Game Boy Turns 20

04Apr09

Even though I am being somewhat overwhelmed with work and work and work I cannot miss out on the fact that my favorite portable gaming gear – the Game Boy™ – made its first public appearance in April 1989 and has thus turned a solid 20 this year!

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Space Invaders

17Feb09

Since I have enlarged my Mac-family with a nifty Macbook (the black beauty) not so long ago I started to look for a decent way of…

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Alternative Input Devices

25Jan09

In the back of my head I always feared that tenosynovitis could…

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Tetris Everywhere

14Jan09

Тетрис (as it is spelt in Russian) was originally created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. Ever since, the game…

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Tags: Alexey Pajitnov, bastard tetris, bastet, bracelet, cube, dawanda, Тетрис, etsy, fridge, game boy, hommage, ice cubes, magnet, mirror, multi-player, russian, single-player, tetris, vienna