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April 28, 2010

Game & Watch: Donkey Kong Jr. – review

Filed under: blog,DSi,Nintendo,review,videogames — Tags: DSi, DSiWare, Nintendo, review, videogames — technofranki @ 23:14

Before the GameBoy and before the NES, Nintendo made the Game & Watch series. The first Game & Watch was released in 1980 and a total of 60 games was realesed.

Some of the Game & Watch games have been released in compilations on the GameBoy and Nintendo have now startet to release some of the games on Nintendo DSi as DSiWare at 200 DSi points.

I’ve been playing Donkey Kong Jr. which was released on DSi in Europe on Friday April 23rd, 2010. The game mimics the original game that was released in 1982 very well. The screen looks and feels like the old LCD screens on the G&W. I remember playing this game some 25 years ago, and the game is still fun to play.

There are some good G&W games to wait for, but until then, Donkey Kong Jr. is a great buy. Lots of fun for 200 points.

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April 24, 2010

LEGO Tower – Contructing a Guinness World Record

Filed under: blog,toys — Tags: blog, Guinness World Record, LEGO — technofranki @ 21:10

If you have enough LEGO bricks, you can set a world record. But you need around 500.000 of them. A new Guinness World Record was set in Oslo, Norway on April 24th, 2010. The new LEGO tower record is 30.22 meters tall and beat the record from Munich last year by 25cm.

I recorded a video, which you can watch bellow, when they placed the LEGO modules onto the tower. Pretty amazing.

Photo & video: Frank Eivind Rundholt (Creative Commons)

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April 20, 2010

3D Dot Game Heroes – IGN review

Filed under: PS3 — Tags: IGN, PS3 — technofranki @ 23:29

3D Dot Game Heroes look like a real cool games and one that I will buy when it’s released in Europe in May. It’s very Zelda-like and it’s in ‘8-bit’ retro 3D. The visual style appeals to me.

You can read the IGN.com review of 3D Dot Game Heroes for Playstation 3 or watch their videoreview bellow.

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April 18, 2010

Retro Gamer #75

Filed under: blog,retro,Retro Gamer,videogames — Tags: blog, retro, Retro Gamer, videogames — technofranki @ 11:22

I like old videogames, that’s why I like to read Retro Gamer. This is what you can read in the latest issue of Retro Gamer #75:

Back to the Eighties – April 1988
Back to the Nineties – October 1992
The Making of… The Addams Family
The Classig Game – REZ
Retro Shamer: The Scout Steps Out
From the Archives – Tynesoft
The Making of… Road Blasters
Dizzy’s Eggshellent Adventures
The Unconverted
Retroinspection: Famicom Disk System
Why You Must Play… Wonderboy In Monster Land
In the Chair with John Romero

Retro Gamer can be bought from ImagineShop.co.uk.

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April 4, 2010

3D Dot Game Heroes Walkthrough

Filed under: blog,PS3,retro — Tags: Playstation, PS3, retro, trailers, videogames — technofranki @ 05:13

The 3D Dot Game Heroes for Playstation 3 coming this May, looks real cool. It’s like Zelda in dot matrix, very retro, very 8-bit, but still new and fresh.

I really like the style of this game, and think it will have a great apeal on the older audience of videogaming, the gamers that had their youth in the 80’s and though that there never could anything better than 8-bit.

Bellow is a trailer from the European PlayStation blog and a walkthrough from the US PlayStation blog.

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Apple iPad review [PCmag.com]

Filed under: hardware,review by others — Tags: Apple, gadgets, iPad — technofranki @ 04:55

PCmag.com have reviewed the new Apple iPad (wi-fi). I’m not an Apple fanboy, but the iPad looks like a cool gadget, though I think it looks a bit too big.

Under you can see the video review of iPad by PCmag,com.