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Tub ‘o Fun
After my leaking battery incident last weekend, I decided it’d be best to check my other handheld games to make sure there were no batteries in the others. I snapped a picture of the above as I did it, which is my tub of old handheld LED and LCD games. I annotated the pic above…
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LEGO Night: 7695 Mars Mission MX-11 Astro Fighter
We squeezed in a smaller build this time, but one that’s been on the stack for awhile. From the Mars Mission series, the 7695 MX-11 Astro Fighter is only 57 pieces, but there’s a decent amount of detail. The wings adjust nicely from horizontal to downward angled, and it comes with a pilot and a…
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Flash Games: Super Mario Bros Crossover
Jay Pavlina at exploding-rabbit.com created this awesome Flash game for old skool game lovers. Click the picture above or play it on Newgrounds.
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Game Boy Repair
I usually play Game Boy and Game Boy Color on my Game Boy Advance. But this weekend I had my original Nintendo Game Boy out, and discovered that there were some AA batteries inside that had a 1998 expiration date on them. Needless to say, there was some corrosive penetration of the outer steel shell…
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Bookmarked: TouchArcade
If AppShopper was my ultimate source for tracking Apple apps, then TouchArcade.com is my definitive source for game app news and information. TouchArcade posts several game app related articles a day on upcoming releases, news, reviews, previews for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. If you want to know about a game, they’ve probably talked about…
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Papercraft Friday #84: Pinhole Camera
This week’s paper model comes from Ravensblight.com, and is great for a science project, or when you just feel like making more than a static model. The concept of a pinhole camera was pretty common when I was a kid, but in the digital age some kids don’t even know what film is! Now with…
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Free Doctor Who: Freakshow
It’s been a good week for free Doctor Who stuff! Once again, Doctor Who Magazine has teamed up with Big Finish Productions to offer an exclusive audio adventure free for DWM readers. Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – Freakshow A new adventure for the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Tegan Starring Mark Strickson as Turlough and…
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To Victory! And Free Dalek Posters! And More!
If you watched the Doctor Who episode Victory of the Daleks (and 7.81 million viewers did when it aired, making it the fourth highest programme on BBC One and the eleventh highest on all British television for the week, not even counting those of us oversees who don’t watch BBC One live), you might have…
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You Are Here: Earth From Mars
I have no idea how I missed this photo, which was taken in 2004 (click on it above for a larger view). Especially in light of my current blog banner. I follow these things pretty closely, get Astronomy and Sky & Telescope magazines, and so forth. But the photo above was taken by the Mars…
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Flash Games: Ultima IV Quest of the Avatar
Wanna play a real Ultima game via Flash in your browser, instead of suffering through Ultima branded strategy games like Lord of Ultima? Blair Leggett is happy to oblige, with a Flash version of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. Included in the Flash versions are three new top-border icons that link to help, game…
