The new work from Rushjet1. Its one track, but includes re-imaginings of each track from Mega Man 9. Hit the jump for song times.

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If you are a fan of old school gaming (and who isn’t), today Sega of America announced the Sonic Classic Collection for Nintendo DS. The game will include Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Sonic and Knuckles. It will also include an unlockable video on the history of Sonic. No word on whether or not the Sonic and Knuckles “lock-in” technology will be included. No release date set. A great game, if you aren’t already emulating it on your DS anyway.

Via Sega of America

WFDJ has an amazing gallery of old 8MM film cover art over here. Some of this stuff is just mind-bogglingly great. More pictures after the jump.

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Nice article about the economics of Pinball over at Cheep Talk.

Pinball attracted a different crowd than video games like Defender (my new pal designed Defender and Stargate too,) and this is the fundamental theorem of pinball economics. Pinball skill is transferrable. If you can pass, stall, nudge, and aim on one machine you can do it on any machine. This is both a blessing and a curse for pinball developers. The blessing is that pinball players were a captive market. The curse was that to keep the pinball players interested the games had to get more and more intricate and challenging.

Read the article here.

7-foot tall chair made of old Famicom games. Seems a waste, though.

Via Zen Albatross.

Here’s a nice list of some old school Game Boy games from Racketboy’s article. Lots of personal faves on here.

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