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Fallout NES Cartridge Art: Relic from a Pre-Post-Nuclear Era

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I’ve talked about 72pins before, but their latest cartridge is just too damn good not to share. The NEStalgic shop collaborated with artist Nick Robalik to create a Fallout… NES cartridge, which will surely fetch a vault full of bottle caps in the post-nuclear world.

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February 20th, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

Retrozone 8-Bit & 16-Bit Xmas: Merry Cartridge!

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Experienced shoppers buy their holiday gifts early, so if you’re looking for a unique and memorable gift for an old school gamer, you better get one of Retrozone’s Xmas cartridges. These are original cartridges for the NES and SNES (or Famicom and Super Famicom, if you want to be OG)…

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November 11th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Fun With Old Ink Cartridges

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Got some leftover inkjet cartridges lying around? You could just send them back to the factory so they can be recycled – er, cleaned out, refilled and then sold to some other sucker for way too much money – or, you could make some lamps out of them – or,…

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March 20th, 2011 by: Technabob

NES Cartridge Flash Drive With Console USB Port is Both Ridiculous and Perfect

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We’ve seen NES controllers turned into flash drives and NES cartridges used as cases for external hard drives. But neither of those mods are as awesome – or as ridiculous – as what Instructables user Ed Lewis made: a NES cartridge flash drive with a complementary NES console USB port.…

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March 8th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

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Rsvp to This NES Invite

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The largest, most unwieldy but also most awesome wedding invite I’ve ever seen:

The children of the 80s, all grown up. I hope they have pixelated bouquets and jewelry as well.…

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July 30th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Hyperkin Retro n 3 System Plays NES, SNES and Genesis in One Console

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They guys at Hyperkin keep outdoing themselves with their line of retro consoles. The latest console, called the Retro N 3, can play games from the original Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis in a single system.

Better yet, the Retro N 3 can play games from their…

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May 18th, 2010 by: Technabob

Recycled Ink Cartridges Get New Life as Lamps

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If you regularly use an inkjet printer, you can certainly try and recycle your cartridges by refilling them with more ink. But get real – most of the time, your empties just end up in the dumpster. Not so with these clever lighting fixtures made from the discarded shells of…

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February 4th, 2010 by: Technabob

Weirdest Video Game Genre Ever: NES Pirate Originals on Ebay

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Die-hard Final Fantasy VII fans may be clamoring for a current gen version of the classic RPG, but apparently in China, people are buying the remaining units of NESes in the world, and so de-makes are all the rage. Speaking of de-makes, the 8-bit Left 4 Dead…‘s got nothing

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January 14th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Modern Movies Get the Atari 2600 Treatment

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Penney Design has put a really cool spin on movie poster art. It’s kind of cool to see how these movie concepts are just reduced to a few simple pixels on an Atari old video game box.

I love the Snakes on a Plane… game cartridge. The whole movie is

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January 13th, 2010 by: Range

Recording Artist Makes NES Cartridge Music

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Do you still have your old NES console? Do you love electronic music? Then I know what you’re getting for Christmas. This new cartridge for the old Nintendo Entertainment System features a bunch of new “chiptunes” by electronic recording artist Animalstyle (or is that 4NIM4L57YL3?)…

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November 25th, 2009 by: Technabob

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