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Good vs Evil Mario Shoes
Paradox-Artistry's entry in the "Bring Your Vision to Life" Contest over on deviantart.com. A set of custom painted high top shoes with a Super Mario theme. The left shoe has Mario and his power-ups while the right shoe has King Koopa/Bowser and his badies.
Via: deviantart
Donkey Kong Jr. World Champion
Steve Wiebe, from "King of Kong" documentary fame, recently set a new world record Donkey Kong Jr. score.
Wiebe reached a score of 1,139,800, beating out the previous record of 1,033,000. Wiebe will be going head to head with Billy Mitchell at this years E3 for a live nationally televised shot at the original Donkey Kong record.
Via: Twin Galaxies
A Wired Game Life video review of the current Nintendo DS release of Retro Game Challenge. Retro Game Challenge finds you completing classic gaming challenges presented by the gaming master. Based off of the Japanese tv show Game Center CX. These aren't old re-released famicom games but are newly made ones specifically for this DS release. Some of the retro genres covered include; a side-scrolling platformer, a top-down view racing game, 2-D shooter and a decent sized rpg.
Via: Retro Game Challenge Official Site , Game Life
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GameCenter CX - Subbed in English
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Classic Video Games on Modern Tv's
A post over on the ngfgames forums by the member NFG explains how newer plasma and LCD tv's have issues correctly displaying classic video games. It comes down to the fact that these tv's have trouble scaling pixel images making the original pixels blurry and unappealing. Full post linked below.
Nes 8-bit Duck Hunt in Lego
A Flickr user named "skinny coder" has a photo gallery full of classic video game scenes rendered in Lego brick. Nes games such as Metal Gear, Duck Hunt, Contra and Bionic Commando all skillfully put together brick by brick. I think Nintendo should team up with Lego at some point and release a Mario Bros. Lego set. More Photos after the jump.
Via: unrealitymag , flickr
Game Gavel Website
Gamegavel.com is a video game auction site that offers the chance to sell your video games without fees. Founded by Jasen Hicks in early 2008 Gamegavel is now being aquired by ChasetheChuckwagon.com.
Taito Gaming T-shirts
Some new Taito gaming t-shirts soon to be available in Japan for $30 (¥3045) each. You have 3 different designs to choose from; " Warning Huge Battleship King Fossil is Approaching Fast " Darius T-shirt, " Game Over " Bubble Bobble and a " Insert Coin " Bubble Bobble design. 100% cotton and they only come in one size, large.
Via: gamesetwatch
Amazon Punch Out Glove
To help hype the upcoming release of the Wii game Punch-Out!! Amazon.com is selling a Exclusive Little Mac Boxing Glove. The trademark green boxing glove appears to be signed by Little Mac himself. Preorder or Buy May 18th for $89.99.
Full size replica of Little Mac’s green boxing glove
15” x 11” wood frame
Engraved plate with the Punch-Out!! logo
Limited Edition
Glove does not include Punch-Out!! the game. Game sold separately.
One thing that you can find aplenty on youtube is video game music performed on a dizzying array of instruments. In this case we have the classic Mario Bros. theme beatboxed on a flute.
Via: Youtube , hardestlevel
For $4.99 you can download the official John Carmack port of the classic Wolfenstein 3D for your iphone or ipod touch. Looks to be the tightest FPS controls so far on the iphone.
Wolfenstein 3D iPhone Website
