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musician releases album on an nes cartridge

filed under: strange and wonderful | video games

Alex Mauer’s Vegavox NES Cartridge

Electronic musician Alex Mauer composes music from the electronic beats and blips of the original sound chips found in classic video game systems.

So it’s only appropriate that he’d release an album that plays on the classic Nintendo NES gaming system. His album, entitled VEGAVOX ships on a cartridge the plugs into the console…

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July 8th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

classic nintendo controllers for your pc or mac

filed under: retro | video games

Nintendo USB Controllers by Phreque

Do you long for the days of the simple, elegantly designed gamepad controllers from Nintendo’s classic gaming systems?

Perfect for playing emulated games the way they were meant to be played, you can buy custom-modded versions of the 8-bit NES and 16-bit SNES joypads, ready to use with your PC or Macintosh…

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July 7th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

nintendo console gets all soft and squishy

filed under: just plain fun | retro | video games

Plush Nintendo NES by BlueBlythe

Check out this awesome plush fabric Nintendo Entertainment System.

Nintendo fan and seamstress extraordinaire blueblythe, hand-sewed and embroidered this amazing stuffed-felt tribute to the classic 8-bit gaming console of yore.

She not only cranked out a console, but two game cartridges, a controller, a light gun and interchangeable velcro screens of Mario and Duck Hunt…

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June 26th, 2007 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ben heck’s gameport: retro gaming for the masses

filed under: mobile tech | retro | video games

Ben Heck Gameport Portable Emulator

The world’s most prolific console modder, Ben Heck, has a new trick up his sleeve. This time, he’s partnered up with a company called Gameport to design a portable emulation console for mass-production…

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May 27th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

rare nintendo kiosk system on ebay

filed under: retro | video games

NES Kiosk

This eBay listing is for serious fans of the old Nintendo Entertainment System only. It’s a special NES in-store kiosk that holds multiple game cartridges and lets you flip between them using pushbutton switch.

The box has a custom version of the NES with twelve cartridge slots, five controller ports, and even the ability to limit play times so kids wouldn’t hog the machine…

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April 10th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

coleco handheld plays sega classics

filed under: mobile tech | retro | video games

Coleco Sonic Handheld

It seems strange to me that a device called the “Coleco Sonic” would play classic SEGA games, but that’s just what this little portable system does…

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October 27th, 2006 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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