November 2010
23 posts
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Amazing Tetris/NES costume, Mario Bros. 3 tricks,...
(Source: Flickr user Irene_Joy)
Halloween is long over, but one can’t resist to laugh or gawk at the amazing costumes people have made, and keep making every year (be it for the UK/US festivity, or an anime convention in cosplay). This one is one of the many remarkable ones seen!
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To get into the spirit of the Australian release of the Super Mario...
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Game Dork launch party, Mario Bros. with Kinect,...
(Source: Genzo’s Deviantart page)
Too right, as many would probably agree with this piece. Cheers to Andrew for the submission!
Over the weekend, a few of us stopped by the launch party for a local geek wear store/site/fashion label Game Dork (gamedork.com.au). It was a private party celebrating the launch of the T-shirts, which you can purchase online either at the online store, or...
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Tetris Graffiti, Hyper-realistic Street Fighter...
(Source: Flickr user Dokas)
Yet more effortful classic-gaming graffiti, this time of a huge Tetris layout… kind of like the high-def wide-screen edition of Tetris, called Tetoris.
(Source: ComicsAlliance)
Amazing, hyper-realistic art of Street Fighter characters, quite hard to tell if they look real or not aye? There’s the Zangief one above, plus MANY more after the link.
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Frustration in Mario Bros. 2, "So Analog" figurine...
(Source: NESthings)
Couldn’t agree more :P The frustrations and lack of logic behind this matter in Super Mario Bros. 2 on the Game Boy.
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Alright, this is pretty cool, this site has diagrams and blueprints, as well as models made of a series of diskettes and cartridges as well.. action figures? dolls? figurines? Either way, quite impressive stuff!
IGN have...
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Mario & Peach Aprons, Pixel Art with shotglasses,...
(Source: BethanySewAndSew.com)
For the lady and/or the man chefs of the house! Awesome quality-designed aprons of Mario and Princess Peach!
Wow, okay, so this guy makes 8-bit art from shotglasses with liquid (is it booze? doesn’t look like). He also accepts requests of other 8-bit characters with other things, like the Mario video done with jelly beans.
Yet another retro...
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Ultracade Live @ La Boheme Dec 16 8PM/Free!
Awwww YEAAAAAAH! Last Ultracade Live for 2010 with quite an interesting theme, Ninjas VS Zombies. Expect lots of video games to play, delicious themed cocktails, and competitions ahoy!
Facebook Event Link
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Dr. Mario Quilt, NES game-scrambling videos, Atari...
(Source: DeviantArt user marquise-crafts)
Too bad it’s already summer (well at least here in Australia) but that otherwise is a gorgeous looking Dr. Mario quilt :D
Here’s an interesting series of videos entitled “Brad Corrupts:” where he scrambles, corrupts, and hacks old 8-bit games, take this YouTube video above where he corrupts Donkey Kong on the NES.
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Many different Mega Man, Super Famicom turned 20,...
(Source: Deviantart user Captainslam)
Be sure to click on the image to enlarge, this artist has turned numerous game characters (old and new) into gorgeous looking Mega Man versions!
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(Yes the pic is slightly unrelated.. Miyamoto’s Tshirt at least, oh well!)
November 21st 1990.. a day which changed the history of video gaming… The Super Famicom...
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6 unknown (?) facts about Street Fighter,...
(Source: DanishPrinciple NSFW LINK!)
Oh wow… Is that… Is that Imhotep!
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Street Fighter is one of the longest running fighting game franchises made. Here are 6 known and unknown facts from ForkParty. Like how Ken & Ryu have been in every Street Fighter game made.
To all you iFiends who appreciate classic games, Splatterhouse is now available...
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Train station pixel-tile art, 10 fictional games,...
(Source: Paraíso Friki)
Amazing.. Pixel-tiled art in a subway in Europe, possibly Sweden. Australia needs more things like this at train stations! Look at the no-grafitti!
Now as you all know, we LOVE video games, as you do too! Right? Of course! We all love non-fictional video games especially, but Topless Robot have a list of top 10 FICTIONAL video games. Many from movies and other...
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Punch-Out Scarf, Ghouls & Ghosts MMO, DKC...
(Source: Technabob)
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Scarf.. CAN IT GET ANY BETTER!? Maybe the entire level of World 1-1 in Mario Bros 1 as a Scarf…
Comrades, prepare to get your mind blown.. If you like Ghouls & Ghosts.. well you’ll like that video above.. that there is an MMO version of the platformer.. Amazing right? More after the 18th November.
With all the hype...
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Mushroom Kombat, Son-Of-Pong, Nintendo trademarks...
(Source: HoppyBadBunny Deviantart Page)
Haha.. nice.. For some reason mashups of different universes tend to bring the better out of both somehow.
BoingBoing never ceases to amaze, in particular, here is a collection of ads for Pong arcade machines all around the world for all different themes.. like this Australian Pub edition of Pong..
(image source: PersonalGaming)
Oh Nintendo.....
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StarFox/Star Wars mashup, Zork in Black-Ops,...
Quite a well-made Mash-up of Star Wars and StarFox.. or StarWing.. Big props to the folk at Game & Graphics for this piece! :D
So we have a few friends who are die-hard Call of Duty fans.. Black-Ops is the new release on the modern consoles, but there is quite a cool little homage hidden in-game (then again, Activision was involved) of Zork on a UNIX terminal. Check the video above on...
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Minecraft game art, Donkey Kong Country Returns...
(Source: Unrealitymag)
Played Minecraft yet? It’s the new MMO sensation in Alpha/Beta testing, whatever it’s called. But yeah, awesome concept to the game, where the whole world is blocky/pixelated, and you can create, or destroy other people’s work.. well.. UnrealityMag have an archive of screenshots of folk making amazing art in the game. Plenty modern, plenty pop culture,...
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Exclusive Secret of Mana iOS footage, Dissected...
(Source: Le Seahorse)
Hahahah… Oh dear… Hilarious animated gif here :)
Alright friends, feast your eyes on THIS:
SECRET OF FRIGGIN MANA!!!!
Interesting how they’ve implemented the inventory controls, definitely was expecting a more cluttered control system considering just about every button was used on the SNES controller for this game. Time will tell when it will...
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Mario (and other geeky) Papercraft, Scott Pilgrim...
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(Source: CubeCraft)
Thanks for the link Shannon, lots of gorgeous popculture papercraft from many different games (old and new) as well as misc characters from other things like movies and cartoons ;)
If you have an Xbox Live account, then grab the Scott Pilgrim VS The World game for 400 points, that’s 50% off!! You have till November 15th to grab it at...
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nerdy HTML/Zelda humor, SNES mod for Dell Streak,...
(Source: Kaosblog)
Hah… For anyone who designs websites, they might get this more than otherwise..
Got a Dell Streak and a spare SNES controller to hack up? Dell Streak… You know, that Android-based tablet device? Well.. Someone here managed to make a peripheral to work with SNES emulators (Editor’s Note: Although it looks like extra sounds put into Super Mario...
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Lucca drawing by Brian Lee O'Malley, Xmas...
(Source: VGjunk)
:O This is Lucca, one of the characters from well.. one of the best J-RPG’s ever made, Chrono Trigger. This illustration was made by none other than Brian Lee O’Malley. For those who don’t know is the author and illustrator of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. Which in themselves have very heavy retro-gaming references throughout the entire series.
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Capcom Arcade (iOS), Goomba dramas, Atari games...
(Source: Darkness & Starlight)
Hahahahah Yeah wrong region SNES.. What a kickass pillow!!?
Capcom finally releases “Capcom Arcade” on the iOS App Store. What’s included? Well you get Commando, Street Fighter 2 (World Warriors), Ghouls & Ghosts, and 1942. It’s a free download, but additional costs apply to purchase the games. Either 10 tokens for AU$1.20, or a...
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1920's Donkey Kong, KamiCrazy coming to...
(Source: Deviant art user ItsFrisbee)
Nice, a colourful rendition of Donkey Kong from the 1920’s style illustrating era. Very nice! Would also make a pretty boss poster :)
Oh sure, the iOS gets a lot the fun with up and retro titles, or remakes, or even retro-inspired experience don’t they? Well so does the Android (Lest we forget Speedball 2 is coming out on both Android...
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Mario + Facehugger, Video of all glitches in Mario...
(Source: Dawn Chapel)
Ah yes, well this is what would probably happen if a Facehugger went loose in Mario’s universe.. Nice work!
Great video showing all the glitches which were in the first Mario Bros. platform game on the NES/Famicom. Some are quite comical too.
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Here we have a few awesome pieces paying tribute to Castlevania. Anyone here got the new one?...
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Steampunk Pac-Man, Silver NES belt buckle, Zork...
(Source: Flickr user Deadcomicstrip)
Wow, okay this is cool! Steampunk design of Pac-Man. Notice the ghosts on the left? This kind of design would put Dr Snuggles to shame..
Yeah that guy.. Remember the show? Thought so ;)
(Source: Etsy)
Etsy strikes again, this time with a belt buckle of a NES controller. What more stylish way is there to flash the geek bling? Plenty, but this is one...
October 2010
22 posts
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Mopey Mario, Half-Life 2 if it were on NES,...
(Source: Odinrules Deviant Art)
Fitting picture for a Monday, right folks? :P It’s quite comical actually.
(Source: ETSY)
Okay so yeah, Half-Life 2 is definitely not a retro game (Editor’s note: I just gotta say that it’s lots of fun, used to play it on the Xbox, but now to play it on the Mac is just divine! What a game!), but ETSY have some really cool magnets of...
