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asteroids coffee table blasts into hyperspace

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Asteroids Coffee Table by C. Macintosh Morrison

If one of your fondest memories of youth is getting blisters on your fingers from zapping space debris and aliens, these most-excellent coffee tables belong in your living room.

Designer C. Macintosh (”Mac”) Morrison plans on creating a limited run of these tables (probably no more than 50 of them) for release sometime this Summer or Autumn…

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February 1st, 2008 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

rare rdi halcyon laserdisc console up for auction

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RDI Halcyon LaserDisc Console

Back in the early 1980s, long before the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 dominated the “next-gen” video game market, a little known console lived on the cutting-edge of gaming technology. The RDI Halcyon was a LaserDisc-based gaming system which was designed to bring the first full-motion video gaming experience to your living room…

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January 26th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

space invaders and frogger hit the desktop

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Excalibur Desktop Arcade

These mini tabletop versions of classic retro arcade games are perfect for getting a quick fix of your favorite childhood gaming memories.

Excalibur’s Desktop Arcade games come in both Space Invaders and Frogger models, and have a tiny little arcade style cabinet, joystick and a small backlit LCD color screen…

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January 24th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

pac-man sneakers (and a pina colada, my friend)

filed under: geek art & craft | retro | video games

Pac-Man Sneakers

Looking for the perfect accessory to go with your Pac-Man hoodie and Pac-Man hat? How about a pair of rockin’ Pac-Man sneakers?

These awesome hand-painted Pac-Man shoes turned up recently in a Flickr photostream from someone going by the name thekalaka…

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January 9th, 2008 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

play 8-bit classics for free

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battlekungfucityremix

AMOG has compiled a massive list of NES and arcade games that will surely bring back memories of cartridge-blowing and hypnotic synth music. There are a whopping 95 games on the list; their titles are linked to websites where you can play them for free…

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January 3rd, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

pac-man ghost pillows get the blues

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Pac-Man Pillows by Punzie

This set of fun Pac-Man pillows features the likenesses of Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, the ghosts from the classic 1980s arcade game.

But flip them over, and you’ll get some of those frantic blue ghosts on the run as if you just chomped down on a big old power pill…

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December 30th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

video games get vectorized

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Vector Mario by Philipp Lenssen

Check out these awesome vector art variations on classic arcade game characters.

Game enthusiast Philipp Lenssen took partial screenshots from famous arcade games and ran them through VectorMagic, a nifty online bitmap-to-vector conversion tool, then enlarged them to exaggerate the line-art effect…

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December 29th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

pac-man maze hoodie is amazingly ugly

filed under: just plain fun | video games

Pac-Man Hoodie from Hot Topic

Other than the Noah Wyle with long hair and a beard look-alike dude modeling this outfit, I’m not sure who’d actually wear this ridiculously over-the-top Pac-Man themed hoodie.

The lightweight black jacket has pretty much every available surface covered with a Pac-Man maze print, leaving little question that the wearer is a complete dork…

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December 19th, 2007 29 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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