Retro Gaming

[Black Valkyrie]

 

 

 

[lechuck]

Anybody catch the Batocera 42 anouncement? Also the trailer music... 🙂

[mikeszekely]

I didn't, but I built a Batocera system for my friend maybe a year and a half ago. I loved it, been meaning to build one for myself but I wanted enough power to play PS2.

[Black Valkyrie]

 

 

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Just a heads up - Virtual On Masterpiece is on sale for less than $10 in the Playstation Store right now.  You get three games in the Masterpiece package: the original Virtual On, VO Oratario Tangram, and VO Force.  It's a PS4 game, but it plays just fine on a PS5.  It's a steal IMO, but you will need a Japanese PS account to buy it.

[davidwhangchoi]

Earthion on sale guys! 

Yuzo Koshiro 

Edited December 11, 2025 by davidwhangchoi

[davidwhangchoi]

randomly picked this up today:

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

17 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

randomly picked this up today:

Does the text on the back of the case say something like "This game is what VISA is made for?"

One of the best Guncon games right there.

[Test_Pilot_2]

5 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

randomly picked this up today:

Awesome find!

[davidwhangchoi]

3 hours ago, Test_Pilot_2 said:

Awesome find!

Thanks!

9 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Does the text on the back of the case say something like "This game is what VISA is made for?"

One of the best Guncon games right there.

Oh wow! It does, haha. Took a snapshot of the back case

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

4 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

Thanks!

Oh wow! It does, haha. Took a snapshot of the back case

I had to ask because I remember finding that game in an Electronics Boutique when it first came out, and I was still establishing my credit card history.  I remember reading that line and said "F*** it" and bought it on the spot.

Working Designs had a contest for players to find hidden targets in the game.  The first few players who sent in proof of them finding all the targets got prizes.

Edited February 14 by Valkyrie Hunter D

[davidwhangchoi]

9 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

I had to ask because I remember finding that game in an Electronics Boutique when it first came out, and I was still establishing my credit card history.  I remember reading that line and said "F*** it" and bought it on the spot.

Working Designs had a contest for players to find hidden targets in the game.  The first few players who sent in proof of them finding all the targets got prizes.

i wish i knew about this game sooner, sounds like a great game

[Test_Pilot_2]

5 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

i wish i knew about this game sooner, sounds like a great game

If that's complete and in decent shape it's around 300 bucks.

Working Designs is easily one of my favorite, if not my favorite publisher ever. They put so much passion into their localizations and brought things over to the US way ahead of the times.

They were the premium collectors edition before there were premium collectors editions.

If this is news for you and you scored it for less, again, great find. If it isn't, I wasn't trying to patronize, and great find.

[davidwhangchoi]

12 hours ago, Test_Pilot_2 said:

If that's complete and in decent shape it's around 300 bucks.

Working Designs is easily one of my favorite, if not my favorite publisher ever. They put so much passion into their localizations and brought things over to the US way ahead of the times.

They were the premium collectors edition before there were premium collectors editions.

If this is news for you and you scored it for less, again, great find. If it isn't, I wasn't trying to patronize, and great find.

thanks! I did get it for under 250 so i guess it's a good deal then. I had about 70 in credit and paid about 170 the difference. complete with a non creased manual.

Edited February 16 by davidwhangchoi

[davidwhangchoi]

Picked up these 2 DS titles this afternoon. 

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Edited February 21 by davidwhangchoi

[F-ZeroOne]

Something thats been blowing my mind a bit recently is after watching a recent Jeremy Parish video is that the US only had two dedicated video gaming magazines for a period of about four years between 1984 and 1988, and one of those was a self-published newsletter apparently put out by two middle aged women that no-one has ever heard of. From a British perspective, thats... look, magazines were a huge part of the British computer/video gaming background of the 80s. We had "Crash", "ZZAP 64",  "Your Sinclair", "Sinclair User", "Amstrad Action", "Computer and Videogames" - and thats just to name the famous ones; there also were the short-lived publications like "Big K" and even odd platforms like the Dragon 32 had their own titles. This continued well into the 16-bit and even 32-bit eras.

Now, granted, many of these weren't in the strictest sense absolutely dedicated "videogame" magazines as they were largely covering personal computing and several started out as general computing titles with gaming just part of it but it wasn't too long before games were largely running the show for a lot of them (also, in those days, you needed at least a degree of familiarity with computing to be a gamer, from typing in a "LOAD" command just to start running a game to invoking the mysterious art of the "POKE" if you actually wanted to beat Jet Set F... REAKIN' Willy). The people that wrote for them were in some cases literally school kids and several have commented how they could be treated almost like rock stars when they met their magazines readers.

Edited March 3 by F-ZeroOne

[davidwhangchoi]

 

[Hiriyu]

These are a couple of my recent projects. Both were scratchbuilt from recycled electronics and scrap materials at pretty minimal cost.

The arcade bartop runs MAME via Pegasus Frontend on Linux Mint. It's built around an old Dell all-in-one PC with very humble specs, dual core Celeron and 8GB RAM.

The virtual pinball mini runs VPX via Batocera. It's powered by an N100 mini PC with 1080p playfield and 600p DMD in the backbox.

Both were lots of fun to design and build, and tons of fun in action 👍