Bombermine is a free flash clone of Bomberman, except with a much bigger concept. Bombermine allows up to 1,000 different players from all over the world play Bomberman at once. The game is in beta, but servers are currently up for Russia, Europe, Japan, and the U.S.
Check the game out here.
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Buy it: Classic NES Bomberman for GBA
Pixel totem by P I X E L I N A A featuring classic sprites from Super Mario Bros. 3.
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Huge-ass Mega Man piece by ANO.
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Built by the folks over at Bohemian Workbench, this NES controller coffee table is fully functional, Wii-compatible, and… oh yeah… $7,200. Yeah, we won’t be getting one of these for Albotas H.Q. any time soon.
(Source: geekologie.com)
Hey, listen! The book detailing the history of The Legend of Zelda just got a new and improved cover. I was able to flip through the Japanese version, and while I wasn’t super impressed, I’ll definitely be picking up the English version. The book more heavily covered the recent games and only had a few pages dedicated to the pre-N64 titles. I’d love to play a magic ocarina to travel back to 1985 and ‘86 while the original game was being developed, but since that’s probably not going to happen, I’ll settle for the few pages of insight this book provides.
Source: Tiny Cartridge
Buy it: The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia
A limited edition of just ten of these Mini 10-Doh! Tombstones from Squid Kids Ink. will be available at the Mana Studios booth #607 at DesignerCon 2012 this Saturday.
The dudes over at North Street Labs decided (rightfully so) that the Nintendo Zapper would be infinitely more awesome if it could actually burn things. This is the results.
Check out instructions on how to make your own here. Just don’t go shooting your eyes out or setting your house on fire.
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Buy: Original NES Zapper
Peep it: Custom digital camo NES Zapper
(Source: hackaday.com)
Erika Iris Simmons uses the wires from old NES controllers to recreate classic video game characters like Mario, Link, and Pac-Man. This is part of her “Ghosts in the Machine” project where she recreates celebrities and various other pop culture icons using every day materials like VHS and cassette tape.
You can buy these pieces from Simmons’ site for $2,000. Or you could probably just buy some NES controllers and frames and make your own for way cheaper.
(Source: kotaku.com)
DeviantART user PrinceKaname teamed up with his dad to stencil the O.G. Nintendo Zapper into the manly digital weapon that you see above. They still probably have to cheat by holding it up to the screen when they play Duck Hunt, though. That game can get brutal.
We here at Albotas get all warm and happy inside our guts whenever the worlds of gaming culture and designer toy culture cross paths. Such is the case with Mini 10-Doh! Series 1 from Squid Kids Ink. We’ve featured their So Analog figures on the site before, but we’re super excited for this series of 3.5” mini figures with 16 designs from 12 different artists.
The artist lineup includes Andrew Wilson, Doktor A, Jerome Lu, Jesse Hernandez, Kozik, Kwestone, Luke Chueh, Matt JOnes, Nakanari, Nate Mitchell, Scott Tolleson, and Tracy Tubera.
These little dudes will retail for $10 each. For wholesale inquiries, hit up DKE Toys.
Funky fresh Excitebike pixel graffiti by gameboyone. This is making me want to play Excitebike 3D for 3DS really bad right now. Also, the theme song is now officially stuck in my head and I’m perfectly okay with it.
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Jude Buffum made this series of 8-bit Big Lebowski prints for the North Bowl Lounge and Lanes bowling alley in Philly. The owner, Oron, digs Lebowski so much that his bowling alley is the official host of the Philadelphia Lebowskifest.
It bums me out that I live right outside of Philly and have never been to this place. It also bums me out that there isn’t really an NES Lebowski bowling game.
Awesome Konami code tattoo spotted at San Diego Comic Con.
(via Konami on Facebook)
The GameDock aims to combine the more tactile controls of the iCade with the TV connectivity of a home console. This right here, this is the future of gaming, dudes. One device that can be played on the go or hooked up to a TV for maximum gameage. It also supports all the same games as the iCade, which is A LOT, so yeah.
So far, the GameDock has made almost $11,000 of its $50,000 goal and there’s 45 days left to turn it into a real thing that I can skip work and play with my buds.
(via Engadget)
Sorry if I got your hopes up, but this throwback 3DS is just a fun mockup by Bjørn van der Linden, so don’t expect Nintendo to roll one out any time soon. But if they do, you can bet I’ll be first in line for one, then I’ll be first to complain when the 3DS Lite is announced a month later.
