Retrospekt

- Game Centre CX covered by Lee & Z
- Game Centre CX Episode Guide
- Year of the Dragon Ball
- Prototype Pocky & Rocky 2 for $50!
- Congratulations Rinry!

Oz Comic Con is coming!! I hope you’re getting all of your gear ready to sign, planning who you want to meet and saving your money. I know I am! It’s not just about the celebrities though. Yes they’re a very big part of it, but conventions are about community. They’re about people coming together [...]

- Pirate SNES cart with NES games
- Bubsy the Bobcat SNES prototype discovered
- Galactic Pinball Virtual Boy prototype discovered
- Dizzy the Adventurer Megadrive prototype discovered (anyone see a pattern here?)
- Retro City Rampage – big news on the 20th!!

- Play original SNES and Megadrive carts on your emulator
- Play ROMS on your original hardware
- Sonic 1 protoype. Is it the real deal?
- The Daedalus Neo Geo Converter
- 3DO hard drive mod

- Gameboy Advance SP in mini Arcade cab
- Sonic 3 flipbook animation
- Sonic game using Doom engine
- Batman (Isometric) recreated for PC
- Laser Squad now playable in browser

- Gametraders new retro gaming contributor
- New Oz Comic Con guest announcement
- NES & SNES maps
- Amstrad Action issue 118
- Viva Amiga: The movie

- New Dreamcast “shmup” on the way
- Latest issue of PC Engine Gamer out now
- Super Genintari: Console hacking at its finest.
- Replacing those pesky floppy discs.
- Chiptune of the week.

- Tex Murphy Radio Show
- Super Mario FX: Does it exist?
- Game & Watch Simulators
- Find retro gaming auctions the easy way
- R-Type remake for the Amstrad CPC

Tuesday the 31st of January will be a sad day for Adelaide gamers as Gametraders Norwood closes its doors for the last time. Right now the shop is operating at less than 1/2 capacity, but the prices are better than they’ve ever been. Right now secondhand games are 50% off, with pre-played XBOX & Playstation [...]

The Sega vs Nintendo wars of the 80s and 90s are well documented and are considered to be the thing of legend. Lesser known, but by no means lesser in nature were the home computer wars that were occurring at around the same time. In Australia during the 8-bit era we had the Amstrad CPC [...]

The Retrospekt team like to support conventions both in this state and beyond. Over the past 2 years I’ve been to Melbourne for various events and Dave is going interstate soon for Blipfest. It’s always nice when something new happens in our little state though. The first big convention to hit Adelaide in 2012 is [...]

Retrospekt exclusive Interview with the voice behind Ryu of Street Fighter 4, and Teen Gohan of Dragonball Z; Kyle Hebert!!

Console collecting… It can take up a lot of room can’t it? I love my SNES collection, but every now & again I feel like playing some Famicom or NES games. Trying to find the machines though & then dig them out of wherever they are means I normally can’t be bothered. For most people [...]

Written by Paul Monopoli Let me start off with a little known fact: While Microsoft have been active in the home console market for roughly a decade, Apple were there first. The Pippin console was designed by Apple Technologies & marketed by Bandai, in a similar arrangement to the 3DO which was licensed by a [...]

Written by Paul Monopoli After another bulk order from Japan Yahoo Auctions thanks to the good people of Celga, it’s time to check out one of the consoles we purchased. It was a bit of a Bandai-fest with us purchasing a black Pippin, white Pippin & a Playdia. For this article we’ll have a look [...]