The Pop-Culture E-Zine
It’s spring time! What better way to welcome the warmer weather than to delve into a deep corner of our retro gaming vault and dig up a few nostalgia inducing images from our past!
For September, we have your nostalgia covered with Neo Geo, Vectrex, PC-Engine, Commodore 64, Atari Jaguar and old school Nintendo items to name just a few! Enjoy the trip down memory lane and we’ll see you next month for more vault shenanigans!
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As we come out of a long (southern hemisphere) winter, we look long and hard into the vastness of our retro gaming vault and come out with a number of juicy nostalgia-inducing classic gaming bits and pieces, starting with a couple of pretty cool, but useless NES peripherals!
We also have the mighty Neo Geo featured this month, with its interchangeable console and arcade memory card that we use on our AES and MVS. For the Nintendo fans, we have DK on the NES and a snippet of Super Mario World (you gotta look hard). For the really old school fans we have the Futuretronics Galaxy Invader 1000 tabletop and the cool Space Shuttle Game Watch we used to love strutting at school. The Contra lads make an appearance as well, as does the DynoVisor VR headset we use on the PC-Engine. Last but not least, our all time fave C64 compilation.
Enjoy the nostalgia and we”ll see what we find in the vault next month!
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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!
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 🙁
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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!
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