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How About a Round of Galf

Galf is a contemporary retro release (programmed for an original 1980s Nintendo Entertainment System but released in 2018), based on the mini game from the Brisbane-developed game Golf

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Street Fighter: signed Kylie poster

Kylie Minogue appears as Cammy in the action movie Street Fighter (Steven E de Souza, USA and Japan) in 1994.

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Video Games

The NFSA is developing and preserving a growing collection of video games and their source materials from the early 1980s to now.

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Halloween Harry T-shirt

White short sleeved t-shirt featuring Halloween Harry holding a flame thrower and a zombie standing behind him. 

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Super Nintendo Ad: Playing with Super Power

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the 1990s; its predecessor, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in 1983.

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Explicit video games to be banned

This TEN Eyewitness News item from 1993 announces that, following community concerns, video games with explicit violence and sex are to be banned.

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Warning: Games that trigger seizures

This QTV Eyewitness News item from 1992 reports on an 11-year-old Sydney boy who suffered an epileptic fit while playing a video game at a friend's party.

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Games Guru Test Drives Hottest New Games

Bob Hains, TEN Eyewitness News Brisbane's Games Guru from Games 'r' us, reviews some of the 'hottest new games in town' in 1993.

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SEGA Mega Drive giveaway winner

This TEN Eyewitness News item announces the winner of the Sega Mega Drive giveaway. The news team delivers the prize to a lucky young man who is still in his pyjamas!

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Gaming and Australian Popular Culture

We've published a Retro Gaming curated collection online that captures some of the ways that games have intersected with Australian popular culture since the 1970s.