The Pop-Culture E-Zine
Another darn awesome Lego Ideas entry by Bricks Down Under that tickles our nostalgic nerve!
This playable Lego Space Invaders arcade game replica has the charm of the 1978 arcade machine that took the video gaming world by storm. We reckon Tomohiro Nishikado would be quite impressed too.
If you want this Lego Ideas Space Invaders to become a real Lego set you can buy from your fave retailer, make sure you go and vote for it now!
source: Bricks Downunder
source: LEGO Ideas: Space Invaders
It’s heading toward the end of June, so for this month we dug up some ultra cool stuff that will give you a good old dose of nostalgia, so make sure you seek medical advice if you start feeling faint-ish.
From playing Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games on our Pioneer LaserDisc to getting some BurgerTime, Psycho Fox gaming action and of course, getting instantly sick playing on the Virtual Boy and everything in between!
If you see anything that induces nostalgia, hit us up on Twitter or Facebook and tell us all about it (or seek medical advice ;-))!
Nothing beats blowing minds by playing our Mega Drive / Genesis (cart, CD and LD) games on our Pioneer LaserDisc
Our fave conversion of BurgerTime. Yep, it plays marvellously on the Intellivision
The rage inducing Master System game!
Tabletop action, starting with Astro Wars!
Contemplating on sorting out our Amstrad CPC6128 collection…..
Anyone else have a Bally Astrocade or the Sega Lock-On?
Yeah, we love all things Star Wars, including pinball machines and LaserDiscs!
Sega Power! Two of our favourite Sega consoles in one image!
One of our all time favourite video games. We have played this infinite amount of time in these last 30 years!
Instant headache! We love the Virtual Boy, but our brain and eyes don’t 🙁
Original image copyright: ausretrogamer
As owners of some of the 1986 Remco ‘The Karate Kid’ action figures, this commercial is infused with nostalgia and that cool 80s ingredient, cheesiness!
source: Vintage Toy Emporium
After this week’s Nintendo Direct, we are obviously most excited about the Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda announcement, with the green G&W beauty slated for release later this year (Friday, November 12 2021 to be exact)!
As part of its 35th anniversary celebration, this Game & Watch will let you play The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Game Boy version), and a special Game & Watch edition of Vermin (featuring Link)! Just like the Game & Watch Super Mario, this will have a playable clock and timer too!
At a cost of AU$79.00 (via Amazon), who is pre-ordering one? Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook to let us know.
source: Nintendo
Creator of mind-blowing portable consoles, Shank Mods, has done it again! This time he has wowed us with an even more amazing creation, the Real Boy – a ‘less awful’ and more awesome Virtual Boy portable system!
According to Shank Mods, this was a year in the making, with every detail painstakingly put together to create the super impressive Real Boy, complete with red backlit buttons!
Our eyes and brain would definitely prefer playing on this Real Boy instead of our real Virtual Boy.
source: Shank Mods
Ah, love seeing one of our fave Trekkies, Spock (the late Mr. Leonard Nimoy) getting in amongst it when it come to video games, even if it is quite cheesy!
A long time ago, in our own galaxy, Leonard Nimoy – the Magnavox spokesperson, is guided and introduced to the Magnavox Magnavision VH-8000 LaserDisc Player by a cheesy white rock that blinks and beeps as a means of communication in this 1981 demonstration.
The mustachioed Nimoy, his white clothing and the Star Trek inspired theme music just ooze that 1980s vibe! Say cheese!
source: Watcher3223
Our first retro gaming vault feature proved successful, so we thought we’d keep things going!
For this month’s images, we delved further into our vault and dug up some cool and peculiar photos of items we have in our collection and from gaming parties we have attended and ComLynxed with our friends!
We hope you keep enjoying these blasts from the past!
Will always love the PC-Engine HuCards – they are so cute and packed with awesome gaming!
Keeping our N64 in tip top shape!
Got to get our monthly C64 fix (especially some World Class Leaderboard)!
Llamatron 2112 on the Jag or…..
……Revenge of the Mutant Camels?
Love getting some action on the little Neo Geo Pocket Color
ComLynx parties are always the fun!
The Neo-Vec controller is pretty darn awesome to use on the Vectrex
The rare and obscure Noun. Tempest 3000 is just sublime!
Our favourite Commodore 64 in our collection. The Suncom Thumbstick is a brilliant little controller, especially on Wizard of Wor!
Original image copyright: ausretrogamer
Back in 2017 there was a crowdfunded project titled Golden Era which was going to tell the story of the making of GoldenEye 007 on the N64. The project didn’t reach it’s funding goal, but thankfully onaretrotrip stepped in to offer all of us a a glimpse into the game that revolutionised first-person shooters (FPS) and defined the Nintendo 64.
So kick back and enjoy the making of one of the all-time best N64 games!
source: onaretrotip
We cherish our Commodore gear, from the Commodore 64 and Amiga 1200, to our Commodore watches, joysticks, CD32 and the obscure and gorgeous CDTV (aka: Compact Disc Television / Commodore Dynamic Total Vision).
Speaking of the Commodore CDTV, we particularly love its obscure controllers, the game pad that doubles as a remote control and the CD1200 trackball – both using good ole fashioned infrared (no Bluetooth here – Ed) for that true wireless gaming experience. There is also the CDTV keyboard, but that ain’t no controller, well, sort of.
The CD1200 trackball is peculiar in that it also has two DB9 joystick ports on the front so that you can hook up you fave joysticks, like the TAC-2, to play your Amiga games in comfort. However, the use of “C” batteries to power it in wireless (IR) mode is not that environmentally friendly at all. The remote control / game pad on the other hand uses “AA”, which means we can use our Eneloops for a more enviro friendly gaming session.
What obscure Commodore gear do you have? Hit us up on Twitter or our Facebook page now!
CDTV Remote Control
CD1200 Trackball
CD1200 Trackball – joystick ports
CDTV – Keyboard et al
We love finding these promo videos of arcade games we used to love and play at amusement centres back in the day.
The below promotional video is for Sega’s Scud Race arcade game from 1996. Scud Race (Sports Car Ultimate Drive) was also known as Sega Super GT in North America.
Oh yeah, keep an ear out on how “Sega” is pronounced in this promo video – long live See-gah!
source: Australian Pinball Museum