After Kotaku reported the new Kimi Kiss NEC Laptop a Japanese blogger created a new custom PC dedicated to True Tears: a romantic visual novel produced by La'cryma.  A PlayStation 2 port of this game will be released on March 13, 2008 while the anime series, started in January, is already being fansubbed.

(via Retrothing/ Kenbakit) John Blankenbaker's KENBAK-1 was the first PC available on the market and it has just been re-released as a $999 KENBAK-1 Series 2 reproduction. This cool Star Trek-inspired machine was announced in the September 1971 issue of Scientific American, with a price tag of "only" $750...


KENBAK-1was designed before the microprocessor revolution, so the system logic was built around small and medium scale ICs. MOS shift registers provided a mere 256 bytes of memory. Just like i nthe original Star Trek the front panel featured a row of incandescent blinky lights instead of LEDs: pure retro hardware porno!! There are less than ten kits still available, so this is way more difficult to get than a Wii...


The above picture was made by placing a reproduction Kenbak-1 Series 2 PCB on top of the vintage Kenbak-1 PCB and shining a light at them.  The light passing through the holes proves that the reproduction PCBs are very accurate, down to the placement of holes!  The replica board is identical except for the text "Homebrew 2007" and "http://www.kenbakkit.com".  This is to help with counterfeit units.

Soldnder X is an horizontal shooting game produced by the famous online import game shop Play Asia. Seems that  the game quality is pretty high. Actually at the beginning I feared that this game would have been just a doujin game translated in english and professionally packaged. Instead the project turned out to be the first "must have" game for shooting lovers since the last Dreamcast shooters released last year...

Main features of this game:

• 720p at 60 fps
  
• 2-Player Co-Op Play (simultaneously)
• Classic design, yet state-of-the-art shooter technology
• Unique upgrade weapon system with five standard weapon types
• Never before seen tactical elements such as chaining, effectiveness system, 'berserker' mode and much more
• More than 20 extras (with both positive and negative effects!)
• Addictive collection quests
• Over-the-top boss fights
• Features a superb soundtrack and sound effects
• Bi-lingual story mode (English/Japanese)
• Online high score ranking
• Constant frame rate (60fps)

This is a You Tube video preview  ( this is the original NicoNico version).

NicoNico video mashup dedicated to Tiny Xevious (for the japanese retro computer PC-6601) created trought Vocaloid 2 (featuring the virtual idol Hatsune Miku). Great techno pop for all retrogamers and synth freanks!

Last sunday in Tokyo

Today, M4125, a new Maid PC, has been presented at Akihabara Maid Cafè Maid Station. The core of this new otaku fetish PC is the infamous Mini ITX developed by : a 17 x 17 cm low-power motherboard form factorVIA Technologies. Mini-ITX has similarities to ATX, microATX, FlexATX and BTX form factors, but is significantly smaller: 170 mm (6.7 inches) by 170mm.
There iare many photos on Akiba Blog.

Touhou Video 6: Get A Mac
Original version

(via Sshiori) Mac vs PC  Doujin parody of the original japanese TV commercial.

Oggi, durante il Gravity Festival 2007 (Corea del Sud), oltre alla finale del campionato mondiale di Ragnarock Online si poteva provare la nuova beta di Pucca Racing per PC: un clone di Kart Rider (che a sua volta era uno spudorato clone di Mario Kart) dedicato a Pucca, la mascotte coreana più famosa del Mondo.  Nel gioco si possono selezionare Pucca, Garu, Abyo, Ching e Tobe per gareggiare in una delle 12 nazioni disponibili.


Clicca qui per vedere un video di Pucca Racing.


(fonte INQUIRER.net)

Un altro reportage sulle bellezze coreane potete trovarlo sul blog filippino Waukster.