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THIS WEEK IN RETRO – Gaming News for March 15th 2016

Kinsey & Metal Jesus bring you the latest in retro and new gaming news for the week of March 15th 2016.

Articles include:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega Plus Console:
https://igg.me/at/vegaplus/x/9139891

Nintendo and Universal Theme Park:
http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/vsMQJPFdvKCUCn-0T3D4eEAhoWb7jEEp

No Man’s Sky Explorer & Limited Editions:
http://store.iam8bit.com/collections/no-mans-sky

Star Wars KOTOR Fan Remake:
http://www.apeirongame.com

MAME is now Open Source:
http://mamedev.org/?p=422

Coleco Chameleon Controversy:
http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/8/11180670/coleco-chameleon-terminated-retrovgs-closed-down

Nintendo GBA BUYING GUIDE & Recommended Games

Metal Jesus & Reggie tell you what model of Nintendo Game Boy Advance you should buy, what accessories to look out for and what GBA games you should pick up Day 1. The GBA is a great handheld and this buying guide will get you started right!

Games Shown:
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 & 3
Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
Golden Sun 1 & 2
Zelda Minish Cap
Gunstar Super Heroes
Double Dragon Advance
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
Advance Wars 1 & 2
Metal Slug Advance
Metroid Zero Mission & Fusion

What other games would you recommend new GBA collectors get Day 1?

Complete Original XBOX Collection – 884 Games – What the heck!?

An entire original XBOX collection was sold to Pink Gorilla Games in Seattle and Kelsey walks us through some of the more rare and expensive games as well as just some of the BEST games for the console! While filming this video, there was a very active karaoke bar in the same building, which is what you hear in the background. Normally I would just reshoot some of that, but I thought it was kind of funny…so we rolled with it!

BTW: The owner of the XBOX collection did not give us permission to disclose how much he was paid for the entire collection. Sorry!

PinkGorillaGames.com

Sega Genesis Hidden Gems – 11 Games!

John Hancock owns every single Sega Genesis game released in North America complete in box and today he’s shows us some of his favorite Hidden Gems for the console.

Games Shown:
Ex-Mutants
Jewel Master
Blades of Vengeance
Final Zone
Mazin Saga Mutant Fighter
Sub-Terrania
Mystical Fighter
Atomic Runner
Phantom 2040
Wardner
Crue Ball

More Sega videos for game collectors:

Reggie’s Top 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg2L45dWIbk

John’s Rare Genesis games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkpfkc3NpI

Favorite Genesis Shoot em Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZf6xVDxIK0

Motley Crue Allister Fiend

THIS WEEK IN RETRO – March 1st 2016

BONUS VIDEO: Kinsey & I are starting a new bi-weekly series covering what is new and cool in Retro! We’ll cover video games, but also perhaps music and anything else we think is bitchin’ and rad to the max. If you have stories you think we should cover, please let us know in the comments below!

MORE INFO:
Pokemon 20th: http://www.pokemon20.com/en-us/products.html

Warren Spector/System Shock 3: http://othersideentertainment.com

Final Fantasy 9: http://www.jp.square-enix.com/ff9/en/

Pokemon Photo Booth App

Pokemon Photo Booth App

PS3 Buying Guide & Favorite Games

Looking to buy a Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)? This is the Buying Guide for you! We cover the three different PS3 models, accessories and we list some of our favorite games to get you started! Oh yeah…and we even talk about the PS3 Move controller… 😉

BEHIND THE SCENES: For this video it was important to cover all three models of PS3 and thankfully Kelsey and PinkGorillaGames had two of them that they let us borrow. Those backwards compatible ones easily go for $140+ now. Plus we had a ton of fun just picking out the games we would recommend! Although…when Kelsey showed up with some HD Remasters… I don’t think she fully understood just how many of them I had! So we had some fun with that…

Also…Kelsey was stoked to have purchased a Playstation shirt just the week before and we made sure to get that in the thumbnail. Enjoy!

Classic FLIGHT SIMS Collection & Favorites [MS-DOS ROCKS!]

Dave Nunez shows us his epic 80s & 90s Flight Simulation game collection. These sims are on the vintage Commodore 64 through early IBM MS-DOS PCs to Windows 95, Windows XP and all the way up to modern Windows 10 machines running steam. If you want to learn about flight sims both old and new, this is the video for you!

Check out Dave’s awesome 3D printing consoles at RabbitEngineering.com

Buy old DOS & PC Flight Sims games at GOG.com * http://goo.gl/Ezudc7

Games we mentioned:
F-15 strike Eagle
Gunship
Tie fighter
Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe
Aces over Europe
Aces of the Pacific
Red Baron
F – 117a stealth fighter
F-19
LHX Attack Chopper
US Navy fighters
Fighters anthology
Falcon 3.0 gold
Falcon 4.0 – Benchmark Sims
Tornado
1942 the Pacific air war
Microsoft flight simulator 5.0
Microsoft flight simulator X

How To CAPTURE GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE – All Generations PC, Consoles & Handhelds!

I have captured over 40 years worth of game play footage beginning with the Atari 2600 to Nintendo SNES to Genesis to Playstation and XBOX. But also handhelds, Macs, Windows PCs and mobile devices like iOS and Android. Here are all the secrets that you can use on your YouTube channel or in your next video stream!

Console Modding info: http://retrorgb.com

I HATE U Game Challenge – Who’s the Biggest LOSER?!

The Biggest gaming loser gets the dreaded Trophy of Shame in this competition between Metal Jesus, Drunken Master Paul and his wife Liz. We play a motorcycle racing game with the crappy Playstation Glove as well as the infamous Barbie’s Horse Adventures on the original XBOX.

Warning: This video contains swearing, drinking and references to Donkey Shows. It may not be suitable for young children. Although, let’s be honest: if they have access to the internet and YouTube, they’ve probably seen much worse 😉

Behind the Scenes: As you might imagine, we don’t plan out anything on these I HATE U episodes. Paul & Liz showed up knowing almost nothing about what was planned, so we setup 3 cameras and a laptop to capture the footage and then just press Record. What you see on screen is pretty much what happened. No second takes… no script. As you can imagine, 3 cameras capturing HD video and audio for about an hour creates a HUGE file to edit. All told with all the temp files, my Final Cut project was over 300GB!!

What makes these videos fun to produce is the green screen interview B-Roll that we shoot AFTER we played the games. Basically we ask each other “What were you thinking when Metal Jesus brought out the Barbie game?” “Why did you think you were going to win the motorcycle game?” etc… Those moments are nice to mix into the video because they help the flow of the video but also help cut down what was essentially 1 hour of gameplay to around 15 minutes of highlights. Also Liz was incredibly silly that night and gave me a TON of wacky footage to mix into the video.

As for the Jar Jar Jar… make sure and watch the previous I HATE U episode with John Hancock where we play the Star Wars Jar Jar board game…and then light it on fire! (linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0NNHMMeA8)

Playstation Glove 1-min

Playstation Glove 2-min

Pokemon Side Games & Hidden Gems

Kelsey from Pink Gorilla Games stops by and shows us some of the side games from the Pokemon series. This includes hidden gems, imports from Japan, and even bootlegs and rom hacks you may have not known about!

GAMES SHOWN:
English Games:
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon Channel
Pokemon Colosseum

Imports:
Pokemon Typing
Pokemon Picross
Pokemon Hajimete
Pokemon Tretta Lab

Bootlegs:
Pokemon Snakewood
Pokemon Crazy Hit
“Pocket Monster”

Video Transcription:

Metal Jesus: Metal Jesus here, and I am back again with Kelsey.

Kelsey: Hello. Today, we are gonna be talking about Pokémon spin-off games. This includes games that came out here in America, games that never made it outside of Japan or Europe, and also some bootlegs.

Metal Jesus: And this is perfect for me because I don’t know anything about Pokémon. So let’s take a look. So I don’t know anything about this. Where should we begin?

Kelsey: I guess we should like start with some game that you guys might be familiar with because they did come out here in the States. Some of you guys have probably even played these. We’ll start with a really obvious one that I think a lot of you guys know.

Metal Jesus: I do have this one.

Kelsey: You do?

Metal Jesus: I do.
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