By admin on November 19, 2009
As I mentioned last week, I’m a big fan of the Nintendo 64. The follow up to the Super NES had a great library of games and boasted 4 controller ports on the console whilst it’s rivals only had 2.
Over 30 million Nintendo 64s were sold worldwide. Which is just slightly more than the number [...]
Posted in Classic Games
By admin on November 17, 2009
I am pleased to bring you an interview today with gaming blogger an author Brett Weiss. Brett has written for several popular retro websites and magazines and blogs regularly on his own blog Brett Weiss Words too.
He is also the author of two great gaming books: Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide [...]
Posted in Interviews
By admin on November 16, 2009
I was 11 when I got my NES for christmas (which I loved). Within the next year my older brother got the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis). It was a great console whose graphics were much more advanced than the ageing Nintendo.
My bother mostly had sport games for the system. It came bundled with Altered [...]
Posted in Classic Games
By admin on November 12, 2009
The Nintendo 64 was a great machine. Nintendo chose to stay with cartridges with the 64 instead of rivals which were using CDs because of piracy concerns. However, they still managed to grab a large part of the games market and the system had some fantastic games.
I have a lot of fond memories of that [...]
Posted in Classic Games
By admin on November 9, 2009
Last month the infamous 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge Cartridge was sold on eBay for a whopping $20,100. This confirmed once again that rare video games are worth a lot of money and that rare NES games still command the most. For those of you who have never heard of this cartridge before, here is a [...]
Posted in Classic Games
By admin on November 6, 2009
I’m a big fan of the older Nintendo games and I admire talented people with too much time on their hands who build things the rest of us couldn’t be bothered with.
Step forward Lego Mario. This Mario statue was built with over 40,000 pieces of Lego and proudly stands 5″9 high. The whole thing weighs [...]
Posted in Weird & Wonderful
By admin on November 3, 2009
In the last few years there have been a lot of budget gaming machines enter the market which allow you to play classic games and consoles. I’m sure you have seen them in a toy shop or a video games store. For example, there have been many Atari 2600 machines released, some of which are [...]
Posted in Retro Gaming