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LEGOformers: Retro Consoles And Handhelds In Disguise

March 29, 2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

NYC-based LEGO master craftsman and graphic designer Baron Julius von Brunk (pictured above) has crammed so much awesome into these LEGO retrogaming transformers, they will blow your mind! But don’t just look at the pictures, make sure you click the links and read about how Julius designed and built each of these fantastic creations.

Game Boy Advance Transformer – ‘Vantage’

Nintendo 64 Transformers‘Ultra Hexacon’ and ‘Tetragon’ the transforming Nintendo 64 and controller, and their transforming game pak minions ‘Hot-Shot’, and ‘Mecha Kong’

NES Zapper Pistol – ‘Plasmashock’

Evil Segacon LEGOformers ‘Gearhead’, ‘Supersonic’ & ‘Knucklepunch’

Nintendo Game Boy & Tetris Transformers ‘Domaster’ & ‘Tetrawing’

And be sure to check out Julius’ other amazing work including this Giant fully-operational NES controller and Nintendo world mosaic.

Source: Julius von Brunk via Bit Rebels

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Ms. 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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LEGO And Retrogaming: A Match Made In Heaven

March 25, 2015 By Ms. ausretrogamer

LEGO plus retrogaming is a match made in geek heaven. Feast your eyes on these amazing works of brick art.

Chris McVeigh

As well as being an awesome LEGO builder, Chris McVeigh is an author, illustrator and photographer. Chris develops build guides which he offers freely (for personal use only), and has custom building kits for sale at Storenvy.

A selection of Chris’ build guides

Some of Chris’ kits for sale at Storenvy

Source: Chris McVeigh via Kotaku

Retrogaming Mosaic

This fantastic mosaic was built using 10,511 individual LEGO pieces (fixed to fifteen 15″x15″baseplates)! How many characters can you name?

Source: Etsy via Technabob

Super Mario Bros. Aquarium

This gorgeous aquarium was made by designer and blogger Kelsey Kronmiller and it took her about 336 hours in total to build – but I’m sure you’ll agree it was well worth the effort.

Source: Kelsey Kronmiller via Geek

LEGO Bob-omb Battlefield (Super Mario 64)

This LEGO Bob-omb Battlefield is super-cute.

Source: Matt De Lanoy on Flickr via @Nyleak

LEGO Game Boy by Dario Dipic

You have to look twice at this amazing LEGO Game Boy by Dario Dipic to tell it’s not real!

Source: Dario Dipic on MOCpages

I found plenty of other amazing works of retrogaming LEGO art (a few so great they deserve their own post), so stay tuned for more LEGO stories in the near future. In the meantime, get building!

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Ms. 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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Retro Gaming Refashioning Japanese Style

October 22, 2014 By ausretrogamer

Care to use Twitter on your Game Boy? Perhaps you would rather use Microsoft’s Office applications on Nintendo’s little coloured beast? I know, you want to Skype your friend with vintage equipment!

Ah yes, welcome to good use of retro gaming gear Japanese style! You got to hand it to the Japanese, they know how to refashion old equipment and make you notice it. I wish I was this clever. Now hand me those SNES headphones and scroll through these epic pics!

source: matome.naver.jp

Retro Gaming: Every Single Game Boy Start Screen Ever

October 13, 2014 By ausretrogamer

If you have 162 minutes to burn, you may wanna settle back and watch every single Game Boy start screen ever. Yes, you read that right, EVERY SINGLE GAME BOY START SCREEN EVER!

I am a masochist, so I will kill almost three hours of my day to watch this. Enjoy!

source: NicksplosionFX

Nintendo Delights: Customised Consoles

July 2, 2014 By ausretrogamer

There are some horrific customised paint jobs on Nintendo consoles, then there is Zoran’s creations, which are, simply put, stunning. From the Super Metroid themed SNES (Ed: oh that scorched orange!), Choplifter II camo original Game Boy, and to my favourite, the TRON: Legacy N64, complete with beautiful lighting – perfect for playing Perfect Dark or Goldeneye 007 in the dark!

Just take a look at some of Zoran’s creations and let us know your favourite via Twitter or Facebook.

Uber cool Star Fox N64

The sleek Mario Kart 64 , N64

The only time I would like to see ‘Game Over’!

The very sexy Tron: Legacy N64

We could not leave out the Zelda fans!

Scorching Super Metroid SNES (NTSC)

Bowser has never looked this good!

Chrono Trigger SNES (NTSC) anyone?

The mother of all GBAs!

Play with this!

Battle-hardened Game Boy

Oh yeah, go Yoshi!

image source: Zoki64

Exploring New York City with a Game Boy Camera

May 27, 2014 By ausretrogamer

Before digital cameras were common place, the only way you could take digital photos at an affordable price was via cheap and nasty cameras or add-on contraptions for the Game Boy.

Speaking of Nintendo’s little pocket rocket, the below photos of New York City landmarks and people were taken with a Game Boy camera back in 2000. There is a certain charm in grainy low-resolution black and white photos – heck, there are camera apps nowadays emulating this on your smartphone! We may have come a long way with camera resolution being measured in the tens of megapixels, but we still love the fuzzy feeling we get when seeing these heavily pixelated photos.

Rockefeller Plaza

The New York Public Library

A Giacometti statue at MOMA

A slice of pizza

A park bench

Toy taxis

A subway carriage

A subway passenger

A snoozing subway passenger

A selfie, 2000 style

source: Ironic Sans

Steampunk Video Gaming

May 7, 2014 By ausretrogamer

Forged from the mechanical aesthetics of steampunk fiction, we give you the best of steampunk inspired video gaming systems.

So what do you think – Do you want your NES to look like it came out of the 19^th century steam-powered industrial revolution? I like it! Anyway, I think I’ll take them all, especially that steampunkish arcade machine.

NES Toploader

Sega Dreamcast

Exquisite Game Boy

Steampunked NES

Another steampunked Game Boy

The Arcade Machine

image sources: DamnGeeky, mbtaylorproductions, Steampunk Tendencies, FakePlasticZio, GamingBolt and Geeky-Gadgets

Best-Selling Portable Video Game Systems Of All Time

January 8, 2013 By ausretrogamer

In last week’s Best-Selling Video Game Consoles: 1972 to 2002 post, it was clear that Sony had taken the stranglehold in the consoles market in the mid 90’s. The portable games market is a different beast. From the early days of crude portability with the tabletops, to Gunpei Yokoi’s wondrous Game & Watch series, the pedigree of portable gaming had been set quite early. Once the Game Boy burst onto the scene (another Gunpei Yokoi creation), Nintendo knew they had a winner. Which portable systems gave the Game Boy a run for its money ? Look below, there should not be too many surprises. [Read more…] about Best-Selling Portable Video Game Systems Of All Time

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