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Tales of Unspoken World: Like Canabalt, but 3d

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I came across this unusual game over on IndieGames earlier today, and I have to say I like the way the early build is shaping up.

A small independent game studio called Santa Ragione created Tales of Unspoken World… after being inspired by this stylized case design from the Famicase

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August 7th, 2010 by: Technabob

Atari.Com Adds Classic Games to Their Website [Timekillers]

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Atari fans rejoice! The Atari.com website has just gotten a facelift, and one of the great new features of the site is an arcade with a number of classic Atari game for you to play in your web browser.

So far, the Atari Arcade includes web-playable Flash versions of four…

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November 23rd, 2009 by: Technabob

How to Make Your Own Ds Lite Covers: a Quick Lesson

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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…

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September 8th, 2009 by: Alisha K.

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,…

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October 17th, 2008 by: Technabob

Tetris Blocks Fall on Oscilloscope Screen

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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…

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February 15th, 2008 by: Technabob

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…

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December 29th, 2007 by: Technabob

Geometry Wars Galaxies Confirmed for Nintendo Wii, Ds

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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

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May 25th, 2007 by: Technabob

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