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how to make your own ds lite covers: a quick lesson

tribal nintendo ds cover art

Are you paying attention? This will be a quick tutorial on customizing your Nintendo DS Lite. Here we go. Step one: draw some stuff. It probably helps if you can draw. Step two: vectorize that business and print it out. Step three: cut out designs from desired material and affix to DS. Sounds simple, eh?…

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September 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: geek art + craft hacks + mods video games

scope 2 rgb led watch reminds me of vector video games

I don’t know what it is about these retro-futuristic watches from Japan, but for me they conjure up images of 1980s color vector video games like Tempest or Quantum.

The limited-edition Scope 2 watch uses a special multi-color (RGB) LED display to tell the time. Depending on the model you choose, either a red or green…

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October 17th, 2008 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: retro timepieces video games

tetris blocks fall on oscilloscope screen

Scopetris Oscilloscope Tetris

Here’s a cool hack which uses an old oscilloscope to play an accurate game of the arcade classic, Tetris.

Engineer Lars Pontoppidan created Scopetris using an AtMega32 micro-controller to drive the beam of an oscilloscope to mimic the game play of the classic Soviet puzzle game.

Lars had to create custom circuitry and programmed the…

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February 15th, 2008 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods retro video games

video games get vectorized

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.

I’m so used to seeing all these gaming icons in their traditional pixel…

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

filed under: design video games

geometry wars galaxies confirmed for nintendo wii, ds

Geometry Wars: Galaxies

If you own an Xbox 360, you already know the crack-like addictive powers of the retro-mod arcade shooter Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved.

If you’re a Nintendo fan, you’ll now be able to get in on the action. Sierra Entertainment today announced that Geometry Wars: Galaxies, a follow up to the frantic 2D game is coming…

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May 25th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games