This week we talk about the 1980s Jim Henson classic, Fraggle Rock. We talk about the show’s concepts, its characters, the larger mythology and its trajectory from TV to DVD to the Big Screen. Just a reminder to drop by our official forums to discuss Fraggle Rock. You can find the forums [...]
Retro Game of the Day! Spider-Man (Atari 2600)
Spider-Man for the Atari 2600, by Parker Brothers. Released in 1982. Sigh. Every time I bring up one of the 2600 games it is bittersweet. On the one...
Capcom today announced its plans to release the Mega Man Zero Collection for the Nintendo DS. Previously a Japanese-only bundle, the collection will contain all four games in the Mega Man X spinoff series Mega Man Zero, which stars Zero instead of Mega Man.
Originally released for the Game Boy Advance between 2002 and 2005, the [...]
David Crane is a videogame Guru of the 80’s. He created games like Pitfall!, Ghostbusters and A Boy and His Blob single-handedly, doing all the programming, design and even bug-fixing himself.
He says to Wired :
“Unlike today, games for the Atari game system were developed by a single person,” said Crane in an e-mail to Wired.com. [...]
Amber made this Game Boy dress from soft gray knit and black fabric. She gave it buttons and a screen just like a real game boy! each piece is sewn on separately. best fit someone 5′5 and under.
Buy this dress at Etsy (shiping service between 1-2 weeks because it’s handmade)
SEGABANDONWARE is a treasure island for all Sega Genesis (or Megadrive) Fans. There is more than 1,000 games to download for free as abandonware. Play your favourite games with your emulator or with a MagicDrive system plugs into your Sega Genesis.
Moreover, have a look of the Open Sonic the Hedgehog project. With this, you can [...]
This week in new game releases is easily the best thus far this year with big name titles like Mass Effect 2, MAG, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, No More Heroes 2 and more coming out this week. It’s a crowded release week with a lot to choose from, so what will you guys be picking up? [...]
Retro Game of the Day! Cosmo Gang - The Video
Cosmo Gang - The Video by Namco for Super Famicom (Japanese version of the 16-Bit Super Nintendo), released in Japan in 1991 in the arcade and the foll...
Retro Game of the Day! Flashback: The Quest for Identity
Flashback: The Quest for Identity by Delphine Software, published by U.S. Gold, originally appearing in 1992 on the Amiga and ported to seve...
This week we talk about the 1980s all-in-one console, The Vectrex. We talk about its development, the hardware, the games and of course what the Vectrex is up to now (more then you expect). Jonathan from Rotting Flesh Radio is back this week with a Retro Rewind. Just a reminder to drop by [...]
2080 : Nerd to geek is the new album from Gourmets Recordingz from Walid Dalhoumi (aka 2080).
The French music composer, Walid Dalhoumi, has a rhythmic which has a taste of « déjà vu » with our old school video games musics from 8 or 16bit consoles. He claims to be influence by Jean-Michel Jarre, his first musical [...]
A new C64 DTV intro : Twistro by Silicon Limited available here and could be run with your favourite emulator (VICE for MS-Windows, Mac OSX or Linux)
The coder says :
After more than 2 years catching dust on my harddisk I decided to release this, unfinished, demo/intro for the Commodore Direct To TV (DTV).
Because it only [...]
The result of months of planning and 3 wintery days in NYC, the first tracks from the 2009 Blip Festival are now online on the Free Music Archive (FMA). Tracks from the french artist Je deviens dj en 3 jours are available and also from Nullsleep, glomag, minusbaby, tRasH cAn maN.
(via FMA)
Peter Nitsch build another personal interesting video to text application : ASCIImeo.
ASCIImeo is a rendering engine that changes Vimeo in different ASCII-format text mode. It’s a really mixture of high-tech and lo-tech that is fun to explore.
Check out this example « Still Run by DANTE NOU » in ASCII video mode.
(via Digital Tools)
Welcome to the 16-bit chiptune of the french producer Franck Rivoire better know as Danger.
Danger is one of our favourite and talentous electronic french music artist who utilizes 8bit and 16bit distortion samples like he already did for Divine.
Now, the sample music release « 4h30″ is available for free here on DiscoDust. Below, this is a [...]
VVVVVV is complete!
VVVVVV is complete from DistractionWare. You can now get it from its website http://thelettervsixtim.es/
This game is a great retro 8bit game. A pure genius gameplay, game design, stylish Commodore 64 fonts and graphics, with a wonderful soundtrack.
There is a story to VVVVVV – you are a space captain, who has lost his crew [...]
After the 8-bit wine, 8bit Lego, and now the 8-bit compact car.
At the American International Auto Show in Detroit on Monday, Toyota introduces the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept, a compact car designed for the “inner-city environment.”
More to the point, Toyota said in a press release the car’s designers in Nice, France, were going for an [...]
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