I don’t usually devote a full post to miscellaneous stuff like this, but I thought this was especially cool and haven’t seen any other blogs reference it. I found this cool retrogaming-themed graffiti on Flickr today. View the Full Picture Makes me want to boot up Jet Grind Radio on my Dreamcast 🙂
In the first of my rants (How The Internet Changed The Hobby) about the lessons I learned from collecting hobby-related items, I discussed how the Internet has changed the way we collect and how are collections are perceived by others. This time around I want to show you how buying “valuable”� and “rare”� games isn’t […]
Here’s some more detailed pictures of my Dreamcast VGA Cables… Click on them to get a big view. (You can find more user-submitted pictures here) The cable hooked up to my CRT VGA monitor’s cable: A view of the Dreamcast’s connection and the box with the headphone/PC speaker jack: The VGA and DC ends of […]
While VGA mode is supported by most every Dreamcast games, there are a few that do not support it. Some of the non-VGA games can be patched to be used with a Dreamcast VGA cable by making some quick modifications to the ripped game’s CDI file. You can also get a full-featured Dreamcast VGA Box […]
Shining Force III was one of the crowning jewels for the Sega Saturn and is one of the best strategy RPGs ever from the folks at Sega. However, there was a Scenario 2 and 3 in addition to a Premium Disc that never made it outside of Japan. KnightOfDragon has released his patch for Shining […]
I’ve been a collector all my life. My largest collecting phase began when I was 7 years old and initially became fascinated with baseball cards. Once the baseball card market became oversaturated in the late 1990’s, I eventually withdrew from the hobby, but the experience taught me a number of life lessons in business, personal […]
Dreamcast Fan Mod I kind of wish I got a resistor with more ohms though, because I can’t quite slow it down as much as I want to. It’s quite noisy even on the slowest, but it sure doesn’t let the Dreamcast even get warm at all, anywhere, after any amount of time. A great […]
When it comes to NES clones, many of us are familiar with Messiah’s Generation NEX. However as I mentioned a while back, the Yobo Gameware (aka Neo-Fami) is another solution to playing your old NES carts. Kevin over at UUDDLRLRBAStart recently posted his review of the Yobo NES Clone. “So far I’ve been fairly happy […]
As a follow-up to my Games That Actually NEED A Sequel and further inspired by this post at Siliconera, I wanted to discuss a few classic game franchises, that while they did have at least one sequel, they haven’t surfaced in quite a while. And even though there are a small handful of older franchises […]
In today’s extremely competitive gaming marketplace, publishers have been shying away from taking risks in developing new characters and franchises. However, there are a number of older franchises that have been absent for quite a while, but are just now starting to show signs of pleasing fans one more time. Here are a handful of […]
One of the few games that makes me wish I have a Sony PSP is a little puzzler named Lumines. Not since the original Gameboy Tetris was there so much buzz over a puzzle game. Up until now, GBA fans have been in the dust when looking for a new puzzler. But there is a […]
Light gun games have a special place in my heart. They provided a great thrill in the arcades when I was a kid and still do the trick to this day. (I just played a few rounds of House of the Dead III in the arcades last weekend). Also, after writing my recent piece on […]
Could Sega be getting back into the hardware business? It is a little too late for this to be an April Fools joke, so I quess we’ll have to wait and see. Anyway, supposedly Sega France (French source) has leaked some news regarding a new Sega handheld that will be able to, among other things, […]
I think one of the best things about retro gaming is how fun it is to amass a great collection of old games. Not only is it wonderful to be able to play all sorts of games whenever you feel like it, but there is also something therapeutic about looking at all the boxes and […]
Radiligy is one of the two new Naomi-to-Dreamcast shooter ports to come out in 2006 and it will offer shmup fans a slightly different shooting experience for their Dreamcast. Radiligy does borrow many elements from its sibling, Chaos Field, but does have some unique features and a fresh graphical style. Overall, it does not seem […]
