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Mortal Kombat on the Sega Mega CD gave fans the closest to arcade experience on home systems at the time. With true arcade quality audio, and full motion video sequences previously only possible on the arcade game itself

Metroid Prime on the Nintendo Game Cube was incredibly popular. It was also incredibly divisive as the new 3D first person perspective divided fans of the classic series

Bubble Bobble was a very popular arcade game, and the Commodore 64 version received rave reviews. Some would say the C64 port was better than the original! Crazy people of course - it did lack many of the secrets of the arcade

Not so much into sports games? No problem! You can try Mutant League Football where most of the game was spent ripping off heads as much as scoring touch downs!

Netherworld announces the Australian Kong Off 2 - a massive classic arcade event in Brisbane in November https://forum.gamethesystem.co/post/australia-kong-off-2-november-10th-and-11th-9769648?pid=1304539351

If you want something meatier than the instruction manual story, you could read the books instead! DOOM had a bunch of novels released expanding (for good or bad) the slim story of the games

Got a hankerin’ for a wacky beat-em-up? You can’t get much stranger than DJ Boy - kids on roller skates punching and kicking their way about town... very odd

Do you have any neglected retro systems at home? Here’s a C64 with it’s original keyboard waiting to be reinstalled. One day...

Alex Kidd, the Sega mascot before Sonic arrived and everyone fell in love with the other guy. Did you have a favourite Alex Kidd game?

Podcast Ep11: We battle it out to decide the best beat-em-up of all time! Review of Bloodstained Curse of the Moon, Mega Drive Classics, leaked pictures of Stern pinball Deadpool! iTunes and Stitcher http://gamethesystem.co/podcast Sponsored by 1989 Arcade Bar https://bit.ly/2LE6UHy

Mortal Kombat on the Sega Mega CD gave fans the closest to arcade experience on home systems at the time. With true arcade quality audio, and full motion video sequences previously only possible on the arcade game itself

Metroid Prime on the Nintendo Game Cube was incredibly popular. It was also incredibly divisive as the new 3D first person perspective divided fans of the classic series

Bubble Bobble was a very popular arcade game, and the Commodore 64 version received rave reviews. Some would say the C64 port was better than the original! Crazy people of course - it did lack many of the secrets of the arcade

Not so much into sports games? No problem! You can try Mutant League Football where most of the game was spent ripping off heads as much as scoring touch downs!

Netherworld announces the Australian Kong Off 2 - a massive classic arcade event in Brisbane in November https://forum.gamethesystem.co/post/australia-kong-off-2-november-10th-and-11th-9769648?pid=1304539351

If you want something meatier than the instruction manual story, you could read the books instead! DOOM had a bunch of novels released expanding (for good or bad) the slim story of the games

Got a hankerin’ for a wacky beat-em-up? You can’t get much stranger than DJ Boy - kids on roller skates punching and kicking their way about town... very odd

Do you have any neglected retro systems at home? Here’s a C64 with it’s original keyboard waiting to be reinstalled. One day...

Alex Kidd, the Sega mascot before Sonic arrived and everyone fell in love with the other guy. Did you have a favourite Alex Kidd game?

Podcast Ep11: We battle it out to decide the best beat-em-up of all time! Review of Bloodstained Curse of the Moon, Mega Drive Classics, leaked pictures of Stern pinball Deadpool! iTunes and Stitcher http://gamethesystem.co/podcast Sponsored by 1989 Arcade Bar https://bit.ly/2LE6UHy

Richard Rhodes Wins the Pinball HQ Flip Frenzy

October 16, 2016

A great day at Coogee Diggers was had with Richard taking 1st place, Brett Goodwin taking 2nd, Greg Jones 3rd and Paul Reid 4th.