Retro Gaming Australia

Air Raid is the most sought after game for Atari 2600 collectors. Released in limited quantities in 1984 by Men-A-Vision, the sky blue T-shaped cartridge can easily fetch several thousand dollars at auction – a boxed copy sold several years back for $US31,600+. To date, the manual for the game had never been seen.

That was until earlier this week, when a father and daughter found a complete copy of the game in their loft. The father worked for a convenience store which sold Atari games in the early 1980s, and was given a copy of the game by a sales rep. The father put the game in storage until hearing the price that the last copy sold for. Convinced that he still had the game, father and daughter searched high and low for the game.

The game is currently listed for auction on GameGavel, and is due to end on November 4th.

To commemorate Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’s 10th anniversary, Rockstar will soon be re-releasing the game for select iOS and Android devices. The Anniversary Edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will feature improved graphics, a touch interface and other such enhancements.

Further celebrations for the occasion include the release of previously unseen artwork and new anniversary trailer showcasing iconic moments and music from the game, a limited run of collectable items purchasable through Rockstar Warehouse, and online giveaways.

If you are quick, you can also snap up Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on iOS and Android for 99 cents.

Note: Grand Theft Auto 3: Australian Edition for iOS is still priced at $5.49.

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

3DS Virtual Console
Mighty Bomb Jack (Game Boy) – $AU7.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

Wii Virtual Console
Shock Troopers (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS Virtual Console
Ghosts ‘n Goblins (NES) – $US4.99
Castlevania: The Adventure (Game Boy) – $US3.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Killzone HD – $AU23.95
Disney’s G-Force (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.95
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.95

Discounts

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Killzone HD – $US14.95
Winback: Covert Operations (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99

Discounts
Wonder Boy in Monster Land – $US1.00 (PS Plus only, limited time)

Good Old Games

New Releases
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Warchest – $US9.99

Retail
Doom 3 BFG Edition – available on PC, Xbox 360 and PC for $AU49.95

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

Wii Virtual Console
World Heroes Perfect (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS eShop
Mad Dog McCree – $AU7.50

3DS Virtual Console
Mega Man (NES) – $AU7.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

3DS Virtual Console
Gradius (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Warhawk (PSOne Classics) – $AU8.25

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99

Discounts
Monster World IV – $US1.00 until Tuesday

Good Old Games

New Releases
BioForge – $US5.99

Discounts
Mac & PC Essentials – 50% off the following
SimCity 2000: Special Edition
Theme Hospital
Postal: Classic and Uncut
Little Big Adventure / Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure
Crusader: No Remorse

Pay what you want – Interplay
Minimum payment ($US0.99) gets you:
Conquest of the New World
MAX + MAX 2
Jagged Alliance: Unfinished Business
Shattered Steel
Screamer
Evolva
Kingdom: The Far Reaches
VR Soccer ’96

Average payment (currently $US14.03) gets you the above, plus
Freespace + Silent Threat
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Descent 3 + Mercenaries
Stonekeep
Castles & Castles 2
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
Messiah
Battle Chess Special Edition
Die By the Sword + Limb from Limb
EarthWorm Jim 3D
F/A-18E Super Hornet
Invictus: In the Shadow of Olympus

Pay $US35, get the whole Interplay catalogue, which includes all of the above, plus
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Freespace 2
Descent + Descent 2
Redneck Rampage Collection
Sacrifice
EarthWorm Jim 1 & 2
MDK
MDK 2
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Kingpin: Life of Crime

It’s not widely known, but Nintendo updated Donkey Kong Land III from the black & white (or pea soup green, depending on your system) Game Boy to the Game Boy Color when they brought the game to Japan. While the Japanese had to wait an extra two years to play the game, they got to do so with a superior version.

And now you can too, thanks to the hard work of Blaziken257, who has prepared an English translation patch for the Japanese version of the game, known as Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong and Dixie Kong.

You can get the translation patch here

Source: Romhacking via RetroCollect

In light of the recent announcement of Virtual On for PSN and Xbox Live Arcade, peripheral producer Hori has announced that they will be releasing a limited run of twin stick controllers for use with the game.

The twin sticks are designed to mimic the control scheme of the original arcade game. Sega released its own official version for the Saturn and Dreamcast in conjunction with their ports of Virtual On and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram respectively.

Of course, authenticity doesn’t come cheap – Hori’s twin sticks will set you back 30,000 yen, or about $AU375.

As part of their evergrowing focus on digital distribution, Sega has announced that it will be bringing a collection of Model 2 arcade games to Xbox Live Arcade and PSN in the coming months.

The slate of titles, dubbed the “Model 2 Collection”, includes Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Striker, Sonic the Fighters, Fighting Vipers and Virtual On.

Word on the street is that these titles will boast improvements like online play and in the case of Sonic the Fighters, extra playable characters. We’ll have to wait and see. I doubt we’ll see Pepsiman in Fighting Vipers, but one can always hope.

Stainless Games has released Carmageddon for iOS devices today as part of their plan to revive the long dormant IP.

As a thank you for the folks who supported the Kickstarter project for the new Carmageddon, the iOS release is being made available free of charge for the first 24 hours of release – i.e. – right now.

So if you fancy yourself a bit of pedestrian genocide, grab the game from the App Store today.

An upcoming book entitled Stay A While and Listen by David Craddock is a history of Blizzard Entertainment concocted from interviews with nearly 80 former employees of the company. The book is due for release on October 29, but the author has revealed to Shacknews one of the cancelled Blizzard projects that came up in his research – the Game Boy Color version of Diablo the company dubbed “Diablo Junior”.

After Diablo II, the team split into several groups – one worked on the Lord of Destruction expansion, while the others were to throw ideas around for new IP and new games. One of these projects was a portable prequel to Diablo, intended for either the Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance:

“Diablo Junior was intended as a single-player-only prequel to the original game. Taking a page from Pokémon’s book, the team wanted to release three cartridges, each packing a different hero in the warrior-rogue-sorcerer vein as well as items that players would have to trade for in order to collect. Heroes started in a unique town before heading into dungeons and wilderness zones. Diablo Junior was ultimately put out to pasture (absent of cow levels, I’m sure) because of the steep production costs associated with developing handheld games.”

A second expansion, following from Lord of Destruction, was also planned, with the focus to be shifted onto the game’s multiplayer features such as a guild hall. The second expansion was quickly scrapped to start work on Diablo III, as the team had felt Diablo II had run its course.

Source: Shacknews

Nintendo eShop (North America)

Wii Virtual Console
The Last Blade (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS Virtual Console
Mario Golf (Game Boy Color) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Marvel vs. Capcom Origins (Marvel vs. Capcom and Marvel Super Heroes) – $AU23.95

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Retro City Rampage – $US14.99 (entitles you to both PS3 and Vita versions)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV (PSOne Classics)
Destrega (PSOne Classics)
Saiyuki: Journey West (PSOne Classics)

Discounts
The Revenge of Shinobi (Mega Drive) – $US1 (80% off)

Good Old Games

New Releases
Retro City Rampage – $US14.99

Discounts
Save 60% on Ubisoft’s back catalogue