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My Wolf Suit music video on YouTube

Yesterday I posted the news about the brilliant new Superpowerless single 'My Wolf Suit' being available to download on iTunes. I am very pleased to report today that there is now an awesome music video to accompany the single.

New Superpowerless single released!

Available on iTunes today is the new single from Superpowerless. 'My Wolf Suit' is a parody of the Rebecca Black song 'My Moment'. I have only listened to her original once (honest!) so I could compare the two versions, but the parody is a much better song by far. 'My Wolf Suit' is well written, funny and very catchy. Definitely deserves a purchase!

iTunes page

It's been a while!

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since my last post. I think my mini-break in France at the beginning of the month put me too much in the Holiday mood. Rest assured though that my mind is now back on RetroRevX and it is now time to start making regular updates to the site once again. While you wait for the next lot of articles and console memories pages to emerge, why not take a look at these gaming sites I have found (or who have found me) in the last month. There are some really cool websites here, and there should be something to suit everyone's liking.

Hopefully I'll be back with some more news very soon.

120-Games
120-Games is an independent video game website that dedicates it’s time and knowledge to gamers and collector’s alike.
www.120-games.com/

8 Bit Weapon
This chiptune act produce music using a wide variety of retro games consoles and vintage toy synthesizers.
http://www.8bitweapon.com

The Centre for Computing History
Established to create a permanent public exhibition that tells the story of the Information Age
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk

Classic Retro Games
Website featuring a vast amount of retro game remakes for the PC.
www.classic-retro-games.com

Gamefan Magazine
The official site of Gamefan Magazine.
www.gamefanmag.com

The Gamer Inside
An upcoming webseries documenting the impact of video games on society. Looks very promising.
www.thegamerinside.com

Gamester81
A very good and entertaining retro gaming related YouTube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Gamester81

Mail Order Monsters
A Three piece group who exclusively use the Commodore SID chip to make their music.
http://www.mailordermonsters64.com

MegaByte
A novel clubbing experience in Manchester, playing a range of music from video games, anime and more, all accompanied by retro-inspired decor and
themed activities. The website is also very nice to look at too!
http://www.megabyteclub.co.uk

NES-Bit
Fantastic UK based site dedicated to recording everything that was released for the NES. Features a lot of good reviews
www.nes-bit.com/

NGamer Magazine
Website for NGamer Magazine, an excellent Nintendo related magazine based in the UK.
www.ngamer.co.uk

NintendoAge
A comprehensive website archiving games released for all Nintendo consoles.
www.nintendoage.com/

Nintendo Legend
An excellent review site for North American NES games. I love the retro theme on this site.
nintendolegend.com/

RetrocastUK
Sister Retro-Themed Channel to the Gamerdads Network main channel.
http://youtube.com/user/retrocastUK

Retroaction Magazine
Retroaction is a digital retro gaming magazine. The formatting is superb and the issues are full of interesting and well written articles.
http://retroactionmagazine.com

Retromags
A site dedicated to preserving retro video game magazines.
www.retromags.com

Time Warp Gamer
Retro gaming site with plenty of interesting articles.
timewarpgamer.com/

New content, new links and more

Hi,

This week I have some new additions to the Videos and Games page of the Revival section, and several new links that I have found recently.

First up, the Videos page now features a short video from director Shane English, in which a Pac-Man style scenario is brought to life through some fantastic video and effects editing. Watch the video here.

The Games page now also has some information about the new Captain America web game that has been released to tie in with the upcoming movie - http://retrorevx.co.uk/Games.aspx

If you look on the home page you will notice a slide show banner has been added to the top of the page. This is to help promote articles and sections that visitors to the site might not have been aware were there. The promoted pages will be changed on a regular basis, usually to coincide with the publishing of a new article or page.

And finally, here is a round up of the new links added to the site.

Gamefira
A website/mobile app created to showcase reviews, news stories, fan artwork and more.
www.gamefira.com/

GamerDads
Chat and online competition site aimed at ageing gamers.
www.gamerdads.co.uk/

Racketboy
Very cool retro gaming site with plenty of interesting and insightful content.
www.racketboy.com/

Red Parsley
A fun and interesting blog site that looks back at retro games and movies.
redparsley.blogspot.com/

Retroware TV
Home to a large collection of entertaining web based shows.
www.retrowaretv.com/

smuggsy
A well written site with information and news about modern and retro gaming.
smuggsy.co.uk/

Thumb Culture
Very good looking general gaming website with plenty of well written articles.
thumb-culture.com

Blasts from the Past #1: X-Men Games

Hello all,

Today I bring you the first of my "Blasts from the Past" articles. These articles will focus on games from different gaming systems that share a similar theme or topic. Today's issue looks at X-Men games from the late '80s and '90s. It has been a lot of fun revisiting these games again, although as per usual I've experienced issues with video recording, editing and uploading that has delayed the articles publication. After many hours of perseverance though, all the reviews and videos are now online for all to enjoy.

Blasts from the Past #1: X-Men Games
retrorevx.co.uk/XMenGames.aspx

NES memories and other updates

After many delays, the NES page is finally online! The latest problems emerged after uploading a video onto YouTube last week, at which point I realised that the way my videos were being encoded was causing frames to be dropped in YouTube. I have spent most of the week redoing the videos for improved playback online. I hope the wait has been worth it, as the NES page features my longest mini reviews so far and around 1 hour and 20 minutes of video game footage.

Other site updates include:

Comic book artist Nina Matsumoto now featured on the Art page - retrorevx.co.uk/Art.aspx

An update to my Games Lounge review containing information about Replay Events Ltd. - retrorevx.co.uk/GamesLoungeReview.aspx

New images added to the My Collection section:
id Software Collection Cyberdemon - http://flic.kr/p/9U4wCm
id Software Collection dog tags - http://flic.kr/p/9U4xT3
Mario Kart Wii candy dispenser 1 - http://flic.kr/p/9U1KHk
Mario Kart Wii candy dispenser 2 - http://flic.kr/p/9U1L7M

I hope everyone enjoys the updates and I will try to not take as long preparing the next one =D

Master System memories and Facebook updates

It is with much relief that I can finally announce the Master System page is live on the site. This page has been a long time coming and was quite difficult to write for some reason. I'm guessing that was down to some sort of writers block. Whatever it was, I managed to overcome it so that I could share with you my memories of this fantastic console. Along with the mini reviews of my top 10 favourite Master System games, there is also over an hours worth of new game footage for the site. I hope everyone enjoys the page.

retrorevx.co.uk/MasterSystem.aspx

There is also a new Facebook page to replace the Facebook group as it wasn't entirely practical.

www.facebook.com/pages/Retro-Revival-X/166814800045570

Here are some new links that have been added to the Links page.

Last Boss Games
www.lastbossvideogames.co.uk

Super Famicom Guy
super-famicom-guy.posterous.com/

Site updates and more

Hello everyone,

I would like to start this update by first of all apologising for yet more delays with the large site updates that I promised a few weeks ago. This is down to my other projects taking longer to complete than first anticipated and also a lack of the free time that I originally planned to dedicate to working on the website. With that said, I am very close to updating the Memories section with something at least.

I'm not leaving you completely empty handed though this week, as I have published a very interesting interview with Chiptune artist Superpowerless to the Articles section

Superpowerless Interview
http://bit.ly/ioks7c

Also worth a mention are new links that I have added to two fellow retro gaming websites that I became aware of this week. norwichretrogaming.co.uk and retrofusion.org.uk are two excellent sites filled with information about retro gaming systems, games reviews and more.

Site updates coming!

Hello,

Just a quick message to say that I have taken a short break from the site for the last couple of weeks while I worked on other projects. Rest assured though that in the following weeks I will be cracking on with adding new pages and concentrating heavily on the Memories section to make up for the time spent working on other things.

P.S I would at this point like to thank everyone who has shown interest in the site and has visited it. I hope you are all enjoying it =D

Electronic Handhelds links added

Two links have been added to the Emulation page and the Links page.

International Arcade Museum
The International Arcade Museum has information, specs and images for a vast amount of coin operated amusements.
www.arcade-museum.com/

Pica Pic
Pica Pic is a website where you can play a large number of digitalised retro handheld electronic games. This site is a must for any fans of Game & Watch and other electronic games. Previews of new games to be added are also available.
www.pica-pic.com/

Video Games Alphabet Pt.3

The final part of my Video Games A to Z has been added to the Articles page.

Check out Part 3 here - retrorevx.co.uk/VideoGamesAlphabet3.aspx

Arcade memories added

After much frustration working out the recording issues between MAME and FRAPS, the Arcade memories page has been added to the site - retrorevx.co.uk/Arcade.aspx

A new video rating system for the videos I upload has also been introduced - retrorevx.co.uk/disclaimer.aspx

Video Games Alphabet Pt. 2

Part 2 of The Video Games Alphabet has been added - retrorevx.co.uk/VideoGamesAlphabet2.aspx

New articles added

Two new articles have been added to the site.

My Donation to the National Media Museum
http://bit.ly/hxrinZ

The Games Lounge Review
http://bit.ly/hrGtdk

Video Games Alphabet Pt. 1

The Video Games Alphabet Part 1 has been added to the Articles section - retrorevx.co.uk/VideoGamesAlphabet1.aspx

BBC Micro page added

The BBC Micro page has been added to the Memories section - retrorevx.co.uk/BBCMicro.aspx

RetroRevX now on Blogger

RetroRevX now has a page on Blogger. This page will be used to provide the latest site related news, both on the blog page itself and through a feed on the website home page.

Site updates added

Site updates added to the home page.