The Podcast is Up!!!

Hey folks!

I know that this took way too long, but the premier episode of the Yesterdaze Arcade  Podcast is up.

A rough piece, I hope you find it entertaining, none the less. Audio levels bounce up and down a bit, but it’s assembled. I am hoping that the next episode is a little more polished!

In this first episode I introduce myself and give a brief history of my introduction to video gaming, throw a spotlight on the Vectrex gaming console, Myles from Nowhere gives a look back to 1984 an a bit more!

Please give it a listen at the following links:

  (a little better experience, including embedded art)

RSS feed. Useful for many who would like to subscribe to the Podcast using something other than iTunes. Hey, it should even work on your Sony PSP’s RSS reader (if you have a Sony PSP)

(Right click and choose “save link as”) Just the plain ol’ mp3 of the Podcast for you to download and listen to on anything you want… within reason: I doubt “wanting to play it on a toaster will make that happen.

 

While writing this, I was listening to “Timing X” by DEVO

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Article: Consoles of the 70s

Saw this on the front page of digg.com. It’s an article detailing many of the consoles of the 1970s.

Ordered by date, it’s a pretty good read. Check it out HERE

Robokill - Rock Solid Arcade

Wow!

I was stumbling around the ‘Net again just now when I found this game. It’s a cool shooter done in flash that reminds me in a little of cross between the Williams classic arcade game Robotron and Expendable in the Dreamcast. Playing right in your browser, the controls are very easy: a combination of keyboard to move and mouse to aim and shoot. Any casual gamer will have used these controls before on countless other shooters and those new to gaming would probably pick up quite easily.

Give Robokill a play HERE

Robokill - Rock Solid Arcade

While writing this, I was listening to “I’m All Right(live)” by The Rolling Stones

Podcast Really Close to Being Done

The premier episode of the Yesterdazearcade podcast is just about complete! I was going to post it last night but decided that I need to flesh it out and edit it a bit more. I want to add a review or opinion piece…
But until then, if you want to hear what I have so far, you can listen to the rough draft at http://drop.io/yesterdazepodcast/ or if you want the rss feed try this
It is mostly a rambling piece that is pretty boring, but It’s the first one. I am going to organize the following episodes into more cohesive segments. Heck, I might actually write some stuff instead of just making it up as I go along like I did in this episode. There is a really good humorous personal look back at being a young teen in the 1984 by my friend Myles. I hope you like it, as I did. I could relate to it all since I lived it too! Well, like I wrote already, it should be done very soon, but go ahead and listen to the rough cut and let me know how terrible it is!

While writing this, I was listening to “No Reason” by Pepper

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Got a New Old Computer - An Apple IIc!

So, I managed to snag a very dirty, but working Apple IIc - Apple’s almost portable Apple II.
It came with the monitor, all the cords and cables, an external disc drive (it also has one built into it), and a crap load of disks.
I always thought that this was a great looking machine for the time.
I will eventually post pictures of mine, but until then I will post a few random pics of the model.

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Tags: Apple, Apple IIc, computer, classic, collectible, vintage

Video of Classic Video Games Recreated with Everyday Stuff

Ok, now while this person (or people) may have way too much time on their hands, this  is very well done. They have recreated several classic video games using everyday objects. Included are Centipede, Frogger, Space Invaders and Pacman.

Very clever and very fun, I think this is prett well genius!

 

Watch it here

Sam’s Toy Box

I found this site when I was clicking the very addictive Stumbleupon button on my  browser. It is a site that someone has put together of a lot of very cool toys that he has collected. I remember several of these toys and am very jealous of this collection!

I don’t know how long it took to amass this collection, but I have to thank him for sharing it with the Internet world.

There are a lot of very cool toys here, with pictures of each of them

See it here

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Retro Remakes of Classic Video Games

I stumbled upon the Neave Games website this afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised  what I found there: fantastic remakes of a few classic arcade  games that you play right in your browser. There was Asteroids, Space Invaders, Frogger, Snake and a Tetris clone. These are very true to the originals and play absolutely great. I really liked them and hope you do, also.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO NEAVE GAMES

Pac-Man Movie in the Works. Or, How they Finally put the Final Nail in Pac-Man’s Coffin

I don’t know how accurate this is, but I just read about a Pac-Man movie being in the  works.

Now, if it was so difficult to develop a good sequel to the game (aside from Miss Pac-Man of course, as that game rocked and Pac-Man CE for XBOX Live Arcade, which also rocks), how can we expect them to get a movie right?

Come to think of it, hasn’t most video game to movie translations sucked badly? Look at Alone in the Dark (Uwe Boll, you should not be allowed to make any more movies after that piece of… well it just sucked). Street Fighter? I thought it was terrible… And don’t get me started about Mario Brothers!!!

Anyway, you can read about the Pac-Man movie here.

Every Mortal Kombat Fatality

Like the title says, someone has put together every Mortal Kombat fatality in to a six minute video.

Not for those who can’t stomach pixelated unrealistic video game death and gore.