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5 Terabytes Of Old School Gaming

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If you are pressed for time or don’t really want to muck around with setting up emulators to play old video games, this post is for you!

Emulators have come a long way with their (relative) ease of setup and use, however, they still have a number of quirks that need tweaking to their configuration to get them humming properly. There is also the question of storage and having your local workstation polluted with a mass of different emulators.

Having setup multiple emulators on our Windows PC, we know how time consuming they can be to setup properly. Once they are setup, you then realise the precious storage they have consumed. The solution would have been to leave the myriad of emulators on our PC, but move all the backed up games to an external drive – again, more time sunk in setting up, than playing our fave retro games! So what is the answer?

Let us introduce you to the plug and play Hyper Base Mix 5TB external drive, with perfectly configured emulators and absolutely packed to the brim with pre-installed games – almost the entire 5 terabyte drive is full! So if you have a Windows PC, it’s as easy as plug the drive into a spare USB port, and then fire up your desired emulator.

The pre-configured emulators include LaunchBox, RetroBat and Playnite, arguably the best emulators/front-ends currently available. What, no RetroArch? Nope, not needed at all, as RetroBat (and LaunchBox) do the job admirably. Wish we had bought this drive earlier, as it would have saved us a lot of time (and headaches).

The details:

  • Product: Hyper Base Mix 5TB HDD
  • Price: AU$277.37 (as at publication date)

Packed full!

What should we play first……

RetroBat it is! And then straight to the Neo Geo MVS!

54,055 games on RetroBat! Surely we’ll find a few we’ll want to play…

Testing out a few arcade classics

The lovely LaunchBox – great for games from the 5th generation and onwards!

Playnite is a great platform to consolidate all of your fave PC games!



Castlevania: The Complete History

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We are huge fans of Daniel Ibbertson’s (aka: Slope’s Game Room) history vids, just like his recent full-length documentary based on the history of one of the biggest game franchises of all time, CASTLEVANIA.

The Castlevania games series is one of the most expensive and well-loved retro gaming collections ever released. In this doco, Daniel not only talks about its history, but also showcases some of the rarest games in the series.

So chuck your headphones on, put your feet up and immerse yourself all things Castlevania.


source: Slope’s Game Room

PlayStation’s Space Jam: I Never Passed the Ball

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By: D.C. Cutler, U.S.A.

When I played the Space Jam video game, I either consistently played with Michael Jordan or I would pass the ball to the Tasmanian Devil. Usually, I just went to the hoop playing as Jordan.

I was never a huge fan of the film Space Jam. It’s fun, and Jordan gives a good performance as himself. Is that difficult or easy? However, when I played the PlayStation game based on the film for the first time, I instantly became addicted to playing the 2D, multiplayer game. And, before playing Space Jam, I particularly never enjoyed playing basketball video games. That changed after I played a few games of Space Jam.

For a game released in 1996, the graphics still hold up. There were basketball games made ten years later that didn’t have as impressive design and graphics. Every Warner Bros. cartoon character is designed in great detail and their movements are naturally familiar. Critics said the gameplay was too simplistic and easy. That’s one of the reasons I enjoyed the game.

source: Space Jam Wiki

When the Tasmanian Devil takes the ball to the hoop and starts spinning like a violent tornado, there is nothing more entertaining in any basketball game. Maybe I’m slightly biased because I was a Tasmanian Devil fan when I was a kid. He’s the most eccentric and crazy of the classic Warner Bros characters; the Road Runner being a close second. Jordan and the Tasmanian Devil were the only ones who could play defence for the TuneSquad. Bugs Bunny was useless on defence, but he could hit a three-pointer when you needed it.

Jordan’s game play athleticism and movements mirrored the real thing. His jumper and layup were pretty much identical to his real style of play. The Monstars could not defend Jordan’s fast break to the bucket. Most of them just watched when His Airness blew past them. I always thought the Monstars in the film and in the game were no match for Jordan. They were such silly and hokey villains, beating them felt inconsequential.

A Space Jam sequel with LeBron James is in the works. I hope the sequel produces an equally enjoyable game as the original film did. When it was released, Space Jam the video game was an excellent basketball game.