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Making of Aspect Star N: Coding for the NES
This fall, I released my first NES game, Aspect Star “N”. Though not my first foray into programming for 8-bit systems, it was my first project to actually get completed. In this blog post, I want to talk a bit about how I adapted Aspect Star to the NES, and some of the choices I made along the way. Maybe it’ll inspire some of you to try it yourself!
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Review! The Toyshock Haunted House Digital Pinball!
Pinball machines are wonderful and a ton of fun, but they’re also huge, electromechanical beasts that require constant maintenance. Virtual pinball– playing pinball video games on a monitor propped at an angle– seems to offer some benefits, even if it’s not the same, but those are also big and not cheap, either. So as an apartment dweller, seeing a company launch a virtual pinball table for under $500 surprised me. Let’s see how it goes!
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A Strange Bootleg for the Super Famicom
It’s a very tragic story! Many years ago, you see, a copy of Super Bomberman drowned in this spring. Now whatever game falls into this well, when doused with cold water, becomes Super Bomberman! What, you don’t believe me? Check this out!
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Review! The Arcade1up Street Fighter Table
Retro-nostalgia is in full force in the market these days; no more is being into old games the domain of just a few people on a message board. And where there’s a market, there’s capitalism trying to fill it. Unlike our last review of the RetroUSB AVS, this is a mass-market product– a nearly-full size cocktail arcade table. How does it stand up to the discerning retrogamer’s eye? Or, if we can’t find one of those, Nicole’s eye?
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Battle of the NESlikes! Can the AVS stack up?
The Nintendo Entertainment System, the Famicom in Japan, will definitely go down in history as one of the most popular game consoles in history. It’ll also go down as one of the most cloned; today, rather than looking at NOAC (Nintendo-on-a-chip) or discrete clones from the 90’s, we’ll take a look at what 2019 has to offer. Or, er, a few years before actually, but they’re still selling it, so it counts!
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A simple jailbar fix for the Neo Geo AES
The Neo Geo AES. Back in the 90’s, everyone saw the Neo Geo machines in the arcades (known as the MVS, for Multi-Video-System; yes, even the ones that only had one game), but nobody I knew had the home version. Now, I have the home version. Unfortunately, it’s got a problem with the video signal… if I was smart, I would’ve just bought an MVS board, but I’m not smart, so let’s fix this. No soldering required!
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The Canon Cat!
The computer world is filled with all sorts of machines that are opretty obscure, and even there the Canon Cat is obscure; they say it’s the creation of Jef Raskin, who started the Macintosh program before Steve Jobs jumped in and took it over. Instead, it’s all about text. But I seem to have been potentially shipped the wrong machine… So, on this April 1st, let’s dig in, shall we?
