Presented by Fastbilly & RacketboyNew To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club I have been trying to think of one word to describe this months Together Retro title and just haven’t had any luck. Bodacious and Badical just cant seem grasp the awesomeness of this title. I mean what other game did Shaquille O’Neill own two copies of the arcade cabinet for: one for home one for travel. No wait, I’ve got it: Boomshakalaka, that’ll work. As you can tell, this month we are playing that exquisite arcade basketball game NBA Jam. So lace up your sneakers, ... [Link] [Cache]

A friend just sent me a link that made me feel profoundly old. August 2, 2010 is a day I've known was coming for a long time, but I've been sort of dreading it and I'd actually let it completely slip my mind... right until that link popped up. As for the link in question, it wasn't anything spectacular. Just an NES screenshot of solid black with the words "2010.8.2 - Joe" printed on it in white. But I instantly recognized it as the final screen of one of my favorite games ever: The NES version Bionic Commando. Weird how ... [Link] [Cache]

Many computer operating systems throughout history have shipped with at least one free game — Solitaire and Minesweeper are some of the most famous examples. Knowing this, I thought I’d take a stroll through history and examine other OS pack-in games. I ended up with an amusing collection of over twenty games from 1971 [...] [Link] [Cache]

“ASG: Eating the Rules” It really says that. Rack and stack, Jack! This totally radical ASG Video Jukebox allowed you to play six of the Sega Genesis games you already owned for only $49.99. Imagine finally being able to play those games you bought without having to insert and remove them from the system [...] [Link] [Cache]

I’ll admit, I’m really looking forward to this dropping. It looks fabulous. A BBC B styled platform game is right up my street. Still a work in progress but you can follow that progress on our forums right about here-ish. [Link] [Cache]

I met up with a friend that I rarely see over the weekend. He’s a graphic designer, lives in London, and is always emailing me interesting stuff he finds on the web. The reason for us catching up was that it was our friend’s 30th birthday, and to celebrate he had this genius idea of going to a theme park on Saturday. Suffice to say, with every school in the country closed, it was a little like being at the world’s most screechy music festival. Queuing for the best part of 8 hours, we found ourselves standing around talking complete ... [Link] [Cache]