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Custom Cartridge Turns Game Boy Into a Wireless Controller

These days, we play a lot of retro games on modern consoles, so naturally classic controllers have become popular. You can buy these remade controllers from several third-party manufacturers to provide a more authentic retro gaming experience.

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Game Cartridge Cutting Boards: For Nintendiced Veggies

Do you know a gamer who also knows their way around a set of kitchen knives? Then here’s a great gift idea. These fun wood cutting boards look just like classic 8-bit NES game cartridges. They’re made by Etsy shop Cutting Boredom, who makes all kinds of fun and geeky cutting boards, kitchen towels, door mats, and more.

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Pico Cassette Video Game Cartridge for Smartphones: Famiphone

Japanese company Beatrobo wants to bring back the cartridge with Pico Cassette, a video game cartridge for iOS and Android devices. Is it practical? Not unless a cartridge can hold dozens of games. But Beatrobo hopes to attract old gamers and collectors who cherish the physical representations of their pastime.

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Atari Flashback 2 Stuffed Inside Atari 2600 Cart: Pocket Atari

We’re big fans of Sharon aka lovablechevy’s portable console mods, so we were very happy when she pointed us to her latest creation. She crammed the Atari Flashback 2 – an Atari 2600 variant with 42 games built-in – inside a 2600 cartridge.

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Super Russian Roulette for the NES: Deer Hunt

Last year we checked out Andrew Reitano’s old school arcade game VEC9. It turns out that around that same time Andrew and his friend Mike Dooley were working on another arcade game as their submission to Fantastic Arcade.

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Harmony: One Atari 2600 Cartridge to Rule Them All

I love the art on old Atari 2600 cartridges and their boxes. However, if you want to play and collect all of the vintage console’s games, but don’t want to have to devote an entire room in your house to their storage, there is a solution.

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Tecmo Super Bowl & RBI Baseball NES Cartridges with 2015 Rosters: Sports. Sports Never Change

The FIFA and NBA 2K series are the reigning kings of team sports video games, but they pale in comparison to the legacy of Tecmo Super Bowl and RBI Baseball. Much of the credit goes to the fans who keep modding both NES games with updated rosters.

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Ayaka Matsuno’s Retro Geeky Cookies: Game Girl Scout

Ayaka Matsuno loves to make edgy cakes, cookies and other pastries. Her edible pop art ranges from depictions of sneakers, cartoon sketches and animals. She also made cookie versions of classic geek items: life-size Game Boy cartridges and cassette tapes as well as a tiny Super Famicom with an equally small TV.

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NES Game Cartridge Cutting Board: Super Chop Bros.

So you’ve collected all of your 1-up, fireball and super growth mushrooms in the real world. Now it’s time to chop them up and throw them on a pizza. Don’t use just any cutting board. Use this awesome NES Cartridge cutting board.

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Pixel Cartridge Wallpaper: 1000-in-Wall

Coat your room in nostalgia with Masaaki Enami’s doubly retro wallpaper, which he aptly calls Pixel Cartridge. The wallpaper comes in four panels, each about 67″ wide and 95″ tall, although you can also ask for custom sizes.

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You Can Own an E.T. Landfill Cartridge

Now you can own one of the worst video games ever made. A game so bad, they had to take it out back and bury it. I’m surprised they didn’t shoot it first. You might remember that the E.T.

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Zelda Gold Cartridge Soap: It’s Dangerous to Bathe Alone, Take This

When it comes to cleanliness, trust only video games that have proven the test of time. Cleanse yourself with one of the greatest games of all time using this The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time gold plated cartridge soap bar.

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8Bit Harmonica: The Tunes They Are a-Changin’

A few years ago we featured a harmonica crammed into a NES cartridge. YouTuber basami sentaku’s harmonica not only has a Famicom cartridge case, it produces 8-bit sound with the help of a sound chip from a NES.

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Half-Life 3 NES Cartridge Art: The Grinch’s Gift to Gamers

72Pins and artist Gabriel Leoni teamed up to give you a way to troll a Half-Life fan this Christmas. This NES cartridge has a game inside it, and it says “Half-Life 3” on its cover. But it obviously doesn’t have the actual game, or even a NES demake of it.

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SNES and Game Boy Cartridge Soaps: In Bathroom, Cartridge Clean You

Firebox has a special offering to gamers in the UK who grew up in the 80s. The store is selling soaps that look just like the cartridges of Nintendo’s classic consoles, the SNES and the Game Boy.

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Breaking Bad NES Cartridge: Console Gray

After five amazing seasons, Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad is finally coming to an end. Other than the occasional conversation between Badger and Skinny Pete show doesn’t have a lot to do with videogames, but excellence radiates beyond boundaries.

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Custom Cartridge Turns Game Boy Into a Wireless Controller

Game Cartridge Cutting Boards: For Nintendiced Veggies

Pico Cassette Video Game Cartridge for Smartphones: Famiphone

Atari Flashback 2 Stuffed Inside Atari 2600 Cart: Pocket Atari

Super Russian Roulette for the NES: Deer Hunt

Harmony: One Atari 2600 Cartridge to Rule Them All

Tecmo Super Bowl & RBI Baseball NES Cartridges with 2015 Rosters: Sports. Sports Never Change

Ayaka Matsuno’s Retro Geeky Cookies: Game Girl Scout

NES Game Cartridge Cutting Board: Super Chop Bros.

Pixel Cartridge Wallpaper: 1000-in-Wall

You Can Own an E.T. Landfill Cartridge

Zelda Gold Cartridge Soap: It’s Dangerous to Bathe Alone, Take This

8Bit Harmonica: The Tunes They Are a-Changin’

Half-Life 3 NES Cartridge Art: The Grinch’s Gift to Gamers

SNES and Game Boy Cartridge Soaps: In Bathroom, Cartridge Clean You

Breaking Bad NES Cartridge: Console Gray

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