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Computer program can learn how to play and beat classic NES games

Classic NES games could be insanely difficult, but there was generally a pattern to the entire game, to the boss levels, etc. Straightforward and predictable, even if beating the game sometimes took superhuman reflexes. But if you take the human out of it and teach a program how to recognize those patterns, you would have this— a program that can learn how to play and beat the crap out of those difficult NES titles.

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Guy builds giant working NES controller out of Lego

… And it works. Why? Well why the hell not? Also, where the hell does someone get that kind of LEGO, especially gray and black?!

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IHC After Dark: T&C Surf Designs level music

Yes, the T&C Surf Designs game for the NES. If you’re not old enough and you don’t remember, don’t worry about it.

posted 14 November, 2012
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Fan art of the day: NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON’S PUNCHOUT!

How amazing would it be to play Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Punchout? One of the greatest minds of our time, mixed with one of the greatest games & a pinch of meme added in.

8x10 Print only $11 @it8Bit’s new store!

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posted 12 October, 2012
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Blowing into NES cartridges may have done more harm than good

If you owned an NES, games didn’t always start the first time, so there was this idea— no one really knows where it started, but it spread like wildfire way before the world wide web, that when your NES was being picky, you had to “blow the dust out” so it could get a clean connection. The fact is though, that this was just a placebo and blowing into the cartridge usually did more harm than good.

posted 27 September, 2012
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Friday time waster: Play dozens of NES games in your browser

Sure, those old NES games might not have been as good as you remember, but at least it’s free. You can still pretend to blow the cartridge first, if you want.

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posted 21 September, 2012
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Oh how I wish it were real: NES toaster

Though you might have to blow on the toast a few times to get it to work, I love this NES toaster concept from DeviantArtist myburningeyes

posted 07 September, 2012
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For only $55,000 on eBay, you could have bought an NES Legend of Zelda prototype cartridge

Hardcore video game collectors will pay big bucks for all kinds of incredibly rare pieces of video game history, but $55,000 for a yellow NES Legend of Zelda prototype cartridge? Not with a prototype version of the game, but a prototype version of what would later be a shiny gold NES cartridge.

NES controller hacked to be a MIDI controller

This is the best thing i’ve seen today. Up up down down left right left right.

If Nintendo wants more people to buy a 3DS, they’d make this classic NES version

While sales of the Nintendo 3DS haven’t been bad, they haven’t been great either. So Nintendo comes out with garish new colors and now a larger screen, but this is what would really get people, especially those in their 30s to pony up for a 3DS— a version with the look of a classic NES.

Awesome geekcraft of the day: Fully functional NES controller coffee table

It would have been awesome enough to just make a wooden NES controller coffee table, but Charles Lushear took the extra step of making it an actual functional NES controller. This thing… might actually take the place of the NES Advantage as the best NES controller ever.

Battlefield 3 re-dubbed with NES sound effects

YouTuber Omega52 upgraded Battlefield 3‘s soundtrack by replacing it with 8-bit audio from NES games. The sound effects are from Contra and Top Gun, and the background music is from Journey to Silius and Batman. And no, this isn’t a real mod. DAMMIT.

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NES mashups: Contra vs. Paperboy

Ooooh holy hell what I would have given when I was a kid for this game. Get the power-ups, kill every asshole in the neighborhood who’s getting in your fucking way and blow up their house. YES.

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