Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Cell Phone, PDA Phone, Software | 
When you’re a famous phone maker like Sony Ericsson, it becomes a little tough to keep your newest products under wraps. The new kid on the block is the F305 motion gaming phone, which features a built-in accelerometer for motion sensing games.
Other notable features include a 176 x 220 resolution, a Memory Stick Micro slot, and a specially designed directional pad and two face buttons specially located for gaming purposes. While we’re pretty sure that its not going to be the rumoured Playstation Portable Phone, it certainly can’t fare any worse than the Nokia N-gage can it? The button layout certainly lends itself to ergonomic gaming, and we could be looking at some NES/Gameboy Color emulators in the very near future. After all, who could say no to some portable Contra on the go?
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Gaming, Watch |
Japanese always crave for some little weird gaming gadgets. They’ll never run out of ideas and produce various strange gadgets, such as this one, a 5-second stop watch game, which the objective is kind of weird, i.e. to stop the stopwatch at exactly 5 seconds.
You would have thought that it’s kind of easy to stop the the stopwatch at exactly 5 seconds. But it’s not! As once you start the watch, the running digits on the LCD display will disappear, so you can’t see how many seconds that it’s run through. Unless you count it along in your heart, and press the button when you think it’s reached the 5th second!
There is an online flash game that shows how this stopwatch works. I’ve tried a few times the online version, the closest I got was 4.89 seconds. The most effective way to get to the closest, is to count using your fingers, as if they’re the ticking second hand of a watch. Anyway, this 5-second stopwatch will hit stores in Japan on Jul, 26, 2008. It’d most probably become another hot trend in Japan, just like the Tamagotchi!
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Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories, Gaming |
Etsy is good at bringing back some of our old days’ memories. With the Pacman coaster set, it surely reminds you how much you’d had fun with the Atari Pacman game in those old days.
The Pacman coaster set presents you with 6 coasters, with one of them is the Pacman, and the other five have different ghosts on each coaster. There are 4 ghosts in red, pink, blue, and orange; a dark blue ghost that Pacman tries to eat.
The entire set is made of perler beads, and it has a 3D coaster box for holding them neatly. Each coaster is square and measures 3″ by 3″ and it fits any size of glass. The set is definitely makes a best gift for classical gamers and those who wanna spice up their desks with some retro look.
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Posted by friend on November 6, 2009 under Accessories |
Fuzebox is a homebrew open-source 8-bit gaming box that was built based on the Uzebox project. The Fuzebox comes in a set complete with everything needed for 8-bit gaming.
The Fuzebox only offers game play in 256 colours at a 240 x 224 resolution and it’s equipped with both the RCA and S-video outputs which allow you to play those 8-bit games on any monitor. Some more the size is not much bigger than a cigarette pack, making it handy to bring along to enjoy the retro game play. This gaming box works with either a standard NES or SNES controller.
The 8-bit games for the Fuzebox can be written in C language, which may be deemed little hard for most modern programmers. You can build the 8-bit games for Fuzebox on a PC using the emulator software, and transfer it over to the Fuzebox via a USB to serial cable. Take a look how an 8-bit Tetris game in action on the Fuzebox in the video below.
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