Presented by Fastbilly & Racketboy New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Its multidirectional shooter time again. This time around we are going with one of the lesser known titles in the Strike series, Urban Strike. It is a difficult game where you fly a modified AH-64 Apache Helicopter on a […]
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=23062 To go along with our selection of NBA Jam as our Together Retro Game Club title, I thought it would be fun to see what everone’s favorite old-school sports titles are. Â (The only restrictions for nominations were that they games were N64 or older and not include standard racing or wrestling games). We […]
Every now and then, when visiting different parts of the US, I like to track down independent or small-chain game stores and report my findings to the Racketboy community. Usually, I like to do a video interview with the store owner and not only get a tour of the store, but also get their insights […]
Presented by Ack Here at Racketboy.com, we don’t often talk about LCD games. They’re not really under our purview, so to speak. But they do have a solid relationship with video games, and in some cases, this bleeds over into definite video game territory. Sometimes it’s as simple as a character appearing in a game(Game […]
Presented by Fastbilly & RacketboyNew To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club I have been trying to think of one word to describe this months Together Retro title and just haven’t had any luck. Bodacious and Badical just cant seem grasp the awesomeness of this title. I mean what other game did […]
It’s been a while since we posted an entry in our featured video game fan art series. Â However, I would like to features some additional pieces, but thought I would ask the wonderful Racketboy community which series or characters they would like to see highlighted. Â Now, I realize some large franchises aren’t featured in this […]
When you add a console to your collection, the first thing you want to do is get a handful of games to keep you busy with your new toy. However, most of us can’t spend afford to spend fat pile of cash for a few games. This budget-friendly list should help you quickly find which […]
Presented by Zen Albatross Tiny bagels and pots of hot coffee wait patiently on a fold-out table in a a small classroom on the southeast end of New York University campus. It’s an early Saturday morning in late June and most of NYU’s students are on Summer break. But for the group of artists, programmers, […]
Presented by Fastbilly & Racketboy New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Alright, heres the pitch: you are a young dolphin whose family gets kidnapped by an evil suction-based terror and you have to explore the ocean to find them and save the world. If it sounds like the plot of […]
Oh Sega… you were such cunning marketers in the early 1990’s. We all love the Sega Scream campaign and Sonic’s extra ounce of attitude that, in our minds, gave him the advantage over Mario. However, once Sega attempted to move faster with their technology in order to stay a step or two ahead of their […]
Presented by Ack Note: Hope you enjoy our first genre-specific installment of our Defining Games series During the 1990s, the fighting genre dominated the arcade scene, helping the industry come back for a few years from a slump partially created by home console releases. Fighting games slowly continued to evolve, trying new gameplay and graphical […]
Presented by Fastbilly & Racketboy New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Presented by Fastbilly & Racketboy New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the clubPresented by Fastbilly & Racketboy New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club “The main impetus behind OutRun’s creation was my […]
Presented by Ack Note: We have been creating beginner’s guides for a number of classic consoles, but now we’re expanding the concept to genre-specific guides. Â We hope you find them useful for getting more familiar with a genre. Â If you have further questions or recommendation for the series, please post something in the comments. Survival […]
While, the hardware for the standard home version of the Neo-Geo, the AES is cheaper, the games for it are MUCH more expensive than those of the arcade MVS versions. Because of this, there are many ways to play the cheaper MVS cartridges on a home console device — here’s some ideas to make Neo-Geo […]
Presented by Ack Note from racketboy: The RetroGaming 101 series is aimed at gamers who are just starting out in the classic gaming scene or are curious about an older console that they don’t know much about yet. When console gamers and collectors think back to 1993, most likely think of the glory days of […]
