Retro Matsuri

New Hampshire's Throwback Anime & Gaming Convention on tumblr dot com

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The schedule is live! Go check out what we're doing at Retro Matsuri this year!

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Want to infodump about something? (Of course you do, you're reading a post from an anime and video game convention's official Tumblr account.) Don't have a full-length panel prepared, or think it's thematically-appropriate yet off-topic? Retro Matsuri is having an event we call PowerPoint Night, where you can make shorter presentations unconstrained by what would normally be a good panel topic or length.

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Rainbow Road Kenta Nagata Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo EAD, 1996)

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Hi, I am the person who runs this page and I have been absolutely melting this week

The recent weather here in New Hampshire would be better described as "Florida". Luckily, Retro Matsuri will be indoors and air conditioned.

3 weeks left, and we can't wait to show you what we're working on.

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In Retro Matsuri Artists' Alley, we have a background music playlist (burned to a stack of CDs) that's a mix of both popular and obscure music of the 1970s-2000s, anime and video game music, and some fun(?) surprises. Here's a sampler!

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Happy Independence Day! Enjoy this 100% accurate depiction of America.

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I drew the royal family from the King’s quest series. It was my favourite game series growing up.

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Sierra launched the entire concept of the adventure game and was a huge booster of the American video game industry as a whole.

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Blade Master by Irem

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I got to go to the first year of Retro Matsuri in new hampshire last weekend and it was REALLY awesome. (also sooo empty, everyone go next year)

Some of the best panels I've ever been to at a convention and all on retro/older anime and culture! they also had some voice actors who ALSO worked on anime from the 90's and 2000's which was WAY cooler for me to meet since i knew a ton of their shows and i tend to watch older anime dubbed since those are the tapes i have. I met Amanda Goodman who did a ton of VA work on Utena and Gall force (among a dozen others!)

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Here are some pictures from a fan from last year's convention. We hope to see you again this year!

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The retro arts are not dead, they're chugging along just fine as part of the culture outside of the major entertainment industry.

Newgrounds had a low-polygon art and games contest last month. Here are the winners.

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muybridge horse, manual typewriter

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Is ASCII art not quite retro enough for you? Try typewriter art!

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Amiga 3000, IBM Model M keyboard, BassMX, Yamaha NS-10.

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The End of Staff Memes Week (thanks for watching!)

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Cover of Newtype magazine, Kadokawa Shoten, July 1996

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A trio of machines headed to Wausabicon this Saturday, Jun 27th! Wausabicon is a manga/anime/gaming meetup, so the club is leaning into the theme, and pulling some unusual hardware out of storage! The Casio Loopy (yes, from the calculator, watch, and piano company) was a very niche video game system marketed exclusively at little girls. It had less than to games before they discontinued it. It had a built in sticker printer which takes up about half of the console. The NEC PC-FX was the successor to the PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16 here in America) and it was a 2D sprite monster right as the PlayStation and Saturn were leaping into 3D. The PC-FX pivoted to more "mature" titles, with only a handful of "normal" video games ever released.

The Sharp Twin Famicom was a Nintendo Famicom plus the Famicom Disk System expansion module all rolled into one, and built under license. The Famicom was the Japanese precursor to the Nintendo Entertainment System in America.

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It's Staff Memes Week!

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if you're a pixel artist and never tried working with a reasonably accurate CRT filter I HIGHLY recommend it

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i'm definitely reaching for colors and techniques that i otherwise wouldn't use

it feels a lot more sculptural

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oh, and you can pull bullshit like this:

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I mean, not necessarily. There are color palettes and techniques that look fantastic on a flat screen, but horrid on CRT.

Like, look at this kitty:

Looks great here, but with a CRT filter? Completely obliterated.

Pixel art that wasn't designed to look good on a CRT doesn't always look better on CRT.

He has to be built with a completely different approach: