Nintendo Jazz Odyssey

Posted by Queuebot in Music, Video Clips on October 10, 2009 at 3:17 am


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Love video games and jazz? Well, Scott Bradlee and Ben Golder-Novick teamed up to bring you this: classic video game music in piano and saxophone!

Love 8-bit Nintendo games but not necessarily 8-bit musical
instruments? Wish you could hear the soundtracks of those games
rendered by live musicians as you play?

Eight Bits of Jam will come into your living room and provide real-time acoustic soundtracks to old school games such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda,
Mike Tyson’s Punch-out, and many more. All you have to do is put the television on ‘mute’ and Eight Bits of Jam will take care of the rest.

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Zelda Papercraft

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Toy & Video Games on October 7, 2009 at 3:07 pm


Master Sword and Pedestal by Xenonray – via Nintendo Papercraft

Whoa! This is awesome: Gajitz blog has a nice compendium of the various papercrafts inspired by the Zelda games. I remember fondly playing Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on my NES oh so many years ago.

Link | More at the excellent blog Nintendo Papercraft (you can lose hours there!)

 
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Nintendo Tattoos

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Funny, Toy & Video Games on October 2, 2009 at 11:13 pm

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Depending on how you feel about Nintendo and tattoos, you may love or hate this huge collection of Nintendo Tattoos. Some of them have some really great artwork, others…not so much.

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Unlikely (We Hope!) Video Game Peripherals

Posted by John Farrier in Funny, Pictures, Toy & Video Games on September 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm


Image:Kent Smith, Gizmodo

Gizmodo held a photoshop contest for video game peripherals that will probably never be developed. Above is the…uh, animal husbandry Nintendo Wii controller by Kent Smith, which took 3rd place. There are 42 reader-submitted images at the link.

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Wii Anatomy

Posted by Queuebot in Toy & Video Games on September 9, 2009 at 9:39 am

Artist Angela Moramarco has a very odd belief about the innards of video game controllers.

I bet you didn’t know that the average Wii controller has all kinds of guts like this. Guts. I’ve seen a lot of guts projects lately. That one with the lego guy turning around and around, those KAWS Dissected Companions from a few years ago. It’s no longer a joke! But that’s ok, that’s not what this is about anyway. It’s about how physical therapists are using the Wii to help their patients gain muscle strength by playing games! Yay Nintendo!

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CPR Certification At Home With the Nintendo Wii

Posted by John Farrier in Gadget, Medicine, Toy & Video Games on July 13, 2009 at 3:55 pm

The American Heart Association is funding a student project to develop a CPR certification program that uses the Nintendo Wii:

A biomedical engineering professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham envisioned a program for home computers that could sync via wireless with the Wii remote, and train users on proper resuscitation of people who have suffered cardiac arrest. The students hope to make the program available for download this fall, free of charge, on the American Heart Association’s website.

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NES Controller Doorbell

Posted by Jill Harness in Home & Garden, Science & Tech, Toy & Video Games on June 27, 2009 at 2:18 pm

An intrepid Nintendo fan hacked a wireless doorbell together with a NES controller. It looks really cool, I just wonder which button actually makes the door ring.

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Nintendo Customer Service Training in the 90s

Posted by Queuebot in Advertising, Video Clips on February 5, 2009 at 2:47 am


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“A Nintendo training video from 1991 teaching retail workers how to handle customers with defective Nintendo products.”

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The Dark Knight as an Old-School Nintendo Game

Posted by Stacy in Video Clips on January 16, 2009 at 10:19 pm

I have to say, this brought back some memories. The guy who created this is spot on, I think.

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Push Pin Mario Wall Art

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Toy & Video Games on January 13, 2009 at 7:15 pm

You know someone’s a hardcore Mario fan when they actually design a whole mosaic of Mario art on their wall using push pins. This must have killed their thumbs. I love how the art looks like it’s in pixels. This wonderful display can be found at the Student Computing Center at the University of Fraser Valley…good to know they spend their time studying over there.

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