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This awesome NES casemod manages to squeeze a fully-functional Nintendo 8-bit console into the body of one of the system’s own game cartridges.
The Fami-Card started out its life as an original Super Mario Brothers cartridge…
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posted: April 21st, 2008
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filed under: retro | video games
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Sick of all those newfangled games on your Nintendo DS? This new gadget lets you dust off your old 8-bit games and play them on your DS Lite.
The CYBER Familator Lite plugs into your DS Lite’s GBA adapter slot and lets you plug in carts from the old Nintendo Famicom (aka NES here in the states), and play them right on the DS screen…
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posted: November 24th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: video games
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Looking for a chance to own one of the rarest video game collectibles of all time? Got $12,000 to spare? Then head on over to this auction on eBay and hit “Buy it Now!” to grab this extraordinarily rare 1990 Nintendo World Championship NES cartridge…
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posted: November 23rd, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun | strange and wonderful
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These wacky collectible desktop figurines get their inspiration from inkjet printer cartridges.
Mark James’ Cardboy CMYK Cartridge critters comes in the four familiar printer ink colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
The 4-inch tall figures are available individually for £5.95 (appx…
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posted: October 22nd, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | media players | retro | video games
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It seems like I can’t let a week go by without coming across something new crammed into an old Nintendo Entertainment System controller. A couple of weeks back it was the NintendoSlvr, then we had the NESMouse. This week, it’s this NES controller MP3 player, and a pair of powered speakers in an NES cartridge…
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posted: July 28th, 2007
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This add-on for the Nintendo DS not only lets you play MP3 files, but it lets you run tons of homebrew games on the portable console.
Datel’s Games ‘n’ Music plugs into the DS and gives you an easy way to play custom games and apps on the DS and DS Lite…
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posted: July 27th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: strange and wonderful | video games
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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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posted: July 8th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | strange and wonderful
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Is your new HP LaserJet making funny noises? Before you call tech support, you might want to double check that there aren’t any rodentia living in the box.
A chain e-mail has been circulating with a claim that someone found a mouse living inside their laser toner cartridge…
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posted: December 9th, 2006
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