Daily Retrospektive – 29/02/2012

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- What is Paul planning with The Zone?
- 321 Show hits Gametrailers
- Oz Comic Con is closing in
- Team AVCon are getting ready
- Another Adelaide retro gaming store: Memory Lane Toys

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Oz Comic Con is a Month Away!!

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Gawrsh, Oz Comic Con is a month away. Hyuck hyuck. OK, so I’m not the greatest Goofy impressionist in the world. Maybe I need voice over sessions with Kyle Hebert to improve my skills… Either way, if you can’t beat em, get em here to Australia for a convention. That’s what I always say… well [...]

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Retro Promised Lands: Thunderbox

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I used to love listening to the radio show “Get This” with Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee. It was a crying shame when Triple M canned the show… Anyway, I’m getting side tracked already… One of the things Tony and Ed used to talk about (ie. make fun of) was martial arts movie star Steven [...]

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Daily Retrospektive – 28/02/2012

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- Little Miss Gamer analyses male gamer types
- Thunderbox retrogaming & console repair store
- Retro City Rampage soundtrack released
- Cheap Sega Genesis games
- DIY Pong Machine

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Daily Retrospektive – 27/02/2012

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- Little Miss Gamer is back!
- Super Star Wars Prototype on Ebay
- Pre orders being taken for Nightmare Busters
- Super Comboy commercial featuring many characters
- Pokemon Yellow for iOS…

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Daily Retrospektive – 20/12/2012

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- 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!

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6 Weeks to Oz Comic Con Adelaide

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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 [...]

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Daily Retrospektive – 14/02/2012

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- 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!!

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Daily Retrospektive – 10/02/2012

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- 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

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Daily Retrospektive – 09/02/2012

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- 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

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Daily Retrospektive – 08/02/2012

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

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Daily Retrospektive – 07/02/2012

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- 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.

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Daily Retrospektive – 06/02/2012

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- 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

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Farewell GT Norwood

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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 [...]

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Childhood Memories of the Fond Kind (Amstrad CPC) – Part 1

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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 [...]

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