Nov 20, 2009

Friday Night Video Bonus

We here at the SMERC blog are pretty big fans of other blogs like 1UP and Wired's GameLife blog, so, it follows that we would be big fans of the Retronauts podcast, a collaborative effort between editors of those two blogs, plus some others.

GameLife editor Chris Kohler and varying others have formed the group as a way of discussing vintage video games and tracking their history. In this weeks clip on the Retronauts' site the group continues their trek through Tokyo in search of retro game shops in the district of Nakano



You'll see the boys climb some stairs and geek-out wildly on everything around them, including chocolate (?), including the ultra colorful apparel of that region and everything on the public walls. Why IS everything in Japan so colorful? 

Either way, the Retronauts are truly enjoyable because they're not just industry surveyors, but, really authentic fans of gaming concepts and visuals.

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