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Re:Retro

Archive for the ‘Game Boy’ Category

July 3rd, 2008

Street Fighter II: Ken’s Touch of Death Combo

I found this really nick trick for Ken Masters on Street Fighter II for the arcade, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Genesis. It’s called the Touch of Death Combo, and I’ve been trying it out (trying being the operative term). The move actually entails two combos: the first disables an opponent, the second knocks […]

By Joel -- 1 comment

June 13th, 2008

Super Robot Wars: The old versus the new

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 […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

June 8th, 2008

Killer Instinct: A closer look at the cast

Before we delve into the backgrounds of Killer Instinct’s cast of characters, I think we should first take a look at a brief background story of the game:
Ultratech is a very powerful mega-corporation (entities which, in this future setting, replaced all governments) which organizes a tournament called Killer Instinct. Along with regular participants, experimental creatures […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

June 8th, 2008

Killer Instinct: It’s all about combos, baby

If there’s a side-scrolling fighting game that I played more than Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, it’s Killer Instinct, developed by Rare, Midway and Nintendo and released in arcades in 1994.
If you’ve played Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, then playing Killer Instinct should be a breeze for you. In Killer Instinct, like other fighting games, […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

May 22nd, 2008

Egad, I’ve been tagged!

And, yes, I owe Aiza over at Gamerlite, one of b5media Video Games Channel’s newest blogs, an apology for not “promoting camaraderie” by answering her tag at the soonest possible time. Well, Aiza, blame it on Bayantel (whose service, sad to say, began to suck deteriorate [again] after my supposed speed and bandwidth upgrade—surprise!) and […]

By Joel -- 5 comments

May 7th, 2008

Amazing Nintendo Facts by Zack Scott

Who is Zack Scott and what does he know about Nintendo and video games?
Well, borrowing from what he’s written on the About page of his blog, Zack Scott is a prolific videographer. His collection of videos, which is very extensive, focuses mostly on comedy, education, and (gasp!) his cute pets.
So what does his being a, […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

April 30th, 2008

Video game consoles, then and now

Did you know that there have been at least 63 video game consoles and personal computers in the past 50 years? Well, I didn’t … honestly. So imagine my surprise when I came across this video:

The author of this mish-mash, however, missed the entire Apple line of personal computers. I owned an Apple IIc, so […]

By Joel -- 1 comment

July 18th, 2006

Tetrisize Your Home…

…If you have one…
Now this is what I call a storage solution! Brave Space Design have taken the iconic shapes from Tetris, and have created a flat-pack furniture storage system that would look great in any gamer’s place of retro worship…

A set of these all up in your hizzouse would surely make you the envy […]

By Jonic Linley -- 6 comments

February 10th, 2006

More tiny games, more Tetris

They just won’t give up!

My new favorite website offered up this in my aggregator today: A tiny Tetris flash game…
The tiny games revolution continues apace!
Get your digits dancing on your arrow keys over at Games4Work
Tags: Emulation, Game Boy, Re:make, Tiny Games

By Jonic Linley -- 1 comment

February 10th, 2006

Tetris loving…

Smitten geek? “Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, All of my Base are belong to you” not cutting it with the ladies? Retro games fan? Let Mitch help you.
I’m always alone on St. Valentine’s Day, so I thought, why not channel my rather negative emotions into something, say, more productive? So, I reached for my […]

By Jonic Linley -- 0 comments

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