Australia's Retro Gaming and Pinball E-Zine
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
This was an awesome tweet by History Uncovered! The tweet features original footage that was used to animate the first Mortal Kombat arcade game!
Original footage used to animate the first Mortal Kombat video game 😍 pic.twitter.com/z2ZpaFCZwN
— History Uncovered (@Iearnhistory) August 17, 2020
Whoa, the team at Retro Bones have been busy tinkering on VergeWorld: Icarus, a new sci-fi racer shoot’em up game (with exploration elements) for the Amiga, Atari and Mega Drive!
What is VergeWorld you ask? Far into the future, on a distant and inhospitable planet, mankind engages in one thing it knows well – war. The tyrannical corporate regime wants to enslave all inhabitants of the Kingdom – humanity’s new home. As a young smuggler, Nix, aboard the aircraft Icarus, you want to help the oppressed by joining the Revolt.
Download the Amiga demo to prove your worth by completing the infamous Death Run challenge and convince the Revolt to accept you as one of them!
image source: Retro Bones
Hadouken! Hey peeps, you gotta check this out – a full-on mechanical LEGO Street Fighter II creation!
This is so darn cool, perhaps it should be submitted to LEGO Ideas. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY indeed 😉
🛠🎨 VOS CRÉATIONS ! 🎨🛠
Une borne #StreetFighterII en #LEGO… totalement fonctionnelle !! 👌😍❤
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY ! 💰💰💰
(via pixeljunkie) pic.twitter.com/Sop3ZmyK4x— Recalbox (@recalbox) August 8, 2020
We also welcome good news, especially news of free video games!
The peeps at SNK have teamed up with Twitch Prime to bring Prime members a number of popular SNK titles completely free! The first wave of games began with seven titles which became available from May 2020, and now the second wave begins with an additional seven, like METAL SLUG 2 and SNK 40th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. More games will be released in the future, so stay tuned!
If you have an Amazon Prime membership, then do yourself a favour and grab these free SNK titles now from Twitch Prime!
Important things to know:
* You must be an Amazon Prime member in order to download these games
* The available games are their western versions
* Offer available till April 1, 2021 (but don’t wait till then, grab them now!)
image source: SNK Corp.
The Nintendo Switch is still our go to contemporary gaming system, so when we see clever peeps injecting nostalgia with their Switch, we definitely take note!
One such clever peep, Imokruok has created two cool casemod docks for his Nintendo Switch, one based on the 8-bit NES and the other on the 16-bit SNES, albeit the North American version 😉
The best part is that Imokruok has documented these creations in step by step photos, so make sure you check out the full compliment of pics in the above Imgur links. Oh yeah, check out the video of the NES Switch dock builds process below:
NES Switch dock (build pics in comments) from r/NintendoSwitch
Donor SNES case – it all begins!
The completed SNES Switch dock – it’s a beauty
The NES case mod – it all has to start somewhere!
The finished product!
image source: Imgur
Just in case you weren’t sick of seeing the inevitable and dreaded ‘Game Over’ screen, here are a few as a kind reminder 😉
Source: dibujoanimado
Nintendo may be grabbing a lot of attention with their Nintendo Direct announcement this week, but we reckon you need to know about this other awesome news too.
So what’s the awesome news? Well, remember when Street Fighter II hit the 16-bit consoles and we were all discussing which version was better? For the record, we preferred the SNES version, but the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition) game was no slouch either. The awesome news is, things have changed for the better on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis version, thanks to coder Gabriel Pyron.
Gabriel has been toiling for 4 years, reworking the Mega Drive / Genesis Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition game to bring it as close to arcade perfect as possible, aptly titled, Street Fighter II Remastered Edition. Gabriel has injected better/more colours, updated the graphics, animations and art, fixed some bugs and removed the pesky censorship elements to name just a few of his updates.
Head on over here to download Gabriel’s update and apply the patch to play the ultimate (and best) Street Fighter II game on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis!
image source: Romhacking
Whoa, LEGO and Nintendo have given us a one two punch of sets – first with their LEGO Super Mario, and now, the awesome LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System set!
This awesome LEGO NES set will be available from August 1 and will retail for AU$349.99. You’ll now be able to assemble your own console and retro CRT TV, then turn the crank to make 8-bit Super Mario move across the screen! We are excited 🙂
source: LEGO
What is it about the need to ‘hack’ handheld systems to play old school video games? Is it the challenge (to hack), is it the fact you are doing something shady or is it purely to just play your ‘backup’ video games from gaming generations gone by?
What ever the reason, there have been a plethora of options for retro gamers to either soft or hard mod their portable beasts to play classic games. In parallel, there have been dedicated emulation handheld systems to help with your hit of nostalgia, like the GP2X, Caanoo and the latest beast, the RK2020, to name just a few.
CycloDS – the softmod hack for the Nintendo DS
We have quite a few handheld systems that we use to play our favourite retro video games, some emulate better than the others, but our favourite right now is the PSP for playing Mega Drive and SNES games. We have the exciting new RK2020 retro handheld coming to our office, so stay tuned for our review on that little beast 🙂
WARNING: Hacking your systems is not without risk and can also void your warranty.
