Fold-out poster included with Metroid II: Return of Samus for GameBoy (click for a larger .png). When I was a kid I had a larger wall poster of this with glow-in-the-dark paint on some of the details. Couldn’t tell you what happened to it, though.

Browsing through sites like Etsy I see a lot of people making small sprites out of Perler Beads. Mostly it’s small things like Super Mario Bros. blocks or some such, and while cool they are not very interesting to me. But Doctor Octoroc has used these Perler Beads to make these massive sprites from MegaMan [...]

New York City artist Rosemarie Fiore has many experimental projects, such as using an amusement park ride as a giant spirograph. Using a long exposure photography technique she has captured movement patterns in several arcade games: These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80′s created by Atari, Centuri and [...]

Back when I was first learning procedural programming with C, I remember “gotos are evil! Never use them!” being drilled into my head over and over. I would shrug it off, telling myself that I can easily keep track of where I’m going and what the logic is doing. I really wasn’t writing anything complex [...]

SNK’s attempt at the portable market was a powerful little package that did enjoy some success, but in the end it could not compete with the unstoppable Nintendo juggernaut. But it sure is a beautiful little package, with an amazing battery life.

Bungie always peppered their titles with a great sense of humor, such as the SPNKR-X18 SSM Launcher and the TOZT-7 Backpack Napalm Unit weapons in Marathon. Even Marathon’s manual contains the following warning, just opposite the Table of Contents:

Warning:

This manual contains sarcastic language that some readers might find condescending.

This drawing of B.O.B., with his trademark catch-phrase, comes from Marathon’s manual, released in 1994.