Retro Gaming In Columbus
Retro Gaming in Columbus
Columbus Underground interviewed Chris Bidwell about what’s cool about retro gaming, his invite-only tournament, the Hexadecathlon, and its expansion into a public tournament series, the Columbus Retro League. Retro games bring out a completely different crowd from the modern fighting game events, and it’s been great to get to know them. They know how to get hype, too! Come on out to Video Hockey Day in Columbus on Sunday!
This room is full of beastly players. In this picture, I'm playing Marble Madness on the NES and having the run of my life, 95610 points. It only got me third place in that game. The only high score contest I actually won was Star Fox Super Weekend. It's Star Fox with a Star Soldier-style five minute score attack mode with huge bonuses for shooting down all the enemies in a stage.
Source: http://www.columbusunderground.com/retro-gamers-celebrate-bygone-era-of-video-game-classics via JD Lowe and Columbus Underground’s RSS feed, photos via Chris Bidwell and my phone camera
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Beakmallusion: Free Energy Devices
Beakman’s World was my favorite science show growing up, so when I heard Beakman himself appeared in a fan remake, I already knew I was reblogging it. Captain Disillusion nails the goofy vibe of the show while dropping the debunking knowledge and showing off his professional video effects skills. Somehow, he keeps this up level of quality in all his videos. Consider me hooked!
Source: Captain Disillusion via JD Lowe
Keiichi Matsuda – Hyper-Reality
Oh no, is this how augmented reality will end up? Graphic designer Keiichi Matsuda imagines Medellin, Colombia with a glitchy layer of graphics, apps, and ads covering it from top to bottom. These things are fine on my phone because they go away when I put my phone away. With augmented reality, there’s no escape.
Source: Hyper-Reality via TwistedSifter
Savaged Regime – Boss 2
30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 16: 16-Bit music From Xeno Crisis (Genesis/Mega Drive, 2019)
Holy crap! Is this Prodigy-sounding jam coming from 16-bit hardware?? This narrowly beat Vapor Trail for my Genesis/Mega Drive pick.
Source: YouTube via Retro Core, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun
Neon FM
Tokyo Attack came to Matsuricon again and introduced me to Neon FM, a button-drumming music game with some neat features. If you fail a song, the game drops the difficulty level a little and lets you keep playing. The arcade, iOS, and Android versions all work about the same and even support online multiplayer matches between them. I want to try that sometime but the closest arcade with Neon FM is in the developer’s home town of Baltimore.
I thought Orange Lounge Radio had an interview with the developer, but the wiki had no mention of it. Maybe I've got it mixed up with the Kyle Ward interview in episode 596 where he talks about ReRave's arcade and mobile versions. I'm confused.
Source: Neon FM via Orange Lounge Radio episode 524 (1h59m in) which I had to look up again on the OLR Wiki
RIP Justin.tv 1997-2014
UPDATE: I’m getting tired of these videos that don’t even stay online for four years. The original Vimeo video is private now, but somebody re-posted it to YouTube. Twitch got better and I stream there now.
In May 2009, I started a weekly video game stream on Justin.tv. Justin.tv was just getting video game streams, but people also streamed videos and webcams and hosted communities with their own forums. It was great. Over the next couple years, they removed the communities and forums, shoved all the gaming streams into a buggy new site called Twitch, and left the rest of Justin.tv to rot in obscurity until it finally died today.
I still stream every Wednesday night at Instagib. It’s not 2009 Justin.tv but it’s the closest anybody has come since. We’ll miss you, Justin.tv.
Source: Goodbye from Justin.tv via Sweetielise’s stream title today, “RIP Justin.tv you had a good run!” Also Vs. Super Mario Bros. World 7-4 – YouTube, recorded May 2009 on my Justin.tv channel.
ofsparrows – good luck, roomba witch
There's no going back to how things used to be, for better or worse. It's time to adapt! It's a lot to process, but I want to be here for everyone and post more than just once a month. This feed's about to get flooded with video game music for 30 days, so here's something that's neither video games nor music.
Source: sparrows via Something Random back in 2016
tfw your folks replace the (perfectly serviceable!!!) old hoover with a roomba and you don’t have a god damn clue how you’re gonna fly the thing
ETA:
so i tried out a few suggestions in the tags and
(PRINT!🌇)
Plamoo - Mystery Stop Motion
What kind of blog about cool stuff from the Internet would be complete without Plamoo’s stop motion movies done with Japanese action figures? For the past few years, he’s been perfecting the art with unusually smooth animations, unpredictable action sequences, and wacky parodies.
Also worth mentioning is LUXE37, which is this idea done with die-cast toy cars.
Source: Niconico (was 003 謎のストップモーション / Mystery Stop Motion – YouTube) and 疾走の追跡(Miniature car chase) – YouTube.
Oregon Trail and the Sewn-Together Ox
Oh boy, sometimes my Twitch.tv stream is comedy gold. When I play Oregon Trail, I have a rule to always ford every river. Even when we reach the 20 foot deep Green River, I must attempt to drive the wagon right across the bottom, drowning all the oxen. This degenerated into my Skype chatters Jdetan, Kinkaido, and Seriouscacodemon making up a story about the wagon leader trying to cobble together a single ox and get moving again.
I should probably say here that my streams contain NSFW language. You know, because we’re horrible people on the Internet.
The other thing we keep quoting, "ford the fing eiver," was a typo from old stream regular Acemage123. That typo stuck around years longer than the chatter.
Source: Oregon Trail and the Sewn-Together Ox – YouTube, which is an upload from a Twitch.tv highlight. Also Nickster123’s Flickr.
