GoldenEra Limited Edition “Most Deadly” Blu-ray with N64 Slip Case film right here!



Retro Gamers Screening in Melbourne

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Not even a global pandemic could stop the Michael Naim Film Retro Gamers film being completed! It may have been delayed (like everything else was during COVID times), but we are rapt to see this Australian made and produced short film completed and ready for screening!

Featuring our good friend and fellow PAXAus Classic Gaming exhibitor, Cameron Bonde (aka: @octamed on Twitter) , Retro Gamers delves into the retro gaming community and explores its culture and nostalgic stranglehold.

Mark yourself busy on Sunday, July 23rd, as Retro Gamers will be screening at Cinema Nova. To purchase tickets to the screening, please head over to the Cinema Nova website here!

PS: For our friends in the US, you can also get tickets to the Retro Gamers screening at Gen Con 2023!


image & video source: Michael Naim



TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD – Krome Studios Launches Classic Platformer

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The Aussie hero loved by millions worldwide and everyone’s favourite boomerang chucking (not quite extinct) Thylacine is back. The creators of TY the Tasmanian Tiger and Blade Kitten are proud to present their award-winning game TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD – a charming platformer remastered for the Nintendo SwitchTM.

Explore the wilds of Australia with your favourite Aussie mate, TY the Tasmanian Tiger. By utilising the Nintendo Switch system’s many capabilities, Krome Studios has created a memorable experience that players are nostalgic for. Now, you can flick the Nintendo Switch Joy-ConTM controllers to throw your boomerangs and tilt to glide, too.

TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD’s 3D environments, characters, particle effects and audio have been enriched, along with new graphical effects like screen-space ambient occlusion, fully dynamic shadows, color correction, and bloom. You’ll be immersed in its Aussie-ness.

A new addition to the original, TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD will challenge you with Hardcore Mode; be awesome you only have one life. And thanks to dedicated fans – via a successful Kickstarter campaign – TY has new TY character skins for everyone to play. Added to the game credits are over 2000+ backers, including 44 custom drawings by the creator, Steve Stamatiadis.

“For 20 years now TY the Tasmanian Tiger has been at the heart of our game making-philosophy here at Krome Studios,” says Robert Walsh, CEO Krome Studios. “We thank our loyal fans who have joined us in continuing this family-friendly tradition on the Nintendo Switch. Without you, we could not have made this happen.”

TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD immerses you in 17 levels of iconic Australian Outback. Collect opals, golden cogs, thundereggs, 13 different boomerangs and the all-important mystical talismans. The first game is available March 31st in the Nintendo eShop for North America as a digital download, April 3rd in the Nintendo eShop for Europe, and April 4th for Australia and New Zealand.

Press release source: Krome Studios

 

OTTTD – Nintendo Switch Review

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Time to preemptively defend humanity in Over The Top Tower Defense, blasting its way onto the Nintendo Switch from the team over at SMG Studios. 

Over The Top Tower Defence (OTTTD) is a game where the title already tells you everything you need to know. Mega HEROCORP has found a way to open interdimensional portals to far off hellscapes for fun and profit. It’s up to you to assemble a squad and destroy the possible threat these creatures may cause, the best defence is a good offense right? Each level has you defending a mobile headquarters from waves of enemies by deploying your squad and building machine gun turrets, laser cannons, rocket launchers and more.

Fans of other SMG games will recognise the same humour and charm in OTTTD straight away.There is lots of funny flavour text in menus, mission descriptions and load screens. New squad members can be named manually but there is also a random name generator that can create fantastic names like Spanner Longtooth, Bubba Noblefist and Shiv Mcpunchy. Each character’s style, attitude and quips are very cheesy but suit the overall style of the game, where everything is cranked up to eleven.

OTTTD’s look is excessive perfection, soldiers look big and beefy, guns are massive and explosions are satisfyingly big. Enemies can range from zombies and squirming eyeballs to laser cod and giant flying sharks. The gameplay itself is a mix of your standard tower defense game with the addition of RPG elements, adding some nice depth. Each level will give you up to a 3 star rating and your team will earn currency and experience, this allows you to buy new upgrades and unlock skills to use.

Enemies will follow a path through the level towards your mobile base and you need to destroy everything that stumbles into your crosshairs. Starting each level with the basic turrets, you earn cash to upgrade and modify your defenses as you take out waves of enemies. Defeated foes will be blown into gibs that litter the battlefield, leaving a very visible trail of carnage which is very satisfying. Apart from the campaign, there is also an endless mode to unlock for a real challenge.

Whether you enjoy tower defense games or just the quirky humour, there is something here for everyone. Packed with of hours of fun and destruction, OTTTD is a fantastic game that finds a perfect place on the Nintendo Switch.

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Mat Panek
Retromancer – Collector, repairer & fan of retro games & tech. Atari to Amiga, Nintendo to Sega! LD, Zip, Beta and a proud dad! One half of the TiredParents on Twitch.

Follow Mat on Twitter and Twitch

 

 

Disclosure: OTTTD [Nintendo Switch] was kindly provided by SMG Studio for this review.

 

 

RESET Magazine: The All New C64 Publication

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RESETThe “Australian Made” campaign has been going strong for decades. There is nothing like the sense of pride you have when consuming something that has been made in your own country. That is exactly how I feel about the new Commodore 64 publication, RESET.

Reset Magazine is an Australian made (with a sprinkle of international flavouring), free, non-profit publication, designed to give the modern Commodore 64 user a light-hearted insight into the current world of the Commodore 64. We spoke to the editor, Kevin Tilley, to find out a little bit more about the team behind this awesome magazine.  So here they are:

Kevin Tilley (Unkle K – Australia) – Editor, Staff Writer and Design
Kevin has been a Commodore fanatic since the ‘80s. Retro gaming is something that Kevin does to relax and unwind. The aim of Reset was (still is) to put together a magazine that is full of contributions from people who love the C64 and to let readers know that the little 8-bit is still very much alive and thriving. Kevin has been involved in a number of C64 related projects over the years, culminating with this latest venture, the Reset magazine – a magazine that he enjoys producing and reading.

Vinny Mainolfi (UK) – Co-Editor and Staff Writer
Vinny runs the c64endings site and is an active game hacker – releasing his ‘crazy hacks’ under the Hackersoft label through the Hackersoft website. Vinny’s job at Reset is to give Kevin good advice, review games, proof read, additional design and contribute his C64 endings column in conjunction with his c64endings website.

Nick Dibble (Plume – UK) – Staff Writer
Plume loves gaming and retrogaming. He is genuinely a really funny guy who injects humour into the magazine with his dry British wit! He contributes game reviews, The Day The Universe Died column, proof reading and apparently has a very close relationship with The Mighty Brain. He also runs his own blog, funnily enough called The Day The Universe Died.

Paul Morrison (PaulEMoz – UK) – Staff Writer
Paul is an expert on C64 games and the history of the programmers behind them – he has a passion for the untold stories of the development teams behind the games. He contributes game reviews and developer features such as interviews, as well as proof reading. He is currently writing a book called They Were Our Gods which is the story of the games and the people behind them. Paul runs his own blog at They Were Our Gods.

Shane Wood (Zap – Australia) – Webmaster
Shane quietly plugs away at the Reset website which he coded entirely from scratch, the old school way. He has a million ideas which he will slowly implement. Shane runs Commodore 8-bit and also contributes to several other projects. He also organises the annual Brisbane Commodore Night!

Kevin went on to tell us that, “each submission by staff and contributors isn’t necessarily following a particular formula or request by me, but in fact the author writing about their particular specialty and passion about the computer we all love. Hopefully that passion and love for the scene comes out in the writing, because it is completely genuine. Most of the writers/contributors come up with their own ideas and go for it, so they are genuinely writing about their area of expertise and what they love about the C64”. That sounds pretty good to us!

If you are a regular on Commodore related forums, you will recognise the above Reset folks – very knowledgeable people indeed. Even our good friends, Anthony Stiller and Cameron Davis contribute regularly on the magazine. You never know, even yours truly might submit a few Commodore loving articles for future Reset issues – stay tuned!

If you are a Commodore fan, user, dabbler or whatever category you fit into, RESET is for you. It will no doubt provide you with enjoyable content, no matter which corner of the globe you reside in. Head on over to the RESET site and download the first two issues now!

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image source: Reset Magazine