November 11th, 2009

Welcome to Super Potato

In the Akihabara district of Tokyo, Japan you find all kinds of gadgets, collectables, hobby stuff etc. people that know the area call it the mecca of electronic goods. But what its also known for is the quite huge amount of retro gaming goods you can still find here.

Theres alot of places around to shop for retro games and of course places that might have better bargains than this one but none of them has become as famous as Super Potato in Akihabara and Osaka’s Den Den Town.

maaario Welcome to Super Potato

You can almost find anything from the era famicom, super famicom even more exotic stuff (for our midst) like Nintendo disc system, MSX computers, PC Engine, Neo Geo or the Nintendo Virtual Boy.

Hope you enjoyed this little video tour of the Super Potato store in Akihabara Tokyo, Japan.

Chrishimself

September 29th, 2009

My Nintendo DS is also a Synthesizer KORG DS-10

I have been seeing these cool videos where people make music with chiptune hacked Nintendo GameBoy’s and Famicoms and I kinda liked the idea of course you need some knowledge to do this but fortunately music company KORG released a software for the Nintendo DS a while ago already called KORG DS-10. It allows you to make funky music like this right here on your Nintendo DS.

It looked like enough fun to me to buy it and again fortunately at work we had one left and I got it for a good price :).

 My Nintendo DS is also a Synthesizer KORG DS 10

 My Nintendo DS is also a Synthesizer KORG DS 10

Since in germany the demand for synthesizer/music software for your Nintendo DS was not that high, they are not offered alot anymore but you can still find them for a good price here and there.

KORG also released a new edition called KORG DS-10 PLUS of the synthesizer in Japan, lets hope for the german fans out there that they will release it in our midst.  For those who cant wait its availible from Amazon.co.jp in a limited and standard edition.

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Chrishimself

September 15th, 2009

Retro Gaming // Music Videos

I’m a big fan of retro gaming not because retro is “cool” nowadays its more because I grew up with it and I still find some of the stuff from the late 80s and 90s better than the stuff they put out today. Of course part of it is nostalgia but its also the skill gamemakers had back in those days with limited tools, was it the graphics or the music.

Please check Myk Dawgs aka. Myk31 webpage and videos out if you are into the oldschool 8bit era of videogame graphics. He makes graphics and music videos for different kinds of artists and I really like his style, its great to see people using the new tools to check out what you can do with some of the older technologies (like in chiptune music too).

One of his latest videos includes a collaboration between Mick Boogie and Peter, Björn and John called Stay This Way.

This video featuring the Kanye West track Robocop (808s & Heartbreak) has to be my favorite video as a big Mega Man (Rockman) fan.

Hope you enjoyed the videos and the music and please comment if you have some questions or suggestions :-).

Chrishimself

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