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90s Nostalgia Series Art By Aly Jones

August 20, 2018 By ausretrogamer


Gotta thank our friends Weird and Retro for bringing this art to our attention!

You all got to check out Aly Jones’ 90s Nostalgia Art Series artwork, the jolt of old school popular culture stuff will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside! Aly’s artwork will definitely make you miss the 90s!

Check out the entire Aly Jones 90s Nostalgia Art Series on Facebook and also hit Aly’s site for more of her awesome art!

image source: Aly Jones’ 90s Nostalgia Series via Facebook

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 80s, 90s, Aly Jones, Art, Art by Aly Jones, artwork, CRT, CRT monitor, Game Boy, nostalgia, PC Monitor, Pop culture, Tamagotchi, VCR, VHS tape, video tape

Behind The Scenes: Making of the Ausretrogamer Header Image

May 24, 2018 By ausretrogamer

After her awesome work on the Ausretrogamer Fun Factory, Ms Ausretrogamer’s turned her talents to creating the ausretrogamer social media header image you have all seen (and hopefully like) on Twitter and Facebook.

Check out the behind the scene of making this header image, as it it definitely wasn’t easy. The end result was all worth it!

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Amiga, Atari, Atari ST, ausretrogamer, ausretrogamer fun factory, ausretrogamer social media, C64, classic gaming, diy, Fun Factory, Game Boy, image, Master System, Mega Drive, ms ausretrogamer, NES, Old School, Retro Gaming, sega, SNES, Vectrex, Virtual Boy

Retro Handheld: Burger King Game Boy Color

April 20, 2018 By ausretrogamer

This is an old one, but we thought it was still worth repeating, in case you missed it the first time around.

If you were lucky enough to have had a meal at Burger King in 2000, you may have been handed a plastic replica of the Game Boy Color which had analogue games built in.

Fast forward a decade and a half and that cute little Burger King Game Boy Colour toy with its analogue games has been DIY hacked with a Raspberry Pi Zero stuffed inside, morphing it into an awesomely cool and working Game Boy Colour emulator! Wish we were this clever.

[original story and images via Technobob]



Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Burger King, Burger King Game Boy, diy, DIY handheld, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Handheld, Mod, Modded Game Boy, nintendo, Nintendo Game Boy, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Zero, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, retrogaming

Everything Retro Is Hot At CES 2018

January 15, 2018 By ausretrogamer

If you were in Vegas last week for the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) you would have been forgiven for thinking that it was the 1990s!

It definitely looks like companies are finally tweaking to the fact that retro gaming is big business. From Hyperkin announcing the mighty Ultra Game Boy to Retro-Bit announcing their partnership with Sega, it looks like 2018 is going to be a big year for retro gamers and their credit cards!

Here are our hot retrogaming picks from CES 2018:

Hyperkin Ultra Game Boy in an aluminium case will turn heads for sure!
image source: Gizmodo

Retro-bit did a mic drop by announcing that they had signed a licensing agreement with Sega to produce accessories for Sega’s Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast gaming consoles! They even showed off games for the NES and SNES! These guys were on fire in Vegas!

Retro-Bit’s Sega Dreamcast Bluetooth Controller, Receiver and TV connectivity cables

Retro-Bit’s Sega Saturn controllers!

Retro-Bit’s Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Bluetooth Controllers

Retro-Bit’s Games for the NES (Holy Diver) and SNES (R-Type Returns CE)

source: Retro-Bit on Twitter

(Atari) Table Pong – If you weren’t lucky enough to snag this via its super early-bird Kickstarter price, then you will be paying three times more for it now!

source: Alex Kidman via Finder

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Atari, CES, CES 2018, Consumer Electronics Show, Dreamcast, Game Boy, Hyperkin, Hyperkin Ultra Game Boy, Hyperkin Ultra GB, Las Vegas, Mega Drive, pong, Pong Table, R-Type Returns, R-Type Returns Collectors Edition, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, Retro-Bit, Retro-Bit Sega, retrogaming, sega, SNES, Table Pong, Ultra Game Boy, Ultra GB

Atari Lynx: The Games That Never Were

March 31, 2017 By ausretrogamer

The Atari Lynx was and still is a great handheld. Imagine if Atari had McWill’s LCD mod back then, they may have given the Sega Game Gear and possibly the Game Boy a run for their money (Ed: OK, perhaps not the Game Boy)!

If you were into arcade style games, then the Atari Lynx was your platform of choice. With games like Double Dragon, Klax, A.P.B., Battlezone 2000, Rygar, Hard Drivin’, Joust, Xybots, Paperboy and the awesome Rampage, Robotron and S.T.U.N. Runner, the Lynx was not short on quality action titles. Actually, we could have added a laundry list of other games, but we thought you’d get the picture with a subset of titles.

During the commercial lifespan of the Atari Lynx, there were a roster of big name titles that never saw the light of day. We could only imagine the impact these games may have had on the commercial viability of the Lynx! Just in case you were wondering, here are a few of the cancelled games from 1992 that we reckon could have catapulted the Lynx on the path to success:

Rolling Thunder

Vindicators

Geoduel

720°

Cabal

There were quite a few other cancelled games, but we thought we’d limit the list to ensure that we didn’t enrage you all. Actually, quite a few cancelled games did make it out when Hasbro, the owners of the Atari properties at the time, released the rights to develop for the system to the public domain, but that was well after the Lynx was considered dead (Ed: we did appreciate Alien vs Predator and Raiden)!

Ah, the beautiful Lynx, if only you were given a proper and fair chance by your creator!

 



Filed Under: History, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 720 Degrees, arcade games, Atari, atari lynx, Atari Lynx games, Cabal, Classic Games, Crystal Mines II, Game Boy, Game Gear, GeoDuel, Hyperdome, Lynx, Lynx handheld, Raiden, retrogaming, Rolling Thunder, Vindicators

Chip It: The Chiptune Cover Challenge

January 22, 2017 By ausretrogamer

Soundfly, the guys that brought you the free online chiptunes crash course  has launched the “Chip It Challenge“!

The Chip It Challenge is a one-month contest (started on January 19) to win a free modded Game Boy and flash carts (courtesy of Kitsch-Bent!), feedback on your work from chip artist Chipocrite, and promo on Flypaper for your project! Entries will be judged by three prominent chiptune artists — glomag, BIAS ONE (f.k.a. minusbaby) and chiptune course instructor extraordinaire, Chipocrite! All you have to do is whip up the best 60-second cover of Devo’s classic groove “Whip It” in a chiptune/8-bit style, and you are in with a shot!

So you reckon you can whip it up? For all the info on the tools to use, rules, judgement criteria, submission and fine print details, head over here. Make sure you chip it, chip it good!


source: Soundfly

 

Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: BIAS ONE, Chip It, Chip It Challenge, chipocrite, chiptune, chiptunes, Create chiptunes, Devo, Game Boy, glomag, minusbaby, Soundfly, Whip It

Smartboy: Turn Your Android Phone Into A Game Boy

July 21, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

We’ve had a busy couple of months and the Smartboy story came and went. But it’s such an exciting product we thought it was worth a quick post, just in case there are others out there who missed it the first time around.

The Smartboy concept started life as an April Fools’ Day joke – but it has rightly evolved into a real product, currently for sale as a development kit.

As Hyperkin says: “WE built the Smartboy. YOU can make it great.  The Smartboy Development Kit attaches to Android smartphones, turning the phone into a handheld gaming device. It will be compatible with Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges. Included in the kit is an open source serial app and firmware, which will enable developers of all kinds to advance Hyperkin’s current build toward a retail-ready model. Hyperkin is offering a royalty percentage – of retail-ready Smartboy units sold – to anyone that can improve the Smartboy’s serial app and firmware.”

So, if you have the skills – go for it, please! The Smartboy is selling for $59.99 USD with an estimated shipping date of 1 December 2016.
SmartBoy1 SmartBoy2 SmartBoy3

Source: Hyperkin via Gizmag

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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: Android, Game Boy, Hyperkin, Hyperkin Smartboy, mobile games, Mobile Gaming, Smart Boy, Smartboy

Game Boy Bottle Openers

July 2, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

You’ll be the coolest person in the room at the next party you attend with one of these Stainless Steel, laser engraved Game Boy bottle openers by Etsy store RYEZEN. You’ll be opening bottles with power!

nintendo bottle openers

nintendo bottle openers 2

nintendo bottle openers 3

Source: RYEZEN 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: etsy, Game Boy, Game Boy Bottle Openers, RYEZEN

Ben Heck’s Giant Game Boy: The Game Man

April 8, 2016 By Ms. ausretrogamer

Giant Game Boy 2Ben Heck and co. from Element 14’s The Ben Heck Show made this amazing 670 percent scaled-up Game Boy (aptly named ‘The Game Man’) in just 4 days! It runs off an actual Game Boy connected to a VGA monitor and is awesome, see exactly how they made it in the video below.

Ben Heck Show

Video source: The Ben Heck Show on YouTube

Giant Game Boy

Source: Element 14’s 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.

Follow Ms. ausretrogamer on Twitter

 

 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Ben Heck, Game Boy, Game Man, Giant Game Boy, mods, The Ben Heck Show, 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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