Retro Gaming Australia

Retro City Rampage OST sees limited edition vinyl release

Matt Keller — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:18:47 +0000

Retro City Rampage is due out later this year on a myriad of platforms, but for now you can enjoy the game’s soundtrack in one of two forms – digitally, through Bandcamp, or vinyl (for a limited time).

The soundtrack for the game is being created by Jake “virt” Kaufman, Leonard “Freaky DNA” Paul, and Matt “Norrin Radd” Cramer and consists mostly of NES inspired chiptunes.

The digital version is $CA7.99, while the vinyl copies will cost $CA43. The vinyl is limited to 500 copies – 300 black, 100 Green Sapphire and 100 Horizon Blue.

Video Game Ad of the Day: The Warriors

Matt Keller — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:00:27 +0000

Can’t believe it has been seven years already.

The Warriors is a video game based on the 1979 film of the same name. Without being tied to a release date for a film project (though a remake was planned at one point), Rockstar Toronto had ample time to flesh out the game and its mechanics, making it arguably one of the best licensed titles out there.

Video Game Ad of the Day: Sonic Heroes

Matt Keller — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:16:07 +0000

Team Chaotix fo’ life.

Sonic Heroes was the first Sonic the Hedgehog game to be released across multiple platforms on day one. The game is best known for its three character set up, which allows you to switch between characters on the fly, and the return of Team Chaotix, who had not been seen since Knuckles’ Chaotix on the 32X.

Video Game Ad of the Day: Psychonauts

Matt Keller — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:25:32 +0000

One for the Schafer crowd.

Psychonauts is a fan-favourite platformer with something of a troubled development history. Tim Schafer’s first post-Lucasarts game was meant to be an Xbox exclusive published by Microsoft themselves. Some four years and $US13 million dollars later, it ended up being released by Majesco, who were nearly bankrupted following the game’s terrible performance at retail.

Contra turns 25 today

Matt Keller — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:28:25 +0000

Apparently today marks 25 years since Contra debuted in Japanese arcades way back on February 20th, 1987. You should celebrate by playing Contra, or by watching this video of Neo Contra.

Yes, he is running on top of a helicopter propeller.

We’ll have some sort of feature on the series in the coming months. Maybe Konami will get around to revealing that reboot before then.

Video Game Ad of the Day: Street Fighter: The Movie

Matt Keller — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:21:26 +0000

Van Dammit.

Street Fighter: The Movie is, as the name suggests, based on the film which was loosely based on the game. Unlike the arcade version, the home version was actually developed internally by Capcom, which some might say was an attempt at salvaging the project and turning it into something playable.

Video Game Ad of the Day: Spider-Man

Matt Keller — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:54:45 +0000

The one that started a real turnaround for superhero games.

Spider-Man is the nineteenth (I believe) game based on Marvel’s most popular comic book character, and the first to be published by Activision, who still holds the license to this day. The game was developed by Neversoft using the same tech from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.

Naughty Dog reflects on the making of Jak & Daxter

Matt Keller — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:12:21 +0000

The Jak & Daxter HD Collection is out in the states now, and will be out here next week (we might even have a review for you in the near future), and to celebrate, Naughty Dog and 2 Player Productions teamed up to produce this short documentary on the making of the series.

Pretty interesting stuff. I’ll always wonder what the second game would have been like if they weren’t so heavily influenced by Grand Theft Auto III, however.

Auction Watch – 18/02/2012

Matt Keller — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:07:09 +0000

Seems to be a lot of obscure peripherals around this week.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Saturn)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC) w/ play guide

Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (GameCube)

Club Nintendo Mario Controller for GameCube

Sega Master System 3-D Glasses

The Activator for the Sega Mega Drive

Hyper Magazine Issues 1-118 Pick up from Brisbane/Courier only

Pix’n Love’s History of Nintendo Vol. 2 coming March 9

Matt Keller — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:16:23 +0000

You might remember a couple of months ago that I posted a gushing review of Pix’n Love’s The History of Nintendo Vol. 1 – 1889-1980 (which you should still totally buy if you haven’t already). Florent Gorges in-depth history of one of the greatest forces in gaming was packed full of facts you (probably) didn’t know about Nintendo, along with images of many of their pre-video game products.

The second volume of the series, The History of Nintendo Vol. 2 – 1980-1991, which exclusively covers the Game and Watch line up, will be available on March 9. You can preorder the book here.

This should be an excellent book, if the first is anything to go by.