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Retro Gathering L00t part I

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It takes time going through, cleaning, testing and taking pictures of 105 games, a few consoles and other things.. that’s how much I came home with after this years Retro Gathering XD Anyway, let’s get to it! I mainly focused on cartridge based games this year, I found a whole bin full of cheap Atari 2600 games to start with ^_^ In the bottom were even some boxed ones :D I tried all these ones out tonight and some that stood out was Planeten Patrouilie and Sub Scan, these were fun and intuitive :) Fatal Run was also interesting, it had the most advanced tunes I’ve heard in an Atari 2600 game so far! Unfortunately it only played the music when you got Game Over XD Superman was probably one of the worst Atari 2600 games I’ve played.. I didn’t even understand what the hell I was supposed to do…

Atari 2600
Human Cannonball, Wüstenschlacht and Sorcerer – Atari 2600
Racquetball and Arilock – Atari 2600
Fatal Run – Atari 2600
Gangster Ruine – Atari 2600
Planeten Patrouilie – Atari 2600
Midnight Magic – Atari 2600
Sub Scan – Atari 2600
Superman – Atari 2600

I found these two little handhelds that were super cute! I love how “Hero and Princess” is such a total rip-off from Donkey Kong Game & Watch, it’s even dual screen! XD And the gorilla looks totally derpy XD

Grandstand handheld
Hero and Princess handheld
Hero and Princess handheld

I finally got myself the Zapper for Famicom! It’s so funny how this one actually looks just like a regular gun, while we had to have the “kids-version” XD

Famicom Zapper Revolver
Famicom Zapper Revolver
Famicom Zapper Revolver
Famicom Zapper Revolver

I managed to extend my Tetris collection a bit, but not with a game.. a music LP and an old ad! My friend Marcus sold it to me and he also had a few other cool EP’s with video game reference :) I also bought a cute Dreamcast game from him called PenPen ^_^

Doctor Spin Tetris LP
Tetris ad
Space Invaders EP
Ms. Pac-Man EP
PenPen – Dreamcast

After getting to know a lot of other retro gamers online I tend to usually have some deals waiting for me once I meet up with these friends at a convention :) Anders was kind enough to sell me a Video Computer VC4000 game which I didn’t previously have. I just got into this system thanks to an old high school teacher that found this system in his attic XD I also met the guy behind arkadbutiken.se on instagram who had a PCB with Hatris for me :D Can’t wait to try this one out, the arcade version must be so much better than the Famicom one ^_^

32 Invaders – Video Computer VC4000
Hatris PCB

One of the things I bought from Zeela was this really cute little Pong clone called Las Vegas Super Color Teve-Spiel :D I tried it out tonight and it was fun, I didn’t see the colors though because apparently the TV was black and white XD I’ll try it with another TV next time… what I really liked about this Pong version is that the joysticks also go horizontally, so it actually resembles Tennis even more :) You can run back and forth and not only up and down XD It has SO MANY BUTTONS on it though! I had to read the instructions just to figure out what they were all for..

Boxed Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel by Philips
Complete Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel by Philips
Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel by Philips
Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel by Philips
Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel by Philips
Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel Joystick
Las Vegas Super Color Tele-Spiel by Philips

I also bought a bunch of games from Zeela, he has such good prices on old cassettes that it’s hard to resist XD So many pretty covers! I also got some extra memory for my VIC-20, which is probably the reason why I haven’t gotten more than half of the games to work on it so far XD He was also kind enough to dig out a few Jeff Minter games! Hell Gate and Gridrunner ^_^ I also picked up some Amiga games.

Rockman, Cosmic Fire Birds and Critters – VIC-20
Alien Blitz, Outworld and The Alien – VIC-20
Hell Gate and Gridrunner by Jeff Minter – C64
Vic Rescue, Anirog Krazy Kong and Galaxions – VIC-20
Vic Scramble, Chopper and Skips Action Biker Clumpsy Colin – VIC-20 and C64
Vixen 16k RAM for VIC-20
Overkill – Amiga 1200
The Killing Game Show – Amiga 500

I also found a bunch of Videopac G7000 games that I was lacking ^_^ Some I bought from my new found retro gaming friend Jack :) Thanks for bringing them for me!

8 Baseball – Videopac
9 Computer Programmer – Videopac
30 Battlefield – Videopac
10 Golf – Videopac
19 Catch the ball – Videopac
14 Gunfighter – Videopac

Some other things I found were a Case Boy that Söders Spel & Skivhandel thought would look great in my Castlevania collection because of the Castlevania screenshot on the box :D I also bought a reproduction of Trip World, mainly so I can play the game.. I’m probably never gonna spend that much money on the original.. I also got some cheap Famicom pirates, I thought they were quite funny since they read “4 in 1”, then “39 in 1” and finally “1000000000 in 1”!!! I’m skeptical to whether it actually contains that many XD Apart from this I picked up a bunch of other games, like Hao-Kun no Fushigi na Tabi for Famicom Disk System, Slider and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on Game Gear, Puzzle Figher II on Game Boy Advance, Cobra Command on NES, Puyo Puyo on N-Gage, a hombrew game called Photon for MSX a few other games and I also got two ZX Spectrum games for free ^_^

Game Boy Case Boy
Game Boy Case Boy
Trip World – Game Boy
Photon – MSX
Famicom Pirates
Slider & Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – Game Gear
Hao-Kun no Fushigi na Tabi – Famicom Disk System
Horace goes skiing and Space Resque – ZX Spectrum
Puyo Puyo – Nokia N-Gage
Cobra Command – NES
Puzzle Fighter II – Game Boy Advance
Paper Boy 2 – SNES
Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football – Sega Mega Drive
General Knowledge for Dummies – DS

There’s not a lot of Japanese games at this Swedish convention, but I did manage to find a few. I found some cheap PC Engine games I didn’t already have, and also Super Darius which cost a bit more. I also bought some Japanese Sega Mega Drive games from my friend Karl ^_^ And I found some really nice Super Famicom games! :D Yoshi’s Cookie, Yoshi’s Island and Super Bomberman 3 which completed my Super Bomberman set ^_^

Yoshi’s Island – Super Famicom
Momotarou Densetsu – PC Engine
Quackshot – Sega Mega Drive
Yoshi’s Cookie – Super Famicom
World of Illusion – Sega Mega Drive
Super Darius – PC Engine CD-ROM
Super Bomberman 3 – Super Famicom
Street Smart – Sega Mega Drive
Maniac Pro Wrestling – PC Engine
Pro Tennis World Court – PC Engine

Now this wasn’t the entire loot.. I’m saving some of the best parts ;D I’ll be back soon with part II of the l00t!

Retro Rumble – Bachelor party edition XD

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Two weeks ago I threw a Retro Rumble game night for a friend of a friends bachelor party XD

11 guys competed in various retro games, starting off with Soldier Blade for PC Engine. What’s really funny is that each and every new contestant beat the previous highscore XD Talk about competition!

Soldier Blade – PC Engine
Soldier Blade – PC Engine
Soldier Blade – PC Engine

After that we went old school and they got to compete in some Race on Philips Videopac G7200 ^_^ This was much harder for the guys, but a few of them managed to get some decent scores :)

Race on Philips Videopac G7200
Old school consoles
Old school gaming

They also got to compete in Kato-chan & Ken-chan on PC Engine, original Tetris on NES and Super Monaco GP on Sega Mega Drive :)

Kato-chan & Ken-chan – PC Engine
Competing in Super Monaco GP on Sega Mega Drive
Playing Tetris on NES

Meanwhile the entire retro game room was open for business, I had games on on every single TV. The guys really enjoyed Chou Aniki on Sega Saturn, such an absurd game! I just want everyone to experience it XD They also played some Neo Geo AES, some Atari 2600, Virtual Boy, Mr. Gimmick on Famicom and lots of other games and systems when they were not competing ^_^

Retro Rumble – Bachelor party edition
Chou Aniki on Sega Saturn
Playing Neo Geo AES
Playing Sega Saturn
Retro Rumble Bachelor party edition
Playing Atari 2600
NAM 1975 on Neo Geo AES
Playing Virtual Boy

After this it was time for the semi-finals where 4 competitors got to battle it out in a few different Super Famicom games. These games were VS Collection, Harapeko Bakka and Sugoi Hebereke ^_^

Retro Rumble - Semi-finals VS Collection

Vibben, who they threw the bachelor party for, luckily made it onto the finals as well :) Here they got to play Combat on Atari 2600, Choco Vader Contactee on arcade (really absurd japanese mini-games) and finally competing in highest score on co-op Tetris on NES, the Tengen version ^_^

Finals – NES co-op Tetris
Finals – Choco Vader Contactee on arcade
Finals – Combat on Atari 2600
Blast City Arcade
NES Co-op Tetris
Finals – Atari 2600 Combat
Finals – Tengen Tetris NES

And the winner was… Vibben! :D

Retro Rumble - Winner!

I love throwing game nights so this was a blast ^_^

Traded me some Atari ST games :D

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A guy named Fredrik approached me on instagram and asked if I was interested in two complete Atari ST games. I don’t really have a lot of games for the system yet (only 5 or 6) so I thought why not ^_^ We made a good deal where he got a double I had on Sega Master System, a game called Rastan, and some cash in between and he sent me this amazing package that made me really happy :D

Atari ST trade

Not only did I get an extra game, but I also got a beautiful joystick and the FirST BASIC program for the Atari ST :D I’m not really that into sports games, but this is a great way to get my fiancée to play some Atari ST with me ;D Hockey is basically the only game I can get him to play… XD

All the games were complete and in really pretty condition :) It’s gonna be interesting to try them out :D

Space Quest III Atari ST
Space Quest III The Pirates of Pestulon Atari ST
Wayne Gretzky Hockey Atari ST
Ooze Atari ST
Ooze on Atari ST

Fredrik suggested in his letter that if I didn’t like these games I could always learn to program my own games XD I really wish I knew how to do that! Maybe I should give Basic a go ^__^

Atari ST Joystick and First Basic

Thanks a bunch for the trade Fredrik! :D I hope you’re happy too ^_^

You Should Seriously Play: Welltris (Atari ST)

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I’ve been collecting Tetris games for a while now, and I recently stumbled upon this game called Welltris on Atari ST. Since I was quite new to the Atari ST and only had around 4 or 5 games for it I thought why not! So I picked it up from eBay :) I wasn’t quite sure whether or not to include it in my Tetris Collection since it’s not called “Tetris”, and it’s not the typical 2D-type falling blocks that Tetris is all about. Because I don’t want to have to include games like Block Out that is completely 3D and not called Tetris or Panel de Pon which have different shapes and functions than Tetris, you just switch places of blocks of the same color to try and match them and it builds up from below. If I would add these then I could basically add ANY puzzle game out there, like Tsuyoshi Shikari Shinasai which is one of my favorites, that works kind of like Puyo Puyo, but these games are NOT Tetris. They are puzzle games, and they are perhaps INSPIRED by Tetris, but it’s not Tetris.

Welltris however got to have a place in the Tetris Collection for two reasons.
1.  It’s not like Block Out, you just build on one layer, the only difference from regular Tetris is that you can build from 4 different directions of the board instead of just from above.
2. It is actually kind of like a sequel to Tetris, made by the same creator! Alexey Pajitnov! :D Therefore it does deserve a place in the Tetris Collection ^_^

Atari ST – Welltris
Atari ST – Welltris back

I was pleasantly surprised when I finally got the game playing, it was the first game I’ve tried out on my Atari 1040ST :) I first had issues using the original Atari screen, because it was monochrome and apparently not able to display the games I attempted to load, once I switched to a regular CRT it worked perfectly though ^_^ I was sure Welltris would be like Block Out though so I was happy to see that it wasn’t. Here when a block falls down you can rotate around the four walls, kind of like in Tempest. Wherever it touches the ground floor it will then start falling continuously in that direction until it hits another block or the opposite wall. So you can build from all four directions and try to fit the blocks into place.

Atari 1040ST with original Atari SM124 screen
Atari ST monitor in black and white
Atari ST desktop in color

If you place a shape that doesn’t quite make it onto the board, where a piece of it is still hanging onto the wall it came from, then that wall turns red and you won’t be able to move shapes over that wall anymore. You die when all 4 walls are red. Basically it’s like hitting the top of the tower in regular Tetris, but here you have 4 chances. The main board is much smaller though so it’s easy to accidentally misplace a shape. Also when a wall is blocked it increases the difficulty since you can’t place anything from that direction anymore. The red walls do go away after a while though, I don’t know if it’s after a certain amount of blocks have been placed or if you have to delete a few rows first.

Welltris on Atari ST
Welltris – Red Walls

There’s also an increase in speed the higher the level you reach. There’s a total of 5 difficulty stages, each stage has a different environment picture to the right and an increase in speed. The last one on stage five is quite funny! It’s a programmer with a beard, with a computer screen containing the same image in the same image in the same image and so forth XD
I wonder if it’s meant to be Alexey??

You can also choose three various difficulty levels. The first one has regular Tetris blocks, and a few that only consists of two squares that are easy to place. The third one has really difficult pieces like stairs and plus-shapes. See examples of the pieces in the Stage 1 picture..

There’s also two various movement modes. One makes the movement of the block go all around 360° with just holding the left or right buttons on the keyboard, the other mode forces you to switch between up and down buttons on the left and right wall and left and right buttons on the upper and lower walls.. this is difficult, I prefer having it go all the way around with the push of just one button..

Welltris – Menu
Stage 1 on level 3
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5

Anyway, here’s a video to give you an idea of what the gameplay looks like ^_^ I’m not sure if this game has been ported on other systems or if any similar games have been made. Please do let me know if you know of something that is like this one (and not BlockOut! ;)).

You should seriously play Welltris if you’re into puzzle games :D

Welltris – Highscores
Welltris – Password protect

Retro Gathering VCE – The Loot!

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It has taken some time to sort, clean and photograph all of the 138 games I bought at Retro Gathering Vintage Computer Edition last weekend, but finally, here they are! :D I will go through them system by system ^_^

Retro Gathering VCE 2016 loot

Atari ST

The first thing I bought at the convention was an Atari 1040 ST, I already had one game for it back home, and it was in nice condition, and cheap, so I couldn’t refuse ^_^ I also picked up a few games for it. I have never played on an Atari ST before, so I’m looking forward to trying it out! :D If anyone has any suggestions of exclusive games for the system that are a must have, then please let me know :) So far I only have 5 games for it, the ones I found this weekend were Deathbringer, Gauntlet III, Future Dreams and Captive.

Atari 1040 ST with Tac 2 joystick
Atari 1040 ST
Atari 1040 ST with TAC 2
Atari ST Captive
Atari ST Deathbringer
Atari ST Future Dreams
Atari ST Gauntlet III

Atari Lynx

To continue on the Atari trail, I also found a few additions to my Atari Lynx collection from Spel & Sånt :D Not particularly exciting titles, but they were in pretty nice condition :) I do however enjoy the game of Shanghai, and it’s gonna be interesting to see what the Slime World port on Lynx looks like! :D

Atari Lynx Slime World
Atari Lynx Shanghai
Atari Lynx Scrapyard Dog

Atari 2600

I’m always on the lookout for Atari 2600 games as well, but this year there were hardly any :/ I found one guy who had like 5 cartridges, crappy games in shitty condition, but he still wanted a lot for them! I bargained a bit and bought one, just to come home with at least one 2600 game >_> I got Super-Ferrari…

Atari 2600 Super-Ferrari

Commodore 64 – 5 1/4 Floppy disk games

Moving on to Commodore, I’ve had a 5 1/4 floppy disk game for the C64 for a while, and nothing to play it on :( But this weekend I found a new in box Ocean floppy disk drive for the C64! :D It was a bit pricey.. but I really needed one since I also bought even more floppy disk games this weekend ^__^ I got the classic text-based adventures of Zork 1-3, and at the very end of the day I got a good deal on a pretty cool adventure game called Infidel. The cool thing about it is the packaging and contents! Inside are handwritten letters and maps and stuff, it’s really well made ^_^ I have a friend that I think will really enjoy trying this game out ;D Apart from that I had bought a whole moving box full of old Amiga and Commodore games from my friend Likilato beforehand and I picked it up on this weekend since he was going to Retro Gathering too :) In this package were quite a lot of C64 floppy disk games as well ^_^ Some games that I’m quite happy with are T2 Terminator Judgement Day, Robocop, Space Harrier II and Weird Dreams, they all look pretty cool ^_^ Then there were also a few less fun games, I’m not quite sure what Operation Market Garden is, but it doesn’t sound fun, and the last three: Europe Ablaze, Russia The Great War in the East and Halls of Montezuma I’m pretty sure are some kind of edutainment games for learning history >_<

C64 5 1/4 Floppy Disk Drive
Zork I, Zork II, Zork III – C64 Floppy
Infidel – C64 Floppy
Infidel game inside – C64 Floppy
Terminator 2 Judgement Day – C64 Floppy
Robocop – C64 Floppy
Weird Dreams – C64 Floppy
Space Harrier – C64 Floppy
Operation Market Garden – C64 Floppy
Europe Ablaze – C64 Floppy
Russia The Great War in the East & Halls of Montezuma – C64 Floppy

Commodore 64 – Cassette games

I found a few cassette games for the C64 as well. I got Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker from Japon, and Slap Fight for the ZX Spectrum. Pontus from Japon also tried to sell Last Ninja 2 to me, fortunately I didn’t buy it!! Because inside the big cardboard box of things I had bought from Likilato earlier contained not one but TWO copies of that exact game XD I had bought the package weeks before and didn’t remember everything that was in it.. but I’m just happy I’m not possessing three copies right now at least ;D The other C64 cassette games from Likilato were Last Ninja 3, Superman the Game, Ghostbusters II, Mr. Heli, Platoon, Speedball, Silent Service, Starglider and The Hunt for Red October.

Michael Jackson Moonwalker, Slap Fight – C64 & ZX Spectrum
Last Ninja 2 – C64
Last Ninja 3 – C64
Superman The Game – C64
Ghostbusters II – C64
Mr. Heli – C64
Platoon – C64
Speedball – C64
Silent Service, Starglider – C64
The Hunt for Red October – C64

Commodore VIC 20

Going back in time a bit we have the Commodore VIC 20, I got one of these last year and I’m still trying to expand my library of games for the system. I found a few VIC 20 cassettes on Retro Gathering this time on Mikael Holm’s table (he always has the coolest stuff!) ^_^ I know there’s two copies of Panic for VIC 20, but I couldn’t choose which one to go for, since they are DIFFERENT! It’s weird, since they are released by the same company, but one has a black spine, and the cassettes inside are different colors as well! O_o These were all dirt cheap though so I just picked them all up :) Except the two games called Vicolumn and Blue Star, these two were new releases for the system and cost a bit more, but it’s always interesting to see what people develop now for these old systems! Doodle Bug, Space Scramble, Cosmiads and Alpha Blaster all sound cool!

Select 1, Panic x 2 – VIC 20
Vicolumn, Blue Star & Doodle Bug – VIC 20
Space Scramble, Cosmiads & Alpha Blaster – VIC 20

Sinclair ZX Spectrum, ZX81

Before moving on to consoles we have pickups from yet another old computer ^_^ I bought a few games for the ZX Spectrum, Pssst, Jet Pac and Cookie had such cool matching covers! Had to get them :) Then I also got Jet Pac with a different cover and 3D Starstrike, Split personalities, Pedro, Ghosts n’ Goblins and a program that came with the system called Horizons. I also found a Sinzlair ZX Interface 2 so I can play cartridge games on my 48k :D Now I just need to find some cartridge games >_> I also bought a ZX81 :D I’ve only known about this one for a little while, when I was looking for 3D Monster Maze and found out that it only came out on the ZX81. Now I have one! So now I just need to find 3D Monster Maze again >_< I missed out on the one eBay auction I’ve ever seen… >_<

Pssst, Jet Pac, Cookie – ZX Spectrum
3D Starstrike, Jetpac, Split Personalities – ZX Spectrum
Pedro, Ghosts n Goblins, Horizons – ZX Spectrum
ZX81 computer
Sinclair ZX Interface 2

Nintendo NES (+ Game & Watch and FDS)

I bought some NTSC NES games from Gaminggrannar and from some other sellers. I also got a Game & Watch Lifeboat from Söders Spel & Skivhandel and a random Famicom Disk System game with cats from Sven666 and another FDS game from my friend MXS :)

Rad Racer II – NES
Galaxy 5000 Racing in the 51st Century – NES
Destination Earthstar – NES
Deadly Towers – NES
Rollergames – NES
The Immortal – NES
Nintendo Game & Watch LifeBoat
The Adventures of Chatran & Samurai Sword – Famicom Disk System

Sega Mega Drive

From my friend Karl I got a good deal and bought the sought after Japanese Sega Mega Drive shmup V-V (V five), I also got to buy most of his other Japanese Mega Drive titles since he wanted to get rid of them, it was mostly RPGs or strategy games, but I got such a good price that I couldn’t pass them up ^_^ I also found some PAL Mega Drive titles from other sellers, mainly sports games XD which I don’t particularly enjoy, but they were cheap! And some day me and Becki will have to have another Golf tournament ;D

V-V – Sega Mega Drive
Gauntlet – Sega Mega Drive
Ragnacenty – Sega Mega Drive
Langrisser II – Sega Mega Drive
Herzog Zwei – Sega Mega Drive
Master of Monsters – Sega Mega Drive
Populous – Sega Mega Drive
Sorcerer Kingdom – Sega Mega Drive
Bahamut Senki – Sega Mega Drive
VR Troopers – Sega Mega Drive
Super Skidmarks – Sega Mega Drive
Royal Rumble – Sega Mega Drive
Super Real Basketball – Sega Mega Drive
World Class Leader Board – Sega Mega Drive
Red Zone – Sega Mega Drive
Ultimate Soccer – Sega Mega Drive

Sega Master System

I also got a lot of Sega Master System games from various sellers. Mainly sports here as well, but I didn’t have them, and they were cheap ^_^

R.C. Grand Prix – Sega Master System
Ace of Aces – Sega Master System
Air Rescue – Sega Master System
Pit-Fighter – Sega Master System
World Class Leader Board – Sega Master System
Black Belt – Sega Master System
Enduro Racer – Sega Master System
Great Volleyball – Sega Master System
World Soccer – Sega Master System
Casino Games – Sega Master System

Sega Saturn & Playstation 2

Japon also managed to convince to bring home these two huge boxed Sega Saturn Arcade Racer controllers XD One PAL and one Japanese.. they told me that the controller was region free, so I sure hope they will both work with one console ;D In that case I might have another game to use in the next Retro Rumble competition for the finals ;D I also got two PS2 games with Megaman at a fair price from Anders :) They’re sealed.. but I might open them so I can play them!! ^_^

Sega Saturn arcade racer
PS2 Megaman X Command Mission & Megaman X8

Amiga 500 / 1200

Now onto the biggest category of the day… Amiga! The big lot of games I had bought from Likilato contained A LOT of Amiga games :) I was happy to find Banshee in there, since MXS had recently told me it was a good game, it’s for the 1200 though so I have to find a place to plug that system in as well.. They’re so big and space-consuming! Loom has a beautiful cover, and I’ve seen it before, not quite sure what kind of game it is though, but I will find out :) There were a lot of other games that looked cool like Harlequin, Codename Hellfire, Wonderland, Super Stardust, Galdregons Domain etc. It’s gonna be fun to try them all out :D I wonder what kind of game Leather Goddesses of Phobos will turn out to be XD

Banshee – Amiga
Harlequin – Amiga
Lemmings 2 The Tribes – Amiga
Accolade Test Drive II – Amiga
Codename Hellfire – Amiga
Loom – Amiga
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Curse of the Azure Bonds – Amiga
Alien Breed II The Horror Continues – Amiga
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Wishbringer – Amiga
Zool – Amiga
Galdregons Domain – Amiga
Zool 2 – Amiga
Battle Command – Amiga
Black Crypt – Amiga
Chuck Rock Son of Chuck – Amiga
Crystal Dragon – Amiga
Dungeon Master II – Amiga
Flight of the Amazon Queen – Amiga
Super Stardust – Amiga
Wonderland Dream the Dream – Amiga
Guy Spy and the Crystals of Armageddon – Amiga
King’s Quest III To Heir is Human – Amiga
The Keys to Maramon – Amiga
Ishtar 1 – Amiga
Ishtar 2 – Amiga
Ishtar 3 – Amiga
Syndicate – Amiga
Rocket Ranger, Speedball – Amiga
‘Nam 1965-1975 – Amiga
Murder! – Amiga
Star Flight – Amiga
Nobby the Aardvark – Amiga
Operation Stealth – Amiga
Overdrive – Amiga
Megatraveller 2 Quest for the Ancients – Amiga
Police Quest 3 – Amiga
The New Zealand Story, The Bard’s Tale – Amiga
The Hound of Shadow – Amiga
Wizardry Bane of the Cosmic Forge – Amiga
Swords of Twilight – Amiga

That was all the loot for this time, now I have some gaming to do ^____^

Retro Gathering 2015!

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This weekend I visited Retro Gathering in Västerås (Sweden), I was there for the first time last year, but this convention has been running yearly since 2006! I came home with quite a lot of loot last year, and this year wasn’t far behind ^_^

Retro Gathering 2015
Retro Gathering 2015

I bought 62 games, and traded another 400+ games with friends! So I came home with lots of games.. most of the traded ones were newer games though so I’ll just cover my retro acquisitions on here ;D First up is the Philips Videopac Computer G7000 with 8 games that I traded with Anton for a bunch of Famicom doubles I brought for him :) I also found one Videopac game at the convention, this one was a newly made homebrew game for the system, the packaging was just splendid though, fits right in with the originals ^_^ Can you spot which one it is? ;D

Philips Videopac Computer G7000 with games
Philips Videopac Computer G7000 games
Philips Videopac Computer G7000 games
Philips Videopac Computer G7000 games
Philips Videopac Computer G7000 keyboard
Philips Videopac Computer G7000
Videopac Computer G7000
Videopac Computer G7000
Philips Videopac Computer G7000 Joystick
Philips Videopac Computer G7000

Another system that I bought at the convention was an Arcadia 2001, or at least one of it’s clones. Never heard of this one before, but it didn’t last very long, it was discontinued after only 18 months. The reason I bought it was that it came with almost all the games released for the system! :D The games come in paper boxes, which were surprisingly well kept! Inside there’s a manual and overlays for the controllers and the game cartridge is latched in a whole in the box. This is extremely frustrating since the cartridge tends to move around underneath the opening so it’s hard to get it out of there without ripping the paper around it >_< This makes me even more surprised though that the previous owners haven’t already torn the boxes apart! XD

BTW I think it’s hilarious when companies back in the day lacked the licenses for certain popular titles and had to come up with “alternative” names for clones ;D Nibblemen!!! Hahaha!

Arcadia 2001 with games
Arcadia 2001 joystick
Arcadia 2001
Arcadia 2001 games
Arcadia 2001 clone Video Computer Game by Soundic
Arcadia 2001 games
Arcadia 2001 game cartridge
Arcadia 2001 games
Nibblemen for Arcadia 2001
Combat for Arcadia 2001
Space Raider for Arcadia 2001

I also got my second Sinclair ZX Spectrum that I had bought previously, but got delivered on the convention ^_^ The 48k model is so cute!!!!!!!! :D

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K

There were more japanese games popping up at this convention than what I have seen before in recent years here in Sweden. I think it’s nice that people are becoming aware of all the amazing things you can find from over there ^_^ Unfortunately when demand rises the prices also go up >_< There were no Famicom games that I didn’t already have though, but I did find 5 Super Famicom games and a Famicom pirate that was just cheap :)

Super Famicom games

Famicom pirate

It’s always nice to pick up some C64 games as well, they are usually pretty cheap and the artworks on these old cassettes are just amazing! :D I always buy games that look fun, have a funny title or just incredible or funny artwork ^_^

Commodore 64 games
C64 games – Tetris etc
C64 games – Mutants
C64 games – The Legend of the Amazon Women

I also found some Atari 2600 games, two turned out to be unopened and I’m torn whether to break them open or not >_< I wanna play them!!

Atari 2600 games

Apart from all this I found a few other titles for various systems, like Batman Forever on Sega Mega Drive, Wolfenstein 3D for the Atari Jaguar and two Amiga 500 games, Pinkie and Capone ^_^ These last two looked like fun games when looking at the screenshots on the back :) Unfortunately my Amiga 500 has gotten a green screen so I can’t try them out right now :/ Have to get it fixed or find a new one first…

Batman Forever for Sega Mega Drive
Wolfenstein 3D for Atari Jaguar
Pinkie & Capone for Amiga 500
Capone for Amiga backside
Pinkie for Amiga backside

This year on Retro Gathering there were even more sellers than last year and loads of old systems setup to play ^_^ They held competitions in Super Bomberman 2 for the SNES, Super Skidmarks on the Amiga and Car Race ][ for Commodore PET. This last one in honor of the late CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, who programmed that game back in the day. They also hosted the annual Swedish Championships of Pong, and I participated this year as well! I made it one step further than last year, so just a few more years and I might win! ;D hahaha or not.. I’ve began searching for an Atari Pong console so I can do some serious practicing though ^_^ They’re unfortunately hard to come by :/

Gaming at Retro Gathering
Geeky Gal Eleth playing Pong at Retro Gathering
Kids gaming at Retro Gathering
Lots of games for sale at Retro Gathering
Retro computers for sale at Retro Gathering
Telstar Combat retro console at Retro Gathering

This is one of my favorite retro gaming conventions in Sweden, the atmosphere is just so friendly and you can find so much more than just Nintendo and Sega stuff! ^_^ It’s just a shame it’s so far away from where I live :/ I will still come back next year though ;D

For more pictures from Retro Gathering, check out Geeky Gals :)