The Dance Dance Revolution or affectionately known as DDR may be not as hot as before but its effect is evident in this Finger Dance Alarm Clock. In order to stop the alarm, you must use your fingers to dance the right sequence. Else, use your leg to execute some sleek moves but break it at your own risk. £9.99 for one.

Via: Chipchick
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When it comes to arcade joysticks for Xbox 360, PS3 or the Wii, Hori is one of the trusted brands on the list. A new batch of Hori Real Arcade Pro joysticks for PS3 and Xbox 360 are slated to be released in mid-June and early July.

For true fighting games, a real arcade stick is a must to execute those flashy ultras and focus attacks perfectly. $129.90 for each at NCSX.
Image: Hori

Ever heard of crossovers? In comic books, sure, crossovers are a dime a dozen. In the past dozen or so years, we’ve seen crossovers within the same universe, like Superman versus Lobo for the DC Universe and Spiderman versus The Hulk in the Marvel Universe, and between universes, such as the DC versus Marvel crossover, which has resulted in the creation of the Amalgam Universe.
Waitaminute! This blog isn’t about comic books! Duh! It’s about retro and classic video games. So where are the crossovers in the video gaming realm? Believe it or not, the most well known crossover in this …read more

I’ve stumbled upon these unique piggy banks that allow you to, well, save while playing two classic video games, Tetris and Breakout. Of course, you need to deposit a coin to play a game, much like the way real arcade game machines function.
Come to think of it, these piggy bank arcade game machines don’t just force you to save but you can probably make them pay for themselves by allowing others to play Tetris and Breakout on them. Hey, at USD 40.74 per piggy bank, that’s not such a bad idea.
Check out the product brochure at Strapya. Oh, and watch …read more

Nothing screams Retro Gaming Fanatic more than apparel, t-shirts to be exact. Well, except for tattoos, which I consider as extreme fanaticism. Anyway, going back to the topic, I’ve found great t-shirts that feature—what else!—retro video gaming icons such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Ryu of Street Fighter fame.
Here are two of my favorite retro gaming t-shirts:

The maker of these retro video gaming t-shirts, 101tshirts.co.uk, also produce retro television, movie and music shirts. Not a fan of t-shirts? No problem. The company specializes in printing our favorite retro video gaming icons on different products …read more

It’s time once again for another speed run. This time we present to you Mortal Kombat 2 on a Sega featuring the wild antics of Shang Tsung. Check it out:

Sigh. It’s quite unfortunate, however, that like most speed runs, this speed run of Shang Tsung on Mortal Kombat 2 is tool assisted and played on an emulator. Ahh, but what the heck. It’s still fun watching a character beat up all his opponents from start to finish.
Next time, I’d like to see the player do it without the tool assist. :p

I’ve always been a big fan of stop motion animation. So it also means that I’m a fan of stop motion videos featuring our beloved retro games. In the past year, I’ve posted a few stop motion videos, including one that shows the Super Mario Brothers in Lego and one that substitutes Tetris blocks with living, breathing human beings.
For those who have no inkling of what stop motion animation is, here’s a short description from Wikipedia:
Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by …read more

After suffering a humiliating defeat in the hands, er, paws of Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario is back on a Mugen game, this time versus the yellow chomping machine known as Pac-Man. From the title I just posted, it’s clear that Mario should just go back to cleaning pipes of goombas and turtles.

Look, ma, no hands! It’s strange seeing Pac-Man land blows on the diminutive Mario without flailing arms and legs. It must be his, er, its big mouth.

You may already be sick of Tetris, especially after staring at the world’s largest game of Tetris (maybe because the blocks are of the same color?), but I’m back with another Tetris video.
This video is a classic. Made by Guillaume Reymond of the Gameover Project, the video is no laughing matter as it uses stop-motion photography and a dozen or so men and women. Yes! Live human beings!
Go check out the video and tell me afterward if it doesn’t command respect:
The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond @ Yahoo! Video
Actually, Guillame Reymond and the Gameover Project aren’t the …read more

No. I’m not the one who came up with the kooky idea of turning an entire building into a pseudo-monitor just to play what is probably the biggest Tetris game in the universe (unless there’s some alien race out there who implemented the same idea several years ago).
Here’s the description that came with the video of the World’s Largest Tetris:
Take a Linux computer, a joystick-frequency radio, 10,000 Christmas lights, a building, and you have the biggest game of Tetris in the world. Here is the largest Tetris game made with lights in a building. Amazing!
The author of the video neglected …read more