Showing posts with label Retrogaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retrogaming. Show all posts

Early Computer Graphics

Some very nice footage I found online, showing vintage animated computer graphics. More on VintageCG's YouTube channel.







sense and simplicity

made in Blender 2.49B, Yafaray 0.1.1 and Gimp

I made this 3D product visualisation of a Philips Videopac G7200 (1983). I liked the idea of presenting an outdated, once 'futuristic' system in a contemporary way, using present-day software.

Extra information about Philips Videopac G7200 here. And a nice Videopac fanpage over here.


Digitalised collection of handheld electronic games


Beautiful designed and well-playable Flash site by graphic designers Aleksandra and Daniel MizieliƄscy. Here you can play 80's LCD games, on-screen, no download needed.

www.pica-pic.com

Look at my earlier post about LCD games too...
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Angry Video Game Nerd - Episode 92

Previous post reminded me of this episode by online cult figure ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD. This one's about game glitches (errors); a classic in my opinion.

Also check this post.
Angry Video Game Nerd's homepage

Stop Motion

New stop-motion video by Rymdreglage: Rymdreglage - Raise your little hand. Kind of a sequel to 8-bit trip.

A lot of the retro/8bit/Lego/pixelation/nostalgia is played out. But it won't get any better than this!

Note the bugged text and low res graphics in some parts.

(c) www.rymdreglage.se

Game & Watch

Game & Watch clone, 'Mini Arcade - Alien'

History was made with these entertaining and addictive, beautifully designed artefacts...Electronic handheld games.



"Game & Watch is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1985. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each Game & Watch features a single game to be played on an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen in addition to a clock and an alarm (thus, 'Game & Watch').
Gunpei Yokoi, traveling on a bullet train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of an idea for a watch that doubled as a miniature game machine for killing time." -Wikipedia


My nostalgia collecting mania was triggered by this book:

Electronic Plastic, 2000. www.handhelden.com

Here you can find some cool G&W emulators (!): www.zophar.net/gw.html,
and this is the most complete handheld database: www.handheldmuseum.com (it's worth its name).
And finally, the blog of a fanatical collector: www.balduin.wordpress.com/category/game-collection.

Pac Mondrian


Found online: PAC MONDRIAN


"Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man. The two new Ms. Pac-Mondrian levels return the painting to the dance clubs that inspired it with music by contemporary techno musicians mapping the birth of electronic music in their home towns."

http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/


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