Posted by Zoyx on June 2, 2010 at 10:05 am
Posts Tagged ‘Retro’
I saw this over on Kotaku this morning and needed to share it here: because anyone who can play the Space Harrier and Turrican themes using only a small drum kit and a bit crusher and a fuzz box is alright by me.
Microsoft has released Mechwarrior 4 . . . for free.
Finally, the long awaited moment has arrived!
Studio MekTek, in association with Smith and Tinker, INC., Virtual World Entertainment, LLC, Catalyst Game Labs, and Microsoft Games, is happy to announce the release of Mechwarrior4 Free.
Getting started is easy. Just download and install MTX, MekTek’s free content delivery and updating system. Once installed, simply click the Games Available tab, select Mechwarrior4: Mercenaries and click install. The game will download and install, all within MTX, and as updates become available, MTX will help you keep your game up to date.
Heads up from Jesse. Retro Console/Mame games + board games.
It’s time for another day-long game day at our house! This one is a little bit special though, because it’s also doubling as a Convergence Vice City 2010 fundraiser event. Practically speaking, the party will feature the same bits that our previous game parties had, mainly fun board games upstairs and fun video games downstairs. And beer.
In addition to the normal fun stuff, I’ll have a donation box upstairs where folks can drop off anonymous donations, I’ll also have some business cards scattered around that will have the Vice City’s Paypal donation URL. No hassle or hussle though – if you want to donate to the Convergence room party that’s awesome, but if you don’t want to or can’t or whatever that’s just fine too. The main goal of the party is to just have fun with games for the day – the Vice City fundraiser is just there for extra credit.
That said, I wouldn’t say no if someone brought a bag of chips or a six pack of beer or something to share at the (May 22nd) party.
Anyway, come on by any time after noon on Saturday, May 22. Our open house funtime game party will last all day until we get tired and kick everyone out. That will probably be around midnight or so, but who can predict these sorts of things?
If you’ve got some awesome ideas for Vice City and want to talk about them, please stop by early. Say, around 11AM or so. Ideas for making Vice City awesome are always welcome, especially if you’ve got a good one for awarding Achievements to party attendees that is easy to do and won’t irritate party hosts too much.
Also, if you want to bring a friend or two along that’s totally cool. Also also, if I missed someone that should be on this mail list please let me know. I don’t want anyone to be left out!
Vice City website:
http://www.spriteengine.com/
Address:
I don’t remember my home address right now, but I bet if you email me I’ll be able to tell you where the party is at via email. You should totally email me at Lonjon@spriteengine.com.
New record for Asteroids was just set minutes ago. All 60 hours of the tape needs to be verified and John McAllister needs to receive a drug test – but another of the elite classic arcade records has been surpassed. This particular record was 28 years old, 41,336,440 – formerly held by Scott Safran. John passed this score by only a few thousand.
He tried to his best to choke it away. With 300,000 left to go, he took a bathroom break. When he came back, he was out of rhythm, resulting in his lives dwindling down to just two. He found a last minute groove, and got the reserve back up to 10. The last 100,000 points was a fun ceremonial walk.
Congrats John! Nice to see these classics get tested.

