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September 12, 2021

Galaga Enamel Pins Bring the 8-Bit Goodness

Galaga Enamel Pins Bring the 8-Bit Goodness
I’ve played a whole lot of arcade games in my lifetime, but one that I always go back to is Namco’s classic Galaga. It’s every bit as playable and challenging today as it was the day it came out in 1981, and now I don’t even have to spend quarters to play it.…
March 8, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Learns To Play Galaga, There Goes My High Score

Artificial Intelligence Learns To Play Galaga, There Goes My High Score
Back in my day, it was humans who played arcade games, fighting other humans for their spot on the high score screen. We never thought we would have to worry about robots or AIs learning to play these games.…
March 19, 2015

Charity Arcade Accepts Any Coin Currency as Tokens: Insert Care

Charity Arcade Accepts Any Coin Currency as Tokens: Insert Care
If you’ve ever gone abroad you probably had spare coins from the country you visited. You can change it back to your country’s currency or keep it as a memento, but more often than not they’ll just end up stashed in your drawer, “for when you go back.”…
November 27, 2012

Galaga Fighter Model Kit: From 8-Bit to Real Bits

Galaga Fighter Model Kit: From 8-Bit to Real Bits
The classic arcade shooter Galaga celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. That means we’re growing old faster than we think. It also means celebratory trinkets. If you’ve ever wondered what the tiny space fighter would look like in real life, this model kit provides a potential answer.…
November 5, 2012

Galaga Cake: Insert Knife, Not Quarters

Galaga Cake: Insert Knife, Not Quarters
Look at this Galaga arcade machine. Wait, that’s no arcade cabinet. That’s a delicious and realistic cake just waiting to enter the bellies of Galaga-loving gaming geeks.…
October 15, 2012

Video Game Cookies: From Pixels to Pastries

Video Game Cookies: From Pixels to Pastries
If there’s two things in life I love, it’s video games and cookies. I mean, what’s not to like? Apparently, the guys over at Parchment Cookies have the same mentality, and have baked up some epic video game-inspired cookies for us to admire (and eat if we could afford them.)…
October 14, 2012

These Geeky Leggings Are Tight(s)

These Geeky Leggings Are Tight(s)
Wear your geekiness on your sleeve legs with these awesome retro leggings by Argentina-based Eat Me Clothing. They feature prints from classic videogames – Galaga, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy – and there’s one printed with the periodic table of elements.…
July 24, 2012

Arcade Mash-up Prints Confuse and Amuse

Arcade Mash-up Prints Confuse and Amuse
Say the words Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Centipede, Galaga or Joust, and you’ve just named some of my all-time favorite arcade games. So when I stumbled onto these unusual variants of these 1980s classics, I was at once befuddled and at the same time intrigued.…
December 27, 2010

8-Bit Independence

8-Bit Independence
This great pic combines the iconic imagery of Galaga and Independence Day into one. 8-Bit Independence was created by Steven Lefcourt (aka Ste7en), and manages to mash up one of my favorite video games of all time with one of my least favorite movies of all time, and improve on both.…
February 18, 2010

Pew-Pew: Galaga Scarf Fires at Your Neck

Pew-Pew: Galaga Scarf Fires at Your Neck
I live in Chicago, so we still have about a bazillion weeks left to winter, and I could definitely use a new scarf to keep warm.…
December 1, 2009

Pac-Man Tv Game Gets Another Update From Jakks

Pac-Man Tv Game Gets Another Update From Jakks
Now I’m not really sure how many times Jakks Pacific can go back to the well on this one, but they’ve recently released yet another update to their popular Namco Pac-Man TV Plug-and-Play games.…
May 29, 2009

Pac-Man and Galaga Ornaments Perfect for Any Holiday

Pac-Man and Galaga Ornaments Perfect for Any Holiday
Sure, Christmas is almost seven months away, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start getting in the spirit really, really early. Especially if you really, really love your retro video games.…
March 10, 2009

Galaga Bookmark Squashes Aliens Between the Pages of Your Books

Galaga Bookmark Squashes Aliens Between the Pages of Your Books
I’m really not sure what reading paperback books and the arcade classic Galaga have in common, other than this. Crafter gimcracks has this handmade 8-bit cross-stitch bookmark up in her Etsy shop for just $6 (USD) if you manage to snag it before someone else does.…
February 10, 2009

NES Quilt Celebrates Nostalgic Diversity

NES Quilt Celebrates Nostalgic Diversity
There’ve been a lot of bad-ass 8-bit quilts spread across the Internet, but usually, they’re dedicated to one game, serving as a showcase for a single NES-era memory.…
July 26, 2008

Cuddle Up With This Fleece Galaga Fighter Pillow

Cuddle Up With This Fleece Galaga Fighter Pillow
This Galaga pillow is sure to liven up your bedtime by adding a touch of pew pew pew! to your nightly ritual. The fleece pillow is handmade by CrazyOwl and sports a fighter from one of the mostest awesomest video games of all time, Galaga.…
December 4, 2007

Galaga Quilt Keeps Aliens in Stitches

Galaga Quilt Keeps Aliens in Stitches
On a cold winter’s day, what better way to enjoy a gaming session than from under this toasty quilt featuring the 80s arcade classic Galaga? Handcrafted by North Carolina artist CarolinaPatchworks, the quilt offers up a giant (18:1 scale) interpretation of the bitmapped icons from arguably the best top-down shooter of all time.…