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iCade 8-Bitty: Retro NES Controller For Your iPhone & iPad
The retrofication of gadgets and pretty much everything around us is something that is really dear to my heart. I love the memories connected to gadgets that I used to play with when I was a little kid, and that is likely never going to go away. That is why when I find something truly awesome, I get ...
iPhone Retro Cases Will Bring You Back A Decade
Time to get retro back up in this place. By retro, I mean really retro, as in Apple. You are carrying around that new iPhone of yours, and no one is impressed anymore. There's just no mojo left in it that will dazzle people, like your interaction with Siri for example. You are carrying dead weight s ...
iHome Turns Your iPad Into A Retro Commodore 64 Setup
There are a ton of devices out there from the early '80s that I call retro things. They range from toys to gadgets, and as soon as something new hits the store, I think about these things that we once knew were on the very edge of technology. How we have managed to progress technology to the level i ...
Love Hulten’s R-Kaid-6 MAME Console
If you’re looking for the perfect combination of geeky and artsy, look no further than Love Hultén. Hultén, an artist and designer working out of Sweden, has been creating digital and physical art since somewhere around 2008, and he’s got some pretty awesome exhibits and concepts on his personal web ...
The Invaders: Impressive Space Invaders 8-Bit Mosaic Portrait
I don't think I can walk up to an old school arcade game without wanting to have it. I am one of the unfortunate ones who does not have my own epic Space Invaders arcade game in my office or home. My best friend has one, and she is an epic player. I would ask her to send me a screenshot of her high ...
Hail The Pocket-Sized Espresso Machine!
Are you a coffee drinker of magnitude? I am one of those tea fanatics instead. If I don't get a cup of tea in the morning, you can pretty much be sure that my entire day is going to be one long stretch of constant mumbling about me not getting my tea on time. Nah, not really, but I do need my tea to ...
Video Games Then And Now: A Mind Twisting Comparison
What is retro to you? Is it the arcade halls of the '80s or just the 8-bit graphics that used to drive the games that you spent countless hours in front of just because you had to finish them? We all have a different idea about what retro is, yet it still all refers to yesterday's awesomeness. Howev ...
Atari Flashback 3: Get The Retro Back Into Your Life
Do you sometimes long for the retro days of yesterday? Do you think gaming and entertainment was just a little more fun back in the days? If you answered yes, you are just like me. Games today aren't necessarily boring or less entertaining, it's just that the games of yesterday were a little less co ...
The Video Game That Does Your Laundry
Suddenly doing the laundry just got fun, and expensive if you suck at video games. This is called the amusement washing machine. It's a video game on the top, and a clothes washing machine on the bottom, but here is where it gets interesting. You put your dirty clothes in the washing machine part of ...
Epic AT-AT Star Wars Dog Costume
When you are a geek, you usually want to make sure people know about it. Some people might call you a hipster if you got yourself some of those geeky glasses that geeks are usually styled with. Some get them just to look geeky, while other people that are actually in need of glasses go for them beca ...
Tetris Art: A Luigi Pattern Created While Playing Tetris
I remember Tetris in the arcades in the '80s. It was always next to Pac-Man, Galaga, Space Invaders, Arkanoid and the other classics. Tetris was a little different though, and it attracted a different kind of player. Tetris was known back then as being the video game for the "smart kids," and I didn ...
Retro Nintendo 64 Star Wars Tie Fighter Game Console
Since we love retro video games, we often write about them on Bit Rebels. My very first memory of playing a video game was when my father bought me an Atari. I sat in my hot pink bean bag chair and played Frogger all summer long. I was so fascinated with it, and it never got old.
I can remember p ...
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The Evolution Of Video Game Controllers: Version 2.0 [Infographic]
Yes, I am a huge game junkie, and every free second I get (which isn't often) I try to play something new and exciting. I've been through World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Minecraft and pretty much every other popular game you can think of. It's a way to relax my brain and think about something else in ...
Imperial Forces Wallpaper: The Dark Side Of Interior Design
Let's organize a mental picture for a second. Imagine not only the world being heavily inspired by Star Wars, but also that we started living in the spirit of it. What I mean is, if we started to incorporate all the Star Wars "guff" into our everyday lives and didn't feel odd about it whatsoever. We ...
Gaming Injuries: It’s A Dangerous Business
We've all been there and had sleepless nights in front of the screen playing away on our favorite games nonstop. We're determined and fanatical about reaching the next level, and then the next, and so on. We take it so seriously that we forget time and space, and sometimes we go overboard trying to ...