This is from last month, but just in case you missed it like I did (hey, I’ve got a lot of feeds to keep up with), RPS put up a three part interview with Ragnar Tørnquist, mostly covering storytelling.
THE XBOX 360 “LIFESTYLE” EXPOSED
NFGcontrols, a new site about video game controllers.
Dubai retailers have unearthed 100 factory-sealed Virtual Boys. Poor souls.
Let’s start things off with another great racketboy guide: Playing Neo-Geo on your DS.
The fine folks at TV-Nihon have been subtitling and releasing episodes of the wonderful Japanese television show GameCenter CX. At this point, all the challenges from the first season are available, alongside a few special episodes and the first few of season two.
Someone is auctioning a prototype wireless Atari 2700.
Video game sheet music for violin is difficult to find. Thankfully, InfinityEX has been busy transcribing, and is offering up a bunch of em on his site. Of the songs I’ve downloaded, the only one I have any hope of being able to play at this stage is Final Fantasy X‘s “To Zanarkand.”
All Tron and link love, the new driph.com. Let’s see what we’ve got for you today…
Brandon digs up a whole bunch of old video game patents.
The new Surface Tension arcade table. Excellent WAF on this one. More background on the BYOAC forums.
Kill a few hours with Steve Fulton’s extensive history of Atari: 1971-1977, and 1978-1981.
And finally, Duelling Computer Spaces – A Stellar Barn Find. Here’s the epic original KLOV thread.
Come with me if you want to live.
Alongside the very kick ass Bionic Commando Rearmed OST, Sumthing has also released the original NES soundtrack. It’s three bucks, go get it.
Retro Space, the newest entry into the pre-built MAME cabinet scene. These things are supposed to sell for around 5000-6000 Euros (I think that’s like $40,000 or something these days). Kinda nice, but not that nice.
Speaking of paying lots of money for your games, here is Rotheblog’s writeup on the 15 most valuable classic arcade games.
And finally, Multiple:Option has released the newest version of Game Trivia Catechism DS (the iPhone version we’re working on is an expanded branch of this). It’s one of two apps he’s entering into the NeoFlash Summer Coding Compo, so wish him luck!