Master The Internet
Remember when the Internet was brand new, when people were just leaving BBSes, if you even know what those are.
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Retro Games Roundup: Nintendo Legend Reviews #1-5
Welcome to Retro Games Roundup, where we go back through Nintendo Legend’s library of NES reviews and go over them five games at a time, providing a summarized report of the titles and disseminating a lot of information into a more condensed, casual format.
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Knights of Badassdom Trailer
These days we see LARPing, Ren Fairs, and cosplay getting more popular as well as showns like Game of Thrones,
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Holiday Hardware Guide
You would think that you could not replicate that feeling once you are buying your own gifts, but that isn’t true. When I purchased my black Xbox 360 I felt just like a kid again even though I was spending my hard earned bucks and the same can be said for games like Batman Arkham City and the upcoming Star Wars, The Old Republic. So you may have purchased your gifts this year and if you are lucky you have others buying gifts that you know you will love. Here at Obsolete Gamer, we look at modern games and systems that can also have a Retro twist to it, but in the end will bring smiles to our faces when we open it.
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Classic Games you would give as gifts today
True story, I was in a Kay Bee toy store several years before they closed and was looking for some discounted games. An older woman comes in and asks about the Playstation2 which was brand new at the time. The guy behind the counter tells her the Atari Jaguar would be much better liked for her son and showed her a wonder bundle of games and told her he could give them all to her for one special price.
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James Booth: Distorted Poetry
At my grandparents there was never anything cool there, except for this game. Fortunately this game was all I needed. A classic example of addictive gameplay with the most simple of mechanics. Still playable today and truthfully I prefer this version over the arcade version.
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Charles Manson – Everyday I’m Shufflin
Now, a lot of you might now the crazy music of the California based comedy music group LMFAO but little
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My Favourite Games: VI
I can still remember buying this game second-hand in my local game/music store. I had little knowledge of it and, thanks to my prior Sega allegiance, I had never played the earlier Metroid games, but I had heard that it was supposedly something special. I really didn’t know what to expect so, upon playing it for the first time, proceeded with caution. What followed was one of greatest awakenings of my gaming life! I was initially wondering what was going on (no one reads instruction books unless they get stuck!) but was quickly immersed in the atmospheric, haunting world of Brinstar and all the other amazingly designed areas of Super Metroid’s world.
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Evolution: Indie development in Russia and one company’s transition to the U.S.
Stephane Gonod – the guy from Gost Publishing – disappeared and half a year later announced himself bankrupt. It is funny that a year ago he set up a new company in cooperation with an ex-Frogster employee and when we accidentally met at a conference, his only words were “Shit happens”. God will judge him.
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Classic Gaming Expo 2012 Dates Announced
Retro gaming fans rejoice, in August of 2012 the classic gaming expo will be head in Las Vegas, Nev. at The Plaza Hotel. The word first game over their Facebook page as Joe Santulli, director at the Videogame History Museum based in San Jose, California announced the dates of August 11 and 12 for the event.
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Dr. Mario
Ergo, each level consisted of the goal of clearing all the viruses in the field, with more challenging levels adding viruses at the beginning to forcing the pills to fall faster. The cartridge also featured a two-player mode where two players could simultaneously compete against the other, after choosing a level to begin at (higher-numbered choices representing more viruses to begin with), then racing to clear their field. In the meantime, you could even send viral bits randomly falling onto your opponent’s field and potentially disrupting their efforts.
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Exploring the SuperGrafx
The original PC Engine was an amazing machine itself, like the Holy Grail to a videogame-obsessed teenager like myself. All the hype and excitement surrounding it in the pages of magazines like C&VG built it up and up – even my dad was impressed with it! But then reports started surfacing of a new, more powerful PC Engine. What could possibly be better than the amazing Engine? Well, as many of you may well know by now, it was not well received and few games were ever released for it, but even in spite of that it retained its mysterious and enticing aura in my mind and it has remained ever since.
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The Memorex PS3 Quad controller charger Review
Memorex of CD-R, and for you old people like me, VHS cassette fame, have manufactured a pretty nifty controller charger for the PS3. With this contraption you can charge 2 controllers and 2 Move controllers at the same time. The normal Ps3 controllers plug into two slots on the front of the device, and the move controllers plug into holsters on both sides. It works pretty well, the coolest thing being the charging light on the front. Red if it’s charging, blue when it’s done. It’s pretty quick too.
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Skrillex: First Of The Year
Sadly since the evil villagers over at Youtube ran SaladUK away we have not been uploading many videos. However, for this Dubstep Friday we go with an original, an awesome video from Skrillex titled, First of the Year.
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Patriot Memory Wildfire SSD 120 GB Review
Based on this data, the Wildfire was insanely faster than the hard drive in every performance aspect, not just in raw speed but in responsiveness as well. In a the pure MB/s tests, both including reading and writing, it was about 90.97 as fast as the hard drive. That is a huge difference and in the real world I felt this when I compared how fast the SSD would load games and copy data over in comparison to my hard drive. Under this benchmark, the Wildfire responds 203.29 times faster than the hard drive on the average for any kind of activity. The benchmark gave us a score where the Wildfire is 19.28 times as fast as our lovely hard drive.
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