If you have access to Japan’s Playstation Home virtual world, be sure to stop by Irem’s area and check out this R-Type exhibit they recently set up. You can look at some of the fighter ships, play a demo game, purchase R-Type games for your PSP or Playstation, or decorate your Home apartment with R-Type [...]

The poster looks silly, but actually Kickle Cubicle is a pretty fun game. It’s a puzzler along the lines of Adventures of Lolo.
Scan spotted at VintageComputing.com.

Glen Brogan has submitted this t-shirt design to Split Reason for production. How many of these options can you identify, and from what games?

If you’re a Mac user, you are familiar with Panic Inc. (and if you aren’t, you should be ashamed of yourself!). Producers of several fantastic programs, including FTP powerhouse Transmit and programming environment Coda, Panic Inc. certainly has a sense of humor. They recently commissioned Portland, OR area artist Lukas Ketner to produce package [...]

Twenty years ago Nintendo faced its first real challenge to its dominance in the home console market: SEGA introduced the Genesis to North America. With a faster processor, stereo sound, and many excellent arcade ports the Genesis was a hit, eventually wrestling dominance away from Nintendo’s NES.

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Spotted at OffWorld.com:

Japan’s finest hipster retro/game culture store Meteor has announced via its blog that its Famicase art exhibit will be returning to the shop from May 2nd through the 31st.
What’s Famicase? A curated selection of original 8-bit Nintendo cartridges given new labels by the local finest design houses and illustrators, each imagining games never [...]

Is the lack of security bits handy preventing you from opening up your consoles? Wonder no more what the inner workings look like! Flickr user Reintji has taken X-Ray photos of several pieces of hardware, ranging from consoles to controllers and game cartridges.

Check out the rest of Reintji’s X-Ray Funnies set for other consoles and [...]

Spotted at TinyCartridge.com.

White front, black back, black controls, improved sound output, backlight. Awesome.

April 21, 1989 saw the Japanese introduction of Nintendo’s portable game system, GameBoy. Home to many excellent titles, this unsassuming grey box was able to withstand competition from several more powerful adversaries and went on to sell nearly 120 million units world-wide. If you still have your trusty old GameBoy, or you can set up [...]

One of the first GameBoy games released, Super Mario Land still brings back the memories for me. The music and level design were fantastic, and I remember playing the heck out of that thing during long road trips through the desert. I’m going to fire up the soundtrack right now, as a matter of fact…
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