Sigh. This is something we never had in this little tropical archipelago when every member of my generation was still young.
Oh, sure, we had tons of toy commercials, especially during those weekend cartoon marathons common in the 1980s to early 1990s. But, no, we didn’t have video game commercials—at least, I don’t remember watching them […]
While we are on the subject, I just want to express my appreciation for Japanese animé and how it has transformed fighting games from the usual two-dimensional side-scrollers to dynamic works of art.
I think the very pinnacle (at least for the moment) of this new age wonder is the Super Robot Wars, a series of […]
Yeah, I grew up with them, loved them, and suddenly found myself alone without them after the Philippine government of then president Ferdinand Marcos banned local stations from airing them purportedly because it got in the way of children’s studies.
Now what does this have to do with Re:Retro? Well, I’m currently away from home and […]
I know, I know, this post has nothing to do with retro-gaming. It could, if we consider the gaming applications on the mobile phone. I just thought I’d share this photograph with you for a few laughs and maybe some quirky remarks. I’ll be back in a day or two to share more retro-gaming goodies.
What […]
Yes, unfortunately instead of writing this blog on Monday night I spent my time re-enacting a particularly salacious episode of Hollyoaks. Luckily the communal hangover seems to have erased any bad feeling but it’s increased my determination to move into my own space ASAP in order to start living in a more sedate TV show, […]
It’s Monday, and there’s another commercial break from the old school waiting in the wings - this one carrying two very different messages in the worlds of yesterday and today…
Yes, fly with us now to a day when playability was the important thing in a video game, not fancy graphOH MY GOD PUT A SHIRT ON MAN FOR GODSAKE
Here’s an ad from the days when you had to be strong to play video games, for only the strong could survive:
THESE PEOPLE HAVE ATTITUDE
They are HAVING MORE FUN via the medium of PUSHING IT TO THE EDGE. One of them is attempting to kill the other by stuffing him in a wheelbarrow (or should that be a KEEPING-IT-REALBARROW???!??!??) and pushing him off said edge despite an enormous sign saying DANGER. Another is made entirely of […]
Another Monday, another Commercial Break Monday, and this time we’re heading into the mists of time to a forgotten age when corporate executives were totally grody and un-hep, maaaaan!
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