The Pop-Culture E-Zine
Thank you to our awesome friend Goose (on Twitter), for letting us know about these lovely little Nintendo console infographics.
We knew we had to share them with the rest of you! Now we just need to convince Entartika to create some for the SNES, N64 and GameCube.
image source: Fun Little Infographics on imgur
After one helluva gruelling week, we are glad to be in the Ausretrogamer Fun Factory!
We always feel at ease and relaxed when we are inside of our Fun Factory. We can sit here and pick an item to stare at (even a joystick!) and we immediately get flooded with nostalgic memories. Sometimes we may even turn something on to play.
For today, we are just enjoying the view and letting the nostalgia wash over us. Hang on, that didn’t last long, we have a hankering to play some Amiga games on the CDTV! And perhaps pinball to finish up…….
We got to say, we absolutely love the collection of video game posters by artist, Rhett Whittington on DeviantArt!
As huge Double Dragon fans, we were admiring Rhett’s poster of our fave beat’em up game which then lead us down the rabbit hole of checking out the rest of Rhett’s cool gaming posters – and wow, we definitely weren’t disappointed!
Here are a few we absolutely love, but you can check out the rest of Rhett’s video games posters on his DeviantArt page.
Oh yeh, let us know your fave poster(s) on Twitter or Facebook!
image source: whittingtonrhett via DeviantArt
Yo peeps, the Ausretrogamer gang and their awesome friends (Weird and Retro, Press Play On Tape podcast, Bartronica, Bayside Pinball Club) are all at PAX Aus 2018 this coming weekend running the awesome and nostalgia inducing Classic Gaming area.
If you are attending PAX Aus, come over, say hi and most importantly, play and have fun!
We are here!
image source: PAX Aus
With the imminent 6th iteration of PAX Aus, we are in the final stages of planning for our Classic Gaming area. The team is working extremely hard behind the scenes to ensure you get a nice juicy hit of nostalgia come late October! As the saying goes, the Classic Gaming area will be bigger, badder and better in 2018.
If you’ve never visited the Classic Gaming area at PAX Aus, then perhaps our trip down memory lane may motivate you to get your retro gaming on, from our humble beginnings at the inaugural PAX Aus 2013 at the Showgrounds to our 5th showing in a row at the greatest event in the southern hemisphere.
Hopefully we will see a lot of you there in a few short weeks – make sure you say hi!
PAX Aus Classic Gaming highlights from:
The PAX Aus Classic Gaming area is brought to you by: Ausretrogamer, Press Play on Tape Podcast, Weird and Retro, Bartronica, Zax Amusements, Bayside Pinball Club and Pinmem.
Hey Aussie peeps, hold onto your hats, as we have some huge exciting comp news!
After 8 years of the Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC) in the USA, the competition is coming to Sydney, Australia! Get your diaries out and mark yourself away on Thursday October 4th! This is a huge deal folks, so get Tetris’n.
So what is this all about you ask? CTWC has teamed up with the awesome 1989 Arcade Bar & Kitchen (22 King Street, Newtown) to crown the first ever Classic Tetris Australian Champion. Players will go head-to-head (in a best out of three games) on the Nintendo Entertainment System’s Tetris, until there is only one player remaining. There are prizes to be won, beers to be enjoyed and many classic arcades to be played. It is going to be one heck of a night that welcomes all level of Tetris fanatics, from beginners to pro.
Who will hoist the first ever CTWC Australia trophy? Well, you gotta be in it to win it!
The CTWC Australia event details:
image source: 1989 Arcade Bar & Kitchen
We have featured a couple of brilliant custom-made toy builders here before, but we reckon Dano Brown takes the mantle for the most awesome hand-crafted video game related action figures and toys. Dano Brown, you sir are unbelievably talented!
Check out some of Dano Brown’s jaw-dropping custom-made toys below and then head to his Instagram to see the rest of his brilliant creations! Oh yeah, if you wanna buy any of these one-off custom toys, head to the iam8bit store.
image source: Dano Brown via Instagram
It is quite dangerous working near cool pop culture stores in Melbourne. Within a stones throw from the office, we have Minotaur, All-Star Comics Melbourne and ZiNG Pop Culture tempting us with their wares.
With mid-year sales going on right now, the temptation is unbearable – sorry wallet…
There is something about seeing people’s gaming rooms that invokes our inner voyeurism, in a good way.
We are always fascinated and intrigued of each unique games room setup we see, just like Nintendo_Master1’s – you’ll have to agree (once you check out all of the pics) that it is pretty darn awesome!
Let the drooling begin!
image source: Nintendo_Master1 on Facebook
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!
