• Shut Up and Take My Money: LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System

    Launching in early August, LEGO has created a new building set that recreates the design of Nintendo’s original gaming console, the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Clocking in at 2,646 LEGO pieces, the set includes a lifesize console...

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    Shut Up and Take My Money: Nintendo’s Mini NES

    Updating the machine that seriously escalated the console gaming craze, Nintendo will be selling a miniature version of the classic NES system starting on November 11, 2016. Retailing for $60, the Mini NES will come with 30 classic games...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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    Shut Up and Take My Money: 72Pins NES Cartridges

    Film and video game makers are always trying to make their visuals bigger, better, and more spectacular. However, very few seem to realize the truth at hand: graphics reached their peak with 8-bit. But then 8-bit became...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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    Artist Recreates Classic NES System out of LEGOs

    Developed by Flickr user weltall1028, this collection of photographs show off the creation of a full-sized Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) nearly created entirely out of LEGO bricks. As you can see in the photos below, the LEGO...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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    NES Cartridge Art: Where the Past and Present Collide

    If you haven’t checked out the fantastic work of 72Pins, you are about to have a fun time. The company takes classic NES cartridges and applies a new label that’s related to something relevant in the gaming, television...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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    15 of the Coolest NES System Mods

    While people can’t stop talking about the next generation of video game consoles, there’s a whole scene of gamers that are obsessed with modifying older consoles into other useful items or simply giving the console a brand...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • YMMV: The Power Mitt… It’s So Bad

    Whether you dreamed of being Lucas Barton from The Wizard or always wanted a piece of Nintendo peripheral history, the Power Mitt by Jon Kay of Fangamer will fit the bill.  This custom-printed oven mitt—an interpretation of the classic Power Glove—has all...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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