Retro Gaming Australia

Found my partner’s stash of old magazines when we got to her parents’ place here in Melbourne, so I took the opportunity of adding all of the review scores to our list of scores from Australian magazines. About 900 new scores were added from, predominantly from Hyper and Nintendo Gamer. If you’ve got old magazines and feel like doing a bit of reading and contributing to the list, drop me an email at admin at retrogamingaus, or a private message on the forums.

The lack of retro updates throughout August left us a bit high and dry in terms of content, so the site looks like it’s a bit dead. I assure you it isn’t. I’ve been a bit preoccupied again as the CPA study season (my last one, yay) is starting up again, but fresh content will be on it’s way soon.

As far as behind the scenes news goes, there’s only one big thing happening – we’re moving. Technically, RGA’s home is on a server somewhere in California, but the site is run from Toowoomba, Queensland. However, later this month, the missus and I will be packing up the car and heading to Melbourne. Being based in civilisation might even mean promotional activities and meet ups in the near future. Hurrah!

Today sees the launch of Retro Gaming Australia’s first major new feature: the Australian Video Game Magazine Score Archive. The list currently contains over 4,000 review scores awarded by popular Australian computer and video games magazines such as Megazone, Hyper, PC Powerplay, N64 Gamer and the Official PlayStation Magazines.

In the Australian Video Game Magazine Score Archive you can search for the review scores for your favourite games, or witness infamous faux pas from our friends in the gaming press. Did you know Hyper gave the illustrious Alien Soldier a mere 50? Or that Shaq Fu scored a respectable 77? What about the ridiculous 101% awarded to Perfect Dark in N64 Gamer? You’ll find it all in here.

The Australian Video Game Magazine Score Archive is currently in an alpha state, but fully browsable. Specific entries can be found using the search function of your browser. For answers to common questions about the list, please click the more link. (continue reading…)

Everybody digs the whole social media thing, so Retro Gaming Australia is getting in on the act. Today we’ve registered a YouTube channel, so you can watch me failing miserably at a range of classic video games. We’ve also got in on the Twitter thing, so I can annoy you in 140 characters or less to watch videos of me failing miserably at a range of classic video games.

YouTube: Retro Gaming Australia
Twitter: RetroGamingAus

Now let’s see if all of these feeds play nicely.

I probably should have mentioned that the Retro Gaming Australia main page would be going on hiatus for most of April and May while I was in the final crunch for my CPA exams. Now that those exams are over, new content will be coming and regular Retro Reading updates will return. Huzzah!

The Retro Gaming Australia forums are now live and kicking – you can find them at https://retrogamingaus.com/forum/

Welcome to Retro Gaming Australia. As you will see, there’s a lot of work to be done around here before things are functional and pretty, so register your username in the forum, and get chatting.