A video game collector in Oakland recently found their holy grail - an Atari 2600 game that was never finished, and never released. Unfortunately the game in question, Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park, isn’t likely to entertain anyone when the collector inevitably connects with someone who can dump Atari 2600 ROMs.
Gism Butter via Slashdot
Got huge wads of cash burning a hole in your pocket? Check out this eBay auction for 741 NES cartridges, including all 670 Nintendo-licensed games released in North America.
The bidding is now at $3,600 however the reserve is not yet met. The shipping alone will set you back $400, but this is unlikely to bother anyone who spends this kind of money on piles of shitty old games.
eBay via gameSniped
Starting out with a cheap NES clone and a Super Mario Bros. cartridge, French modder Kotomi has created perhaps the coolest NES mod yet by squeezing the console into one of it’s own cartridges. It’s fully functional, with a cartridge slot, power and reset buttons, two controller ports and a composite AV out.
Owen Good over at Kotaku, and his brother, are huge Pac-Man fans. A recent IM conversation between the two led to a fairly in-depth conversation about the size of the stool Pac-Man would produce if he went to the toilet after every board - and the pixel art to go with it. Read and see it all at Kotaku.
A LiveJournal user by the name of studiojfish has found a massive amount of artwork from the original NES version of The Legend of Zelda lying around on his computer - and it’s of a completely different style than many of us have become accustomed to.
When you’re knee deep in the dead, forget chainsaws - you’re going to need a real weapon…like Rick Astley’s hit single “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
This NES port of Final Fantasy VII is far from your average rip-off. It’s the work of a gifted group of Chinese programmers, who utilized revolutionary techniques to squeeze a relatively complete version of the PSone classic onto a cartridge that plays on ancient 8-bit hardware.
Why oh why must they look so beautiful and delicious at the same time?
via Playgirlz
And what’s more, games for the Mark III and Game Gear will be making their way to the VC too.
But before you get all excited and run off to the Wii shop channel, only a couple of Master System titles will be released on VC during February in Japan only. Those titles will be: Fist of the North Star (600 points) and Fantasy Zone (500 points). North America and Europe will be getting those games at some unspecified time in the future.
via Gaming Today
It’s a well known fact that drums make everything better. So it’s no surprise then that Italian drummer Andrea Vadrucci’s drumming to the 8-bit melodies of Super Mario 2 makes it phenomenal. Someone should really get together with this guy and produce some banging Nintendo covers. Not like that hasn’t been done before.
via Wiifanboy
