Hasta La Gadget!

Check out this incredible piece of geekery I just found over on Etsy. This LEGO mosaic is loaded with so many classic Nintendo, Sega and arcade characters, I think my head might just explode. I dare you to try and identify them all.

It was made from a whopping 10,511 individual LEGO pieces, each affixed to a large grey LEGO baseplate. Since each baseplate measures 15″ x 15″ and there are 15 baseplates, that means this thing measures 75″ x 45″. Wow. That’s almost 24 square feet of gaming awesomeness.

Click the image below to see the full hi-res version of this incredible LEGO mosaic:

I can’t believe that the artist who created this simply posted it under an Etsy shop called “Mytemporaryshop.” How are we supposed to give him/her credit for this masterpiece? If it’s you, please step forward and be recognized as a god (or goddess) among geeks.

This one-of-a-kind work of art is available for appx. $4823 (USD) over on Etsy, and all profits from the sale of the piece will go to help fund its creator’s project to send her class to Africa next year.

I love indie games. There’s just a sort of a creative freedom, ingenuity and singular artistic vision in many of these games that makes them often more fun than the big blockbusters. One unusual little indie game that recently popped onto my radar screen was Cart Life. It’s actually been around for a couple of years, but it’s new to me.

The game dusts off the old lemonade stand type sim of the 1980s and breathes fresh life into it. Cart Life was developed by Richard Hofmeier, and offers a retro style befitting its gameplay.

The game puts you in charge of the livelihood of one of several citizens of a fictitious city, and asks you to build and operate their various street vending businesses. But these characters not only have business goals to meet, they each have needs and addictions which must be fed, as well as unique personality traits. It’s as much about money management and business skills as managing risk and reward for your sims.

Cart Life is available as a free download for Windows PCs here. Richard also offers a deluxe edition with a bonus game, soundtrack MP3s and a bonus playable character for just $5(USD). There’s also a fan-made Mac port available here.

[via The Atlantic Cities]

See a recreation of Anchorman in 8-bit glory.

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I always thought that Pixar’s original Luxo, Jr. had a whole lot of personality for a desk lamp. But imagine if your lamp had eyes and arms? That’s what you get when you buy the Nintendo Robotic Operating Buddy lamp.

It started out as one of those Nintendo robots from the 1980s, but has since been decommissioned and turned into a table lamp. Despite the fact that R.O.B. no longer functions as a NES peripheral, you can still rotate him 360 degrees, open and close his arms, raise and lower his arms and shoulders, and even grip things in his pincers.

The NES R.O.B. lamp is available over on Woody6Switch’s Etsy shop for $125(USD).

There’s a very good chance that if you’re a fan of Star Trek, you’re also a fan of video games. And even if you didn’t grow up in a time when 8-bit graphics were mind-blowing, it’s still easy to love this condensed re-telling of J.J. Abram’s first Star Trek movie as told via the original NES.

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