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Dance Dissect Repurpose Competition

Dance Dissect Repurpose Competition

This year Awesome Retro will visit the Observe. Hack. Make. 2013 Festivals in the Netherlands. There we will team up with pinball and video artists in a project called “Rainbow Island”. Recently we where gifted a stack of Dance Mats via Dj Koelkast of Retroforum.nl, so many […]

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Awesome Retro Foundation

Awesome Retro Foundation

We received below transmission: we’re an official foundation now! See picture under transmission. Begin of Transmission. Date: December 24, 2012. Location: Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Mission: start Awesome Retro Foundation. Checking all systems: Crew Members [X] Check, Finances [X] Check, Appointment [X] Check. All Systems Ready. Bootstapping Awesome […]

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Twilight-cd.com revived, honoring old warez cd’s

Twilight-cd.com revived, honoring old warez cd’s

The domain Twilight-cd.com recently expired and was released by the domainsquatter. We’ve claimed the domain to create, together with the crowd, an attribution to the best warez cd from the mid-nineties: Twilight. From the website: “This website is a dedication to the high quality twilight cd-series that […]

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Retro Gaming Nacht III – 10 November 2012

Retro Gaming Nacht III – 10 November 2012

It’s been busy, that means good news, new donations and best of all: the announcement of the Retro Gaming Nacht III. This edition promises to be the best edition yet. It features over 40 consoles, tons of games and the usual great atmosphere. We’re working on a […]

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Mysteryland

Yesterday is history, today is a gift, tomorrow is a mystery. Mysteryland promises to be a party with dozens of genre-defining dj’s and loads of party people. There, somewhere, you’ll be able to also chill and play retro video games.

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Two weeks until Retro Gaming Nacht

Retro Gaming Nacht: Free event, 25+ game consoles, competitions. Optional pre-game-bbq. All of this and more at the Koningsweg 23a in Arnhem (NL). Read more about it here.

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First events scheduled for 2012

First events scheduled for 2012

This year is going to be a great year for Awesome Retro. Lot’s of things to do and the first three events are on the calendar.   In June we will have our own little fun-event called “Retro Gaming Nacht” (dutch) which is in Hack42 in Arnhem. […]

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Preparing for Retro Gaming Nacht II – 23 june 2012

Preparing for Retro Gaming Nacht II – 23 june 2012

Update: Subscription and detail page online! (in Dutch) Check out: http://www.awesomeretro.com/index.php/agenda/retro-gaming-nacht-ii-23-june-2012-arnhem-the-netherlands/   Retro Gaming Nacht II is the sequel to Retro Space. This time we’ll visit Hack42 in Arnhem, The Netherlands.   Activities Play all the original games on real game consoles from the past! Expect over […]

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Retrospace: one week later

The first Retrospace was a lot of fun. We’ve hosted over 30 game consoles and it looked beautiful. Its pretty hard to make great photo’s in dark areas. Below there are some pictures from retrospace in progress. More pictures, including a collection of everything is made by […]

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waiting till the sun goes down

Dual-sided projector screens FTW. Three street-facing-windows are now large screens visible from the outside. On these screens are projected: Beatmania (with dj-controller), Samba De Amigo (with maracas controllers) and Bomberman Online (for the dreamcast). We’re slowly moving to dawn and the screens are starting to become visible […]

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