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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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Most people I’ve talked to really can’t explain it, but there’s something about the trailers for “Where the Wild Things Are” that instantly takes you back to being a kid. You wake up in your comfy pajamas being carried somewhere, and someone says “I didn’t want to wake you up, but I really wanna show you something”… It’s just… Ahem.. excuse me, there’s something in my eye…
::walks away:: honk! sniffle… ::walks back::
Okay, sure, you can’t ever really go back to being a kid, but maybe you can capture a little of that memory of comfort, imagination, and wonder that was childhood by curling up in Max’s monster pajamas from Where The Wild Things Are.
I have a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot of these this Halloween…
This looks like way too much fun! Kudos to the group that put it together - that’s a whole lot of EL wire!
Nintendo has finally returned Mario to it’s glorious side-scroller roots with “New” Super Mario Bros! I’ve been hoping for a new Mario title like this for a long time, and it looks amazing. Favoring gameplay over graphics, the combination of classic style with 4 player craziness just looks like too much fun.
Combined with a nice price cut on the Wii, Nintendo is gearing up for some serious competition with Microsoft and Sony this holiday season.
There is a new trailer available for New Super Mario Bros. Wii, showing off some of the new suits and multiplayer action from the game. This is pure Nintendo: you may not be initially amazed at the graphics, but the play looks incredibly solid and fun. Take a look at what’s likely to be Nintendo’s next big thing.
Read more at arstechnica.com
New Super Mario Bros. will be released on November 15,Read more at feeds.arstechnica.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
If “knowing is half the battle”, what the heck is the other half? You can fill people in on the secret with this t-shirt. (via @laughingsquid)
“The Battle”, a limited edition G.I. Joe parody t-shirt by Nerduo, printed by Wire & Twine.
via Chris Glass
Read more at laughingsquid.com
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)
Well, I guess that answers that! I didn’t really see it until they added the backdrop in, and then I was amazed that I had missed it. Too funny!
