#Retroware’s cellular ‘nerd room’ for AVGN 8-Bit makes me miss my outdated gaming wall – Destructoid
The workforce behind the upcoming 2D side-scrolling platformer Indignant Video Recreation Nerd 8-bit realized it might be attending numerous conventions over the approaching months and put collectively a cellular model of the long-lasting ‘nerd room’ from the upcoming recreation. It’s a cool nod to the retro vibe of AVGN 8-bit, nevertheless it additionally jogged my memory simply how a lot I miss my outdated gaming wall.
Born in 1989, my gaming wall wasn’t practically as retro because the one created by the groups at Mega Cat Studios and Retroware. For higher or worse—let’s be actual, higher—the 70s-style wooden paneling was already gone earlier than I began my very own wall, however apart from that it was very related. For me, it began as a shelf to carry my Sega Genesis video games and VHS tapes earlier than increasing to incorporate the few Sega Saturn video games I had, a ton of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 video games, and a handful of Sega Dreamcast and Gamecube video games. The totally different sizes of circumstances all the time introduced a problem that on the time was annoying, however now I’d be thrilled to must work out.
By the point the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 rolled round, issues have been beginning to transfer within the digital course. I keep in mind pondering, “There isn’t any means I’ll ever go digital! I really like having my bodily goodies!” Man, instances have modified. I’m in a totally totally different home now, however there isn’t a gaming wall. The few bodily video games I’ve sit on a easy stand close to my consoles, although it’s hardly sufficient to make a wall out of even when I needed to.
To construct the Indignant Video Recreation Nerd 8-bit nerd room, Retroware took 60 high-resolution pictures of the long-lasting wall of video games and printed them out, measuring each to make them correct to the precise set. In the long run, the centerpiece wall is 2 4-foot segments mixed to create the 8-foot wall with that 70s-style wooden paneling.
I all the time needed to recreate the long-lasting Nerd Room only for the hell of it, and this ended up being the proper excuse. Plus, our workforce’s obtained a bunch of random expertise—carpentry, portray, logistics, printing—you recognize, stuff we don’t actually get to make use of when making indie video games. So it was enjoyable (and cathartic) to work these hard-skill muscular tissues a bit. The followers on the expo have been actually into it, too. We had simply introduced the sport proper earlier than MAGFest, so loads of AVGN followers didn’t know that it existed but. Then they’d stroll into the expo and growth—there’s a full-on, free-standing Nerd Room proper in entrance of them.
– Justin Silverman, Inventive Director at Retroware
How about you? Do you continue to have an epic gaming wall? If that’s the case, be happy to brag about it and even put up an image under for the remainder of us to take pleasure in!
Indignant Video Recreation Nerd 8-bit is presently in improvement for NES(sure, that NES), PC, and all trendy consoles.
