Super Mario Level Skulls, Your Princess is in Another Brain Cavity

If you think that playing video games for too long makes your head hurt, just imagine how these guys feel. In fact, these awesome skulls should be used as a gamer PSA. “This is your brain on Super Mario Bros.” Well, if they were human skulls. They may have been human at one time until addiction to the game mutated them to look more like Bowser’s skull.

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Artist Tobias Wüstefeld from Germany sculpted these skulls which have partial levels from Super Mario Bros. on them. This is what it looks like to be addicted to Nintendo games for sure. Koopas and Goombas crawling around in your skull. Never a moment’s peace.

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They will be exhibited at the We Love 8Bit Art Show this September in Berlin.

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Pixel Coloring Book

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It’s 8 bits of fun with the Pixel Coloring Book. This 80 page coloring book lets kids (and kids at heart) color in the pixels. Each page has an outlined side to fill (page shown on right) and a blank free-drawing side (left page) to draw an accompanying object. The cool part is that if your kids color in one pixel at a time, it will take them a loooooong time to complete. Busy kid= mommy/daddy free time. Win/win. Creatively geeky fun.

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8-Bit LED Christmas Wreath

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Hey, it’s just like one of those old-timey Christmas wreaths for your door (if “old times” for you was the mid-1980′s). The 8-Bit LED Holiday Wreath 8 Bit LED Christmas Wreath taps the retro gaming holiday spirit with cherries, a controller, a familiar green mushroom in a Santa hat, spaceships, Tetris blocks and LED blinking gold coins. Awesomeholidaysauce. Made of durable EVA foam, it measures 10.5″ by 13″ and is 100% necessary to geek up your home this Christmas.

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Pac-Man Stapler, Paperclips and Sticky Notes

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Packing up your office is a bad thing (usually) but Pac-man’ing up your office is definitely a good thing. A very good thing. Retro-geekify your workspace with a Pac-Man Stapler Pac Man Stapler, Paperclips and Sticky Notes, Pac-Man Paper Clips Pac Man Stapler, Paperclips and Sticky Notes and Pac-Man Sticky Notes Pac Man Stapler, Paperclips and Sticky Notes. Yeah that just might be the coolest stapler ever, no biggie. Set yourself up and you’ll definitely have the coolest cubicle in all of outside sales and most of marketing. Because all work and no play is boring (but you still have to get your work done).

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8-Bit iPad Sleeve

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Protect and carry your iPad in retro 80′s style with the 8-Bit Tablet Sleeve 8 Bit iPad Sleeve. Soft on the inside, leather-like on the outside, stylish all around. It looks like a classic 8-bit envelope icon. This sleeve is sized for the iPad but will obviously fit similar sized tablets as well. A hook and loop closure keeps your device securely inside. Try to resist doing “the robot” or moonwalking while walking around with this thing. The “running man” would be ok though. Cool sleeve, yo.

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Google Maps 8-bit version for NES: April Fools arrives a day early in Mountain View

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Well, it appears that April Fools is in full effect -- at least if you ask Google. Today the company introduced its "latest" build of Google Maps, dubbed Google Maps 8-bit version, tailored specifically for the Nintendo Entertainment System. According to Google, this Dragon Quest spoof version of Maps will come in the form of a special NES cartridge that can connect to the internet via dial-up. This apparently allows most of the heavy lifting to get done on Google's servers, where the maps are rendered to 8-bit form "in real-time." Better yet, it even supports voice search. Naturally, there's no word on a release date, but you can currently check out the "beta" by visiting Google Maps in your browser and selecting "Start Your Quest." That said, that company warns that "your system may not meet the minimum requirements for 8-bit computations" -- something tells us it'll still be less resource-intensive than Crysis, though. We've checked it out and found some goodies, including an alien at Area 51, so let us know what you come across during your journey in the comments.

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