9th February 2010

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Tuesday 9th February 2010: Confused portable console, abrasive SNES shirts, unheard Nintendo franchises, and old modems!

Okay lets get to it, here’s a T-Shirt which really stood out for me:

It’s amazing how a controller can be so symbolic, for me personally the SNES controller stands out as a classic, I mean Nintendo wouldn’t have made a Wii peripheral based on it otherwise, right?

Moving onto a new platform building up to be on par with PSP and DS, I’m talking about the iPhone. The folks at Toucharcade have been informed that Doom II RPG has been released onto the App Store today. I’ve never played a single RPG version of any of the ID Software titles. If you folks want a review done, let us know, and we’ll get one done!

Whilst on the topic of handhelds, thegadgetsite has spotted this device. As many other news sites have stated, I agree, it seems to be confused itself on what the device’s purpose is in life.

It apparently plays GameBoy/NES ROMS as well as movies, music and .SWF files. It seems to favour Nintendo platforms a lot as the choice on what it supports, which brings to an interesting top ten article, from Joystick Division. We all know the most famous franchises from Nintendo right? You wouldn’t be a gamer or retrogamer for that matter otherwise, but what about ones which were either one-off’s or just somehow didn’t make it as a name that everyone will murmur in their sleep.. not that I do.. But how many of you actually heard of Unirally? or Odama? Click here to find out more.

Granted that article does cover a lot more of the recent-gen consoles like the GameCube, at least this next article covers something which belongs in a museum! Over to Retrothing.com, is an article about connecting a 300 baud modem from 1964 to a Linux notebook to hook it up to the Internet. Even more so the video:

And finally, to end the evening on a manic, yet funny mode, is this tumbleblog dedicated to anything and everything nintendo, mostly in pictures. Simply called FuckYeaNintendo!

No idea where these guys find most of these pictures, but they are downright hilarious and also cool in a geeky way, like here’s some examples;

Amazing. Keep playing those old games folks :) Same bat time tomorrow!

Tagged: snesmarionesnintendogamecubeengadgetdoom2tshirtfuckyeanintendocomedyhumor