Arcade Games & Random Gaming Nostalgia

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2018/0 ... s-the-eye/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Space Invaders at 40

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/ ... -interview

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

This Twitter account is excellent and relevant

https://mobile.twitter.com/yorecomputer

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:50

It is super, isn't it?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/ ... 4692672512

70 long-lost Japanese video games have been discovered in a folder on a private forum https://t.co/kUxutlfYQV pic.twitter.com/2w98q8ZvB6
— Motherboard (@motherboard) June 5, 2018

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/13/arcade-factory/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

http://classicadventurer.co.uk/

"The Classic Adventurer" - PDF's of issue 1 and 2 are currently free.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2018 13:53

In what is quite a shake up for the emulating world, Emuparadise has effectively been shut down.

https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

TheVision wrote:

In what is quite a shake up for the emulating world, Emuparadise has effectively been shut down.

https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php

Some of the comments are amusing. A lot of entitlement and zero empathy...

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

There have been a few different crackdowns on sites over the last few weeks (specifically those hosting NES roms) which if you consider the best selling home console last month in the US was the NES mini does sorta put things a little more into perspective.

romanista · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:26

Galaga world record longread

https://longreads.com/2018/08/07/galaga/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://kotaku.com/in-defense-of-roms-a ... 1828340811

Quote:

In Defense of ROMs, A Solution To Dying Games And Broken Copyright Laws

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://aarongiles.com/programming/war-mame/

Quote:

Aaron Giles
Programming War Stories
MAME & Emulation

romanista · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:39

billy fights back http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/1 ... kong_score

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

Splendid new Nostalgia Nerd video, about the Atari Falcon. This is a computer I was aware of existing, but really not much more than that.

Fascinating watch!

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2018 15:43

Indeed it is fascinating. I love his videos.

devilman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:31

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1 ... 6017364993

#OnThisDay 1981: Video Focus had news of all the latest arcade cabinet transfers in the Aberdeen area. This is eSports coverage before eSports; preSports? pic.twitter.com/tX2sLGYqOA
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) October 30, 2018

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/1 ... rk-turmell

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The story of NEMO, Hasbro’s console that never was

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Digitiser the show episode 1 :

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2018 18:17

Christ.

Surprise WoS shoutout, though.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I kept watching to the end but it was very uneven and a fair bit of it didn't work. The main presenter guy annoyed me somewhat at times as well.

It probably helped a lot that Ashens featured rather prominently in the second half.

I'll stick around for the next one but there's a lot of room for improvement.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10074

I think it's for Digitiser fans. As someone who wasn't but now knows enough to think I would, I... Quite enjoyed it. The final payoff was amazing.

Hero of Excellence · **Joined:** 23rd Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 674

That was crap, to be honest. A load of 40-something men farting about chuckling to their own little in-jokes in front of a camera, with a few token female vidbloggers and zero quality control.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Hero of Excellence wrote:

That was crap, to be honest. A load of 40-something men farting about chuckling to their own little in-jokes in front of a camera, with a few token female vidbloggers and zero quality control.

So... Beex The Movie then?

myp · **Posted:** Tue Nov 13, 2018 22:44

Trooper wrote:

Hero of Excellence wrote:

That was crap, to be honest. A load of 40-something men farting about chuckling to their own little in-jokes in front of a camera, with a few token female vidbloggers and zero quality control.

So... Beex The Movie then?

Yeah, I was gonna say have you not been to this forum before.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:44

I liked it. But then again I'm familiar with Mr Biffo. All the people involved were likeable too.

The pacing was a bit off, but for a first crack it was good.

After Dave Perry's recent abomination it shows how you should do a retro games show.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Episode 2 trailer :

https://twitter.com/mrbiffo/status/1062739948309278727

#DigitiserTheShow Episode 2. This Sunday. pic.twitter.com/uFHvrf2xyj
— Paul Rose (@mrbiffo) November 14, 2018

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Nov 16, 2018 23:58

I've just watched the first episode of Digitiser and despite the editing and sound being a bit funky... I really enjoyed it!

I have to admit, I've never been a fan of Guru Larry but this is going someway to winning me over. I'm looking forward to episode two now.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

TheVision wrote:

I've just watched the first episode of Digitiser and despite the editing and sound being a bit funky... I really enjoyed it!

I have to admit, I've never been a fan of Guru Larry but this is going someway to winning me over. I'm looking forward to episode two now.

Isn't that you in the gold Cape in the trailer?

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:50

Certainly looks like it.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:53

It does doesn't it? But alas... No it isn't.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:54

Hero of Excellence · **Joined:** 23rd Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 674

Zardoz wrote:

I liked it. But then again I'm familiar with Mr Biffo. All the people involved were likeable too.

The pacing was a bit off, but for a first crack it was good.

After Dave Perry's recent abomination it shows how you should do a retro games show.

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This guy looks familiar.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Dec 10, 2018 21:50

Yes, it's Dave Perry.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2018 0:22

Yep.. It's good old Dave and he definitely didn't use that camera to record his games animal TV on.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Ashes reviews the Mini Monster Retro Gaming Joystick which has a magic switch which makes one of the buttons be remapped to 'up'
(contains a bit of an Ashens rant about up to jump)

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2019 15:09

zaphod79 wrote:

(contains a bit of an Ashens rant about up to jump)

Well, that threw me for a second.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2019 13:42

The Ferry Arcade (and cafe next door) in Fleetwood has closed down.

First place I played R-Type, Darius, Star Wars, Gauntlet, Super Sprint...

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://twitter.com/gaug888/status/1093139667866681344

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They have some others as well - finding the links ....

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Hang on

https://twitter.com/gaug888/status/1073936626693238785

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Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Jesus Christ they’re beautiful (notwithstanding being entirely impractical).

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:10

OH MY GOD WANT

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

https://twitter.com/CatDeSpira/status/1 ... 1638105088

Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game https://t.co/u2JRvUIMpI via @CatDeSpira #ArcadeGamingHistory #PacMan #ArcadePreservation
— Catherine DeSpira (@CatDeSpira) February 12, 2019

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2019 18:52

People play with their right hand?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

A very long read on some 'new' (really old) evidence on the Billy Mitchell / Donkey Kong cheating stuff

http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2481.0

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

There's a useful TL:DR

Quote:

I have gotten requests for a tl;dr, which slipped my mind when I wrote this. (Oopsie-daisy!)

- Long lost video interview with Robert Mruczek was found,

- Video has sat outside the control of anyone from TG since 2006,

- Mruczek shows off Billy's 1.047M tape, again, in 2006,

- Tape is covered in MAME signatures like John Hancock,

- This thoroughly discredits Team Billy's silly accusations against Dwayne Richard, which only trace back to 2009,

- This also debunks any notion that the MAME signatures were not part of Billy's original submission,

- Billy Mitchell is very disappointing.