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Ben Heck’s Nintendo PlayStation Update at Portland Retro Gaming Expo

Join Ben as he leaves the workshop behind and goes on a journey to Portland’s Retro Gaming Expo! There’s little Ben loves more, and this time he’s on the hunt for a copy of Road Rash for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive! Though with some happy distractions, Ben gets another chance at the Nintendo Playstation console and discusses the Commodore 64, Nintendo 64 disk drive and the collecting of retro hardware and games with fellow Youtubers. Will Ben manage to repair the Nintendo Playstation and play Super Boss Gaiden? Does he manage to find a copy of Road Rash? You’ll have to watch and find out! What’s your favorite retro gaming console, or game? Let Ben and the team know on the element14 Community!

Retro Gaming Expo, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based non-profit cooperative organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for classic video and arcade games through the presentation of events and conventions that celebrate the historic contribution video games have made and continue to make in popular culture.

RARE! Nintendo Dolphin NPDP Reader / GameCube Development – H4G

After years of searching, Hard4Games has found the rare NPDP Reader! Used for Gamecube development (Project Dolphin) as a way to test games on actual hardware via NPDP cartridges/hard drives.

The GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ) is a home video game console released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001; in North America on November 18, 2001; in Europe on May 3, 2002; and in Australia on May 17, 2002. The sixth-generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s Xbox.

Tomb Raider Analysed & Compared on PS1/Saturn/DOS/Win95

John from DigitalFoundry returns to Lara Croft’s original adventure, comparing the Saturn and PS1 versions, along with the various PC editions – and what’s the best way to revisit this classic on today’s hardware?

The game was critically and commercially successful, selling around 7.5 million copies worldwide and earning a 91 aggregate score according to Metacritic and is considered widely influential, serving as a template for many 3D action-adventure games that would follow.

Top 10 Retro Gaming YouTube Critics

WatchMojo highlighted us: Hello and welcome to TopX, where we count down the very best of YouTube. Today we’re donning our vintage gaming T-shirts and plugging in our SNESes to bring you the top 10 Retro Gaming YouTube Critics.

These fine channels and hosts have been selected based on a number of different factors, including subscriber counts, monthly views and personal preference. We do have to limit the list to channels that mainly deal with retro gaming and that are English-speaking; thus, we must unfortunately exclude the likes of The Game Theorists and Joueur du grenier.

Resident Evil 4 | Graphics Comparison | ( GC ,PS2, PC 07, Wii, PS3, 360, PC HD, PS4, Xbox One )

RookerVision takes a detailed look at the history of Resident Evil 4 releases and then compares the graphics of each one. Which version is the best and the worst? Take a look!

Resident Evil 4, known in Japan as Biohazard 4, is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom and is considered the best in the series!

Art of Atari book. Let’s Look Inside! [OVERVIEW]

John Riggs gives us an overview of the Art of Atari book by Tim Lapetino. Sourced from museums and private collections worldwide, this book spans over 40 years of the company’s unique illustrations used in packaging, advertisements, catalogs, and more!

ART OF ATARI includes behind-the-scenes details on how dozens of games featured within were conceived of, illustrated, approved (or rejected), and brought to life. Whether you’re a fan, collector, enthusiast, or new to the world of video games, this book offers the most complete collection of ATARI artwork ever produced!