This cute machine has a 4GB built-in storage and a mini SD expansion slot. You can also play movie, audio, picture files and listen to FM radio while on the move. But we think the D-pad and the X, Y, A, B configurable buttons may be much useful for retro gaming.

$99.99 @ ThinkGeek.

Image: ThinkGeek

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Awesome Pocket Retro Game Emulator

Price of this useful Wii accessory is at $19.99 and will be out around mid-June.

Image: Komodo
Via: Crunchgear

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3-in-1 Wii Retro Adapter, More Juice For VC

\r\n\r\nPretty little Lego spaceship, eh? It\’s actually a model of Samus Aran\’s gunship in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and is part of a collection of images on Flickr known as Metroid Quarantine. The collection of Metroid-related pictures is but the tip of the iceberg. The group also has a website known as (what else!) Metroid Quarantine, The Metroid Blog.\r\n\r\nGo check out Metroid Quarantine\’s other photos.\r\n\r\nOh, and if you\’re wondering what Samus Aran\’s gunship looks like in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, here\’s a reproduction:\r\n\r\n

\r\n\r\nFirst image courtesy of Metroid Quarantine and paulishdog. Second image is from the Metroid wiki. Samus Aran and Metroid copyright belong to Nintendo.

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Metroid Quarantine: Samus Aran and her universe in Lego

Well, regardless of which video you choose, one thing’s for certain: They’re both better than the video I showed you in my previous posting, Gordon Freeman in Mario Land.

My only beef with the guys who did the modifications is the way they presented the world of Super Mario Brothers. Come on! The game Super Mario Brothers may be side-scrolling and set in a two-dimensional world, but having Gordon Freeman walk a narrow blocky terrain in 3D isn’t exactly a good translation of the Super Mario Brothers world’s physics.

Hmmm, probably has something to do with Half-Life’s Steam engine.

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Gordon Freeman in Mario Land #2

I love this line: Fear has no form. Fear has no name. But now fear has an address … Castlevania!

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Blast from the past: Castlevania commercials

Here’s an excerpt from his post entitled, “For The People That Watched Captain N As A Kid, I have a ‘?’ “:

Was Simon Belmont gay?

Not that it matters or anything, but I remember being eight (years old) and thinking he was a little, hmmm, off, you could say. Today was Day One of my 12-day vacation so I went on YouTube and watched like a shit shiznit load of “Captain N” shows. Funny how I remember a lot of them.

But in every show, Simon always pulls out a mirror to look at himself, he brushes his hair quite more than a non-gay male would. He seems to hit on Princess Lana a lot, but it seems forced (like maybe he is trying to prove something) and when they do talk, it’s more of a girl to girl chat.

Haha. I’ve been wondering about the same thing for years … until I found out what a narcissist is, and this is exactly how poor ol’ Simon Belmont of Castlevania fame is portrayed in the Captain N animated series.

There’s an interesting entry about the Captain N version of Simon Belmont in the pages of The Video Game Museum.

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Is Simon Belmont gay?

Fortunately, there are video clips of Choplifter III to make up for the loss. Check one of them out here:

It’s a little more complicated than the original Choplifter but is essentially the same in terms of gameplay and mechanics.

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What? Choplifter III? Where?

Image featuring popular characters from Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers series and Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog series downloaded from The Master Knight’s collection.

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Video game collage: Mario and Sonic

Guess who?

The figurine may look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his role as Conan the Barbarian, but I assure you that it’s Simon Belmont, one of the action figures in Castlevania: Series 1. Go figure why it looks like Arnie.

Image shows action figure of Simon Belmont, the main character in the hit video game Castlevania, developed by Konami.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger? No, it’s Simon Belmont!

I know, I know. You’re probably asking, “What the hell do you think you’re doing watching an 80s cartoon that trashed one of Nintendo’s most beloved characters?”

The answer is: I just had to see if my loathing for the Captain Nintendo version of Simon Belmont is gone. Apparently, it’s still there. The only way this feeling will dissipate is when they actually give the vain dude a movie of his own.

Hey, Van Helsing got his own film, I don’t see why Simon Belmont, vampire hunter, can’t have one.

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Simon Belmont faints