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Wanna hear a joke? Laserdiscs! Hah. I kill me. Seriously, though, maybe the best thing to come from the doomed technology was arguably the Dragon's Lair interactive videogames and porno flicks your parents couldn't really hide . With arcades dead in most parts of the country, and Laserdisc players buried in a pit somewhere, what's a retro gamer to do? Destineer has the answer. The publisher has announced that it will be releasing The Dragon's Lair Collection, a Wii compilation that features Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, and Space Ace! all on one disc. The future of the ... [Link] [Cache]

Hey, Mad Dog McCree: Gunslinger Pack, there's a new sheriff in town -- the "town" in this case being the set of "Collections of Three Laserdisc Games on Wii." Digital Leisure and publisher Destineer are partnering to release Dragon's Lair Trilogy on Wii this fall. Despite the name, the "Trilogy" is only two-thirds Dragon's Lair: in addition to Dragon's Lair and Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, the disc will include Space Ace. And for those of you who want to watch the remastered animation, but who firmly insist that these aren't video games, you can remove any vestige of interactivity ... [Link] [Cache]

Virtual Play Games unearthed a collection of ancient relics, believed to have been called "Intellivision games" in their time. To allow modern audiences to examine these historical artifacts for themselves, Virtual Play has built a mobile exhibition called Intellivision Lives!, which requires only a Nintendo DS for admission. In other words, the publisher's putting a bunch of old games on a DS cartridge and selling it this September. The collection includes classics like Astro Smash, Armor Battle, Night Stalker and Shark! Shark! a precursor of Flow , as well as six unreleased games, for a total of 60 titles from ... [Link] [Cache]

A movie review on the Retronauts blog? Well, yes, because I can think of no better home for this one. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is the best comics-to-film adaptation since Ghost World, and that's no mean feat. But even more to the point, it's best movie about videogames since... well, ever. Maybe that's not entirely accurate. Scott Pilgrim isn't really about videogames per se; it's actually a coming-of-age movie, a story about romance and growing up and coming to terms with your own flaws and your loved one's baggage. Yet it's steeped in videogame references and concepts on every ... [Link] [Cache]

The preservation of art so that it can be discovered by future generations is incredibly important. Videogames should be no exception and a new paper published in the International Journal of Digital Curation outlines the challenges our preferred form of entertainment faces in being protected. Painting a bleak picture, it suggests a not-distant future where some console games could be lost to time forever. Satisfactorily preserving a game is difficult. In order to present the exact experience as designed, games really need to be run on their original hardware. As any retro fan will tell you, it's just better that ... [Link] [Cache]