TOKYO - From May 27 the T-Shirts 8Bit Memorial exhibition (orgranized by The King of Games) will be held in Shibuya Parco.

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Ladyada posted a nice tutorial that explain how to convert a console game pad into a USB keyboard mouse for playing emulated games on your PC. The USB game pad can be used with nearly any software, such as a MAME emulator, game, simulation software, or for custom user interfaces.

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Yoshi Akai is a Japanese designer who produces and uses original musical instruments with a unique input system. Visionaudio is mini synth but really looks like a tabletop videogame realeased by "Gakken" in 1880s!


880s are still cool!!

Japanese advertisement from 1982. Tomy bowling was the company first wrist-watch game (the gameplay was taken from the Slimboy Bowling LCD game) and in 1982 the toy company released the Golf watch.
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From Strapya...
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On Modellismo Hobby Media you can find a collection of uber geek Japanese advertisements of electronic toys and gadgets from the 60s and 70s. This is the first time I see the  BANDAI LSI SPEEDGUN (I just found it onsale on Yahoo Auctions) and the DIGITAL LUPIN from EPOCH!

Nice!!

Kotaku Japan posted about 8Bit Love: a doujinshi about retrogames toys and gadgets produced by 3 of my best friends in Japan: Oikawa (sernior editor of the cult videogame magazine GameLabo), Mushia (from Gizmodo Japan) and the super kawaii photographer Julie (aka Amano Ai). This book has been released on 31th december during the winter Comiket 77.
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Game developer legend Andre Lamothe has developed two new Retro AVR and PIC development boards in collaboration with Atmel and Microchip respectively. The two kits are very complete and come with power supply, programmer, API, printed manual and more. If you are interested in videogame developing or your just love retrogames these kits are perfect to learn the basics of the videogaming development poetry.

XGS AVR 8-bit Official Page 

XGS PIC 16-Bit Official Page
 

Dotter.exblog is a Japanese blog with beautiful 8bitesque 3D illustrations!! These digital masterpieces are created by Tibori Design: the same guys who create CD covers for the Japanese chiptune cult band YMCK. WOW!!!

Update: Madrigal just sent us the "Making of" new video of the Multicart for Creativision (a must have for every retrogame collector out there!). Seems that there are 30 carts last so if you are into retrogames it's better to hurry!

This doujin masterpiece has been created with Vocaloid 2 and went straight on top of my ipod playlist! I hope Konami will change its mind on doujin culture and produce an official CD of this arrangement!

Frog Port is a new japanese retrogames online shop that has opened today! It's the first reasonable priced shop of this kind (almost if compared to some crazy Ebay bids) and there are a lot of masterpieces to discover (but of course not everything comes cheap especially for products imported to Japan from USA)!  Even if you are not an online shopper browsing trought Frog Port pages will introduce to many obscure retrogame treasures...

The japanese retrogamer Gyusyuabu has recently updated his net radio dedicated to
retro japanese PCs like the X68000, MSX or PC98. He got a superb selection of old computer games tunes and created a really cool interface for his net radio (he even implemented a "request"
  function so that any user can put his favourite songs in the request queque). For the copyrights paranoids ot there: Gyusyubu's radio playlist doesn't contain any JASRAC song and he ripped the music straight from the games (not from CDs) so this radio is should be 100% legal (almost in Japan).

Riceviamo dal nostro amico Madrigal e volentieri pubblichiamo l'annuncio della sua ultima creazione: una multicart per la leggendaria console a 8Bit Creativision! Verranno prodotti solo 100 pezzi quindi consigliamo a ogni retrogamer di affrettarsi a ordinare la propria copia!


Multicart V1.0
For "creatiVision" console/computer, made by VTech in 1981 (Hong Kong), distibuted in Japan by Cheryco in 1982
Limited edition, 100 numbered copies only produced!

Price: EUR 42,95 or US$ 57,95

Multicart informations

- the only existing homebrew cartridge for creatiVision
- deluxe full colour cardboard box with internal cartridge holder
- 12-page booklet featuring instructions for all included games
- 8 Mega-bit EPROM including up to 32 ROM games/programs
- professional PCB featuring a 5-way DIP Switch to easily select included ROM games/programs
- 100% compatible with creatiVision, Dick Smith Wizzard, Funvision, Rameses, Laser 2001 and Salora Manager
- specially designed plastic case with classic title stickers
- 6 cardboard joystick overlays, for use with all featured games/programs
- currently featured ROM games/programs:

Air/Sea Attack
Astro Pinball
Auto Chase
BASIC creatiVision 1982
BASIC creatiVision 1983
BASIC VTL V.1 1983
Chopper Rescue
Crazy Chicky
Crazy Pucker
Deep Sea Adventure
Ha.P. Monitor
Locomotive
Mouse Puzzle
Music Maker
Planet Defender
Police Jump
Soccer
Sonic Invader
Stone Age
Tank Attack
Tennis (Coca Cola)
Tennis (Dick Smith)
Tennis (Wimbledon)
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Un classico video promozionale della Nintendo che rivediamo sempre con piacere!!

"Atariboy2600", un utente del forum di Atari Age ha postato dei bellissimi fake di copertine di videogiochi per Atari 2600 che non sono stati mai prodotti:  Battlestar Galactica, Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo,  The Black Hole...



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