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  Point and click to take down Nixon in 'Watergate: The Video Game'

  By Sam Byford on May 6, 2013 10:48 pm + 2 comments

  Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter whose work with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal Continue reading…

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  How 'Retro City Rampage' finally came to the NES

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 1, 2013 10:28 am + 13 comments

  Plenty of modern games have retro graphics — but how many could actually run on an old console? R Continue reading…

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  Play this: fight the Crazy 88 in this 8-bit remake of 'Kill Bill'

  By Kimber Streams on January 10, 2013 01:58 pm + 11 comments

  Design student Juan David Gómez has created an amazing 8-bit remake of one of the most iconic Continue reading…

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  Free 8-bit 'Street Fighter X Mega Man' crossover game out on December 17th

  By Sam Byford on December 8, 2012 09:46 pm + 40 comments

  Capcom has announced a free PC game that will bring the Mega Man and Street Fighter series together Continue reading…

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  PBS 'Off Book' looks at the influence of 8-bit games on art and culture

  By Andrew Webster on June 14, 2012 10:46 am + 4 comments

  You don't need to have grown up during the golden years of the NES and Atari to understand the Continue reading…

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  8-bit umbrella prototype makes music out of raindrops

  By Aaron Souppouris on June 2, 2012 03:11 pm + 12 comments

  German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an umbrella that detects rainfall and turns it Continue reading…

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  Radiohead's 'OK Computer' and 'Kid A' get an 8-bit reimagining

  By Sam Byford on May 21, 2012 10:53 pm + 33 comments

  YouTube user QuintonSung has seemingly one goal in life — to reinvent Radiohead's Continue reading…

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  'Community' cast get digitized for video game finale

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 17, 2012 08:22 am + 38 comments

  Not content with being re-imagined as anime characters earlier this season, the cast of NBC's C Continue reading…

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  French presidential candidate François Bayrou uses Konami code for awesome retro cut-scene

  By Andrew Webster on April 16, 2012 01:07 pm + 26 comments

  For as long as we can remember the Konami code has been used to unearth cool easter eggs on a wide Continue reading…

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  Google Maps coming soon to the NES

  By Adi Robertson on March 31, 2012 12:07 pm + 107 comments

  Google has been working hard on Maps lately, but some have questioned its decision to forgo Continue reading…