Tiny Contest: Win a Retro-Bit Generations ⊟

That’s right, we’re giving away a new console this week on Tiny Cartridge: the very intriguing, very strange Retro-Bit Generations. I have one here that I will send out to one lucky commenter (or lucky auto-entered Club Tiny member!)

All you have to do is look at the game list here, then comment on this post with the game you most want to play out of the enormous lineup. You have until Sunday, March 12 at 11:59 PM ET to enter! Good luck!

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Contest: Win a Gunvolt Striker Pack ⊟ 

Did you know that Azure Striker Gunvolt isn’t just an anime available on 3DS eShop -- it’s also two video games!? As proof, I have a copy of the physical Azure Striker Gunvolt Striker Pack, provided by publisher Yacht Club Games, to give away. 

From now until Sunday, February 19, at 11:59 pm ET, you can comment here and be entered to win the game. If you want to talk about the Gunvolt anime, that would be cool. I haven’t seen it yet! Good luck!

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Tiny Contest: Get the new edition of Power-Up ⊟

Did you like reading about Power-Up: How Japanese Games Gave the World an Extra Life? Imagine, then, how much you’d enjoy actually reading the book!

We can help make that happen for one lucky reader: Dover Publishing has sent us a print copy to give away. Just comment on this post with your favorite power-up item, and make sure you sign in with a real email address so we can contact you! (Just saying -- we’re not trying to capture data or whatever, we just want to be able to get in touch with the winner and arrange shipment!)

We’ll pick a winner from the comments -- and from a certain tier of our Club Tiny Patreon group, who enjoys instant contest entry as a perk of membership -- after the contest ends Friday, January 13 at 11:59pm ET. And look forward to more giveaways next week! We’re starting this year off right, for at least a couple of people.

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Tiny Labyrinth: Fake Chinese 3DS game

I'm unsure where he found it, but reader Offal stumbled upon what appears to be a Chinese bootleg of a Nintendo 3DS emulator. Either that, or it's a virtual 3DS sent back in time by SkyNet Nintendo to assassinate the PSP2.

Offal points out it's a poor facsimile of the advanced device: the top screen displays only six colors in 2D (the bottom shows four shades of gray), and the analog pad, touch screen, cameras, and microphone are inoperable.

It does play a single game, but it's nothing we've heard announced from either Japanese or Western developers. The emulator's existence was strange enough, but what we found really unsettling is that the (possibly haunted) game features our own Tiny! More info/download link below!:

Unlike the mythical and super creepy Pokemon hack, this game, Tiny Labyrinth, is very real. You can download it yourself and play the PC game here (sorry, Mac users). It's a tiny emulator, so you'll need to zoom in to see it.

Playing the game is simple: navigate Tiny through a dangerous maze until you reach the exit to the next level. The bottom screen maps the stage as you explore different areas, even revealing where enemies are. It can be a fun two-player experience if you have a friend watching the bottom screen and telling you where to go.

Tiny Labyrinth features four levels, and even includes a custom editor that you can use to create/share stages. It also has an awesome soundtrack composed by Droqen.

For bringing Tiny Labyrinth and this unusual bootleg 3DS emulator to our attention, Offal will receive a Reformat the Planet DVD set, a Bit Boy t-Shirt, a Pixel Pulse poster, a Chipbender pin set, an import copy of Love Plus, a miniature Fire Emblem DS box, a Tiny pin, and a Dragon Quest trading figure -- what a haul!

Buy: Reformat the Planet, Lots of rad Fangamer stuff

See also: More Tiny Contest winners, The Tiny Text Adventure game (online)

"They Came... For Our Backlights!" by Michael Stearns (click for a larger image). If you'd like to see more of Michael's art, check out his webcomic, Dawn Of Time. He's also available for commissions -- he can produce something like this wonderful piece for you at a reasonable price!

Space Ranger Tiny versus the Evil Game Boys! How amazing is that? We thought it was amazing enough to warrant sending Michael a Reformat the Planet DVD set, a Dragon Quest IX sticker sheet, a collectible Dragon Quest figure, and a Tiny Cartridge pin.

Also, slight correction for one of our other Birthday Contest Of The Forever winners: Ant Cooke's fabulous Tiny Text Adventure, which you should play if you're a fan of the site, was a third prize winner, so he also takes home a Dragon Quest IX sticker sheet and a Reformat the Planet DVD set.

Buy: Reformat the Planet, Lots of rad Fangamer stuff

See also: More Tiny Contest winners

Tiny Cartridge case by Elena You. As Elena noted in her contest entry email, this Tiny Cartridge case is also a tiny cartridge case. It is Tiny Cartridge, it is a tiny case for cartridges, and it is a case for tiny cartridges. This is like the ultimate expression of the phrase "tiny cartridge case." Please pay close attention to the metallic embroidery on the back.

She initially designed this as a strap/charm -- which, she told us, it still could be if it were filled with stuffing instead of games. "Keychains (or phone straps) have got to be the most typical mascot merchandise you can find," she said, "so I thought it was about time that Tiny was made into one too. He's quite adorable."

We're honored (and we know Tiny would be as well) to have our mascot spoken of so highly, and trusted with such an important task as holding a couple of DS games. We hope we can trust Elena with the task of holding this Reformat the Planet DVD set, a Dragon Quest IX sticker sheet, a Dragon Quest trading figure, and a Tiny Cartridge pin, because she won the hell out of our third prize.

Buy: Reformat the Planet, Lots of rad Fangamer stuff

See also: More Tiny Contest winners

Tiny Cartridge, the cake! Sensing our disappointment that no one threw us a birthday party -- not that we made a big deal about it, not that we cried into a pillow while playing Celine Dion's "All By Myself" on repeat every night for weeks -- reader Jason W. baked us a cake from scratch!

Unfortunately, we didn't get to eat it due to the challenges with shipping a cake (also, not sure my import DSi would be able to play it anyway), but we're sending him a collectible Dragon Quest figure, a Tiny Cartridge pin (from our friends at Fangamer), and our appreciation!

That's one winner down! We have a lot more fantastic contest winners and tributes to Tiny coming up.

Buy: Reformat the Planet, Lots of rad Fangamer stuff

See also: TC x RTP: Birthday Contest Of The Forever

If you want to win tickets to this Friday's Pulsewave show in NYC, a Pulsewave poster, gift certificates to Nonfinite's shop, or an 8bitpeoples Prize Pack, make sure to submit your contest entry before 11:59 PM EDT tonight!

All you need to do is leave a comment with your favorite Game Boy anecdotes, and we'll pick the best stories.

See also: Super, super awesome Pulsewave flyers

[Image from this old post]

In case you missed last week's post, we've teamed up with the organizers of NYC chiptune show Pulsewave to celebrate the Game Boy's 21st birthday by asking readers to share their favorite memories of the cherished handheld.

We're giving away tickets for this weekend's Pulsewave event to the commenters with the best stories. Even if you're nowhere near New York, you can win free tickets for a future Pulsewave, as well as other prizes like a Pulsewave poster and gift certificates to mod your Game Boy (or buy other items from the Nonfinite shop).

We mentioned before that we're also giving away a "secret bonus item", which we can now reveal: it's an 8bitpeoples Prize Pack that will include albums and more from renown chip music label 8bitpeoples!

So, if you love chiptune music, Game Boy mods, waxing nostalgic over old handhelds, or free stuff, you definitely need to make entering this easy contest a top priority.

See also: Super, super awesome Pulsewave flyers

Tiny Contest: Tickets to NYC's Pulsewave, Nonfinite gift certificates, and more!

Are you in or near NYC -- or will you be on July 31? If so, why not check out this month's Pulsewave show, featuring chip artists like Sadnes, Nonfinite, and Battle Lava, with NO CARRIER visuals, for free?

The event's organizers are celebrating the 21st birthday of the Game Boy with this special show, and we're celebrating their celebration with a giveaway! We have free tickets to paradise Pulsewave and other prizes for the commenters with the best Game Boy anecdotes from the last 21 years. Just tell us your favorite Game Boy memory -- or on Twitter with the hashtag #DMG21 -- to enter!

More details follow (you don't have to be in NYC to enter; the tickets are good for any future monthly Pulsewave show, in case you're ever in the Manhattan area ):

The full rundown:

The winners will be chosen from the comments of this post and from Twitter. We always encourage people to leave real, meaningful comments in our contests, but it's extra important this time, since these are being judged. In other words, not just any comment will qualify -- you have to actually tell us a story. You have until Wednesday, July 28, at 11:59 PM EDT.

Speaking of stories, here's Sadnes, who will be at this month's show, telling the story of that time a girl didn't like Chris Isaak as much as he liked her:

Much thanks to Pulsewave's organizers, as well as co-sponsors 8bitpeoples and Nonfinite Electronics, for helping make this contest possible!

See also: Super, super awesome Pulsewave flyers

Tiny Contest: Blip Festival 2008 CDs

Courtesy of 2 Player Productions, we will give away three copies of 8bitpeoples' landmark release Blip Festival 2008, a two-disc collection of live songs from all 32 artists/groups that performed at last year's premiere chiptune show.

The four-day concert's lineup was nuts -- Bit Shifter, Minusbaby, Anamanaguchi, Nullsleep, USK, etc. -- so if you follow the micromusic scene, you already know it's off the chain, off the hook, and off the wickkity doo-dah yezzelbar. Plus, we will also throw in 2PP's Blip Festival 2006 and 2007 DVDs to sweeten the pot.

To enter, leave a comment in any of our chiptune and music posts over the next two weeks (this includes audio posts and any other music-focused media/links we put up) before October 6th, 11:59 EST. Running our giveaway like this has three advantages:

As usual, please refrain from leaving us crap comments to sift through -- we prefer messages that have substance to them and will ignore any frivolous junk.

Look out for more music posts in the future so you can win a copy of the two-disc set. You can listen to my favorite song from the album here, as well as stream the entire deal through the Blip Festival 2008 Bandcamp page.

Before you ask, yes, commenting in this post counts as a giveaway entry. Yezzelbarr!

103 Atlus games still up for grabs

Just a reminder for those of you with terrible memories (in the sense that you have a hard time remembering anything, not that you have awful recollections of your inebriated father never being around when you needed him or anything like that), we're giving away 103 Atlus games!

Here's our tally of those titles, with links to their respective reviews, for those of you curious about what you can win. I apologize for the length!

For a chance to win, just leave quality comments in our posts before this Friday, 11:59PM CST. You can see full details for the giveaway in our contest announcement. Even if you're not interested in the games, you should comment anyway! We like knowing people read this junk we put up every day, and it might distract you from those crippling flashbacks of your negligent father.

Tiny Contest: 103 Atlus games

This week, we're giving you a chance to win an unprecedented 103 games. 101 of them happen to be on one cartridge, and the other cartridges are limited to one game each, so it might be a little bit unbalanced... sorry, I just don't know how to divide them up any further! One person is just going to have to win 100 more games than the two other winners.

We've got one copy of 101-in-1 Explosive Megamix, one copy of Trackmania DS, and one Tokyo Beat Down to give away, and all you have to do is leave comments!

You know how we do: from today through Friday, May 8th, at 11:59PM CST, each comment on this post or the ones that follow will count as an entry in our contest. Comment on this post and you're entered once, or comment on a post after this one for two entries. Junk comments that are obviously just contest entries won't count -- use your damn noodle.