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Dustbusting Blinky’s Got Pac-Roomba On The Run
2:00PM Owen Good | Roomba Pac-Man? Done before, but mostly as a cosmetic enhancement. Here it’s taken to the next level — five Roombas (Roombi?) engaged in a contest of Pac-Man with programmed “chase” and “escape” AI. More »
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And Now … The ‘NEStickle’
8:00AM Owen Good | Reader Osama D’s French friend built him this fighting stick out of a Nintendo Entertainment System, before leaving for his home country for good. You know, when I say goodbye to folks, I usually just buy a card or something. More »
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Awesome Custom Mario Costume Packs Its Own Soundtrack
2:20PM Owen Good | Perhaps a little late for Halloween, but you can use this modded Mario costume for inspiration and get to work on yours for next year. Certain motions while wearing the suit trigger fireball, jumping and 1Up sounds, among others. More »
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NES Controller Flash Drive Secured By Konami Code
10:00AM Owen Good | The list of NES case- and controller-mods we’ve seen covers just about everything imaginable, but Joe from the modder site Proto Dojo goes one better – making a USB drive unlockable by the Konami Code. More »
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Street Fighter, Rendered In 15 Pixels
6:00AM Owen Good | What? Don’t tell me you can’t see it, too? The U.K. games festival Gamecity recently commissioned this and two other works – iconic games animated with just 15 pixels. More »
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Custom Figures Have Lotsa Gut(s)
12:00PM Owen Good | Homebrew action figure designer Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy is working on a theme here — guts. As in Guts-Dozer, of Mega Man 2. And as in King Hippo’s dunlop spare tyre. More »
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Brütal Bus Sets Soapbox Derby Record
12:40PM Owen Good | Remember the Brütal Bus Soapbox? Not only did it finish this weekend’s Los Angeles Red Bull Soapbox Race intact, it set a top speed record of 46.1 mph. More »
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How Come Nobody Ever Does This To ‘Friday The 13th’?
11:00AM Owen Good | I’m no foe of the hard drive/cartridge mod craze, but it strikes me that they’re never ripping the guts out of games that deserve the trashing. Instead, modders only hurt the ones you love… More »
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A Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage To Games
11:00AM Owen Good
“8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. More »
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