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Nintendo

Not all that glitters is gold

Silver and Gold: Rings Capped With Tiny Replica Nintendo Cartridges

Oh My Geekness on Etsy makes a number of jewelry items that involve miniature NES cartridges, and I submit that they should really think about expanding to Game Boy cartridges as well, because who doesn’t want a ring with a ruby, emerald, diamond, or pearl?

Yes, that was all to make a Pokémon pun.

I’ll see myself out.

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Fans Do Cool Things

Seven Years of Fandom Easter Eggs That Look Good Enough to Eat

Lesley A. Jensen makes a new set of Easter Eggs every year, based on the characters of a different geeky show, movie, or video game. This set for Batman: The Animated Series is my favorite, but I’m heavily biased, so you should probably come on in here here and see the others to form your own opinion.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Littlest Bender

A reddit user recently shared this old Halloween picture of his daughter. I feel like she needs to be holding a sippy cup. (via i09)

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The True Power of the Nintendo 64

Once upon a time, some parents filmed their kids opening a brand new Nintendo 64. Years later, somebody took the audio and did this.

Yes, yes, you can find the original video below the jump.

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it's time to play the music

“Lame Gamer! No, There Is No Easy Mode!” [VIDEO]

It’s a music video tribute to classic Nintendo games set to Bohemian Rhapsody. What else do you need to know? Oh, and there are singing cartridges, too.

(via: Neatorama)

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Do Try This At Home

How To Make Princess Peach Cupcakes With Tiny Crowns and Then Die of Cuteness and Sugar Overload

These are made with peach flavored cupcake batter, filled with peach filling (using real peaches), but, oddly enough, do not feature peach flavored icing. Then they get tiny crowns. Which is probably two steps past the point at which I would give up on completing any of them and just eat the whole batch.

Face it: these cupcakes are more regal than you. Probably sweeter, too. Learn how to make them here.

Previously in DIY Food

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Great Moments in Advertising

Nintendo’s New 3DS Campaign Aims for Female Gamers With Gabrielle Douglas and Other Stars

What do All-Around Olympian gymnast Gabrielle Douglas, Glee‘s Diana Agron, and Modern Family‘s Sarah Hyland have in common? They’re just a a few of the celebrity names to appear in Nintendo‘s new female-targeted ad campaign for their 3DS and 3DSXL hand-held systems. The campaign, called “Play As You Are” is using talented, visible women to draw in players who might otherwise be turned off to gaming.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Official Sweater-Knitting Peripheral for the NES

Oh, you thought I was joking. (Kotaku)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Monopoly Meets Arkham Asylum

For sale today on ShirtPunch. I’d totally buy it if it wasn’t obnoxious orange but now I really want DC to put out a DCU version of Monopoly. (via Jen Grünwald)

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Penelope Cruz’s Ad for Super Mario Bros. 2 Is Actually Pretty Cute

I think I know what’s cramping your skills, Penelope: your posture. Work that out, and you’ll be back to the gaming supremacy that is the birthright of all older siblings everywhere.

Yes. All older siblings. Just… don’t ask me for proof of this universal rule in my personal experiences.

(via The Hollywood Reporter.)

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