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donkey kong jungle juice doesn’t taste like bananas

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Donkey Kong Jungle Juice

Not to be outdone by Mario and his Power Up Energy Drink, it looks like the plumber’s simian adversary just had to have his own peppy beverage…

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posted: March 27th, 2008 1 comment

it’s-a me! cross stitch mario!

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cross_stitch_mario_valentine

Oh man, is it still Valentine’s day? I would have completely forgotten if I hadn’t seen this awesome handmade cross stitch Mario card from the rubbishknitter…

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posted: February 14th, 2008 post a comment

video games get vectorized

filed under: design | video games

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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posted: December 29th, 2007 2 comments

nintendo collages made to order

filed under: geek art & craft | video games

Nintendo Koopa Collage by Chris Lange

These fun, one-of-a-kind paper collages are inspired by popular Nintendo video game characters.

Washington DC artist and die-hard Nintendo fanboy Chris Lange handcrafts these colorful gaming collages from old Nintendo Power magazines, so he’s not lying when he states that they’re “100% Nintendo”…

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posted: December 21st, 2007 2 comments

forget microsoft and sony, nintendo is a monopoly

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Monopoly Nintendo Collectors Edition

All of your favorite classic Nintendo characters have now been memorialized in theĀ  Monopoly: Nintendo Collector’s Edition board game from Parker Brothers.

The game features special pewter Nintendo tokens including Mario’s cap, Link’s iron boots, Donkey Kong’s barrel, a Hylian shield, a Koopa shell and an NES controller…

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posted: May 14th, 2007 4 comments

donkey kong post-it note art

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Donkey Kong Post-It Notes Installation

A group of engineering students over at the University of California Santa Cruz took time out of their busy academic schedules to create this larger-than-life work of art made from Post-it Notes…

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posted: April 10th, 2007 1 comment

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