Directed by Najeeb Tarazi, who worked on films for Pixar such as Toy Story 3 and Monsters Inc., this awesome pixel art music video created for the superb track ‘White Flag’ by British electro duo Delta Heavy from their Paradise Lost EP is heavily inspired by a retro 16-bit aesthetic and the world of the early 90s gaming. Love it! 🙂
Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition is a recently announced miniature version of their console preloaded with 30 classic Nintendo games
including:
Balloon Fight™
BUBBLE BOBBLE
Castlevania™
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest™
Donkey Kong™
Donkey Kong Jr. ™
DOUBLE DRAGON II: THE REVENGE
Dr. Mario™
Excitebike™
FINAL FANTASY®
Galaga™
GHOSTS’N GOBLINS®
GRADIUS™
Ice Climber™
Kid Icarus™
Kirby’s Adventure™
Mario Bros. ™
MEGA MAN® 2
Metroid™
NINJA GAIDEN
PAC-MAN™
Punch-Out!! ™ Featuring Mr. Dream
StarTropics™
SUPER C™
Super Mario Bros.™
Super Mario Bros. ™ 2
Super Mario Bros. ™ 3
TECMO BOWL
The Legend of Zelda™
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link™
The system is modelled on the original NES, but is smaller and has updated HDMI output. Each system will include one controller with additional controllers purchased separately when released on 11th November 2016. This is the best news we have heard all week! – Bring. It. On. 🙂
Kids of the 90s, check out Game Boy Camera Man, an Instagram account dedicated to the Nintendo Game Boy camera. This nostalgic feed pays tribute to the forerunner of the digital camera by creating all images using this gadget and posting black and white photos with a groundbreaking resolution of 128 × 128 pixels. Love it! – Happy Friday, everyone 🙂
PACMAN: Inspired by the 1979 cult gang film The Warriors, ‘PAC-MAN: Come Out to Play’ is a gritty live-action short film of the classic Pac-Man arcade game created by Australian movie studio, Fury Fingers. Rocking a late 70s/early 80s inspired track, PACMAN takes fight choreography cues from Jackie Chan to give the film a fun and retro 80s feel. Awesome work – love it! 🙂
PC Master Race 90s Rap: We love ‘PC Master Race 90s Rap’ which is an upbeat 1990s-style rap, reminiscent of the opening credits for ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air‘, by The Warp Zone about the joys of PC gaming and why it’s a better option than using a console. Much like the PC/console debate does online, the song escalates and takes a slightly dark turn. Very funny stuff! 🙂
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: We’re loving that CineFix has just released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema retelling the story of the 1986 cult classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as an old-school 8-bit animated video game, created by David Dutton of Dutton Films. Awesome work! Happy Friday, peeps 🙂
After releasing almost 900 classic, coin-operated arcade games late last year, the Internet Archive have released nearly 2,400 MS-DOS 90s video games online, free and playable in-browser… there goes the afternoon!
We’ve reached back into our teen brains and picked out a handful of our favourites.
Street Fighter II (1992)
Hadouken!!! Need we say more? Street Fighter & Super Street Fighter II are also there.
Disney’s Aladdin (1994)
If you have to play one Disney game it would have be Aladdin, but The Lion King is also worth a run.
Lemmings 2: The Tribes (1993)
After countless hours watching (sometimes pushing) the original Lemmings fall to their death, we couldn’t wait for Lemmings 2 to come out.
Prince of Persia (1989)
Long before Jake Gyllenhaal pranced about in the sands of time, and before parkour was a thing, we bounced off walls and were leaping over pits in stunning 2D.
Bust-A-Move (1997)
Nothing to do with Young MC, Bust-A-Move featured Bub & Bob of Bubble Bobble fame in a proto-Bubble Witch Saga if you will.
Sim City (1989)
What can you say, Sim City, the game that launched an entire universe of pointless never-ending titles that continue to spawn to this day.
The emulator is still in beta, we hit a few snags but for the most part they were all playable, you can view the entire collection of 90s video games online at the Internet Archive
