Category Archives: Retro

retro posts

Welcome To Swine-Town: Population: You!

Reckon you might find yourself in Swindon, UK on Friday night? What, wait – you do? UGH! You disgusting heinous filth! What kind of degenerate pervert would even go to Swindon, let alone admit it online? Well, I’ll tell ya … Continue reading

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Good or Grig? – SSFIV AE Followup

Hokay, I… I think… I’m ready to talk about it. Deep breath… Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. Here we go… Welcome once again my obsequious compadres of the land of Grig, and buckle up as we once more ride … Continue reading

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Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Art of Video Games

You may remember that a few months ago the smithsonian was holding a poll for popular video games throughout the ages to represent at its history museum between March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012 on the 3rd floor north. … Continue reading

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Guardian heroes HD heading to XBLA

Okay so we’re about 10 hours behind all the major video game websites out there, but with a database assignment ending at midnight this is the earliest i got to the feeds, the most interesting of which was from http://thesegasource.wordpress.com/ … Continue reading

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Get Your Geek On!

Hurrah! It’s Geeky Tees Monday – today, and any subsequent Monday for the rest of time – I wanna see your geeky tees. Obviously, few will rival the brand new NES t-shirt that benny picked up today, but try people, … Continue reading

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Christ May Be Risen – But SEGA’s Prices Aren’t!

SEGA are on the charm offensive, revealing today that they’ll be celebrating Easter by slashing the prices of all their XBOX Live Arcade games. Hurrah! The sale will run from April 22 – 25, and covers gems like Gunstar Heroes … Continue reading

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A-biv-biv-biv! It’s the Sonic Generations Game!

I sense the forces of Karma at work in the forthcoming release of Sonic Generations, Sega’s next-gen homage to the blue hog’s first 20 years. And it should give everyone hope – except that little shiz Geoffrey Lawrence. See, when … Continue reading

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Sega hate us: Official

I promised I was gonna turn over a new leaf. No more being down on the state of the industry. No more peddling of the most negative aspects of video gaming that irk me so. No more raging against all … Continue reading

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Freakin’ Blue Menace Tearing Up The Show…

In case you missed it on Sega’s Facebook, here’s the new teaser for the 20th Anniversary Sonic game. And lovely it is too. Of course, it tells you absolutely nothing about the game to come – and Sega haven’t released … Continue reading

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New Commodore Style Computers, Yes Please :D

If you’re the kind of person who actually reads this blog, then you are more than aware that Commodore are the mac daddy home computers of the 1980’s. From the vic 20 to the Amiga 1200, these were prosperous times … Continue reading

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