Here’s a great homemade Commodore 64 joystick made from wood! Matthias writes – “My motivation for this little hack, like many other hacks, was not so much the novelty of building one, but avoiding the expense of buying one. Having a Commodore 64, and not wanting to spend money buying a joystick, I started experimenting […]
Before After Jeff Kinder turned his basement in to a retro gaming heaven, including pumping in ambient arcade sounds, he writes “For the final phase of my project I installed 4 speakers up in-between the joists which play all 80’s music and the “Arcade Ambience” sound effect files that I downloaded from Andy Hofle’s website. […]
Here’s a giant NES measuring in at 8 ft. wide, 3ft height, 3ft long, and in weighing in at 400 pounds… [via] Thanks James! – Link (10/01/06 entry). Related: This goes great with the world’s largest NES Controller! – Link. NES archives, hacks, mods and more – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Aaron writes – “We built an arcade emulation cabinet in under 2 weeks of nights and weekends for a friend’s 30th birthday.” – Link. The detail on this is freaking sweet! Related MAME projects: Mini MAME arcade consoles – Link. nano MAME Cabinet – Link. DIY MAME / Arcade controller […]
AGiES writes – “This is the wall hanging I commissioned from my mother. It’s based on this Wind Waker promotional desktop wallpaper with some modifications for material and sanity (Link’s shield is obviously more detailed in the drawn version.)” – Link.
Jared writes – “I have wanted to do this project for a few years now. While it’s was a relatively quick build, the time from the photo shoot to publish has been an extremely long and rocky road. Regardless in the end we have produced the first ionic cooling system for your high end gaming […]
James from Retroblast writes – “I just wanted to let you know about a contest we are running this month asking readers to produce Video Game and Pinball Motivational Posters. We have had an awesome response so far and want to keep the momentum up by letting as many gamers know about the contest as […]
