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Watch as 80s video game characters turn NYC into pixels

This is video is (insert your own superlative here); let’s just say fantastic. Or perhaps as the Guinness guys say “Brilliant!”

What would happen if a bunch of very pixelated video games came to life and ‘attacked’ New York City? I’ve watched this 3 times already, and it’s still amazing. PS> You may want to hit YouTube directly to see it in big(ger) screen glory.

BTW, if you loved this, you’ll also love “8-bit Trip”!

iCade for iPad turns your iPad into a retro arcade cabinet!

icade for ipadIf you’re a retro-gamer, then you’re going to need to get an iPad and iCade, which is a litte mini arcade frame for your iPad to slide into. Then you can play thousands of old school, classic games like Donkey Kong, Q-bert, Pac-Man & Space Invaders with a joystick and classic buttons.

Naturally, the app for the iPad is free, but the iCade will run you $150, a small price to pay for the fun and memories you’ll have. Of course, your iPad also recharges while you play and there’s a little speaker in the cabinet for more authentic sounds.

By the way, in case you didn’t catch on, April Fool’s! Too funny ThinkGeek.

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Price: $150.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Sony eBook Store gets a 500k title boost from Google

Sony announced today that they have, with Google’s contribution, added over half a million (500,000) free public domain books to their library for their eReaders. This collection consist of books whose copyright has expired, so most of these titles will have been published prior to 1932.

This brings the total number of titles in the Sony eBook Store to over 600,000 easily surpassing the 250,000 titles that the Kindle Store has.

While many see this as Google teaming up with Sony to compete with Amazon in the eReader field, I think Google probably saw this as an easy decision, choosing to go with the vendor that supported the e-book standard, EPUB. Kindle does not natively support EPUB, although it has a conversion tool that ships with the reader.

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