☆Game Art Gallery "Mario & Friends" & "Starters Pokemon"☆ @saramaese #GamersUnite #RetroGaming #PokemonXY

We love to showcase the most beautiful and varied Video Game Art that the Retrogaming and Video Games community has to offer.

We believe that Sara Maese typifies that in all the work that this talented artist undertakes.

About Sara:


"Hello! I'm Sara Maese.

I'm a young Spanish girl who was born and raised in a north African city named Ceuta, but actually I'm based in the Netherlands with my boyfriend and my two cats.

I'm graduated in Fine Arts by the University of Málaga and I also have a master's degree in Graphic Design and Prepress by the school Gauss Multimedia.

I participated in a few exhibitions with my partners during my university period, also took part of different illustration and design projects for individual costumers and I also did an internship at the studio LouLou & Tummie during three months.

I'm open to a career opportunity, freelance works and also interested in collaborating with other creatives, so don't hesitate to get in contact with me whenever you want through my email url placed in the bottom of this section."

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The two Sara Maese projects that really caught our video gaming eye were:

"MARIO & FRIENDS"

AND

"STARTERS POKEMON"

These two projects really capture the essence of Sara's work and also portray a love for these two stalwarts of the Video Gaming world

First Up Take A Look At Mario & Friends With An Introduction From Sara Below:

"This personal project, made by the principal characters of the gaming series

Super Mario, was posed as a personal challenge.

I wanted to create a series of posters using only the main and characteristic colours

of each character - I added the white by myself - and simple geometric elements. 

I didn’t want to use the pen or the pencil to draw something in  the posters,

I wanted to try myself and my ability to create something in a simple way. 

That’s why some of the elements that appear in the posters are repeated in

others, I wanted to use them to build new scenes. 

Thank you for your visit and I hope you enjoy taking a look at my project!"

 

 

Next Up Is "POKEMON STARTERS" With An Intro From Sara Below:

"For the release of the new Pokémon X/Y game I decided
to create a tribute for all of the starters Pokémon in the
game series.
Which one is your favorite?"

 

 

WOW! WHAT A TREAT EH!

We Absolutely Adore Sara's Amazing Work!

What's Your Favourite Piece?

We LOVE SHY GUY!!

☆Pang Man Part 3 - The Beauty Of Local Multiplayer - "Why I Bought A Wii-U"☆#GamersUnite #WiiU

Pang Man Part 3

Our favourite purveyor of all things Video Games steps back into The Freezer for a further rummage through Retrogaming History to tell you exactly why he bought a Wii-U...

Pull up a seat and listen to what the great man has to say on the subject of Local Multiplayer Games & Nintendo's much derided next gen console...

"I have a confession to make – I don’t own a PS4 or an Xbox One or even a PS3.

And even though these 3 consoles were out at the time (or at least had their release dates confirmed), 6 months ago, I decided instead to buy a Wii U.....

A Wii U you say? 

The console with virtually no games and pathetic sales?! Are you nuts?

Well yes and let me explain why......

The reason is my love of local multiplayer.

Nowadays if you want to play with your mates –the majority of the time you have to go online. 

And whilst online multiplayer can be great, somehow I miss the face to face action you used to get with local multiplayer.

For me the best games growing up were the multiplayer ones that I could play with my friends or siblings with everyone in the same living room.

I mean who can forget the awesome 4 player Golden gun mode in Goldeneye on the N64?  

Or the insane battle-mode on Super Mario Kart! 

Using drifts to just make it around the corner to avoid the Shell hitting your last balloon!

Super Bomberman, where each player would start in their own corner of the screen before moving towards the centre to outwit their opponents.  And trying to avoid the one person who would recklessly drop bombs everywhere and who more often than not would kill themselves accidentally! Then panicking as the screen started to fill in once the timer ran out.

Co-operative 2 player games such as Double Dragon on the Master system, Golden Axe on the Megadrive or Time Crisis 2 on the PS2, where you could team up with a buddy to take on evil.

What about Streetfighter 2 Turbo –“winner stays on”, matches, that got so competitive that fights and sulking were not uncommon.

Or International Superstar Soccer (now known as Pro Evolution soccer) –showing endless slow motion replays of goals (sometimes from different angles!) with personalised commentary  to your conquered foe, just to rub it in.

One of the funniest things about local multiplayer is seeing a “dance of victory” or the mockery that takes place live when someone loses. Quite often the loser will blame the controller, call the loss lucky or a fluke. But nothing could ever beat the old classic excuse of, “I wasn’t ready!”

Yes you can laugh at someone over online multiplayer but seeing a reaction in person is and always will be so much sweeter!

So when people ask why I bought a Wii U, the answer is because it is the one console that embraces local multiplayer. Of course there are other local multiplayer games still around on other consoles (Little Big Planet, for example) but usually these are few and far between.

The Wii U may only bring out one good game a year, but at least more often than not, that game will allow me to have friends who can all participate together in the same room.

Wii U games, like Super Mario Bros U, The Wonderful 101, Super Mario 3D World, Nintendoland and the soon to be released Super Smash Bros and Super Mario Kart can all be played by 4 players.  Futhermore some games which are 4 players on other consoles (such as Sonic All Star Racing Transformed) are able to incorporate 5 player s on the Wii U via the additional screen on the Wii U gamepad.

Sadly outside of Nintendo, other companies have little interest in including local multiplayer as a feature in most games. A prime example of this is the latest Need For Speed game–Most Wanted, which I felt is a game that screamed out for split screen racing.

I hope to be proved wrong, but to me it appears that the incorporation of local multiplayer into console games is a sadly dying concept."

 

Do You Prefer Online Or Local Multiplayer?

What's your favourite Multiplayer Game and WHY?

☆The Wonderful World Of "Super Video Game Land" PART 2☆ @AnthonyBulcao #RetroGaming #GamersUnite #GameArt

Recently We brought you the Wonderful World Of "Super Video Game Land" 

and we really wanted to get to know the wonderful talent behind 

the beautiful Video Game Art.........

So now we introduce to you , our friend Anthony Bulcao in his own words.....

Games Freezer: Have You Read Our Article About Your COOL Work?

Anthony Bulcao:  

 

"Thanks so much for your interest...I really appreciate the stuff you wrote about my art.  

 

It seems you understand exactly what I am going for with SuperVideoGameLand"

 

Games Freezer: So What Is Your Story? What Has Inspired You?

Anthony Bulcao:

"I won't bore you with my very long, very serious and dramatic, very very very important life story.....ha ha, I will just give you a little idea of why I do what I do.  

 

If you want the whole story of how i ended up here... we should sit down one day, with a coffee, and a joint....

I was born in '81....Early memories of games are scattered in my mind.  

 

I suppose I must have been 6 or 7 when I started to play....which puts me right in line with early Nintendo. 

 

But I do have other memories from earlier times.. Atari / Colecovision / Apple2

 

These images...have stayed with me, and It has been so satisfying for me to recreate these memories on canvas.  

 

I remember Karateka ....Congo Bongo....Big Bird's Egg Catch ....and of course all the MECC stuff in the computer lab in elementary!

 

These are the earliest images I remember...i think.

Then came Final Fantasy on the NES...That was the big one for me. 

 

 

 

And Link's Awakening on Game Boy

 

 

Zelda, Zelda 2, Mario, Metroid, Castlevania, Ghosts and Goblins....etc....I could go on forever.

 

 

And then FF2 and FF3 and the SUPER NINTENDO!

and Secret of Mana, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Chrono trigger...

Then I went Playstation / XBOX / PS2 / X360 / 3DS / Wii / PS3 / PS4 ....

Now I rarely play games on a regular basis.... I try to play through the important ones....

 

Last year I got through Guacamelee, The Last of Us, and Bioshock Infinite, those were amazing.

 

 

 

I spend most of my time working and painting.

It can be difficult as an artist to focus your talent/ability/attention.  

 

It seems that my whole life I have been drawing and painting and writing and singing and doing all these things but actually not producing anything worth a shit.  And mostly just working my ass off at some bullshit job complaining about everything that is wrong with everything.

  

For me, SuperVideoGameLand was essential to focus my creativity.  

 

It was a way for me to produce the quality of art I am capable of, and to remember these games as the works of art that they already are.  

 

I love recreating these scenes, and I love how they look on my wall.  

 

Every time I walk by or glance upon one, I immediately start humming the game music.  

 

It has brought a certain level of happiness into my life, and I am beginning to notice others finding the same joy when they see them.  

 

We all have these memories, and we are adults now, so why not decorate our homes with them?

I am very happy with the progress I made in 2013, and I plan on producing a lot more paintings in 2014.

 

Thanks again for your interest, I am so happy that you like my artwork."

 

Games Freezer: Thanks Anthony, your influences sound similar to ours. When You Create Your Next Piece Of Game Art We'd Really Like To See An Anthony Bulcao Take On Mario Kart, What Do You Think??!!

Anthony Bulcao:

"I'll get that Mario Kart painting up soon enough!"

 

So there you have it, the main man behind those marvellous creations over at Super Video Game Land is a really nice fella and an official Friend Of The Freezer! 

We'll be covering more and more of the wonderful Game Art in the coming months, so lets hope for a great 2014 for our main man!

"Richard Reporting From The Freezer"

★Game Of The Day "MICH"☆ @mich_game @Rob_Kian #RetroGaming #GamersUnite #PixelArt

Rob in Mich’s bedroom getting attacked by a paranormal lamp!

So our love affair with beautiful pixel art style games continues......

This time we've discovered a cool looking retrogaming inspired pixel art style video game called "MICH"

MICH is:

"A story based adventure set in London. About a regular dude in a regular town with an extraordinary girlfriend. 

Who's saving who?"

We don't know much more about the game yet other than 

"The game will contain paranormal themes"

We want to get inside ,Rob Candy ,the game creators mind in order to find out what has inspired him to create such a cool looking game and what the heck it's going to be all about!

Watch this space for that as hopefully we can track him down.....


Anyways here's some lovely screenshots from the game in progress......

The above pic is the "Key Step Mechanic" and it is explained by the creator below:

"This is a screenshot showing in very basic terms, the Keystep mechanic. 

When you step on one of these Keysteps, the light changes colour. 

These must be stepped on in a certain order, (or a rolling boulder will crush your frail bones …just kidding) then they light up a different color to show you matched the pattern and something activates. In this case, a lift.

They will get trickier down the line and being a quick little jumper could save your life!"

Here's some other cool screenshots from the work in progress game:

 

You can keep up to date on MICH's Progress through 

Games Freezer 

OR

The Following methods:

Follow @Mich_Game

 Follow @Rob_Kian

You can also visit EatMyFaceGames.com

Aswell as 

Indie DB.Com

Wow, that's a lot of ways to keep track of MICH !

So make sure you do and we'll do our best to get in contact with MICH's creator to get the FULL LOWDOWN as soon as we can!

Until Next Time Friends .... KEEP COOL

"Rich Reporting From The Games Freezer"

★RetroGaming Games Freezer Bulletin★ @RetroAsylum1 @RetroCollect @Elite_Systems #RetroGaming #GamersUnite

 

Over the last couple of weeks we've been treated to many cool things RetroGaming Related.

We've decided to pack them all up into a nice little package just for you and call it the Retrogaming Games Freezer Bulletin.

So take a little look at the things and people that have piqued our interest over the course of January.

8-BIT GALLERY.COM

8-bitgallery.com

There's nothing on the site yet, but we love their website banner!

Keep an eye on this one to see what gets posted......

"Reaching The Far Lands"

"Reaching the Far Lands: one man's journey to the end of 'Minecraft' "

 "On March 28, 2011, Kurt J. Mac opened a new game of Minecraft and started to walk — and he hasn't stopped. Nearly three years later, he's traveled seven hundred virtual kilometers in hopes of reaching the end of the Minecraft world, a mysterious place called the Far Lands."

Read The Full Story HERE

Retro Asylum Podcast

We're probably a bit late to the party but we've got right into The Retro Asylum Podcast.

We recommend you get on over to Retro Asylum NOW and have a listen to the gaming goodness that they preach!

Retro Asylum

Digitiser

We saw a pic on Twitter from @RetroCollect that took us all the way back to the pre internet days when Teletext & Ceefax ruled the airwaves.

The gamers Teletext Page of choice back in those days was Digitiser . 

Digitiser was the IGN of it's day, the most up to date Video Games News and Reviews site of the day.

We'd forgotten all about this until Retro Collect posted this cool pic! 

Digital Games Museum

Take a trip to Digital Game Museum to see how these cool dudes and dudettes SAVE GAMES!

DigitalGameMuseum.org

Bluetooth ZX Spectrum

There's only one day left to back the brilliant elite ZX Spectrum KickStarter, head over NOW to be a part of Video Games History (again) 

kickstarter - Bluetooth ZX Spectrum

Guide To The Best Android Emulators

As our regular readers will know we've spent a lot of time looking into emulators recently and we found this article to be a great source of video game emulation knowledge....

Take A Look And Have A Read HERE

 

 That's just a small glimpse of the stuff that we havn't managed to cover over the past few weeks and rest assured we have got plenty more to cover as the world of Retro Gaming is just full of great stories right now!