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Amazon Australia PRIME DAY Deals

July 12, 2022 By ausretrogamer

It’s that time of the year folks, when Amazon tempts our hard earned money to fly out of our wallet and purse!

Not all is lost, as there are quite a few good deals if you are in the market for them, so get ready and scroll through our Twitter thread as there are quite a few good deals to be had!

Be quick as some items may not last! Keep checking the Twitter thread as we will be adding new deals as we find them!

PS: Prices are in AUD$ and till stocks (or sales) last!

🎉 #AmazonPrimeDay is on now peeps 🎉
Let’s start a thread with some cool items to check out at discounted prices…… 🧵

1. SanDisk 512GB Ultra MicroSD Card $71.39 (RRP $159) https://t.co/stcBP5N6Za

2. Cyberpunk 2077 (PC) $19.95 (RRP $99.99!) https://t.co/O5sL4HRLB0 pic.twitter.com/LNh32XvOBJ

— ausretrogamer (@ausretrogamer) July 12, 2022




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Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime Day, Amazon Prime Day Deals, AmazonPrimeDay, computing, Electronics, gaming, Geek, Prime Day, Prime Day Deals, sales discounts, smartphones, Toys, Video Games

Ben Heck’s Portable Atari 2600

May 24, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Atari 2600 featured 2In this episode of The Ben Heck Show, Ben makes an awesome hand-held Atari 2600 by pulling apart the original chips and wiring the entire circuit manually, 3D printing a custom case, and adding a screen and rechargeable battery – wow! Check out the video to see just how he did it.

Atari 2600 3

Atari 2600 2

Atari 2600 4

Atari 2600 1

Source: The Ben Heck Show via Technabob

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msausretrogamerMs. 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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Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Atari, Atari 2600, Ben Heck, Electronics, element14, mods, Portable Atari 2600, The Ben Heck Show

PIK3A: Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA Cocktail Tables

May 1, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

PIK3A featuredThere’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
PIK3A B

The PIK3A mark II
PIK3A mark II B

PIK3A II

Sources: element14 via @mattgillard, and element 14

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msausretrogamerMs. 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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Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: !Arcade!, cocktail table, diy, Electronics, element14, IKEA, PiK3A, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 3

Eight Players, Eight Projectors And One NES

December 15, 2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

picResearchers from the Game Technology Center at Zurich’s ETH University have created an awesome modified NES to allow panoramic output via 8 projectors and collaborative multiplayer gameplay via 8 controllers.

console‘We propose a hardware and software system that transforms 8-bit side-scrolling console video games into immersive multiplayer experiences. We enhance a classic video game console with custom hardware that time-multiplexes eight gamepad inputs to automatically hand off control from one gamepad to the next… With this system, side-scrolling games unfold across the walls of the room to encircle a large party, giving the feeling that the entire party is taking place inside of the game’s world.’ – Wow!


Video source: ETH Game Technology Center on YouTube

Source: via Cheezburger

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msausretrogamerMs. 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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Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 8-bit, Electronics, Engineering, ETH University, Game Technology Center, multiplayer, NES, video, youtube

Retrogaming DIY With Adafruit Kits And Projects

May 9, 2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

NYC-based Adafruit Industries, founded in 2005 by MIT engineer Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried, is ‘one of the largest collections of open­ source hardware, educational electronics and tools for the hobbyist and engineer‘. While the Adafruit Learning System is an awesome free online resource with heaps of tutorials for learning about electronics.

Feast your eyes on the best of the Adafruit retrogaming-themed DIY kits and projects.

MONOCHRON Open Source Retro Clock Kit

monochron 3

Video source: Adafruit Industries on Vimeo

Xronos Clock Kit V2.1

Xronos

The Raspberry Pi-Powered Cupcade Kit

cupcade 2

Video source: Adafruit Industries on YouTube

The Uzebox: A Fully Open Source, DIY 8-bit Game Console

uzebox 3

PiGRRL – Raspberry Pi Game Boy

PiGrrl


Video source: Adafruit Industries on YouTube

LedGames – A Two-Player ‘Cocktail’ Style Game, With A 64×64 LED Display

LED Game

DIY Pocket LED Gamer – Tiny Tetris!

tetris

Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi

Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi


Video source: Adafruit Industries on YouTube

Source: Adafruit Industries

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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: Adafruit, Adafruit Industries, Adafruit kits, Adafruit Learning System, Adafruit tutorials, Arcade, Clocks, Cupcade, cupcade micro arcade cabinet, diy, Electronics, Game Boy, Ladyada, Limor Fried, Raspberry Pi

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