This weekend I was on another Podcast, this time I got interviewed by Fred over at Gaming History 101 :) Gaming History 101 runs both a blog, a podcast, a youtube channel and delivers lots of interesting retro gaming news and a lot of history ^_^
We had a lot of fun discussing views on collecting and various systems and platforms ^_^ we also talked about the differences in gaming versus collecting.
You can listen to the podcast right here >>
And here’s a direct link to the mp3 >>
This weekend I had the first Retro Rumble game night and competition of 2016. I’m really happy that so many people could join! A total of 22 guys and gals were competing, and a few more were there spectating ^_^ It was a blast, and even though there were so many people competing everything went extremely smoothly!
All of the 22 contestants got to compete in 6 games. The games that were played were:
Psycho Chaser for PC Engine, first stage, 1 life and best score.
Race for Philips Videopac, 2 minutes score attack.
Sonic 2 for Sega Mega Drive, first stage, speedrun, best time.
Phoenix for Atari 2600, 1 life, best score.
Daiku no Gensan for Famicom, first stage, one life, best score.
Sachen Tetris for NES, level 9, 30 lines, best score.
When all the games were played one team had the highest score and won the A-Team price! Congrats NinjaBrite, Matt8Bit & Slurpas!
Before the semi-finals we stopped for a retro gaming quiz that I put togehter ^_^ Some of the questions were a bit difficult on purpose but a majority of the questions had 4 options for answers :) The quiz master was KRS ^_^
Wobbly, KRS, TekkenCarr and Slurpas made it to the semi-finals! They got to compete in three games. First up was Horace Goes Skiing for ZX Spectrum, where they had one pair of skis to get as high of a score as possible. Next up was Sugoi no Hebereke and VS Collection on the Super Famicom. It was a good fight!
Slurpas and TekkenCarr came out victorious and made it to the finals where they competed in Twinkle Star Sprites on Neo Geo MVS arcade, Joy Mecha Fight on Famicom and finally Pong on my new Ajax TV Game system ^_^ It was an even fight but the Pong match settled the score and Slurpas became our 2016 Retro Rumble Champion! Congraturation A Winner Is You!! XD
Once the competition was finished we continued gaming all night long ^__^ So much fun! Thanks to everyone who attended! <3
Now here’s some more pics from the evening :D
Jon & Ted have an excellent gaming podcast, and they invited me to talk about retro game collecting, but we ended up talking about a bunch of other things as well XD Like beer, IKEA, prison and virtual reality ^_^
Jon & Ted’s Excellent Gamecast has an awesome Boss Battle in each episode, I got to fight Dr. Wily!! XD Make sure to listen to the podcast and see if I manage to beat him ;D
The podcast can be found here >>
Thanks for having me on guys! It was a lot of fun :D
A lot has been happening this year, both outside the game room and inside! I have gotten myself another arcade machine, a Blast City from Sega. It’s fitted with a 4-slot Neo Geo MVS board, so I have yet another way to play all the MVS games I’ve bought instead of using the converter in my AES. I made room for the candy cab in the game room, and this lead to a bit of re-arranging for it to fit. I’ve also increased the amount of gaming stations, with more TV’s! :D So many TV’s!! There’s a total of 20 in the room right now ^_^
I have updated my video game collection page on here, but here’s most of the new pictures as well! :) The collection keeps growing :D
I’ve been visiting a lot of gaming conventions this year, which also means acquiring a lot of new retro games ;D I will hopefully have some time this christmas to update the various libraries with scans on the site and perhaps add some new ones :) Meanwhile I am always on instagram posting retro game related stuff whenever I’m gaming or whatever ^_^ Feel free to follow me on there > @retro_gaming
Don’t forget to check out my other site www.geekygals.net where me and my gals post all types of nerdy things! The latest post was about a retro gaming competition I hosted for the first Geeky Gals Gathering which was very successful, we had a lot of fun! ^_^
I was invited to be on the Retro Asylum show, which is the UK’s biggest retro gaming podcast! :D They have a new series called Bytesize where they discuss various things with various people and I got to talk with Paul Davies from Retro Asylum for about an hour. It was a lot of fun and we talked about all kinds of retro game related subjects :) I got to explain a bit about the Nintendo culture in Sweden and talk about my collection ^_^ It was great fun! :D
You can listen to the episode here >>
It can also be found on iTunes if you search for Retro Asylum :)
This is the awesome poster they put together for this episode ^_^
I was invited to be in the North American Retro Collective’s podcast. It was a lot of fun talking with Rip, John & Chris, even though I did really shitty in the quiz ;D We’re discussing import games and collecting, and the differences in perception between NTSC and PAL games in Europe and the US ^_^
Go check out the podcast on either Podomatic or on iTunes ^_^
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