Not only did John come up with a unique theme for an arcade cabinet, but he also went the extra mile literally "sculpting" custom pieces for his build.
In a move some might say more foolish than bold, RetroBlast frontman Kevin Steele is handing over the keys to the RetroBlast.com website to a bunch of slack-jawed ...
Jeff Rothe of Rotheblog fame...what? You've never heard of it? Man, check it out, this guy's got some great stuff going on over at his little corner of the internet: Rotheblog
Anyhow, Jeff's got a great article posted on finding reproduction artwork for Atari Quantum:
"Atari’s famous Quantum is a highly collectible game among arcade gamers for many different reasons. One of those reasons is that, like most Atari games, Quantum has some great artwork giving a idealized illustration of the gameplay. Most hardcore collectors may know that artwork for most of the game has been reproduced, or is in the middle of reproduction."
In case you missed an episode or two, or are just really a huge fan of the onine series RetrowareTV, the fellas behind RetroWare have released Season 1 on DVD.
What is RetrowareTV you ask? Well I'm glad you asked:
Retro_MC is all over it this week doing all kinds of research and somehow getting motivated to start another project! This time, he's run across a nice tutorial showing everyone how to reproduce their old Atari 2600 cartridge boxes.
The tutorial, written by Paul Sernine over at the AtariAge forums walks you through not only recreating the shell of the boxes, but also the inserts. So if you've got some boxes that could use a whole lot of TLC or you're just looking to create some boxes to enhance the look of your gameroom, this is a cool little project.
And in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, Paul got his inspiration from a custom Megadrive tutorial over at Marianitos.
From across the pond comes news of an impressively built cabinet by Rasmus at koenigs.dk . Check out his detailed build and documentation here . Along with some video goodness:
Nick Greeley, Monday, 10 March 2008 Way back when in the RetroBlast 1.0 days, our forum moderator extraordinaire, Retro_MC alerted us to a nifty littly DIY project in which Garrison T. Benson created his own Monopoly board game based on classic video games.
Well, as luck would have it, Garrison has found himself a new home on the internet and has graciously decided to offer up the files that he used to create his Monopoly game and share them with the world.
If you happen to use Benson's files and create your own board game, be sure to keep us in mind and take lots of pictures to share. And most of all, be sure to give credit where credit is due to the great Garrison T. Benson himself.
RB contributor Donkey_Kong pointed these new Tees out to us. Huzzah Goods is offering up some great new retro-themed t-shirts to impress all your friends at the next kegger.
Who am I kidding, the last kegger I attended was at least 15 years ago and if I recall, I ended up passed out in the tub. But anyway, back to the T-shirts. The design pictured at left is called "Blinkey Road" and hopefully you're old enough to get the reference to the Fab Four themselves.
Huzzah describes it as: " This image was widely used as part of the infamous "Pinky Is Dead" conspiracy theory, in which the member of the famed foursome was thought to have died while crashing into a pole after swerving to avoid Ms. Pac-Man..."
The Escapist has an interview posted with Cryptic Allusion talking about devloping homebrew games for the now defunct Sega Dreamcast system.
"Cryptic Allusion helped pioneer and foster the Dreamcast homebrew scene. The founder of this firm, Dan Potter, was influential in creating KallistiOS, an unofficial toolkit that helps programmers write code for the game console."
This is an interesting insight into development for a console that does have a very heavy cult following and those that own it, typically are very protective of the gem.
Admit it, you're tired of having a plain old white Wii. You wish that Nintendo would start releasing the console in all kinds of pretty colors so that you could at least have the darn console match the living room furniture.
Ok, well, maybe not, but perhaps you've got a kid who's entire bedroom is Mario themed and you'd like to give the Wii that extra touch.
Check out this instructables.com article on how to do just that. Ok, so that article is more about adding the charger and base to your Wii, but it gives you some great shots of the custom paint job and mods for this one-of-a-kind Wii.
RetroBlast faithful, Jamie , sent us this cool little project he put together. For his birthday, being the consumate retro-geek, he received a LED pinboard kit from EvilMadScientist.com and decided what better way to use it than with a retro gaming theme!
After some blood, sweat and tears he managed to throw together the resulting sign with a very powerful message to anyone who might wander by!
Then, on top of all that, Jamie went so far as to actually blog his progress for us to read and relive along with him. Hey Jamie, I've got a few projects that I'd like to have you throw in that magic pillow case of yours and whirl around a few times.
Larger photo here: Flickr Nice Gameroom BTW, I'm diggin' on that eclectic wall!
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