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R-Type Exhibit in Japanese Playstation Home virtual world

Jonathan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:00:47 +0000

Hop right in and take it for a spin!

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 ship models.

Advertisement: Kickle Cubicle

Jonathan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:37 +0000

Scan courtesy vintagecomputing.com

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.

Mario’s Closet

Jonathan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:05:15 +0000

Clothes do make the man.

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?

Panic like it’s 1982!

Jonathan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:38:24 +0000

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 artwork for their main software offerings in a particular style:

“The concept: what if Panic was around in 1982, and our apps were early Atari 2600 games?”

The results feel right at home next to Defender and Homerun.

Pick up the full set of four as cartridge boxes...

... or as posters suitable for any den with wall-to-wall shag.

Check out Panic’s blog for a better look at the artwork!

SEGA Genesis Turns 20

Jonathan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:57:18 +0000

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.

Click for the full poster.

My Famicase Exhibition 2009

Jonathan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:00:57 +0000

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 created.

Why should we care when it’s likely that the great majority of us won’t be able to make it in to see the show? Because if this year comes even half as close to the highlights of their 2008 show [...], we’re in for a visual treat, regardless.

Check the updated Famicase site for a list of this year’s artists, and for a group page of all 2008 submissions.

This looks like a fantastic exhibit! I wish I could check it out. Here are some of my favorites from the 2008 exhibit:

Flickr: X-Ray photos of hardware

Jonathan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:00:15 +0000

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 hardware!

Monochrome GameBoy Casemod

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Spotted at TinyCartridge.com.

Dig the black controls.

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

Happy 20th, Nintendo GameBoy

Jonathan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:00:37 +0000

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 an emulator, fire it up and party like it’s 1989!

Larger .png version here.

Portable Super Mario Land

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:26:44 +0000

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…

Revolvingdork has etched the lid of his Eee PC with all of the levels of Super Mario Land. Check out the photoset!

Etched with Super Mario Land goodness!

Spotted at Spritestitch.com.