Montreal Mini Maker Faire: Meet The Buttonmashers
One of the exhibits at this weekend’s first Montreal Mini Maker Faire will be The Buttonmashers’ Arcade Royale, a four-player, re-habbed, re-programmed, and re-made video game cabinet.
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Beware of Gravity Dips
Spotted on Facebook. The floor of a Paris game store. The floor is, of course, flat.
Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition Released!
A while back, I wrote an Intern’s Corner post entitled My Open Source Life Outside of MAKE, in which I talked about my experience working on Alien Arena, the open source first-person shooter. Well, for those who might be interested, I’m proud to announce that version 7.60, codenamed “Reloaded Edition,” has recently been released. It’s […]
Did Somebody Say Suzuki SXbox 360?
Spotted this image on G+, with the obligatory chides of being Darwin Award-worthy-dumb and the obvious “Where’s the monitor?” I did some poking around online and found the source article on Team Xbox. Don’t worry, one doesn’t drive and game. This is for park and play only. It’s a Suzuki auto show concept car/geek playpen.
“Star Castle” Finally Ported to Atari 2600
Scott Williamson is a former Atari dev who took up the grand challenge of porting Star Castle, a coin-up vector arcade game, to the 2600, 30 years after the fact. He did it. And put it in an amazing clear, custom 2600 cartridge with internal lights that flash during gameplay.
5th Ave Frogger Uses Real Cars, Spares Frogs
In honor of the classic video game Frogger on its 30th birthday, my friend Tyler DeAngelo conceived a version of the game that uses a webcam to track the live position of actual cars on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
“Da-ding!” Illuminates Video Game Nostalgia
An inspired idea grown in a makerspace can produce retro magic. That’s the message from 8bitlit collaborators Bryan and Adam. In less than two months, they’ve gone from concept through prototyping to small scale production. Their touch-sensitive Mario Brothers-themed pendant lamp is starting to sell. “Da-ding!”
