People don’t usually associate video games with food, unless it’s the chips and Mountain Dew all gamers are accused of subsisting on (hey, it’s not our fault junk food is so convenient!). However, during the height of Sonic the Hedgehog’s popularity, sometime in the mid-1990s, there was a custom line of Sonic the Hedgehog meatballs [...]
Filed under: General on November 18th, 2009 | Comments Off
Imagine if those arcade driving games you spent so much of your childhood playing worked like real cars… Designer Garnet Hertz is turning an old OutRun arcade cabinet into a functioning vehicle, installing wheels, motors, and other auto parts along with GPS sensors taken from an iPhone. He has even written custom software that will [...]
Filed under: General on November 13th, 2009 | Comments Off
This Pac-Man custom decal set fits right in with the apple on the lid of Mac laptops. Anyone nostalgic for the greatest arcade game ever made (in my humble, unbiased opinion of course!) need only look at the back of their computer screen. And it’s not just for Macs–with a little DIY ingenuity, this cool [...]
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These Xbox cufflinks are the perfect way to flaunt your gamer-geek pride even if you’re stuck in a business meeting. They aren’t “official” Xbox merchandise–if Microsoft ever decided to go into promotional apparel, we’d all be doomed to a nightmare world of pocket protectors and logo-embroidered white socks–but these cufflinks match the sleek look of [...]
Filed under: General on November 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The classic arcade game Space Invaders seems to come up pretty frequently on this blog [1, 2, 3], but can you really blame us? Those little pixelated aliens are so cute when they aren’t trying to blow up our planet… The latest installment in our Space Invaders fixation is this shiny messenger bag, perfect for [...]
Filed under: General on October 30th, 2009 | Comments Off
This pair of Zippo lighters shaped like old Sega video game consoles is great for indulging your electronic nostalgia. If you’re looking for fond memories of Sonic the Hedgehog every time you light a stick of incense, nothing beats one of these. Now, where are the candles shaped like Sonic and Tails? [Just remember to [...]
Filed under: General on October 28th, 2009 | Comments Off
This formidable-looking beer stein, which weighs about four pounds and holds almost two liters of liquid, is certain to delight World of Warcraft fans the world over when it is released at the beginning of next year–if they can tear themselves away from the computer screen long enough to drink out of it, that is! [...]
Filed under: General on October 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off
For Electronic Arts’ new World War II spy game The Saboteur, electronics retailer GameStop has devised an innovative promotion to boost pre-release sales: in-game schwag. If you pre-order the game, you get a code that unlocks a secret weapon during play, an “exclusive Nazi knife” that enhances your ability to perform stealth missions. Just remember–despite [...]
Filed under: General on October 21st, 2009 | Comments Off
The classic space invader, now rendered in a more…temporary…form. Hey, if you squint hard you can pretend it’s a prestigious crystalline award you’ve just won in your last LAN tournament, or some exotic silver artifact rescued from a distant star in the latest episode of your favorite game. (I know computers and gaming systems were [...]
Filed under: General on October 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment »