In Real Life

Keith Apicary Asks A Local News Reporter If She’s Ever Played Blazing Star

The famous PAX East ejectee Keith Apicary (a character portrayed by comedian Nathan Barnatt) gatecrashed a backup dancer audition for pop star (and “amazing roller skater”) Kimberly Cole earlier this month.


March 16, 2012
News

New Neo Geo Console — Details Revealed

Kotaku AU

When I was 10 years old I used to frequent an independent game store. In that store was a Neo Geo. The machine was insanely expensive and each game cost $250-300. To a kid it seemed like the most incredible piece of technology in the world. So when I heard that Neo Geo was releasing a new handheld, that ‘I want’ feeling always comes flooding back.


February 29, 2012
In Real Life

This Video Game Just Sold For Over $30,000

There’s a Neo Geo game called Aero Fighters 3. Until this month, it was assumed that it had never been released in the US. It never was, officially. But at least three copies are now known to exist anyway, and one of them just went for over $US30,000.


January 25, 2012
News

The Return Of The Neo-Geo

SNK Playmore is once again in the hardware business. The Osaka-based game company is releasing a new portable Neo-Geo gaming system. This is it.


December 14, 2011
Retro

The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Made Had Explosions, Girls And Robots

Being Australian, I don’t have much time for baseball. I find it occupies too similar a place in the sporting landscape to cricket, which I love, to bother with it.


September 28, 2011
In Real Life

Of All The Street Fighter Clones, This Was The Best

When Street Fighter II hit the big time in the early 1990s, it led to countless clones, copies and competitors. Some of these emerged as beloved fighting game series in their own rights, and would live on for years.


April 19, 2011
Retro

A Wooden Neo Geo Is A Masterpiece Of Fine Craftsmanship

This is a Neo Geo. A working, fully armed and operational Neo Geo. Made entirely of finely-crafted walnut. I don’t know the precise moment master craftsmen and video games got together, but it’s a union worth celebrating.


February 16, 2011
Retro

You’ve Never Experienced Neo Geo Hardware Drama Like This

Are you ready to have a Neo Geo make sweet love to your eyeballs? Thanks to photographer Aaron Nanto and his perfectly preserved, beautifully shot SNK hardware, your retinas are about to be thoroughly and lovingly sexed.


January 17, 2011
In Real Life

Vintage Gaming Collection Washed Away In Aussie Floods

Over the past week, large areas of Australia’s eastern seaboard were ravaged by floods. Billions of dollars worth of damage was been done, and sitting quietly amidst that tally is this man’s retro gaming hardware collection.


June 29, 2010

Rumour: Western PSPs To Get Neo Geo, TurboGrafx Games?

Alongside the new PS3 firmware update, the PSP has been updated as well. And it looks like this one brought with it a nice little surprise.