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BBC Micro Celebrates 40th Birthday With Retro Sounds Contest Winner!
For those of you who attended school in the UK between the 1980s or early to mid-’90s, you were probably more than familiar with the BBC Micro. Designed by Acorn Computers (perhaps best known for the Electron), the system was specifically commissioned by the BBC in order to, basically, bring…
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Super Rare Zelda NES Cartridge Hits $110K at Auction
It’s not exactly a secret that rare video games can command quite a significant price when they hit online auction sites. Following a new listing on Heritage Auctions, however, we have something exceptionally unusual here indeed. Not only is this a graded and sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda…
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Commodore 64 Gets Modded to Mine Cryptocurrency!
Although Bitcoin has hit a slump seeing around $15,000 wiped off its peak $65,000 value over the last couple of weeks, it still hard to deny that mining is still prevalent at the moment. Hell, it’s arguably one of the biggest reasons why graphics cards are so hard to come…
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What The Witcher 3 Would Look Like for PS1!
I’m a big fan of demake videos, as they throw me back to a time when my gaming life was so much simpler. I would be able to kick back for hours on end with some retro (well, they weren’t retro at the time) games every night… oh wait, I…
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Working Apple-1 Computer From 1976 is Listed for $1.5M
There has, and always will be, a solid market for retro technology. Even I myself own more than a few ancient systems and take great pleasure in throwing in a floppy disk every now and then for some good old fashioned gaming action. However, if you were looking for something…
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NES ‘Homework First’ Physical Console Lock is Found
I must admit, given I have a kid of my own now, that I can fully understand that my parents possibly bought me my NES console back in 1988 as more of an investment than a purchase. It did, after all, manage to successfully keep me out of their hair…
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Sega Drops Hints at a Dreamcast Mini Console
The Dreamcast was, without a doubt, an excellent console. Albeit, releasing during the height of the PlayStation and N64 era, it didn’t sell particularly well and ended up representing the last major system ever released by Sega. Despite it’s semi-failure with consumers, however, it had an amazingly impressive (albeit somewhat…
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Winamp Online Skin Museum Opens Celebrating Customization!
When I think back to Winamp, it conjures up a lot of nostalgic memories for me. Mostly revolving around my earliest PC days where running a game on Windows 95 or DOS was often a genuinely tricky decision when it came to performance trade-offs. Despite its age, however, Winamp has…
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The Winamp Skins Museum is Maximum Nostalgia
From the 90’s right up to just a few years ago, Winamp was my go-to media player. I only retired it a couple of years back as I transitioned to Plex, it just made more sense with my NAS based media, and multiple users in the house. However, Winamp still…
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Happy 22nd Birthday Metal Gear Solid – What Made it Great!
Few things make me feel old, because I’m just a big kid at heart. Well, except the bad back, regular indigestion, sciatica, the CTS in my hands, and my failing eyesight, and saying “I’m just a big kid at heart”. However, few things make me feel older than the utterly…
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Angry Miao Reveals the CYBERBOARD Keyboard on Indiegogo
Angry Miao, a native digital vertical brand focused on revolutionizing desktop products, has made its debut into the desktop technology market with the CYBERBOARD, a custom cyberpunk mechanical keyboard and the first of its kind to feature a customizable LED panel. The CYBERBOARD was officially launched on Indiegogo today with…
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Chieftec Announces the Classic Series CM-25B-OP Case
Despite most PC chassis designs these days transitioning to all sorts of bell and whistles in terms of ARGB lighting effects, the market for more ‘classic‘ designs is still remarkably strong. In announcing the new CM-25B-OP PC case, therefore, while it might on the surface appear to be a rather…
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I Built My Own Light Gun for my PC & Arcade Machine
If you’re an older gamer like myself, you’ll remember a time when a shooting game involved an actual gun. However, outside of the now rather rare arcades, light gun games are all but gone. The main issue is those modern TVs don’t work in the way old tube TVs did.…
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Retro Gamer Creates 3D Images of His Big Box Collection
One of the saddest parts of modern gaming has been the decline of ‘big box’ releases. Now, some of you will already know what I mean by this, but for those of you too young to remember, PC games used to be sold in rather large and elaborate packaging. Why…
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Super Famicom’s Given Away to Keep Japanese Kids at Home!
With pretty much the entire world under Coronavirus lockdown, the chances are that many of you have turned to gaming as a way to pass the time in a safe and socially responsible manner. Following a post on their official website, however, the Japan Retro Gaming Association has taken a…
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