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Lost SNES Game Starring Bill Clinton's Cat Set for Release: The Return of ‘Socks The Cat Rocks The Hill’
How gamemaker Kaneko’s long-lost masterpiece will finally be coming to a gaming console near you.
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The rare games that can make you rich
As video gaming moves closer and closer to a purely digital software distribution service, retro games are become more and more collectable. To younger players weaned on Steam and iOS, the idea of having a game on a bulky cartridge or easily-scratched disc that you have to insert every time you want to play might seem like a throwback from the past, and even video gaming veterans will admit that aside from that warm fuzzy feeling you get from buying a physical product...
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Modded Game Boy With Raspberry Pi Filling Is A Delectable Slice Of Retro Gaming Goodness
Not long ago, Amazon showed us how to build an Amazon Echo Smart AI-assisted speaker system with the versatile Raspberry Pi but this beauty of a modding project is a bit of old school goodness that just warms our geek hearts. What do you get when you cross a classic portable gaming system like the original Game Boy with more modern internals...
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Atari’s classic ‘80s game art explored in new book
Relive the '80s era of video games in 'The Art of Atari.'
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Rare, canceled Beavis and Butt-Head arcade game surfaces in Chicago-area arcade
One of what is believed to be only a dozen remaining cabinets of a canceled Beavis and Butt-Head arcade game has been repaired and is playable in a Chicago-area aracde. Galloping Ghost Arcade, a curator of very rare units in Brookfield, Ill., says it restored unit No. 9 of Beavis and Butt-Head this week. While MTV had been given a cabinet for posterity, and it has been seen regularly at gaming expos, running across one in the wild like this is a rarity indeed.
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NES classic 'Punch-Out' has an Easter egg that went undiscovered for 29 years
Easter eggs in video games are everywhere, but most don’t take nearly three decades to figure out. ‘Punch-Out’ — aka ‘Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out’ — is the obvious exception to this rule. Reddit user Midwesternhousewives used his weekend to discover an Easter egg in Punch-Out that tells you when to deliver a knockout blow to two separate fighters.
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Abandoned Arcades – The Long Goodbye
It’s hard to put a figure on the number of classic arcade machines that are still around. As you will have read on this blog, those cabinets not in the safe hands of restorers and collectors today, are likely to have met a grim fate at some point. When machines came to the end of their useful life (when they stopped taking money) they were either smashed up and destroyed, or converted into something else by enterprising operators, often with cataclysmic results.
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Meet the 'Neil Armstrong' of Pac-Man
Billy Mitchell compares himself to Neil Armstrong because he's the first gamer to win a perfect score on the 1980s arcade game Pac-Man.
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Nintendo's next game console may solve a huge issue with consoles in a bizarre way
Remember the Nintendo 64? You're forgiven if you don't — the game console is 20 years old as of 2016, and its games look woefully outdated compared to the gorgeous graphics of modern ones. Beyond being a Nintendo console packed with beloved games like "Super Mario 64," the Nintendo 64 was the last Nintendo console that used game cartridges.
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RetroAhoy: Quake
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Legend of Zelda OoT: Four Swords Arena Edition
4 player co-op comes to the classic Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time in this ROM hack. Top-down camera perspective with simultaneous co-op play and 3 dungeons based on the Deku Tree, Dodongo Caverns, and Ice Cave.
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How 1980s Computer Games Influenced Internet Culture
Pioneering virtual playspaces encouraged openness and creativity, which would later become foundational values of the web.
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NES End Table
This is the process of making my NES end table. I was inspired to make this many years ago after I replicated an NES Controller Coffee Table that G4TV made. I believe this to be an original design and it is available for sale at my etsy store...
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Hyperkin's Smart Boy brings a functional Game Boy slot to your Android smartphone
A year ago, Hyperkin teased the world with the Smart Boy, an attachment that could transform a smartphone into a functional Game Boy. Now, the Smart Boy is coming to market for Android handsets.
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LucasArts’ long lost, 30-year-old MMO is now preserved on Github
Habitat restoration required recovering a 300-pound, circa-1989 server.
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Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition Coming This November, Ships With 30 Games
In recent years we've seen a proliferation of "clone" systems which replicate the performance of vintage hardware. The Retron 5 and Retro Freak are perhaps the two most notable examples, but it would seem that Nintendo itself has finally woken up to the potential of reselling its classic systems in new guises.
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Game Over by PES (Official HD Version)
PES recreates 5 classic arcade death sequences in this brand new HD version of his stop-motion short "Game Over".
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Super Nintendo (SNES) - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. ProJared
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Check Out TheModShop’s Awesome Portable N64 | Retro Gamer
Perfect for enjoying Banjo-Kazooie on the bus…
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Final Fantasy 7 coming to tabletops, thanks to Monopoly
Aerith may not pass ‘Go’
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