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Faster Than Speed: A closer look at the Atomiswave Need for Speed: Underground clone

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 1 year ago

Alongside the recently covered Maximum Speed, Sammy's 2004 street racing title Faster Than Speed represents one of only two racing titles released for the Atomiswave arcade platform. Faster Than Speed differs from its stablemate in that it is a street raci …
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The Arcade Raid That Wasn’t

The Arcade Blogger about 1 year ago

Been a while since I wrote about an arcade raid here on the blog. For the uninitiated, an “Arcade Raid” usually involves the discovery and subsequent removal of classic arcade cabinets. A typical raid will occur in an old warehouse, barn or st …
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The Rarest and Most Valuable Nintendo 3DS Games

Racketboy about 1 year ago

The Nintendo 3DS may not have been far removed from the mainline retail scene, but collectors are already starting to target the hidden gems and the harder-to-obtain releases to fill in their collection (but there are also some affordable gems).  While s …

The Strange History of Photo CD Games

CD-ROM Journal about 1 year ago

Humans love play, and humans are endlessly creative in finding ways to play no matter what. The history of video games is filled with designers finding ways to take interactive formats, no matter how limited, and build games within them. Of those formats, …
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The Rarest and Most Valuable Playstation 2 (PS2) Games

Racketboy about 2 years ago

A few years ago, the PS2 was in that happy spot of having a lot of trade-ins as people were moving away from it, but now we are entering the early stages of “retro collecting”.  Despite its relatively young vintage and its widespread populari …
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Episode 295: Arcade Archive

Retro Asylum about 2 years ago

Dean Swain talk’s to arcade collector Alex Crowley about the opening of the Arcade Archive Musuem and what we can expect to play when we visit. For more information on the Arcade Archive, please checkout Alex’s YouTube channel: https …
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Podcast 180 – 1943

Ten Pence Arcade Podcast about 2 years ago

DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: 6 cats in the wall Brian in a can of tuna Digestive shurikens Victor swims in custard Boogu Woogu Bricks. Bricks. Mad about bricks A barrage of chips Using pants instead of a gun Spinny bullets Love don’t live here anymore …
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Podcast 179 – The Punisher

Ten Pence Arcade Podcast about 2 years ago

Mojo / Commodore +4 disrememberance Red Jockstrap TIME STAMP What we’ve been up to – 0m 0s Games we’ve been playing – 37m 48s Arcade News – 51m 11s Biscuit Review – 59m 11s Recent Pickups – 1h 2m 54s Listener Feedback – 1h 10m 48s Shoutout …

The Reactive Square

CD-ROM Journal about 2 years ago

A book lays open in front of your computer, a pitch-black square in the centre of both the page and screen. You may click the square, to no effect, but it's not until you speak that the square awakens and begins to vibrate as if in response. This is The Re …
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Episode 82 - Do Beer Goggles Work On Games? + 6 Good 80s Arcade Games For Modern Kids

Pixel Gaiden Gaming Podcast about 2 years ago

We're back for Episode 82! In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news + 6 Good 80s Arcade Games Modern Kids Will Like We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "catching up" later in the month.   Episode Guide ------------------- …

Artificial Life: Insects

CD-ROM Journal about 2 years ago

Somewhere in a sea of total blackness, strange insects float in the void. Weird abstract creatures, their form unknowable and their biology alien, fill the pages of Daizaburo Harada's Artificial Life. Like some kind of otherworldly biology textbook, it f …
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Letting Go of Original Hardware?

Retro Gamer Randomness about 3 years ago

CRT setupWhen I got back into gaming in 2002, I didn't have my original consoles from my childhood. I went to the local Gamestop and picked up an NES, Genesis, and a box of games. This was right around the launch of the Gamecube/Xbox, and so these were dir …

Episode 59 - ALOHANET

Advent of Computing about 3 years ago

ALOHANET was a wireless networking project started at the University of Hawaii in 1968. Initially, it had relatively little to do with ARPANET. But that relative isolation didn't last for long. As the two networks matured and connected together we start to …

The New International CD-i Association (ICDIA) • An Overview of CD-I Standards, Balboa and CD-I Fonts guides and a bunch of technical notes

CDinteractive about 3 years ago

• Added An Overview of CD-I Standards to the Authoring Book(lets) section.• Added Balboa Video Users Guide and CD-I Fonts User's Guide to the Authoring Manuals section.• Added TN #41, #46, #47, #49, #57.1, #62, #85.1, #87, #89, #91, #99, #100, #101 …
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Rare (?) Clamshell Variant of John Madden Football for Sega Genesis

Retro Gamer Randomness about 3 years ago

 I was running an errand one day in a town that I don't normally drive to, as it is out of the way. I happened upon a Half Price Books store, and figured, why not check it out. This one was larger than the HPB store closest to me, and had a larger inv …
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278 - Arcade Games - Hidden Gems Volume 3

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 3 years ago

As the year comes to an end, The Drisk and Kingy sit with a beer (or two) and intersperse Arcade Hidden Gems: Vol 3 with some festive memories.  Join the lads as they go through Merry Driscoll’s choice of seldom spoken about arcade goodies.  All at RGD …
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My Console Setup in 2020

Retro Gamer Randomness about 4 years ago

2020. Year of the pandemic. There's not much great news going around, so I'll write something that makes me happy: retro gaming consoles. Each year brings some adjustments, refinements, and replacements to my setup. Here we go!The TV was updated last year, …
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Raspberry Pi 400 is released

RetroPie about 4 years ago

The Raspberry Pi 400 is released today – A Raspberry Pi 4 based system built into a compact keyboard. To find out more about the new machine please visit https://rptl.io/400. Ret... 4.7 is compatible with the new Raspberry Pi 400 and can be dow …

Episode 4 - Unix for the People, Part 1

Advent of Computing about 5 years ago

Many people have never even heard of Unix, an operating system first released in the early 1970s. But that doesn't change the fact that all of the internet, and nearly every computer or smart device you interact with is based on some variant of Unix. So, h …

The Intellivisionaries - Episode 35 - Space Patrol

The Intellivisionaries Podcast about 6 years ago

In this episode we review the Left Turn Only game Space Patrol. Rick also interviews the game programmer Joe Zbiciak, and has a new Hobby Projects segment on repairing and modding a Commodore 1902A monitor. Paul interviews Atari Age user and Intellivision …

221 ZX Spectrum Magazines

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 6 years ago

Crash, Your Spectrum/Sinclair & Sinclair User were 3 of the best selling and much loved ZX Spectrum magazines in the 80's. Rising from the emerging industry of home computer games, these giants wrote the rule book in video game journalism.  Retro Gamer wr …
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RetroPie 4.3 is released

RetroPie about 7 years ago

RetroPie 4.3 includes a lot of improvements to our default launcher Emulation Station, including Favourites/Recently Played and custom ROM collections, video and image screensavers, power saving modes, and the ability to configure your own RetroArch hotkey …
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BONUS - Mark R Jones Interview

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 7 years ago

Hello and welcome to another amazing episode of RGDS.  Today we have a really special episode with us interviewing Mark R. Jones.  An Ocean artist who did such classics as Wizball, Gryzor (Contra), Vindicator to name but a few. Mark is still an avid coll …

The Intellivisionaries - Episode 27 - Rick Rolled Retro

The Intellivisionaries Podcast about 8 years ago

In this episode we have a special guest host - Cmart (Christian Martin)!  We don't do a game review, but we do review the latest edition of Todd Holcomb's Ultimate Intellivision Flashback, as well as the Coleco reproduction box set by Marc Oberhäuser.  …