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A guy by the name of Mario over at ModRetro forums put together a nice little Atari 2600 hand held gaming console. Here are the Specs and what Mario has to say: Specifications: 3.5″ Screen Uses an Atari Flashback 2 Hopefully will have room for the cartridge slot 2 GBASP …

Pretty cool idea. A group of guys play through 25 years of Mario games in the name of sick children, for charity! QUOTE: “Mario Marathon is an annual fan run fundraiser for Child’s Play Charity. Child’s Play provides toys, games and books to patients of children’s hospitals worldwide. The multi …

This video is hilarious. She wants to disable the Pac-Man game from her home page! How does she get rid of it? Arg! It wont go away until tomorrow!

A new retro gaming mag is in the works! Raiders of the Lost Arcades – Battle Plan! Vol. 5 Unfortunately, the arcade is becoming extinct as a gaming platform, so we take a trek back through time – using MAME’s random generator – to relive some of the arcades greatest, …

I found it hilarious. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

This fan-made remake of Nintendo’s classic Donkey Kong  rules with updated graphics and a pretty sweet soundtrack. Created by Mick Farrow, there is an awesome Donkey Kong remake. Head on over to the site and grab it before Nintendo decides to take it down.

I laughed a little… Who knew Pac-Man was a junkie and wife-beater? Or that Frogger is a terrorist, and Donkey Kong and Mario are pitted in an epic manage-a-trois of princess passion? From creators Frank Meyer, Scott Chernoff and BJ Guyer, the TV pilot Videogame Theater delves into the world …

Some guy took an R2D2 cooler and turned it into a retro game machine! Inside are eight consoles and a projector mounted in the head kinda like R2D2. Now you can have your own gaming robot to help take care of that old school gaming itch. Thank these guys for …

I had no idea how much arts and crafts enthusiast cared for the fine taste of vintage gaming. A fella by the name of BottleCapArt has put his art and craft skills to good use. Mario is large and in charge in this bottle cap art piece and is showing …

There are quite a few games out there that were awesome growing up that you have not played in years I am sure. There are thousands of classics, and many have slipped your mind. Here are some titles that you have forgot about. 5. Kid Icarus for the NES. (Nintendo …

Just when you thought that it was safe to say Retro Gaming Geeks couldn’t possibly get any geekier with game related cupcake designs…. someone breaks the mold and re-creates a static image of the original Donkey Kong Arcade game out of nothing but Legos.  The Ape looks a little cartoonish …

Don’t play us, dork, we know you are eying these cupcakes. Here are 10 of the geekiest cupcakes we have ever seen, fit for the king of dorks. 1. Speaking of kings, here is the king of Nintendo, Mario.  Here’s a Mario pixel cupcake beast made from several smaller cupcake …

Remember all of that classic goodness you shared with the Ninja Turtles and the SNES? Well it is being torn out of the closet and remastered for the Xbox Live Arcade. That is right! A little leaked online footage shows that Konami can not sit on an official announcement much …

If you  are a fan of retro gaming as much as we are here at Retro-Replay then check out the  awesome Retro Mini Handheld NES System. The Retro Mini Handheld NES System can take full size NES carts for some true retro  gaming. It comes with a 2.4 inch TFT …