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I am sure people who come up with Tetris goodies are the ones who have obsessively made love to that game and feel a tribute to it is long overdue. While some did their deed in the form of wacky designs and concepts, but foodies nailed it with a Cake. The big Tetris Cake here has neat blocks from the game iced with lively colors and perfection.
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Sure, it’s all well and good to bring some of your college furniture and posters with you to your first apartment, but at some point you need to get rid of the futon and upgrade a bit. So, how do you show your geek colors while ditching the dorm look? 1337motif on Etsy has some beautiful geeky cutting boards, coasters, and necklaces fit the bill nicely.
Wired’s Game|Life blog is featuring the cleverly named web-store “Attract Mode” in a post today, and something about it just caught my eye. They’re carrying a really well curated selection of ‘zines, shirts, stuff, and some of the best chiptune music there is (I’m literally wearing an Anamanaguchi t-shirt right now).
With so many smaller brick & mortar stores closing and massive web shops like Amazon and Ebay getting all the press, it’s great to see a really well chosen collection like this spring up as an independent web store.
Robezzoli offers a selection of quality chiptune CDs by artists like YMCK and Anamanaguchi, original T-shirts, and high-end art prints by superbrothers (aka Craig D. Adams.)
If none of that fun stuff sounds attractive you can always grab one of those nifty Icetris ice cube trays.
Read more at www.wired.com
If the Tetris Tattoos we featured a few days ago went a little bit beyond your commitment to the classic block stacker but you’re still a fan, you might be interested in this piece that’s making it’s way around the geek blogs today. Done in lucite, this bracelet takes the “retro” in “retro-fashion” to mean “8-bit”, and I wholeheartedly approve.
The Tetris bracelet isn’t vintage in theory since it’s a new production, but it does have a retro style that geeky gamers might just fall for. Read more at inventorspot.com
Sara and I have been playing a lot of the new Tetris game for Wii-ware and it’s pretty incredible, and very worth the $10. Smooth control, great multiplayer modes and online play, lots of variations on the game and lots of new play dynamics like weapons make it one of our current favorites. So, when geekologie featured Tetris Tattoos, I had to share them here - they’ve got a bunch more at the source.
Mario, Luigi, and the Princess audition some familiar cast members for the original Super Mario Bros…
Okay, this just makes me intensely happy, and I may have to get an MP3 of this track. I can’t tell you how many times I listened to this in it’s 4bit incarnation on the original gameboy, trying in vain to make it through Super Mario Land while at my friends house growing up.
To hear that little tune so wonderfully realized is awesome, and you can tell that these guys had a blast putting it together.
(hat-tip to @drew)
I have to admit, I am totally keyboard cat obsessed. Now people are getting more creative with it, and I couldn’t be more excited.
Okay - I might have to get the Zelda set of these awesome magnets. I love that they’re individual pieces that you can move around instead of one solid thing! They’ve got a long list of sprite’s they’ll make magnets for you from at beadsprite.com
Looking for some retro-gaming flair you can stick to the fridge? Enter MagnetGames’ Etsy shop. Seen here is a small sampling of a 22-piece, $30 Super Mario magnet set. Mario not doing it for you? Hit the jump for some Zelda, Pac-Man and Tetris action. Read more at www.geekologie.com
