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The Missing Super Mario Bros. 3 Level That Never Was

This is pretty strange. As one of the leading console series names in the world you’d figure that Nintendo would have had their Super Mario Bros. 3 release edited and studied unmercifully until its release. But somehow the game was released featuring a screen shot of a level which never even appears in the game. Have you ever seen this ...

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Etsified: The NES Purse

There is just so much creativity swimming around Etsy.com that sometimes it gives me a headache. People create all sorts of plush toys, pillows and other doo-dads that you, the reader, can then purchase for your own pleasure whilst supporting the original artist. This NES handbag is no exception. User Inhope created it with a lot of room in mind ...

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Official Super Mario Chess Set

For once, Nintendo is moving away from the television set and into the study. Next month, you’ll be able to plunk down $39.99 for an officially licensed Mario Chess set. Nothing has changed with the game but the pieces are based on your favorite Nintendo characters. Yoshi is the knight, Toad is the rook, Peach is the bishop and of ...

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Power Glove + Arduino

Anyone old enough to have owned an NES when it was the prime system knows how awesome the Power Glove could have been. Alas, it was just a controller bolted to a neat-looking glove. Now, 20 years later, Matt Mechtley has done the impossible and has officially made the Power Glove cool again. Using an Arduino, a Bluetooth module and ...

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Call It: PS3 Outsells Wii in March

Big in Japan. That’s what the press should be calling the Playstation 3. Seems for the month of March, Nintendo’s fantasy box of magic couldn’t fend off the brute,building strength of Sony’s Playstation 3. According to Reuters, “domestic sales of the PS3 came to 146,948 units in the five weeks through March 29, compared with 99,335 units of the Wii ...

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Afternoon Linkage for April 3rd, 2009

Rain rain, go away. Please, dear gosh, come back another day. Britain just doesn’t care for Google it seems The Nintendo DSi will get the Opera browser (porn!) McLaren is still working on cars Camplite is the quickest way to a cooked sausage BGR has a video walkthrough of the Palm Pre Classic arcade sounds from your past Learn to ...

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Gigantic LEGO DSi

You think you’re the ultimate Nintendo fanboy? Not even close. Why don’t you spend a weekend with some LEGOs and one up Sean Kenney. After all, he’s the dude who made a 51,324 piece DSi out of LEGOs, complete with a drawing of a strange cat. Kenney spent over 200 hours on the project which will be on display at ...

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Exer-Station: Wii Fit-like Gaming Exercise on Any Console

This is just perfect. And not only because the Wii sucks! Okay, well mostly because the Wii sucks. But we have to hand it to Nintendo. Their little Wii Fit gimmick is a decent idea… in theory. The problem is that their console is a gimmicky pile of junk, which isn’t much help to those of us who need a ...

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Pac-Man Pillows for Accenting Your Den of Gaming

If you have a pulse, you’ve played Pac-Man at some point in your life and most likely enjoyed the experience. Indeed, you might not be a compulsive Pac-Man competitor, but if there is one title which represents the world of gaming, right up there with Pong and Super Mario Bros., it’s gotta be Pac-Man. Along with his four edible friends; ...

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Hotrod Engine Table is Classier Than Previous Models

We’ve seen various other engine table designs strewn across the internet. Most are pretty much just a full-sized engine with a piece of glass glued to the top of it. Some call that awesome, we call it lazy. This design, though, is the classiest-styled permutation of an engine table that we’ve come across, inspired more from the days of hotrodding ...

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