Surface Tension Arcade Tables

If you liked the Nintendo controller table, you probably love the Surface Tension Arcade Tables too. You have 3 types where you can choose from dual,  double 7 and arcade. They cost from $2000- $4000. You can buy them here. Depending on the model you choose, you get diferent especifications, for example in the cheaper one (Dual) you can only play games, while in the most expensive one (Arcane) you can play games, surf the web, listen to music, watch videos, has an output to HDTV and integrate Sonos.

List of Games:

The Arcane and Double 7 comes with these games but you can add more retro games if you want to. 

Taito Legends
Battle Shark, Bubble Bobble, Colony 7, Continental Circus, Electric Yo-Yo, Elevator Action, Exzisus, Gladiator, Great Swordsman, Jungle Hunt, Ninja Kids, The New Zealand Story, Operation Thunderbolt, Operation Wolf, Phoenix, Plotting, Plump Pop, Rainbow Islands, Rastan, Return of the Invaders, Space Gun, Space Invaders, Space Invaders part 2, Super Qix, Thunderfox, Tokio, Tube It, Volfied, Zoo Keeper.

Taito Legends 2
Alpine Ski, Arabian Magic, Bonze Adventure, Cameltry, Chack'n Pop, Cleopatra Fortune, Crazy Balloon, Don Doko Don, Dungeon Magic, Elevator, Action Returns, The Fairyland Story, Football Champ, Front Line, Gekirindan, Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer, Growl, Gun Frontier, Insector X, KiKi KaiKai, Kuri Kinton, Legend of Kage, Liquid Kids, Lunar Rescue, Metal Black (video game), Nastar Warrior, Puchi Carat, Puzzle Bobble, Qix, Raimais, Space Invaders 95, Space Invaders DX, Super Space Invaders 91, Violence Fight, Wild Western, Bubble Symphony, Cadash, Pop'n Pop, RayForce.
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe
Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Gauntlet II, Spy Hunter II, XybotsTM, NARC, APB, Cyberball 2072, Timber, Total Carnage, Pit, Fighter, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobes, Primal Rage, Arch Rivals, Rampage World Tour, Kozmik Krooz’r, Championship Sprint, Hard Drivin’, Wacko, Badlands, Hydro Thunder, Off Road Thunder: Mud, Sweat 'N Gears, Race Drivin, San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition, San Francisco Rush 2049, S.T.U.N. Runner, Super Off Road.
Atari Anniversary Edition
Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Black Widow, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Super Breakout, Tempest, Warlords.

Arcane

Double 7

Dual

The Dual table comes with these games:

Ms Pac-Man, Galaga, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Donkey Junior, Donkey Kong 3, Galaxian, Dig Dug, Crush Roller, Mr. Do, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Galaga 3, Gyruss, Tank Battalion, 1942, Lady Bug, Burger Time, Mappy, Centipede, Millipede, JR Pacman, Pengo, Phoenix, Time Pilot, Super Cobra, Hustler, Space Panic, Super Breakout, New Rally X, Arkanoid, Qix, Juno First, Xevious, Mr. Do's Castle, Moon Cresta, Pinball Action, Scramble, Super Pacman, Bomb Jack, Shao-Lin's Road, King & Balloon, 1943, Van-Van Car, Pacman Plus, Dig Dug 2, Amidar, Zaxxon, Pooyan, Pleiads, Gun Smoke, The End, 1943 Kai, Congo Bongo, Jumping Jack, Ms Pac-Man (fast mode), Pac-Man (fast mode), Galaga (fast fire mode), Jr Pac-Man (fast mode), Pac-Man Plus (fast mode).

Organ Trail

Most of you know and have probably played the 70's adventure game Oregon Trail. For those who do not know the player assumes the role of a colonial who was to lead their covered wagon and his party of settlers from Missouri, to Oregon over the Oregon Trail in 1848. Even though it was released in 1971, due to the popularity of the game, there have been remakes for all kind of platforms including IOS smartphones, Android, Facebook and it is now availabe for Nintendo 3DS and Wii.
For those who have not played you can play the original game online here, it only requires a plugin and it is even recommended in their blog of their own website.
For those who have played and loved Oregon Trail, the zombie parody is here: Organ Trail. Copying the style of the first Oregon Trail, the recreated the game on a apocaplsis future where you have to take care over you and your friends against a Zombie horde.

It is entertaining and extremely fun, especially if you played the original Oregon Trail. A piece of art for the nostalgic retro gamers. You can purchase it in Steam for about 5€, available for Windows, Mac and Linux. A must play.

Design #8

Tetris is not only because it is a one of the most world-wide known game but probably one of the games I spent most hours in. So I had to have a design in my backpack. Honestly it is probably one of my least favourite designs, cause i did not really have the right colours, and the box should be on the other side. But people still recognize it, so I guess it is o.k.

Actually I got the idea from the original Uanyi backpacks, which I must say, it looks much better than mine. Though I actually prefer my touch of the squares at the side cause it looks more like the real Tetris.

And if you feel now that you wanna play Tetris, here is a link for you. 

Have fun!

Space Invaders DIY shorts

As a geek woman I don't find that much geek pretty clothes to wear, so I just make a lot of my clothes myself. I upcycle clothes with the touch of geek I need for all my clothes. This summer I did the cutest pair of shorts I have: Space Invaders short. 

I saw this tutorial of tribal DIY shorts and decided to make them because they look adorable.

 I was not sure what pattern to draw, then I thought of something geeky and thought that the Invaders would look awesome. So I got myself one pair of old jeans, I dipped half of them for some hours in bleach and let them dry. Then I got my black fabric pen and, with a stencil I did before hand with cardboard, drew my Space Invaders. 

The result is just fantastic, I hope you try this at home.

Design #5

I still keep playing nowadays with Pokemon, one of the most played games of gameboy ever, and I wanted to show my love for Pokemon in one of my designs. So I decided to draw a Pokeball, one of the most known icons of the series. It is simple, but I think it looks great and looks even more awesome when I am wearing my own DIY Ash Ketchum cap.

Design #4

I had to have a Zelda design, eventhough I did not have that many pixels, and this is what came out. I would say this design it's not that good as the other ones, but at least it has Link on it (one of my favourite chracters ever) and I love the heart, must do that again.

Design #3

One of my favourite Atari games: PONG, and it just became my favourite design at the moment :).

Design #2

The second design of my super cool Uanyi backpack, I still have to get more pixels though, they look a bit sad.

The perfect backpack for a geek: Design #1

I just got the perfect the present for my birthday: a Uanyi backpack, the coolest thing ever for a retro gamer or just someone who wants to be original. You can choose between different models and colours, I got the backpack cause is the one I use the most, but there are plenty of things you can choose from, and prices vary from 50 to 80€. You get up to 240 pixels free, and you can start doing your designs as soon as you get the backpack (which was about 5 days for me). The thing is that for more complicated designs you should buy the colours separate cause you dont get much with the first bunch of pixels, so I try to improvise. I try to do a design each working day, cause I was challenged by my co-workers so here I go.

This is my first design: Luigi