Though it sort of negates some of the best aspects of video gaming, this experiment from Waterloo Labs does outline a useful method for mapping projectile impacts on a projection screen using accelerometers. As suggested at the end of the above vid, there a number of infinitely safer methods for registering the desired mouse clicks – nerf LAN party anyone? More infos for building a similar system here.

Old school gamers love the nostalgic feeling from playing games of the 80s and 90s, even in emulated mode with the state-of-the art gaming mouse and keyboard on a duo-core computer. Obviously, a few of us would go as far as bidding for an original Atari console, but at least we can now get a controller that the mimics the feel of the classic joystick.

Compatible with virtually any emulators whether they be Mame, Daphne, or Stella, the aptly-named Legacy USB joystick looks exactly like an Atari controller from the 80s (or is it 70s?), but ressurected in the 21st century, it interfaces with a PC/Mac/Linux with USB. The Legacy however comes merely with a single button. Luckily, the circuit board provides an 10 internal contact points for wiring up to the same amount of additional fire buttons. If a $400 Wii is out of your budget for this year Christmas holiday, then maybe get yourself a $14.99 Legacy USB joystick along with free ROMs floating on the Internet.

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rlax!, is a great puzzle game. You are playing against time. Stay focused and click fast. Play through 20 different levels, click on tiles that are not covered by other tiles to remove them.

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Imperium will bring you into empire theme to build, develop, and extend your empire. Build resident house for workers that will work for you at developing your empire and troops, there are more than 20 building types in this game that you can build in 12 cities, each city has 4 land areas with different landscapes. Train your troops: human troop, horse troop, elephant troop, catapult troop, witch troop and super soldier. Use 4 weapon types, 4 type of catapult ammunitions and 5 magic types to equip your war troop. That is depend on what type of troop do you want and which city will be attacked, but watch out for surprise attack from the enemy. Defeat opponent and win all wars for your empire feather in one’s cap.

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