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Mega Man for Virtual Boy

Andrew — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:42:08 +0000

“After several hours of fixing/adding detail, it’s done. Honestly, I’m glad that they never made a Mega Man for Virtual Boy, because I’d probably play it all day when I first got it, not only wasting batteries, but also destroying my eyesight.” —Pixel Joint user MrWeirdGuy.

See more Virtual Boy de-makes on Pixel Joint: Pixel Art Challenge: Virtual Boy Turns 15.

Devolution is real: classic game characters, then and now.

Andrew — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:38:25 +0000

“As a technology-based medium, game heroes and villains cannot remain the same. They must constantly evolve, or risk looking “last gen.” That doesn’t mean the new or old designs take precedence, it just means no developer will ever, ever leave its creation alone. Now, with decades of console history to pull from, let’s take a look at the “old” designs and see how they stack up against their modern equivalents.”

Read the full article at Games Radar: Classic game characters: then and now.

Exponentially-faster Super Mario World music.

Andrew — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:45:05 +0000

“Green apples increases time, leading to pass though the 100 seconds more than once, and so, increasing song speed” — YouTube user gsaurus4.

View “Super Mario World – extra fast song ” on YouTube.

Some cool Firefox personas for retro Mario fans.

RoboVaud Staff — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:54:07 +0000

Designer itsdanhere has come up with a couple of cool retro Mario-styled Firefox personas (themes) which can be skinned over the latest version of Firefox with the click of a button. Check them out:

And add them to your browser from itsdanhere’s profile on Mozilla’s Personas Directory, located here: http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/Designer/itsdanhere

I hear those Spinies give off a nasty papercut.

RoboVaud Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:04:29 +0000

Watch the full video on takotuboooo’s YouTube channel.

Gameboy launch title retrospective.

RoboVaud Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:50:05 +0000

“According to the Nintendo list there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 650 (official) games released for the original gray brick in the US. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when there were only five Game Boy titles to choose from. That’s right, at the Game Boy’s launch we ecstatic pocket gamers had very little choice. Of course it wouldn’t be long before every major publisher began carrying over their popular franchises. But for a brief holiday season, these were the five games in every Game Boy owners’ collections.”

Read the full article, “Game Boy Launch Games,” on RF Generation.

The only soccer game that has ever mattered in the history of retrogaming.

RoboVaud Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:28:21 +0000

Or at all, ever, for that matter:

Buy this cool Pac-Man vs. Space Invaders soccer t-shirt from RetroGT.

The BP oil spill’s effects reach the Mushroom Kingdom

RoboVaud Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:08:44 +0000

“Dang this level is hard, you have to dodge the intermittent bursts from the bp pipeline and try to cap the main pipe with different things like mushrooms or coins before you run out of oxygen. So far no one has been able to beat it and if you die enough times the government finally steps in to help. – Das Chupa!”

View the image on zero-lives’s Flickr photostream.

PC Mag ranks the 10 most influential video games of all time

RoboVaud Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:41:46 +0000

No surprise that many of them are retrogames.

Read the full list of The 10 Most Influential Video Games of All Time at PC Magazine.

Mega Man 2 the way it was meant to be played.

RoboVaud Staff — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:28:10 +0000

“This is the first video in the series of me playing Mega Man 2 with a dance pad. Previously, I beat Castlevania and Super Mario Bros. with a dance pad, and while I doubt I’ll be able to beat Dr. Wily’s Castle, it doesn’t hurt to try, right?”

Watch DJ17Nario’s full video on YouTube: I beat Air Man from Mega Man 2… WITH A DANCE PAD.

The Minus World would be DLC.

RoboVaud Staff — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:35:01 +0000

“If Mario was first designed in 2010, he’d probably have to adopt some of our modern trends.”

See all of Zack Hiwiller’s images on Kotaku: If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010. on Kotaku.

Old-school games destroy New York, earth in “Pixels” music video.

RoboVaud Staff — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:35:02 +0000

“Patrick Jean is DIVISION’s latest signature.
This is Patrick Jean’s new project feat. Naïve New Beaters “L.A. trumpets”.
The video’s been produced at OneMoreProd and Patrick’s represented for commercial projects by DIVISION.” (TheNightwall)

Facinating interview with Mike Dietz on Sega-16.

RoboVaud Staff — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:49:41 +0000

“We were literally making Earthworm Jim up as we went along, so we had complete freedom. If it was funny, or cool, or worked well for gameplay, it went in the game. Most of the creative decisions concerning the character had their genesis with Doug and the animation group, even if it was a simple sketch of Jim whipping his head or something like that. It took the entire group’s effort to get anything working in the game, and so everyone had to be on the same page.”

Read the full interview at Sega-16: Interview: Mike Dietz.

Pac-Man shape spotted on Saturn’s moon.

RoboVaud Staff — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:30:56 +0000

From the BBC:

The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn has caught an interesting new view of the tiny moon Mimas.

The probe measured temperature differences across the object’s surface and produced a map that looks just like the 1980s Pac-Man video games icon.

Scientists are unsure why Mimas should display such variations but say it is probably related to the diversity of textures in the surface materials.

Read the full story on BBC News: Probe sees ‘Pac-man in the moon’.

Ridiculous Snake Man music video.

RoboVaud Staff — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:54:33 +0000

Watch “Snake Man” by Kyle Hodgdon (with music by The Sidescrollers) on YouTube: “Snake Man” – The Side Scrollers.

Official Pac-Man 30th Anniversary coundtown screensaver, wallpapers.

RoboVaud Staff — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:55:12 +0000

“PAC-MAN’s 30th Anniversary is just around the corner! In this exclusive Countdown Screensaver, watch PAC-MAN race around the maze chomping on PAC-Dots while the ghosts chase him around. The famous “coffee break” intermission animations from the original game are included. Join in on the countdown to this milestone in video gaming history with the PAC-MAN Countdown Screensaver!”

“Check out artist Katsuya Terada’s original illustration for PAC-MAN’s 30th anniversary. PAC-MAN shines like a full moon on the dark night sky.”

Download them from PACMAN.com Downloads.

A fez-wearing Phanto and other bizarre clay gaming sculptures.

RoboVaud Staff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:17 +0000

“These were each made during my art segment of Fangamer’s OfficeCam. I started out by quickly sculpting a video game character, and then the viewers told me what to add. :)”

Check out meeellla’s full Fangamer OfficeCam set on Flickr.

Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt desk clock for the executive retrogamer.

RoboVaud Staff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:30:02 +0000

“This vintage NES game, Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, has been custom crafted and re-purposed into this terrifically geeky desk top clock!

Not a fan of Super Mario or Duck Hunt? We can make any game of your choice into an awesome desk clock. We have many games in stock, but if we don’t have it, we’ll find it for you. See our Shop Policies section for a complete list of our games in stock.”

Buy a Classic NES Super Mario/Duck Hunt Desk Clock from 8BitMemory on Etsy.

Great video and pc games released in 1990.

RoboVaud Staff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:00:51 +0000

A retrospective of games released twenty years ago from Recycled Thoughts from a Retro Gamer. An excellent year! Some of our favorites:

Mega Man 3

King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder

Super Mario Bros. 3

Kickle Cubicle

Dr. Mario

Read more at 20 Years Ago – Great Video and PC Games Released in 1990 from Recycled Thoughts from a Retro Gamer.

Incredible Gameboy papercraft exceeds original system’s palette tenfold.

RoboVaud Staff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:30:50 +0000

“Created by Zim and Zou this artwork kind of shows what beautiful graphics and fun can be created away from our video games and consoles. It is definitely up there along with the outstanding Super Mario Bros Furniture and the Mini Nintendo DS Papercraft, but appeals to a different kind of geek.”

Check out more photos at Spectacular Nintendo Gameboy Papercraft Shows Tetris is Still a Fan Favorite on WiiNoob.