Retro Gaming Australia

We’ve been posting ads from old video game magazines for nearly 6 months now, and it’s a feature that quite a few people enjoy. Unfortunately to this point, the only way you could see what we’ve posted was to slowly scroll back through the Ad of the Day post category and see the articles one by one.

In order to rectify that, we’ve created an index which lists all of the games we’ve posted ads for in alphabetical order. Ideally we’d like to get a more elegant solution going in the future, but this will do for now.

You can find the index at the list above, or under our Resources section.

After putting Retro Reading to bed, I’ve been contemplating the future of coverage on the site.

The founding principle of RGA was to establish a community forum for the discussion of retro gaming in Australia, and unfortunately, that hasn’t been as successful as I had hoped – in some ways, I think Australia just hasn’t had the retro gaming boom seen in the US and UK. In pure statistical terms, our growth is astronomical, but the base figures are so low that it doesn’t matter. We’ve started to produce more original content, but since I’m working alone here (if you’re interested in writing anything for the site, contact me), that takes time. We have plans for more original content as well as more resources concerning the industry in Australia, and they will roll out in the future.

I’ve been wanting to update the site more frequently – those ad posts are nice, but it’s depressing seeing three or four of them in a row on the front page. So I’ve decided that we’re going to experiment with posting a couple of news articles each day over the next couple of weeks. If we’re happy with it, it’ll become a permanent fixture.

Other components that once made up Retro Reading will also appear on the site in their own sections in due course.

As of today, you can now comment on blog posts using your RGA forums account. Just log into the forums as per normal, and comment away.

Due to a glitch, your usename on the blog posts will appear in lower case. To fix that, just go into the “Blog control panel” link on the sidebar, and change your display name.

A couple of months ago I mentioned that I was working on two major projects for the site that would be ready in the first quarter of this year. Of course, neither of these projects actually eventuated by the end of March. One is a long way from being ready to launch in a form I am happy with. The other…I had no idea really what to do with it. Fortunately, inspiration struck and I found a form for the project that I am happy with.

From Sunday, Retro Gaming Australia will be updating daily with a new feature called the Video Game Ad of the Day. Each day, you will see an advertisement from a classic video game appear on the site. Some other sites post ads, but they are decidedly US centric (probably because US mags in the 90s had 150 pages of ads an issue – not exaggerating). In order to be different, we will be posting ads not only from the US, but from countries across the world. We’ve got ads from Australia, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Russia, South Africa and more. These posts would not be possible without the work of individuals from Out of Print Archive and Retromags who work painstakingly hard on preserving classic video game magazines, so please grace them with your traffic.

So, tune in daily, check out the new ad and link it to everybody you know!

We’re proud to announce that we’ve added a new section to Retro Gaming Australia today – TV commercials! We’ve rummaged around the Internet and scrapped together a small collection of commercials which aired on Australian television between the 1970s and 2005. We’ve got ads ranging from the well known Tim Ferguson Nintendo 64 ads to the obscure John Sands Sega SC-3000. The links currently redirect you to our Youtube channel – we’ll be reviewing this in the future, but it works fine for now.

We’ll be adding to this collection over time, so if you’ve got something that we don’t have here, please drop us a line at admin@thisurl.com

You can access our commercial library here.