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Famicom Dojo looks at the SegaScope 3-D glasses. Two years ago, this thing was basically a footnote in game history, some funny glasses that worked with a blurry Space Harrier, but now with the advent of the 3DS and the recent push by Sony toward 3D stuffs, this Master System attachment seems more important!
The glasses still look super, super goofy. Like all 3D glasses, I guess. Oh crap, I sound like Nintendo’s marketing department.
tags / famicom dojo / sega master system / segascope 3d / jc / gaming / retroAction 52 commercial featuring the Cheetahmen. YouTube user zentanith doesn’t think this ever aired. I can’t believe it was ever produced!
I always thought of Action 52 as something that could only have happened through some industrial accident, but this commercial proves that no, Active Enterprises was really trying to sell this thing, and put enough money into marketing to produce some original (and shitty) animation. How the hell does that kid react to the threatening stance of the club-wielding cat monster with a high five? And why do they all have different accents if they all grew up together?
Active intended Cheetahmen to become a real franchise, with toys and even a cartoon. Think about that when you listen to those guys talk.
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See also: More Cheetahmen posts
[Via @zerochan]
tags / cheetahmen / commercials / jc / gaming / retroSnowspeeder SNES and TIE Fighter N64 by CorellianCustoms. If you’re in the market for a Nintendo game system that is also a tiny sci-fi vehicle, both of these impressive items are for sale on CorellianCustoms’ Etsy shop.
Maybe the next project will be an original Xbox inside a Death Star model. If it would fit. That’s right, I went there. The Xbox is big. Edgy circa-2001 humor!
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See also: More 3DS news and media, more Etsy stuff
tags / etsy / gaming / jc / n64 / retro / snes / star warsNintendo’s Mamaberica, produced in 1965. It’s clearly the best baby car. Sorry you had to learn about the inferiority of your baby car this way.
“Many parents complained that the stroller would pinch them when folding it,” according to Nintendo Wikia.
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[Via OpenCage, Famicom no Neta, Nintendo Wikia]
tags / gaming / jc / mamaberica / retro / stroller / importsCasio Loopy commercials. Retro gaming site Racketboy posted the most wonderful thing: an essay about a system I’ve never heard of! The Casio Loopy is a cartridge-based 32-bit console that debuted in Japan in 1995, containing a sticker printer within the console!
The system and its games were primarily marketed at girls. Its games include several different picture editing apps, as well as a makeover/dress-up game called Dream Change: Kogane-chan no Fashion Party (shown above).
Anime Land (love that Casio intro!):
Wan-Wan Aijo Monogatari (which translates into something like Woof Woof Love Story, I guess):
I wonder if I’d be able to find one of these. I also wonder if I’d be able to find the sticker paper…
See also: More retro posts
tags / casio loopy / imports / retro / anime land / jc
Time to load up on retro imports! Our friends at Rising Stuff sent word over that everything is 30% off this week, after holding 20% off and 10% off sales in the last two weeks. The prices are totally reasonable to start with — pretty comparable to Akihabara, from what I can remember — and now they’re, well, 30% better.
Perhaps you want an old Disk System disk label, or a PC Engine (wait, actually I want a PC Engine), or a Famicom Ice Climber alarm clock. I’m going to stop looking for items to link now, because I’m finding too many things I want to buy.
[Update: Ujn Hunter pointed out that Japan Post is restricting shipments greater than 1 lb. out of Japan right now — for individuals. If Rising Stuff is registered as a business, it’s okay. I honestly don’t know. Point is, to be safe, just plan for delays.]
See also: More imports
tags / rising stuff / jc / deals / imports / retroTen years of Hudson’s Summer Caravan in about ten minutes. Magweasel posted a rather lovely article about the annual shmup contest, including this list of games used early in the competition:
The first installment of Hudson’s all-Japan competition/tour was held in 1985; Star Force was the official game of the event. That was followed by Star Soldier and Starship Hector in the next two years, but Hudson switched formats to the PC Engine from 1988 onward. The game they chose for the ’88 Caravan: Power League — apparently not a tremendously popular decision, so they went right back to shooters starting in ’89.
In 2006, Hudson revived the Caravan for a Bomberman game, and in 2007 the Caravan was focused mainly on the WiiWare game Star Soldier R.
tags / hudson / summer caravan / caravan / jc / retro
The Imagineer Arcade Stick. This thing seems pretty freaking special: it can connect to the SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, PC Engine, Neo Geo, and Neo Geo CD. I’m sure it’s not the greatest controller in the world, but if it works on all those systems, that’s really neat! I don’t remember hearing about “universal” controllers until the PS2 generation otherwise.
This was NCSX’s sale item on June 14, but I was a bit indisposed then. Forgive the late post — I just really wanted to share this unusual item.
tags / imagineer / accessories / retro / jc / joystickTurbografx-16 CES booth display. I have no idea how this made it to eBay, but it’s probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on the auction site. This thing introduced hundreds(?) of CES-goers to the early lineup of TG16 games and accessories. What the heck is a TurboBooster? Why would anyone buy China Warrior? Find out here! Well, maybe not why anyone would buy China Warrior.
I’d love to have a life in which I could be called on to use this as a reference for questions about the early Turbografx-16 lineup. “Well, why don’t we consult the pages of NEC’s 1991 CES display?”
See also: NitroGrafx: TG-16/PCE emulation on DS
[Via GameSniped]
tags / nec / ces / ebay / retro / turbografx-16 / jc“King of Famicom,” the Famicom crossover fighting game I desperately wish could be real. I’m a total sucker for these Famicom crossover videos (like Sikamako’s “Michael Fantasy” series).
Poor Spelunker! Even his most powerful, effective attack is based on his crippling weakness. My favorite attack is also from Team Irem: Thomas’s random tonfa fusillade, consisting of “Tonfa Punch!,” “Tonfa Kick!,” “Tonfa Beam!” … “Tonfa Balance!,” “Tonfa Rolling!,” “Tonfa Pushup!,” “Tonfa Do Nothing!” and “Tonfa Escape!” That tonfa is useful!
[Via @jaredr]
tags / famicom / spelunker / retro / king of famicom / jc / kung fu / irem / spelunker
Famicom Disk System Disk Hand Case. This case lets you carry around a few Disk System games, secure in the knowledge that they’re strapped to your wrist for some reason. The eBay store “Japanese Item Shop” has ten of these available, for … $26.59 each.
To me, the most interesting thing about these cases is that they were produced by Nintendo and Mori Games, the company behind the Gundam weapon styli and recent Professor Layton accessories. I didn’t realize the company had been around that long!
See also: More Famicom stuff
tags / famicom / famicom disk system / imports / retro / ebay / jc / mori games
If our constant linking of retro nonsense has you wanting to pick up some vintage Japanese games of your own, now would be a rad time to do it. Rising Stuff, a retailer through which we might sort of? be unofficially affiliated with in some way through 4cr (I don’t really know), just announced its Christmas sale!
The sale includes a few unfuckingbelievable bundles, like a Twin Famicom and a pile of great games for $130 or a Wonderswan bundle for $16.10. But the really rad part is that everything else in the store is 30% off! Including the pile of Famicom games I spent too long picking out last night.
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