More (Australian) retro gaming blogs
Last week I posted about some retro gaming blogs I’ve been reading of late, but two other have caught my attention:
- Retrospekt – Coming out of Adelaide, Retrospekt features reviews, tidbits, guides and other thoughtpieces on retro gaming in Australia. Of special note is its coverage of DJ TR!P’s Ultracade series, and entertaining ventures to local specialty stores. The recent C64 special (part 1) also gave me the warm fuzzies.
- Retro Game On – Written by Brendan, who happens to be from Perth and enjoys wearing pants. He’s also recently taken steps to attack a mangled Game Gear with a soldering iron (good luck! My soldering iron and I regularly catch up to discuss current events and make smelly burning solder smells) and bought Dreamcast games in France for a good price from a reluctant business owner.
- Retro Gaming Australia – As the name suggests, this blog is about retro gaming. In Australia. I found this one while procrastinating, and I’m very impressed. The daily video game ads are a great trip down memory lane, especially when they’re coupled with topical humour relevant to Australian Dreamcast fans from 1999. But for those who fondly remember when the illustrious video game magazine of the 90s ruled supreme, you’re in for a treat as they’ve compiled a massive list of game reviews spanning a rather large gamut of Australian publication; being irrational, I checked to see if the score for Rocket Knight Adventure from Sega Megazone was there, and voila:
Gold!
That reminds me of the time when I made a poster of Rocket Knight Adventures back in 1993. It was hand-drawn and everything, and included a quote from the Sega Megazone review that mentioned it being far more enjoyable than a night with Cindy Crawford and a barrel of jellied eels. I’m sure my parents were delighted that their 11-year-old son would put such a memorable comment on a poster about a video game in 1993.
Now I feel sad because it reminds me that I sold off all my video game magazines for practically nothing on eBay when I started Uni in 2000 in an effort to have something of a right-of-passage and farewell High School Sean, as well as scrape some extra cash for Uni life (a serving of chips and gravy from the Unibar made for a cheap but tasty lunch). Now as a man-child in their late-20s (with an understand wife), I regret selling everything off. But I rest at ease in the hope that someone else is dancing a merry jig with their bargain purchase.
