Retro Gaming Australia

It’s so quiet on the retro front this week that you could hear a nun fart. If this keeps up, I might start throwing in a few older articles from places like Hardcore Gaming 101, though I should have probably done that in the first place. The other alternative is to just post a weekly entry on how awesome Toobin’ is. My brother suggested that I should also produce a piece on the worst of retro writing, seeing as there are some pretty awful pieces coming from the mainstream gaming press. However, I feel that such writing is so bad that it doesn’t warrant being linked to.

Sealed Stadium Events at eBay (via GameSniped)

Forget Nintendo World Championships Gold, this is the real holy grail of the NES Collector. Recalled in the US after little more than 2,000 units were released to a test market (so Nintendo of America could re-release the game itself as World Class Track Meet), the Bandai version of Stadium Events has become something of a rarity. Due to the state of the majority of NES games, complete copies are hard to come by – the last went for $US13,500. A sealed copy…well, what that will go for is anybody’s guess. The current price is $18,500 – more than the last known sale of NWC Gold. Not bad for the family who found it down in the basement, having never been able to play it due to not owning the Family Fitness Fun Mat.

There’s a PAL version of the game around too but due to bigger release numbers it’s not worth any more than $US1,000.00 – so don’t get overexcited or duped if you see one.

Jalepeno Harry (PSX), Mega Man Legends 2 Beta (PSX), Airborne Ranger (SNES), 12 Volt (PS2/Xbox/GCN), Slipshod (PS2/Xbox) at Unseen64

Another captivating week of entries at cancelled game blog Unseen64. Of particular interest/amusement is Slipshod for the PS2/Xbox, another project which highlights the incompetence and unnecessary meddling of EA’s excess of producers.

Interview: Allan Findlay at The Light Sword Cypher Mainframe (via Digital Press Forums)

Strider fansite interviews a programmer who was the sole programmer on the reviled Strider Returns at Tiertex. Few interesting nuggets in there about Tiertex’s other projects, including a cancelled Fate of Atlantis game for the Mega Drive and a CD-i port of Flashback.

This week’s Virtual Console release: Nothing!

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