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NECA’s upcoming RoboCop action figure caters to a tiny slice of Alex Murphy fans: the now grown men and women who played the 1989 NES RoboCop game. To everyone else, it’ll look like someone dropped the toy in a jar of ink, but in reality it’s the future of law enforcement rendered in the past of video game graphics.

If it still doesn’t look right to you, this video by YouTube channel nesguide should set things straight:

Ah, the bane of RoboCop’s existence: stairs. The action figure is articulated, is 7″ tall and has his signature Auto-9 Pistol, which you can store in its spring-loaded holster.

Dat box art! Your Prime Directive is to remember this date: February 2014. That’s the tentative release date for the action figure. NECA says it won’t make the action figure available ever again after it sells out. So don’t miss it or… there will be trouble.

[via NECA via Gotham News]

After five amazing seasons, Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad is finally coming to an end. Other than the occasional conversation between Badger and Skinny Pete show doesn’t have a lot to do with videogames, but excellence radiates beyond boundaries. 72Pins worked with pixel artist Drew Wise to make an homage to the TV show in the only way it knows how: with art on a random NES cartridge.

As with other 72Pins carts, Bad Breaker is a playable NES cartridge. Sadly, whatever game you get, you can be sure that it’s not got nothing to with Breaking Bad. The least they could do is install this.

Tread lightly and order Bad Breaker from 72Pins for $15 (USD). Yo.

[via InsanelyGaming]

We love what the Hyperkin Retron 5 brings to the table, namely compatibility with ten classic gaming system cartridges: NES, Famicom, Super NES and Famicom, Sega Master System, Genesis and Mega Drive, and Game Boy original, Color and Advance. The problem is, Hyperkin’s played coy about it’s price and availability… until now. It’ll be available on December 10th, and it’ll be on sale in both Europe (for €89.99) and in the US ($99.99). And, it turns out that the Retron 5 that’ll go on sale will have a few more tricks up its sleeve than the prototype we played with back at E3. The exterior’s been modified to better cool the internal components, and it’ll pack a Sega Power Base Converter that lets you play Sega’s Master System games. So, now you can officially start carving out space in your entertainment center for the Retron 5 — which shouldn’t be difficult once you’ve cleared out all the elder consoles it replaces. Less is more, people.

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Why didn’t I think of this? J.J. Hendricks built this awesome chandelier out of old NES light guns. You know, the trusty old orange Duck Hunt zappers.

When you have a huge amount of light guns in stock and they aren’t selling, you can either sigh and move on or you can build yourself a lightgun chandelier. All it took was some light guns, about 20 feet of electrical wire, 12 candelabra sockets and light bulbs.

He had to install it in his warehouse entry way because like so many of us, J.J. has a wife who just doesn’t appreciate his geek decor, and so she didn’t want it hanging over the dining room table.

It cost J.J. about $200 and took about 15 hours to build. Awesome. It’s like a beautiful geek star.

[via JJGames]

Looking for something classy to hang on the wall of your man-cave? Something that screams video game geek, but has a classy feel? Well, this Nintendo Controller LED Light Art may be just the thing.

Etsy artist TheDailyRobot experimented with a lot of laser engraving and LED lighting configurations before he was able to offer this amazing edge-lit laser-etched light piece. Ultimately, he laser etched a piece of clear acrylic and placed it behind another identical non-etched sheet to get the cool effect. It looks fantastic.

The NES controller glows a bright red, but he does have other colors available if you so desire.  This light is only $75(USD) and would look great in any geekily decorated room.