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Surprise! TV Game SuperHyper Issue 0 is OUT NOW!

I know, you thought I was MIA all summer because I didn’t post anything here on the blog. But guess what? I was actually working on a secret bonus issue of the RGSH fanzine! That’s right, after a 3-year wait for issue 5, I’m dropping another issue this year: TV Game SuperHyper Issue 0!

“But wait, Teej –” I hear you say. “What do you mean, ‘TV’ Game SuperHyper? Why isn’t it ‘RETRO’ Game SuperHyper? Why is it issue 0? Why is it black and white? Why is the date on it 1994? And why are you so damned handsome?”

I get it, you have questions. Fortunately, I have answers!

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Arcade Visit: Logan Arcade, Chicago IL

This one has been on my “arcades to visit” list (yes I do actually have a list) for years, but it’s taken me until now to make the trip. I’m a 3-hour drive from Chicago, and Logan Arcade doesn’t open til 6pm on weekdays and 3pm on weekends, so it doesn’t really work out to just take a day trip. It had to be an occasion when I happened to be staying in Chicago overnight, with no other specific evening events to attend to, which is a pretty rare planetary alignment.

That actually happened, though, when I took a day off just to hang with my buddy who lives in the Windy City, and we managed to incorporate Logan into our plans which otherwise involved shithousing various overly-engorged meat-centric sandwiches and consuming copious amounts of alcohol.

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Retro Game SuperHyper Fanzine Issue #5 is FINALLY OUT NOW!

YES!! Over three years late, but I kept my promise, and the fifth issue of RGSH fanzine is finally finished and ready for you!!

The long-overdue FIFTH issue of Retro Game SuperHyper is finally here! 80 pages of art, photography, and articles about games we’re obsessed with.

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Arcade Visit: Vintage Vault, Mukwonago, WI

Mukwonago (muck-wanna-go), Wisconsin is a village near Milwaukee, with a population of fewer than 9000, and allegedly, home to America’s best apple pie. At 715 Main Street, there’s a building labeled Kay’s Academy of Dance — but if you’re not interested in learning the Fox Trot, go around back and you’ll find Vintage Vault Arcade!

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Laser Game SuperHyper

At last! A project I started back in 2021 and have picked away at little by little is finally finished, and I’m so excited to show it off to you now!

I give you…Laser Game SuperHyper!

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“Reverse” = REBIRTH?!

As I wrote in a post this past summer, Taito is releasing the Taito LD Game Collection in Japan later this year, including HD remasters of their three animated laserdisc arcade classics Time Gal, Ninja Hayate, and Space Battleship Yamato. It was also noted that the collector’s edition would include a serial code for a bonus game, called Time Gal Reverse. But what is it?

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MDb’s Annual Metroid Marathon Starts Today!

The Metroid Database — the website I started in 1996 — is beginning its annual Metroid Marathon today, and for the first time, I am making my return to the MDb to participate!

With this being the anniversary month of the MDb (launched on October 16, 1996), each October they do a marathon in which they livestream every game in the Metroid series. With the franchise now totaling 14 games, and some of them requiring quite a few hours to complete, that provides plenty of daily content to last throughout the month. This year, they have graciously invited me to be a part of it, and I am honored to have been given the prestigious position of playing through the original Metroid on October 16 at 9:30 pm CDT, live on Twitch!

As you may know, October 16 is also significant because it’s the anniversary of the launch of Retro Game SuperHyper (that was intentional), so it’ll be a fun way to celebrate. I hope you all swing by and watch, chat, and join in the fun!

I will be playing the game on original hardware — no emulators — and there may be a surprise or two as well. I’ve been training hard, playing Metroid 1 over and over, so that I can give you a good show!

Find the full schedule HERE at the MDb. Please check out the MDb’s Metroid Marathon daily at the MDb’s Twitch channel, and follow the RGSH Twitch channel too (the MDb’s channel will also be linked through my channel when they’re streaming). Can’t wait to see you there!

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The Pre-order Game UPDATED 5.5.23

UPDATE: The thrilling conclusion to the story, at the end of the article!

Love playing video games? And collecting them too? Well the game-playing doesn’t have to stop when you run out of lives — if you wanna roll the dice on winning and losing some more, why not try pre-ordering your next game?

Okay, that sounds like cynical snark right out of the gate. But I was thinking about this as I’m looking at pre-ordering a title I’m really looking forward to, and realizing that just pre-ordering a new game can be — well, a game in itself.

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Midwest Gaming Classic 2023

Midwest Gaming Classic went down from March 31-April 2, 2023, and I attended on the show’s final day, Sunday the 2nd.

As I’ve mentioned in all of my previous posts about MGC (2022, 2019, 2017), I have attended nearly every year that the show has run since 2005. (There was a blizzard in 2018, 2020 didn’t happen due to Covid, and 2021 didn’t work out for me.) That’s a lotta shows! Some years, I will admit, have been better than others; unfortunately, I felt like I didn’t get much out of it last year, but that was largely due to my own tight schedule, not any fault of the show’s.

However, I am happy to report that this year, I had a great experience and it felt like a true return to form. I saw and played lots of kickass games, picked up some cool stuff, enjoyed some entertaining panels, and met some rad people. Let’s get into it!

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Game Room Setup, Part 1

As I mentioned in my last post, we spent the past couple months moving house. It’s been an intense and exhausting process, but we are finally in our new place. Now, the process of putting it together begins as we live amongst boxes for the foreseeable future, gradually putting away, setting up, and settling in.

Naturally, I wanna dive into putting together my new game room, and I have slowly started putting some things away and roughing out the layout, but of course there’s the whole rest of the house that needs attention too, so I don’t know when the new RGSH Research Lab will actually be complete. I thought I would wait until it was done before getting back into blogging and creating content, but then I thought, why not just document it as it happens?

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Quiet (for now)

Big changes coming to RGSH HQ! I know I haven’t written much very regularly anyway, but the blog and the socials attendant thereto will be a bit quiet for a little while as we are in the process of moving into a new place!

With this move will come some very positive changes to my gaming setups, of course, as well as my ability to stream on Twitch and work on various projects. So in the meantime, please stick with me as we look forward to launching into the next phase of Retro Game SuperHyper to provide even better quality content soon! Thanks and keep your eyes peeled for updates!

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Atari 50: Retro done right, again

Back in 2019, I wrote a post about the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, and raved about how impressively well-put-together it was. The collection of games was the cake, but the icing was the wealth of historical information. SNK40 was lovingly compiled by Digital Eclipse, and to me, was the epitome of classic game collection titles.

Now, Digital Eclipse may have — no, they definitely have — outdone themselves with what may be one of the most significant anniversary collections in video game history. To put it bluntly, Atari 50 needed to be spectacular. And it is!

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