We still have memories — some would say nightmares, but we digress — of hanging out at a neighbor’s house and taking turns playing matches of Mario’s Tennis , our biological ocular displays assimilated into a rubber mask that engulfed our brains and left us in a permanent state of viewing the world in red wireframe. Crude 3D though it may be, it’s still a part of history we must accept, and if you happen to own a Virtual Boy, we have just two things to say to you.
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iFixit celebrates Friday with teardown of Virtual Boy, the greatest game console man has ever known
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Perhaps the worst, and least repairable, shortcoming of touchscreens is their failure to act as viable game controllers. Keyboard-equipped smartphones alleviate that pain a little (particularly if you pair them with a Game Gripper ), but ultimately we’d all prefer real controllers for our real games. Such was clearly the thinking behind the homebrewed setup here, which combines an HTC EVO 4G — with Android and an NES emulator inside — with an Arduino board, a BlueSMiRF Bluetooth module, and a classic NES control pad
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NES controller pressed into service to Android overlord (video)
Do you remember the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicon ? Well, you might not — it came to earth in 1983 and was Japan’s version of the NES . Now, continuing its week of vintage teardowns , iFixit’s gotten its hands on one of these colorful gems and done what it does
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iFixit tears apart the Nintendo Famicon
Did you oooh and ahh at the fantastic gaming graphics that accompanied today’s Apple keynote ? You won’t have to wait for next week’s iOS 4.1 to get a taste of those textures for yourself. Though the full-on gladiator dueling of Epic’s “Project Sword” may be a while off, you can get your hot little hands on “Epic Citadel” right now, a 82.2 megabyte download that explores a beautiful medieval castle town.
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Epic’s spectacular Unreal Engine 3 tech demo free at iTunes App Store
While the giant guitar logo hovering over the doorway isn’t exactly spelling out ” Game Center ,” we’re anticipating some relevant news from Apple during the company’s fall keynote event today — it kicks off in 20 minutes! Continue reading PSA: Apple fall 2010 event kicks off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET PSA: Apple fall 2010 event kicks off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
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PSA: Apple fall 2010 event kicks off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET
For some people, the association of Corsair and quality PC components is so strong that they’d buy anything that bears the triple sail logo.
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Corsair sails into gaming headset waters with noise-isolating HS1 cans
Holy Jesus, this is what I want for Christmas: A new Xbox 360 controller with a d-pad that doesn’t suck. (Like the FightPad here , but inside the official controller.) Joystiq hears Microsoft’s making it happen for Christmas. More »
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Rumor: A New Xbox 360 Controller With a D-Pad That Doesn’t Suck? [Rumor]
The fine people at iFixit have taken the extremely awesome step of tearing down some very retro gear this week, and up first, they’ve got the Magnavox Odyssey 100 which dates from 1975. The gaming console, which boasted two (count them ) games — Tennis and Hockey — was built around four Texas Instruments chips and powered by six C batteries
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iFixit tears apart a Magnavox Odyssey 100, doesn’t find a disco ball inside
Huddling around the iPhone , squinting at a tiny LCD is no way to spend your game nights. Even with an iPad the idea of multiplayer, single-device, cheek-to-cheek gaming doesn’t sound much more appealing…
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Griffin’s PartyDock does four-player iPhone/iPad gaming with just one device
