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Blast From The Past: A Video Of A 1980s Arcade

February 17, 2022 By ausretrogamer

What an absolute blast from the past this is! We absolutely love raw VHS video footage, especially the kind from the early 1980s!

We commend the Bally’s Aladdin’s Castle employee that had the foresight to film inside the arcade centre, filled with absolute classic arcade and pinball machines, that one day this video would be cherished by a generation (or two) of gamers across the globe! This is what a throwback Thursday should be like every week.

Sit back and enjoy this 15 minute trip down nostalgia lane…..


source: Jon Exidy Jamshid




Filed Under: History, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 1980s, 1980s arcade, 1980s pinball, 80s, 80s arcade, 80’s pinball, Aladdin's Castle, Arcade, Bally, Bally's Aladdin's Castle, Classic Arcade Gaming, Film, nostalgia, pinball, Retro, Retro Gamer, Retro Games, retrogames, retrogaming, throwback, VHS, video

It’s Going To Be An 8-Bit Christmas!

November 5, 2021 By ausretrogamer

If you think you have had enough of video games related movies, then you may want to look away. For those that lap up these types of nostalgia-inducing films, 8-Bit Christmas starting Neil Patrick Harris as a father looking back fondly at the late ’80s Christmas where he desperately did everything he possibly could to get an NES, will be right up your alley! Since we can relate to this tale (we also wanted a NES for Christmas in 1988, alas we didn’t get one then), we are definitely keen on giving this a watch and getting right into the Christmas spirit!

Check out the trailer below to see if 8-Bit Christmas will be on your viewing list his festive season.


source: Warner Bros. Pictures




 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 1980s, 8-Bit Christmas, 80s, 8Bit Christmas, 8BITXMAS, Christmas, classic gaming, Film, HBO, HBOMAX, Movie, Neil Patrick Harris, NES, nintendo, oldschool, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, Retrogamer, retrogaming, video game movie, Xmas

Awesome Pop Culture Art Works by Pappas Pärlor

October 29, 2021 By ausretrogamer

There is no shortage of awesome and talented artists in this world. The latest artist to capture our attention is Johan Karlgren, aka: Pappas Pärlor.

Johan’s creations are unique as they are refashioned framed art pieces injected with very clever pop culture themes and franchises, including popular Star Wars and video gaming characters.

Check out all Johan’s art works here. Here are our favourites:

source: Pappas Pärlor




Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Art, Atari, darth vader, Film, He Man, Johan Karlgren, Ken, Masters Of The Universe, MOTU, Pappas Parlor, Pixel Art, Pixels, Pokemon, Pop culture, pop culture art, refashioned art, Retro, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, retrogaming, Ryu, Skeletor, sonic, street fighter, Video Games

The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: 40 Years of the ZX Spectrum

October 26, 2021 By ausretrogamer

If you are fans (like us!) of the From Bedrooms to Billions film series then you will absolutely love their latest documentary film, The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: 40 Years of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. To make Anthony and Nicola Caulfield’s film come true, go and check out their Kickstarter!

Coinciding with the ZX Speccy’s 40th anniversary next year (2022), Anthony and Nicola are aiming to release the film by Christmas 2022 – make sure you let Santa know! The Caulfield’s are aiming to make a thorough and definitive film on the ZX Spectrum, going into all the finer details of how and why the ZX Spectrum was created, what impact the computer had as well as the various versions that followed right the way through to the latest iteration of the system with the ZX Spectrum Next.

The film aims to reunite as many of the original ZX Spectrum hardware team and of course many legendary game developers, artists and musicians, and also talk to fans of the ZX Spectrum as to understand the significance of the machine with the masses.

This Kickstarter campaign once again has some stunning artwork from Oliver Frey available as well as some wonderful posters and other add-ons to get your nostagia gland pulsating!

Now, we are Commodore fans, but we are also aware of the significance of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, so we are quite excited to support Anthony and Nicola on their new project!

image source: The Rubber Keyed Wonder – 40 years of the ZX Spectrum




Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 40 years of the ZX Spectrum, 8-bit, 80s, 8bit, Anthony and Nicola Caulfield, classic computing, Documentary, Film, From Bedrooms To Billions, micros, Rebellion, Retro, retro computing, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, Retrocomputing, Retrogamer, retrogaming, The Amiga Years, The Rubber Keyed Wonder - 40 years of the ZX Spectrum, ZX Speccy, zx spectrum

Documentary: The Making of GoldenEye 007 (N64)

May 18, 2021 By ausretrogamer

Back in 2017 there was a crowdfunded project titled Golden Era which was going to tell the story of the making of GoldenEye 007 on the N64. The project didn’t reach it’s funding goal, but thankfully onaretrotrip stepped in to offer all of us a a glimpse into the game that revolutionised first-person shooters (FPS) and defined the Nintendo 64.

So kick back and enjoy the making of one of the all-time best N64 games!


source: onaretrotip

 



Filed Under: History, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 007, Bond 007, Documentary, Film, First person shooter, FPS, GoldenEye 007, GoldenEye 007 documentary, Goldeneye 007 N64, James Bond, James Bond 007, N64, N64 documentary, Nintendo 64, oldschool, onaretrotrip, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, Retrogamer, retrogaming, videogames

Freakin Frankie’s Home Video Store

April 16, 2021 By ausretrogamer

We have featured a number of Blockbuster Video stories on here, so it is friggin cool to see our very good friend, Freakin Frankie, emulate his very own Blockbuster Video Store right in his dining room!

Before we start drooling over his setup, we have been aware of Frankie’s love of movies and his growing collection ever since we met many moons ago, but to see his vast collection in the below pics has totally blown us away – but wait, there is more……

Once Frankie put out his initial tweet about embarking on the massive task of presenting his collection of 3,500+ titles, we put down our our bowl of Cheezels and took note! The follow up tweet thread of his home video store setup was impressive to say the least! As collectors ourselves, we can quite easily say that Freakin Frankie’s Home Video Store setup is darn awesome and impressive. Frankie mentioned that he opted against double stacking (as he wanted the authentic video store feel) and decided to sort his collection in alphabetic order, which works very well for our OCD brain – now where is that Akira DVD at?!

Ok, now you can start drooling!

Frankie’s old setup

The tough part – sorting through the massive library!

Experimenting with the video store setup!

And now, the finished product – welcome to Freakin Frankie’s Home Video Store!

images used with permission from Freakin Frankie

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Blockbuster, Blockbuster home video, Blu-Ray, Collection, Collector, Dining Room, disc, DVD, Film, films, Freakin Frankie, gamer, Geek, home video, home video store, movie collector, Movies, Tapes, tbt, throwback, VHS

New He-Man related Documentary, ‘Faking Filmation’ is now LIVE on Kickstarter!

April 12, 2021 By ausretrogamer

Faking FilmationWhen we got the email from Rob McCallum about a new MOTU related doco, we sat up and took note. We had previously backed the Power Of Grayskull documentary, which was darn awesome. So when Rob’s email advised us of the new Faking Filmation Kickstarter, we knew we had to jump on it right away!

The Faking Filmation documentary delves in the history of cartoons, with lots of attention to Filmation – the pioneering animation studio that helped start ‘Saturday Morning Cartoons’ and revolutionised weekday afternoon cartoons with He-Man and She-Ra.

But wait, there is more! This new project tackles all that cartoon goodness and wraps it around the story of He-Man mega fan, James Eatock, who has spent the last 3.5 years crafting his own unofficial He-Man cartoon called, “The Return of Faker.” James was just about to release the unofficial cartoon when he was hit with a cease and desist letter preventing him from doing it. Now, he’s on a mission to overcome this obstacle and share it with the world – how awesome is that! 

If you want more Masters of The Universe documentary content, or a look at cartoon history, or you just want to see James’ amazing work (and his process to pull it off), then jump on the Faking Filmation Kickstarter right now!

Faking Filmation Kickstarterimage source: Faking Filmation via Kickstarter

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 282828, 80s, Cartoon, cartoons, Documentary, Faking Filmation, Film, Filmation, Geek, He Man, Heman, James Eatock, Kickstarter, Masters Of The Universe, Mattel, MOTU, NBC, nerd, Nintendo Quest, Orko, Power Of Grayskull, Retro, Rob McCallum, She-Ra, Skeletor, tbt, The Return of Faker, throwback, Universal, VHS tape

From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution

July 31, 2020 By ausretrogamer

If there is one thing we know for sure, it is that the folks at From Bedrooms To Billions sure know how to create a compelling documentary.

Hot off the heels of their successful self titled From Bedrooms to Billions and The Amiga Years documentaries, the From Bedroom to Billions film makers have embarked on telling the definitive story of how PlayStation took gaming to the next level in The PlayStation Revolution documentary.

Take a gander at the below trailer and press release photos, as we are sure that your anticipation and excitement level will be turned up to the max! We honestly can’t wait to watch The PlayStation Revolution.

Available: September 7, 2020
TVoD Platforms: iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office and Vimeo
Physical platforms: DVD and Blu-ray

Roll on September 7th!!!

image source: From Bedrooms to Billions

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: classic, Documentary, Film, From Bedrooms To Billions, FromBedroomsToBillions, Gracious Films, indie, indie documentary, indie film, indiedocumentary, Mark Cerny, Playstation, PS, PS Vita, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Rebellion, Retro, Sony, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony PlayStation, The Amiga Years, The PlayStation Revolution, The PlayStation Revolution film, vintage film

Gradius V Official DVD The Perfect

May 6, 2020 By ausretrogamer

That Alex Reynolds (aka: Alexpletives on Twitter) has surprised us once again!

Hot on the heels of his Ikaruga Appreciate DVD, Alex showed us another DVD from Japan in his vast collection, this time, it was Konami’s Gradius V Official DVD The Perfect.

According to our good friend, Wikipedia:

“On April 9, 2004, Konami announced a DVD called OPTIONS, which was being offered to pre-ordering customers in Japan — containing interviews with the developers, art galleries and a number of videos demonstrating the inner workings of the game’s levels. Adding further incentive for customers to purchase the upcoming game, Konami later revealed the availability of The History of Vic Viper — a book indicating inner design, the background and the roadmap of the Vic Viper ships. The book was included with all versions of the original Japanese pressing of the game. An additional DVD with expanded content titled Gradius V Official DVD The Perfect was also released in Japan to be ordered separately or with the game from Konami’s online retail store, Konamistyle”.

We may need to ask Alex if we can “borrow” this DVD 😉

 

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: classic gaming, DVD, Film, Gradius, Gradius V, Gradius V Official DVD The Perfect, Konami, Konamistyle, Old School, PlayStation 2, PS2, shmup, shmups, shoot'em up, Treasure, video, Video Games

IKARUGA Appreciate DVD

April 27, 2020 By ausretrogamer

During a private chat with Alex Reynolds (aka: Alexpletives on Twitter) he shared something that we weren’t aware till today – Treasure’s IKARUGA Appreciate DVD!

Alex told us that he loved Treasure’s game so much (Ed: who doesn’t?!) but like most mere mortals, found it extremely difficult to play and progress deep into the game, so when he saw the Appreciate DVD on a Japanese site, he grabbed it as it would be the means to see the rest of this brilliant game.

Wish we knew how to read in Japanese! Anyone else have this DVD? Hit us up on our socials.

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Dreamcast, DVD, Film, GameCube, Ikaruga, Ikaruga Appreciate DVD, Ikaruga DVD, Nintendo Switch, Old School, Retro Gamers, retrogaming, shmup, Treasure, Video Games

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