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This Throne Is Hallowed, Ancient

8:00PM Luke Plunkett | Yup, those are Famicom carts. As seen on Erick Kwiecien, via Gizmodo.
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8-Bit Left 4 Dead De-Make Arrives In January

2:40PM Owen Good | Here I thought all the flashing corpses meant we were watching the Australian version of Left 4 Dead. I kid, Luke! I kid!!! No, this is a bona fide playable 8-bit “demake” of L4D, available soon for PC. 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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Life-Sized NES Made From LEGO

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | More than that actually — the NES has two LEGO controllers, a LEGO Tetris game cartridge and a LEGO TV. More »
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Yahoo: NES, Dreamcast Best Toys Of All Time

12:00PM AJ Glasser | That time of year when parents have to invest in the newest hot toy for Christmas is at hand. Too bad not many of these Best Toys of All Time are still hot. More »
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New Kids On The Block NES Box Fetches Ridiculous Sum

12:20PM Michael McWhertor | How much would you pay for this New Kids On The Block sample box for the NES game that was never released? If you’re off your rocker for NKOTB, then surely $US589 isn’t too high a price. More »
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Yo Dawg …

11:30AM Owen Good | NES Cart Handheld by Airz, as seen on 8-Bit Fix. Thanks Octavio V. 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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Someone Just Paid $US20,000 For This NES Game

11:00AM Michael McWhertor | Spending $US15,000 or even $US17,500 on a collectible Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge, that we can understand. They’re covered in gold! But $US20,100? That’s simply too much, even factoring in Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991’s rarity. 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 »