Sonic 2 XL - A Plus-sized Adventure

An awesome hack of the Sonic 2 ROM file brings us this unique take on the classic platform adventure. Rings are now onion rings, eat too many and Sonic gets fat, keep eating and Sonic will die of a heart attack. An excellent twist on the original gameplay and well worth checking out...

SONIC 2 XL WEBSITE



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Retro GT Travel Card Holders

Awesome designs for a unique travel/credit card holder from Retro GT. Cheap stocking filler?

See all the designs here: Retro GT Shop

Hand Baked Presents Bitz of Noize

Hand Baked Arcade, London's temporary arcade installers are at it again! This time organising their biggest event yet, running all night and completely FREE to enter! There is to be a large amount of classic games consoles available on free-play including the likes of the Sega Mega Drive, Super Nintendo and Atari 2600.

Combine this with a large range of underground erlectronic music including the best that London and the South has to offer in terms of chiptune producers and you have one hell of party not to be missed!

For more info visit the Facebook Events Page HERE

Or the Hand Baked Arcade Website HERE

Freekade iPad Arcade Cabinet

After what started off as an April Fool's hoax has now become reality! A micro, table top arcade cabinet designed for all you iPad owners. Pure genius.

Freekade Website - iPad Arcade

R3PLAY Gaming Expo

The start of November was the one weekend where travelling all the way to Blackpool (from London) on a 7 hour coach journey could be excused. This was due to the fact it was the home to one of the largest gaming exhibitions this year. R3play was the name of the event and it covered the 3 vital C’s – Coin-Ops, Consoles & Computing. With so many machines on show it was truly an epic event. Add to this the fact everything was on free-play and it was a geeks paradise. Below I have put together a video showing just some of the machines that were on show:

I also documented my trip to Blackpool on the most relevant piece of photography equipment available, the Game Boy Camera, enjoy my pixelated paparazzi archive below!

8 Bit London Street Map

Just come across this, its not really useful in the slightest, but even so, nice to see london in a NES style! Zoom in and yes you will find every London road from the A-Z..

LONDON STREET MAP IN 8-BIT

Modified NES Project to begin soon..

I am soon (possibly even tonight) going to begin on this new project. A circuit bent NES that is able to output some awesome glitched-out 8bit visuals by patching cables across the different sockets. Combined with my modified (for music) Atari 2600, C64 and Gameboy projects the end results should be pretty manic! The legend behind the project above + countless other circuit bent toys and instruments can be found at Casper Electronics...

R3PLAY - Blackpool

R3play is worth shouting about, even though it is not until early November... this is set to be one of the biggest gaming conventions in Europe this year. Covering the full spectrum of gaming from the earliest of home computers and coin-ops through to the latest generation consoles. There are to be literally hundreds of machines all on FREE-PLAY and is sure to be an absolute haven for anyone with even the slightest interest in gaming or computer technology. Of course The Hand Baked Arcade are going to be there with an installation, 2 days of gaming, be silly not to!

Game Gavel

Game Gavel is a new UK based computer game auction site. You may ask why this is needed when there is the almighty Ebay but these guys have had Game Gavel up and running in America for a while now and are clocking up a healthy amount of computer game related listings and sales.

I have an account on there for Hand Baked, check out my listing HERE.

Moddified Commodore 64s

This guy certainly knows his way about the classic C64 and it's modifications for music use. Ryan, based in London creates the most amazing 8bit synthesisers out of the famous home computers from the 80s. He is currently finishing off a project for myself (E:LF) and I can not wait to receive it! Check out his website: http://blog.re-64.com/

Retro GT.com

Head over to our friends at Retro GT for a fine selection of retro themed t-shirts, hoodies and travel card holders. These guys designs are awesome and quality extremely good considering the low prices on all of their items. They have supported Hand Baked from the beginning, so go check out the style now!

Hand Baked Arcade on The Gadget Show Ch5.wmv

Finally the footage of The Hand Baked Arcade in use on the Gadget Show, Channel 5. The Birmingham based studio contacted us to provide some equipment for their Wall Of Fame feature, watch the feature now!

Hand Baked Blog launch + Clash magazine feature!

Welcome To the new Hand Baked Blog. This will be the place to keep up to date with Hand Baked Arcade & Records News. Be sure to follow this blog to be informed of posts and updates.

What better way to launch the new blog than by showing off the full page feature in this months Clash magazine dedicated to the Hand Baked Arcade! Last months feature was the Apple iPad, this month is the arcade ;-) Click the picture to the left to see the full size image.