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Frankie's Profile: I'm a magazine publisher who lives between Tokyo and Rome writing about Japanese Pop Culture and technology. Beside my own magazines my articles appeared also on La Repubblica (Italian Newspaper), XL (Italian Magazine), Wired (Italia) and GAME LABO (Japanese). I also do consulting for Japanese companies interested in oversea Otaku market. I've been a techno DJ and musician till the mid nineties before starting to work as consultant for institutions and companies...
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NES BONG for retrogame hippies!

di Frankie (10/02/2008 - 22:16)


James, a Gizmodo reader, dedicated this past weekend into converting an old NES controller into a bong...

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NES Controller Socket

di Frankie (09/28/2008 - 02:32)


(via MAKE Blog) If you are a videogaem hacker who like to "play" with old consolles you will be happy to know that Parallax just released a NES controller socket so you don't need to cannibalize your NES to get one...

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Final Fantasy 7 for Nintendo NES

di Frankie (02/23/2008 - 00:25)



Madrigal today sent me the link to this Final Fantasy 7 bootleg for NES/Famicom programmed by Shenzhen Nanjing Technology Co, Ltd
"From start to almost finish, the game follows the PlayStation port. Key dialogue sequences are completely identical, such as when the group finds what Sephiroth did to the Midgar Zolm to when Cloud freaks out and hands over the Black Materia. Aeris tells the drunk old dressmaker how Cloud has always wished that just once he could dress up like a girl. Dyne and Barrett have the same conversations as in the PlayStation original. Nothing is missing or out of place".


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GAME GENERATION X DVD

di Frankie (12/26/2007 - 03:17)


Yesterday, the Japanese satellite TV Mondo 21 has announced Game Generation X : a documentary dedicated to 8 bit videogames that will be releases next February. The DVD, created with support of 8bit legend Shin Masaru, will feature 18 of Xevious perfect play and a brand new nes-like game called  Mr Splash.
Looks like Game Center CX finally got a real competitor!


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DRAGON QUEST IV (NDS)

di Frankie (11/23/2007 - 21:43)


A Japanese gamer has scanned the Famitsu cross reviews of the original Dragon Quest IV for Famicom and the Playstation and DS ports. The DS version has been released yesterday and seems that Akiba went crazy for it!

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FAMICOM: pubblicitĂ  TV

di Frankie (07/18/2007 - 00:03)



Un classico video promozionale della Nintendo che rivediamo sempre con piacere!!

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GOOGLE MAPS: Dragon Quest

di Frankie (07/11/2007 - 00:02)



Il gamer giapponese XB-LIM ha creato delle mappe navigabili di Dragon Quest 1 (MSX/NES), Dragon Quest 2 (MSX/NES), Dragon Quest 3 (NES/SuperFamicom/GBC) e Dragon Quest 4 (NES/Playstation) in stile Google Maps.

The japanese Dragon Quest fan XB-LIM has created a Goggle Maps like map of  Dragon Quest 1 (MSX/NES), Dragon Quest 2 (MSX/NES), Dragon Quest 3 (NES/SuperFamicom/GBC) and Dragon Quest 4 (NES/Playstation). It would have been really usefull if we had this kind of Google Maps back in the 80s!


Dragon Quest 1 map from Map Libs

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CHIPTUNE MANIA...

di Frankie (07/04/2007 - 00:28)




Gli amanti del chiptune, come la nostra amica Pcna (geniale musicista chiptune e graphic designer italiana), saranno felici di sapere che Alex Mauer ha appena rilasciato il suo nuovo album Vegavox. Quello che rende unica questa ultima fatica di Alex è il fatto che l'album è registrato su una cartuccia del NES. Questo è un video di presentazione dell'album.



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