Is 8-bit Super Mario Bros. (the original) a casual game? Join the debate.
What does it mean to die in a video game? Very little. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
TimeWasters highlights many of the excellent Web-based/lightweight downloadable titles that you can dive into within the space of a lunch break. This week, Chris Gampat explores Enough Plumbers.
Sweater vests are all the rage now in men’s fashion. So why not have one that expresses your love of old school video games? The reason why is because they don’t make them and you can’t exactly ask for one. That’s why this home brew recipe was made by a talented little lady using custom materials. By that, I mean that she dyed the yarn herself. Her instructions to make it are available at the Happy Seamstress.
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s music. Music and videogames have been kissy kissy bedfellows almost since the hobby’s inception. Pong-era titles were typically sound effects-laden games that lacked any discernible melody, but by the time [...]
Etsy has proven itself a breeding ground for creative craftspeople to show their love for retrogaming goodness by taking the old and transforming it into something wonderfully new. If you thought the Atari 2600 wallet was pretty hot stuff, take a gander at 8bitMemory‘s NES external hard drives, which combines the dual worlds of gaming [...]
Bits and Bytes is a weekly round up of some of the more interesting gaming news items that happened to slip through the cracks during our normal posting schedule. They’re presented here in easily-digestible bite-size chunks. Bookworms and Mysteries This week, Popcap (the geniuses behind Plants vs. Zombies) launched two new titles for your gaming pleasure: [...]
If you’re a johnny-come-lately who doubts Konami’s deep influence in gaming, look no further than the Palm Pre, which is proving itself a love den for all things Konami. Days ago, it was discovered that inputting the famous Konami Code into the Palm Pre unlocks the handset’s dev mode, so it’s only fitting that the [...]
