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iPod Doom

Now you can play Doom on your iPod, just like you’ve always dreamed: because the clickwheel makes everything better. You won’t be maxing out the FPS like on your good gamin’ rig and you have to install Linux on your iPod, but if you’re a True Believer you’ve already installed Linux on anything with a [...]

Atelier Iris kicking it old school

Everybody on the Internet gets all gooshy about those SNES-era RPGs like Final Fantasy 3/6 (down, nerds) and Chrono Trigger and complains about modern variations. For all those old timers now there’s Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, being brought here by NIS America, a company known for introducing some games you might have heard of like [...]

Cover of every Super Mario World song

It must be Mario music day. Jason Cox has made his album of covers of every song from Super Mario World available on the Internet Archive and single-handedly created the “mariocore” genre. According to the cover, instruments used include banjo (for some toe-tappin’ ragtime), asscheeks, coconut thumb piano, and a turkey locator. There’s also some [...]

Game Manuals

Game manuals!

Game manuals:

Have you ever rented a game that came with no instructions?

Have you ever bought a used game and found out later that the package you received didn’t come with an essential map or answers to copy protection questions required to play the game?

Have [...]

Block party

Putting up question blocks around town is certainly cool, but it’s definitely treading in dangerous territory. In these impressionable times, it doesn’t take long before some youngster is taking it too far.

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Interview with creators of The Oregon Trail

From the CollegeHumor newsletter:

Jane Hendel, age 10, writes: I like Oregon Trail better than SimCity but less than Tony Hawk, which do you think’s best?

Don: I’m not familiar with Tony Hawk.

Paul: Is he a skateboarder?

Bill: I haven’t played [...]

Merchandise available in the lobby

As a add-on (or expansion pack, if you will) to the last post. For all you out there who want to show that your life is equal parts WWJD and WWTSMBD, this shirt is for you.

This is it boys, this is it

Pac Man hats. That is all. Return to your posts.

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Classic game wallpapers

All day long you slave in front of that computer. Your body may be chained to the desk, but you yearn to set your mind free with dreams of blasting space pirates, squashing reptiles to save the princess, or spanning the globe in a grand adventure to restore your banana collection. Your coworkers suspect none [...]

Video Game A Capella

Rock on!