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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

Talking Retro Gaming, Pinball and Toy Collecting with Cause and Effect Gamers

August 21, 2020 By ausretrogamer

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed during the Tech Games Fest event (TGF 2020) by our good friend Andrew Owen from Cause and Effect Gamers – Andrew is also the co-ordinator of TGF.

We talk all things retro gaming, our involvement with PAX Aus, the lure of pinball, toys – especially Masters Of The Universe, and of course, movies we love to watch!

Grab some popcorn and enjoy 🙂


source: Cause and Effect Gamers

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Alex Boz, Alex Boz interview, Andrew Owen, Attack From Mars, ausretrogamer, Cause and Effect Gamers, films, interview, Interview ausretrogamer, Master of The Universe, Pop culture, Retro Gaming, Star Trek, Star Wars, stay at home, Tech Games Fest, TGF, The Walking Dead, Toys

The World’s Last Blockbuster Store Is Available To Book on Airbnb

August 12, 2020 By ausretrogamer

We may have found our ‘blow our mind‘ moment for the day!

Wanna relive the 90s again by browsing shelves full of VHS tapes, watching movies on the VCR and eating popcorn on your old school lounge-suite? Well, if you are a resident of Deschutes County (Oregon, US), then you are in luck, as you can book and stay at the world’s last Blockbuster store via Airbnb! This seriously is mind blowing, with the nostalgia meter going off the scale.

Oh yeah, if you are lucky enough to immerse yourself in this glorious 90s nostalgia, don’t forget to rewind the tape when you are finished!

PS: If only Australia’s last Blockbuster store was available to rent!

image source: Airbnb

story source: laughingsquid

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 90s, Airbnb, Blockbuster, Blockbuster Airbnb, Blockbuster store, Blockbuster Video, classic, films, Last Blockbuster store, Movies, Old School, Retro, Tapes, VCR, VHS, Vintage

Emoji Art for Geeks

February 18, 2019 By ausretrogamer


We knew there was a good use for emojis!

Our talented co-founder, Ms. Ausretrogamer has put emojis to good use by creating iconic artwork of pop culture geekiness, from Star Wars, Dr. Who, Donkey Kong, to The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, The Shining and Mortal Kombat to name just a few.

If you don’t want to miss Ms. Ausretrogamer’s geeky emoji artwork, follow her on Twitter.

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: !Arcade!, Art, artwork, Bob's Burgers, Donkey Kong, Dr Who, duck hunt, Emoji, emoji art, emoji art for geeks, emoji pop culture art, films, Mortal Kombat, ms ausretrogamer, pinball, Pop culture, pop culture emojis, Retro Gaming, Star Wars, super mario, The Simpsons, The Wiggles, Video Games

If Your Favourite Films Were 90’s Video Games…

October 15, 2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Israeli artist Gustavo Viselner re-imagines your favourite films as 90’s video games in this series of absolutely gorgeous pixel art images.

Aliens
Aliens

Star Wars
SW

Dogma
Dogma

The Princess Bride
the princess bride

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
LOTR

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Age of Ultron

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
TGBU

Inglourious Basterds
inglorious basterds

The NeverEnding Story
the neverending story

Source: Gustavo Viselner on Behance via A.V. Club

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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: 1990s, 90s, Aliens, films, Gustavo Viselner, Movies, Pixel Art, Star Wars

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