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ToeJam & Earl Custom SEGA Genesis Cartridge Charity Auction

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Straight from the planet Funkotron comes the funkiest, custom SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive game ever to hit your CRT TV! Complete with light-up LEDs, moving arrow, and sound effects, this brass elevator replica will amaze your friends on the included display stand or played in a real SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive!

You now have the chance to grab this one of a kind creation via the current charity auction on eBay. This charity auction will see 100% of the sale proceeds going to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. So not only could you win this super funky cartridge, but you can also help a great charity!

Happy bidding!


source: MID49

 

TAITO Arcade Classics Featured on AtGames Legends Arcade Family

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We must say, the AtGames Legends Arcade Family suite of products have piqued our interest due to their versatility and now, the collaboration with TAITO Corporation, an arcade manufacturing powerhouse, bringing us some awesome classic arcade titles!

Current owners of the Legends Arcade Family products as well as those who have an interest (like us!) in classic arcade games are in luck! To compliment the AtGames’ already large selection of built-in video games, gamers can now add another 47 classic TAITO arcade games via a simple firmware update. This is the first time so many Taito arcade games have appeared at the same time on a single product! Check out the full list of games below which we guarantee will whet your nostalgic appetite!

The 47 TAITO arcade games are:

  • Alpine Ski
  • Battle Shark
  • Ben Bero Beh
  • Bonze Adventure
  • Bubble Bobble
  • Cadash
  • Cameltry
  • Chack ‘n Pop
  • Colony 7
  • Crazy Balloon
  • Don Doko Don
  • Elevator Action
  • Elevator Action Returns
  • Football Champ
  • Front Line
  • Growl
  • Gun & Frontier
  • Halley’s Comet
  • KiKi KaiKai
  • Kram
  • Kuri Kinton
  • Liquid Kids
  • Lunar Rescue
  • Metal Black
  • Nastar Warrior
  • Operation Thunderbolt
  • Operation Wolf
  • Pirate Pete
  • Plotting
  • Plump Pop
  • Qix
  • Raimais
  • Rastan
  • Space Gun
  • Space Invaders
  • Space Invaders DX
  • Syvalion
  • The Electric Yo-Yo
  • The Fairyland Story
  • The Legend of Kage
  • The New Zealand Story
  • The Ninja Kids
  • Thunder Fox
  • Violence Fight
  • Volfied
  • Wild Western
  • Zoo Keeper

These 47 TAITO arcade games are part of the growing number of built-in, licensed games on the Legends Arcade Family products like the Legends Ultimate and Legends Gamer series. Other current and future Legends Arcade Family products feature a similarly impressive mix of licensed arcade and console titles. We love the flexibility of adding games (legitimately!) to a home arcade system.

image source: AtGames Legends Family Arcade

What’s Up America! – Video Warriors Mini Documentary From 1980

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We love finding obscure mini documentaries from the early 80s, just like this What’s Up America! mini documentary, titled Video Warriors, which provides an insight on the state of the arcade video games industry circa 1980.

This documentary features a fresh-faced Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Lyle Rains (Atari VP of Engineering, Coin-Operated Games Division), and Roger Hector (Atari Manager of Advanced Products) to name a few. The focus is primarily on Atari Coin-Ops games, but arcade games from other manufacturers are also shown. We really love the part where Roget Hector discusses his co-creation, Atari’s (unreleased) Cosmos holographic handheld games system!

For those of you outside of North America, the What’s Up America! TV series ran on the Showtime channel from 1979-1981. Now go and enjoy this hit of nostalgia!


source: Scottith Games

 

2020 RESET64 C64 Craptastic 4KB Game Competition Results

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Thanks to the competitors, judges, sponsors and everyone in between for making the Reset64 2020 4kb Craptastic Game Competition our most successful yet! Also, a special thank-you to Richard Bayliss for once again compiling the official compilation disk. It was an amazing competition with a record 38 entries making the deadline. Each of these games are an outstanding achievement and it was great to have both novice and experienced coders participating and exploring their ideas.

The expert judges this year are Rob Caporetto, Andrew Fisher, Raj Singh, Richard Tappenden, Paul Koller, Louie Dimovski and Andrew Hayes. We couldn’t have done it without the judges, who extensively played, critiqued and reviewed each of the 38 games. There was a lot of variation between scores from each judge, which illustrates just how different concepts appeal to different people! Overall, it was a very close competition and there wasn’t much separating each placing.

The Winner: Fall by Megastyle!

Thanks again to the compo sponsors – Bitmap Books, Protovision, Fusion Retro Books, Freeze64, K&A Plus, Puddlesoft, Megastyle, and Ready64. Please visit and support the competition sponsors. A big mega special thank-you to Ausretrogamer for hosting and publishing the compo updates and continued support!

Judges’ comments and more information about each game will be published in the near future. Until then, enjoy the games (which can be downloaded from the 2020 Craptastic page) and congratulations again to all of the entrants and winners.

PLACINGS

1. Fall – Megastyle (28.71)

2. Dots – James (28.57)

3. Jumpin Jalopies – Megastyle (27.71)

4. RodMän Jr – Misfit (27.43)

5. Bring Back My Bones – Commocore, Hose It Out – Oziphantom (27.29)

6. Orcapult – Puddlesoft (26.86)

7. Avoid – James (26.71)

8. Star Lair – Malcontent (26.43)

9. SWYD – Megastyle (26.29)

10. Blockheads – Carleton Handley (26.14)

11. Rainbow Edge Run – Geir Straume (25.29)

12. Makealevel – Monsters Go Boom (24.57)

13. Jump4k – Megastyle, Kung Poo Fighter – Megastyle (24.43)

14. Al-Bert – Derek (23.86)

15. Ewe Woz Ere – DESIGN/chaos, WYR – Malcontent (23.57)

16. Mini Danmaku 64 – Cogitare Computing  (23.43)

17. Stacks – Derek (23.29)

18. A Day in the Life of a Teleporter (BASIC 10 Liner version) – Roman Werner, Flappy Space – Megastyle (22.86)

19. Spunk v.s. The Rest – Twain Pain Games (22.57)

20. Plazzle – Goerp (22.29)

21. Dodonuts – DESIGN/chaos (21.71)

22. Make Them Jump 2K – map/Plush (21.57)

23. Snout About – Nick Sherman (21.29)

24. Fight – Megastyle (21)

25. MeteorMath – fancollector1980 (20.57)

26. Parking Ticket – Ruerob (20.29)

27. A Day in the Life of a Teleporter – ZeHa (19.71)

28. Customs – Vk4mx (19.29)

29. Zzaped in the Butt! – TND (18.71)

30. Kugelblitz – Haplo (17.43)

31. Cover Fire! – Jammer (17.29)

32. Country Pop – Tomaes (16.17)

33. 1991 USSR deep space probe control centre janitor – Goerp (15.71)

34. Rescue64 – Syed (12.43)

Dots

Jumpin Jalopies

RodMän Jr

Bring Back My Bones

Hose It Out

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Unkle K / Reset C64
Father, husband, teacher and retro gaming/computer enthusiast! Editor of Reset64 C64 magazine.

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Commodore 64 Beige Spray Paint

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Well, well, well, wonders never cease to amaze us! If you are yearning for your stuff to look more like they did in the mid 80s, then this Commodore 64C beige spray paint is for you!

The clever peeps at Retrohax are behind this nostalgia inducing spray paint, so if you want to get all artistic and go nuts on painting stuff all beige, then hit their store (~the spray paint is approx. AU$36.25).

Oh yeah, with this ongoing COVID-19 situation, spray paints are flight restricted items so they won’t get past the origin border, so unless you are situated in Poland, you may have to wait a bit to get some.

Just in case the C64C beige paint isn’t your thing, Retrohax also has Amiga 500 Beige and Atari XE/ST Grey spray paints to ensure you get creative! Now, if only they had a C64 breadbin brown spray paint 😉

image source: Retrohax

 

Sonic Statue in Japan Countryside is Restored!

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Earlier in August of this year, there were reports of a Sonic statue in the middle of the Japanese countryside that had been restored to its former glory, but no one knew who restored it and how the heck the statue of Sonic surfing got there in the first place!

According to this Polygon article, the mysterious case had been somewhat solved, with this TheGamingBeaver video stating that they had found a report from a Japanese TV station that was just as curious about the statue’s origins as we all were. It was stated that the statue originated at SegaWorld, and was then sold at auction after it was remodelled. The buyer, Mr. Kadeo, happened to live up a dirt road behind the statue, and the report says that he placed it there as a signpost to direct guests to his place of residence.

The mystery still continues, as there has been no confirmation that Mr. Kadeo was behind the restoration. If he wasn’t, then we wonder if a larger entity (surely not SEGA?!) had played a role in restoring their mascot!

Restored to his former glory!Story source: Polygon / Image source: Twitter

 

The Great Classic Gaming Magnets Giveaway!

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**** GIVEAWAY ****

** GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED! **

Whoa, our friends at Magnetism Creations have given us some of their awesome video games and pinball related magnets to giveaway to our readers! Yep, this is a giveaway!

So what do you have to do to be in the running for 1 of the 3 mystery magnet packs? Relax, you don’t have to do anything stressful like run a marathon under 2 hours – all you have to do is ensure you like Magnetism Creations and Ausretrogamer on Facebook (and don’t forget to like and share the post for more chances!). For an extra chance to win, make sure you follow us in Twitter! See, that wasn’t too painful now, was it?!

The giveaway will finish at 6:00pm on Friday September 18, 2020! Winners will be notified by us shortly after the conclusion of the giveaway, so stay tuned and good luck!

PS: To get you motivated for this easy giveaway, check out a few of Magnetism Creations’ awesome magnets below…

 

Your Top 10 Favourite Classic Video Games

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The folks at Replay Magazine have been quite busy of late conducting classic gaming surveys, like Your Top 4 Favourite Classic Video Game Characters of All-Time, and their latest one, Your Top 10 Favourite Classic Video Games.

We were quite surprised to see Ms. Pac-Man at number 1, but then again, it is the best arcade Pac-Man game, so it deserves to be on any favourite classic video games lists. Galaga (woohoo!) was up there in second spot and of course, Donkey Kong! Oh yeah, great to see our fave arcade game of all time, Double Dragon, make the list too. But what happened to Street Fighter II?

Your Top 10 Favourite Classic Video Games by Replay Magazine:

  1. Ms. Pac-Man
  2. Galaga
  3. Donkey Kong
  4. Pac-Man
  5. Asteroids
  6. Daytona USA
  7. Double Dragon
  8. Galaxian
  9. Mortal Kombat
  10. Mr DO!

image source: Click Americana

 

TIGER Electronics + Famicom = FAMIGER NES Edition

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Another jaw-dropping creation by the French modder OktoRetroLab, posted by Recalbox, this time, the mod is a fusion of an old Tiger Electronics handheld and a Famicom – making a pretty cool FAMIGER!

We reckon it’s the perfect use of a Tiger Electronics handheld 😉

source: Recalbox / OktoRetroLab

 

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

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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