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MOCOlympics Round #6: Dave Sterling vs. Crimso Giger in Atari: A LEGO® creation by Dave Sterling
new.mocpages.com - 19 days ago
MOCOlympics Round #6: Dave Sterling vs. Crimso Giger in Atari: A LEGO® creation by Dave Sterling
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Dave Sterling vs. Crimso Giger Category: Atari I started this round about the same as I have started all the other rounds…with no idea what to build. In fact, after the categories were posted, I decided to take a few days and just think about what to build. Unfortunately, business travel came ...

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Joystiq [Nintendo]:  Lego NES really undersells system's graphics

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The Perfect Lego NES Only Plays Bricked Tetris [Lego]
Gizmodo — This full scale Lego NES reproduction is exactly like the original, complete with video and audio connectors, gamepads with flexible cables made out of solid pieces, pushable buttons, and a working front-loading mechanism to insert the included Tetris cartridge. Confession: I always thought Mario was pixelated because he was made of Lego bricks himself. [MOCOlympics via Brothers Brick] ...

Life-Sized NES Made From LEGO [Lego]
Kotaku — [image] More than that actually the NES has two LEGO controllers, a LEGO Tetris game cartridge and a LEGO TV. "So why did I decide to build an NES?," writes Dave Sterling. "I think mainly just to see if I could. I've never done something I would consider ‘art' or ‘sculpture' in LEGO and I really wanted to give it a try and see if I could recreate something directly to scale." His creation is 1/16th of an inch of the actual dimensions bravo! MOCOlympics Round #6: Dave Sterling vs. Crimso Giger in Atari: A LEGO® creation by Dave Sterling [MOCpages.com via ...

Lego NES really undersells system's graphics
Joystiq [Nintendo] — ... Video games and Lego go together like peanut butter and chocolate. We've seen wonderfully bricky homages to Donkey Kong and cuddly little Pokemon, an ingenious way to make your own Zapper and even recreations of other Nintendo ...

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