• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Privacy Policy
  • Shop

AUSRETROGAMER

The Pop-Culture E-Zine

  • Announcements
  • History
  • Retro Exploring
  • Retro Gaming Culture
  • Reviews
  • Modern Gaming
  • Podcasts
  • Pinball
You are here: Home / Archives for oldschool

oldschool

Slow Mole: 8-bit Platformer For The NES

July 19, 2021 By ausretrogamer

Slow MoleErik Rosenlund, take a bow! Erik has created and released, SLOW MOLE, an awesome speedrunning platformer for the NES!

Playable on both real hardware and other modern devices, Slow Mole challenges your speedrunner skills to the max with a unique checkpoint mechanic that will only award a checkpoint when the player proves their mastery! The game provides the player with two difficulty options which affects the timer, thus making an impact on game play. For those that have twitch skills who can truly master the game, the game ramps up its mechanical challenge to nightmare levels!

Grab Slow Mole for free (or for a small token of appreciation for Erik) from here and get running!

Slow Mole (NES) Trailer – The 80s NES claymation trailer that never was




Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 8-bit, Erik Rosenlund, GameDev, indie dev, IndieDev, Itch.io, NES, nintendo, oldschool, Platformer, Retro Gaming, retrogaming, Slow Mole, speedrunner, speedrunning

The Legend Of Zelda and Super Mario 64 Sell For Mega Bucks!

July 13, 2021 By ausretrogamer

From NFTs selling for millions to other ephemera going for ridiculous amounts of money, we now find video games entering this realm of the ludicrous money!

In the last week we have had two record breaking auction sales of Nintendo video games, first it was The Legend Of Zelda (NES) selling for US$870,000, only for this record to be broken a few days later by the US$1.56 million fetched by Super Mario 64 (N64)!

Now don’t get us wrong, both of these games are great, but come on, these prices are scary as hell! Anyway, as long as there are buyers with deep pockets, then stuff like this is going to go for mega bucks! So if you have some old-school games in mint condition, get them rated and hit Heritage Auctions, you never know, you may be an instant millionaire.

We wonder what video game will break the sales record next?

image source: Heritage Auctions and CNN US

source story: The Verge




 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: game auction, Heritage Auctions, N64, NES, nintendo, Nintendo 64, oldschool, Retro, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, retrogames, retrogaming, super mario, Super Mario 64, Super Mario 64 sells for $1.5 million, tbt, The Legend Of Zelda, The Verge, throwback, video game auction, Video Games

Wii U Playing Games From Zip Disk

July 12, 2021 By ausretrogamer

We always love coming across clever folks doing extraordinary and clever things, and Will It Work? is no exception!

Will It Work? caught our eye with his cool mods with old school media being used on modern consoles, which is quite impressive.

In the below video he attaches an Iomega Zip Drive (Ed: remember those 100MB disks!) to the Wii U to test whether such a small piece of media (Zip Disk) can be formatted by the console, and even better, if any games will fit on the disk. Watch and find out!


source: Will It Work?




Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: BasicInteger, Iomega, Iomega Zip Disk, Jaz Drive, oldschool, Retro, retrogaming, videogames, Wii U, Wii U Zip Disk, Wii U Zip Drive, WiiU, Will it Work?, Zip Disk, Zip Drive

LEGO IDEAS: Playable Space Invaders Arcade

July 9, 2021 By ausretrogamer

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




Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 1970s, Arcade, Lego, Lego arcade game, LEGO Ideas, Lego Ideas Space Invaders, Lego Space Invaders, Lego Space Invaders Arcade, Old School, oldschool, Playable Lego Space Invaders arcade game, Retro, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, retrogaming, shmup, Space Invaders, throwback

The Retro Gaming Vault – June 2021

June 25, 2021 By ausretrogamer

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




Filed Under: History, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Arcade, ausretrogamer, ausretrogamer vault, gamer, Geek, LaserDisc, nerd, oldschool, pinball, play together, Retro Gamer, retro gaming vault, Retrocomputing, Retrogamer, retrogaming, retrogaming vault, Sega Master Syste, Star Wars, Video Games, Virtual Boy

The Karate Kid Action Figures TV Commercial with Extra Cheese

June 21, 2021 By 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




Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 80s, Action Figures, Ali Mills, Chad McQueen, Cobra Kai, Daniel LaRusso, Dutch, Elisabeth Shue, Geek, John Kreese, Johnny Lawrence, Karate Kid action figures, Lucille LaRusso, Martin Kove, Mr Miyagi, oldschool, Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Randee Heller, Remco, The Karate Kid, throwback, Toys, vintage toys, William Zabka

Celebrating The 35th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda

June 18, 2021 By ausretrogamer

Game and Watch: The Legend of ZeldaAfter 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




Filed Under: Announcements, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: alarm, Clock, Game & Watch, game and watch, Game Boy, Legend of Zelda, Link, Link's Awakening, nintendo, Nintendo Direct, Nintendo Switch, Old School, oldschool, Retro, retrogames, retrogaming, Vermin, Vintage, Zelda, Zelda II

Real Boy – The Less Awful Virtual Boy Handheld

June 17, 2021 By ausretrogamer

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




Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: diy, DIY project, hacking, homebrew, mods, nintendo, oldschool, project, Real Boy, Real Boy the Virtual Boy handheld, RealBoy, Retro Gamer, Retro Gaming, retrogaming, Shank Mods, tbt, throwback, Virtual Boy

Leonard Nimoy Is Introduced to the Magnavision VH-8000 LaserDisc Player in 1981

June 8, 2021 By ausretrogamer

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



Filed Under: History, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: 1980s, 80s, commercial, Demo, LaserDisc, Leonard Nimoy, MagnaVision, Magnavox, Magnavox Magnavision LaserDisc Player, Magnavox Magnavision VH-8000 LaserDisc Player, oldschool, Retro, retrogaming, Spock, Star Trek, videogames

The Retro Gaming Vault – May 2021

June 3, 2021 By ausretrogamer

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




Filed Under: History, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Atari Jaguar, atari lynx, ausretrogamer vault, C64, ComLynx, Commodore 64, Llamatron, N64, Neo Geo Pocket Color, NGPC, Nintendo 64, Nuon, Old School, oldschool, pc-engine, play together, Retro Gamer, retro gaming vault, Retrocomputing, Retrogamer, retrogaming vault, Tempest 3000, Vectrex

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • Page 10
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Follow Us

FacebookInstagramYoutTubeTumblrFollow Us on RSSFollow Us on MastodonFollow Us on BlueskyFollow Us on Threads

Search

Shout Us A Coffee!

Recent Posts

  • The Game Expo 2026: A Sunday Well Spent
  • Happy MAR10 Day 2026!
  • Discovering the ‘HALO’ Arcade Game
  • The Holy Grail of Nintendo Collections Is For Sale
  • Virtual Boy is BACK (of all things)!

Ad

Footer

© 2012 – 2026 – ausretrogamer (The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine). All rights reserved. Where appropriate, all trademarks and copyrighted materials remain property of their respective owners.

Terms & Conditions | Disclaimer

Advertise | About | Contact | Links

Please see our Privacy Policy for details on how we treat your personal information.

Support This Site

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee on Ko-fi :-)

Copyright © 2026 · News Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in