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Keeping San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique Open to the Public

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We last visited Musée Mécanique in San Francisco in 2012, which was a major highlight for us, so when we heard that this antique arcade was doing it tough, it was definitely difficult to hear.

We had a blast when we last visited Musée Mécanique! To view the album of our visit, go here
Musée Mécanique

The below ‘Nostalgia Museum’ short documentary by Sofie Kodner and Eleonora Bianchi, provides an intimate portrait of owner Dan Zelinsky as he struggles to keep the legacy of this iconic San Francisco institution alive in the face of economic loss and mechanical deterioration.


source: KQED Arts



The Retro Gaming Vault – July 2021

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Going deep into our vault for more intoxicating nostalgia for the month of July, we uncover some cult classic JCVD LaserDiscs, tabletops that go pew, pew, pew, a Neo Geo AES, a Sonic VHS tape (remember those!), some old school gaming patches, a Star Wars rip off for the Bally Astrocade and everything in between!

Go on, take a look, but scroll slowly to take it all in! Happy Retro Gaming to you all!

 



Slow Mole: 8-bit Platformer For The NES

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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



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

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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



 

Wii U Playing Games From Zip Disk

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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?



LEGO IDEAS: Playable Space Invaders Arcade

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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



The Retro Gaming Vault – June 2021

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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



The Karate Kid Action Figures TV Commercial with Extra Cheese

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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



Celebrating The 35th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda

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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



Real Boy – The Less Awful Virtual Boy Handheld

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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