Gizmodo: retro gaming

Retro Video Game Remake Wallpapers Look Gorgeous, Nostalgic

Jason Chen — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:40:00 EST

Lifehacker's outdone their find of retro gaming wallpapers and found some re-made and re-rendered retro gaming wallpapers on Deviant Art. Super sweet doesn't begin to describe these.

Hop on over to get full versions of Link to the Past, Sonic, Metroid, Gunstar Heroes, Mario, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania, Megaman and that one Disney game on SNES. New wallpaper five! [Lifehacker]

LED Hat Makes You Look Like Retro Gaming D-Bag

Wilson Rothman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:30:00 EDT

We applaud the craftsmanship of this homemade LED hat, especially the nerd-core Space Invaders and Pac Man animations, but seriously, I think there's a reason the digital milliner is never shown actually wearing the hat. CORRECTION: For 2 seconds at the very end, you do see him wearing the hat. I rest my case. [Hacked Gadgets via Make]

iPhone NES Emulator Third Party App

kthompson — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:25:49 EDT

A fresh app on Google Code claims to allow hacked iPhone users to play classic NES games. Based on the open-source portable NES emulator InfoNES, the emulator still has its training wheels on. Allegedly, games will run slightly slower than on an actual NES (or standard emulator) and you won't get any sound output yet. We're not 100% sure about its authenticity, but given that the iPhone runs Mac OS X, it looks quite legit in the video after the jump.

In addition to the fact that ports to the iPhone's Mac OS X shouldn't be that complicated, as many programming interfaces are shared, Google Code is open for everyone to review. And needless to say, we are so going to try. And with that we mean: right now. [iPhone NES via Technabob]