Retro Gaming Australia

Late again.

This time I was spending a little too much time backlog crunching, but now I’ve only got one NES game left – Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Interview: Hugh Gollner at Out of Print Archive

Hugh Gollner was the publisher behinds magazines such as Amiga Action and Mega Drive Advanced Gaming. The OoP Archive boys got this interview to celebrate the sanctioned release of scans from Mega Drive Advanced Gaming.

Virtual Boy 101 at Racketboy

Racketboy and his goons have put together a nice little piece on the Virtual Boy, highlighting its strengths, weaknesses and technical specs.

Felicia (SNES), Madness: House of Fun (MD), Land of the Dead Beta (Xbox), Inuits/White Fear (PS2), Conan (Jaguar), Crushed Baseball 2004 (PS2/GCN), Mario vs. Donkey Kong Beta (GBA), Voodoo Islands (PC/PS2) at Unseen64

Another week’s worth of info on betas and cancelled games from the boys at Unseen64. I thought it was interesting, and somewhat disappointing, to see that Nintendo still had the Mario vs. DK level editor intact in the final game, but hid it away.

Retrospective: Robotron 2084 at Eurogamer Retro

The Eurogamer chaps dig up the father of dual stick shooting, Robotron 2084, for a bit of innocent retrospective fun.

NintendoAge March 2010 eZine at NintendoAge

I always found it a little weird that some retro sites choose to do their updates via newsletter, but I guess that newsletters are kind of retro in of themselves. This month’s issue has a nice little feature on Game Boy collecting.

This week’s Virtual Console release: Erm, there’s three of them! I guess to make up for the lack of releases for the past three weeks. Unfortunately the scheduled release Dracula X: Rondo of Blood didn’t show up. Instead, you get Zaxxon (Arcade), Iron Clad (Neo Geo), and Lode Runner (NES) for 500, 1000 and 600 Nintendo Points respectively.

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