If it’s Monday, it must be another video game retromeme:
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Monday Meme: Deploying Invaders
A Choose-Your-Own-Pokemon-Adventure
Gotta love Dorkly. Chose wisely, Ash:
Image used in the social media hooks from Mrs. Gemstone’s flickr photostream:
Instant Video Game Collection. Only $500K
Got some discretionary spending money burning a hole in your pocket? If so, you could buy this game collection on eBay. It’s the culmination of 30 years of collecting, and as the seller mentions in the description, even though he has spent the last two months working eight hours a day to catalog what he has, he’s still not sure he’s covered everything!
The collection is composed of over 6850 games, over 330 game consoles, and 220 controllers. He seems to be like me and doesn’t like to throw out packaging (who knows when you might need to sell this stuff on eBay?), so the vast majority of equipment comes boxed. There’s also tonnes of promotional items such as game-related action figures and soundtracks, books and strategy guides. Even arcade games are represented, with a collection of PCB boards available so you can finally come out of the dark alleys and play games legal on MAME.
As the sellers says, you could make yourself an instant video game museum with a one-time payment of only $500,000. Start yours, today!
Thanks to @freemantim for the heads up.
Hard Wares: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone
What Nolan Said: The 70th Birthday Edition
Today is Nolan Bushnell’s 70th birthday. Before co-founding Atari and the video game industry, a previous job he had held while a student attending the University of Utah was as a carnival barker. It was a job he ended up doing his whole life. In today’s What Nolan Said, Bushnell states the ultimate goal he had on the midway of the Lagoon amusement park back then:
Photo via kandinski’s flickr photostream
Monday Meme: Skyrim on NES
If it’s Monday, it must be another video game retomeme:
Yesterday we posted an image of the massive open-world RPG Skyrim as an Intellivision cart. That was pretty silly, heck a standard Intellivision cartridge only holds 4K of memory. No, such an old system could never have run a Skyrim game. Now, the NES on the other hand, there was an advanced console…
source: dangerousPyro via Cheez Burger
Quote Mining: Some Amazin’ Software
1982 TRS-80 Product Catalog
Tandy’s TRS-80 computer, lovingly called the “Trash-80” by aficionados, was an early home computer released in 1977, that same magical year that established the idea of computers in the home with the Commodore Pet and a little number called the Apple II.
Nothing quite gets the nostalgic fires burning as a product catalog. So here we feature a link to a 1982 Radio Shack (owned by Tandy) catalog, profiling all the wonderful programs and games you could get for the system. Not only is the content great, but the whole thing is presented in such a tactile way that your can almost feel your grubby hands sliding across the slick paper, drooling over the new games rolling in for your machine:
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I also recommend checking out the whole site, Radio Shack Catalogs. It is an astounding repository of promotional materials from Radio Shack’s history, and you can’t think of 70’s electronics without harkening back to the Shack.
Groove Coaster Zero from Taito
From the company that brought you Space Invaders, and a few other titles, comes the latest mobile interpretation of rhythm games such as Tap Tap Revolution. To put it succinctly, these types of game require you to tap on the screen along with the beat of a music track. Their ancestry can actually be traced back to music games for consoles such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band. In those games, you have plastic analogs to musical instruments with colour-coded keys to play in time with scrolling notes on the TV. In the mobile world, your only instrument is your finger and the touchscreen.