An easy challenge - beat me at Gyruss. I play the arcade version here and I show you how far I got. :P

A great example of a 'Tube Shooter' ala Tempest
The maker of this game moved on to create great games like Time Pilot, Street Fighter and 1942
Highscore to beat (easily): 72450

Diagnosis: Gyruss Infection
Remedy: Keep on playing it.

Telling you all just a little tidbit about the Galaxy Force II game, showing some gameplay.

Title soundtrack by ZombieAndy1979
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZombieAndy1979

A little video on the Capcom shmup 19xx from the golden era of Shmups. Mind you this was totally unscripted.... it should have been a little scripted as the narration is well.... kinda rough :P

Title soundtrack by ZombieAndy1979:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZombieAndy1979

For this second entry in the ongoing series, I've taken photos of Cartels & Cutthroat$ for the Apple II, Micro Illustrator for the Commodore Plus/4 and C-64, and Deathkeep (AD&D) for the 3DO. Enjoy:

BillWhile casual photos and videos are fine for posting something quickly, sometimes readers want a bit more quality. While I'm not going to put a lot of effort into these per se, i.e., you won't mistake these for studio quality, I will take a bit more care in taking and posting anything in this particular series. For this first entry, I focused on three of the most recent additions to my collection, Tomy's electro-mechanical tabletop, Daring Driver, Commodore's Gorf for the C-64, and the 2012 Ultima Collector's Guide. Enjoy:

Woot! recently had a deal on an 8GB Eye-Fi memory card that I took advantage of for the express purpose of no-brainer automatic photo uploads from my digital camera directly to my Flickr account, which I thought would provide a smoother and higher quality workflow than using my iPhone 4. As such, I set the Eye-Fi up last night and took some very casual photos. While the transfer process really didn't go well (I'll need to experiment a bit more), transferring only two photos correctly and requiring me to manually transfer the rest, the end result was still some photos of recent items in my collection that also happened to be in my staging area, which I decided to share below with some minor commentary so the initial work wouldn't be totally wasted. Enjoy:

Two great xbox 360 pickups with first impressions of one of those games which is a Cave Shmup.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ElectricAdventures
http://www.youtube.com/user/SteveBenway

Sountrack:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZombieAndy1979

Dr Retro/Sjoerd organized a retro-fair/convention in the South of the Netherlands. It was the first time he did this and for a lot of folks it proved to be a great success.

I went there together with the Wife, Halfblindgamer and MrCustard.

I myself was hoping to find a TurboDuo to replace my fried unit but to no avail. Mr Custard got away with almost all the shmups for the TG16/PCEngine in one go, for about 10 Euros each. HalfBlindGamer got a bunch of 3DO games for 20 Euros and I got a cool deal as well. Go check out the video.

The Soundtrack was created by SynthMonkey / ZombieAndy1979

In this video I am trying to play Thunderfox on the Atari 8-bit home computer range (800XL/130XE) and I talk a bit about the game, life, the universe and everything on the side.

Thunderfox appears to be a Uridium clone - or as close to Uridium as you are going to get on the Atari I reckon. It plays a tad different though - so different in fact that I have no idea how to play this.