But, man, if I was four years old and saw this thing, it'd disturb me. And that's just during the day. At night, it glows green and bellows smoke like a the very gates of hell.

Oh, and despite it's horrific appearance, the "Game Over" Super Nintendo still works just fine.

!GAME OVER PROJECT! [Retrotaku, via technabob]

Okay, let's be realistic...your ass is most likely never getting close enough to Megan Fox for her to kick it, but in that bizarro dream world where you accidentally run into Megan alone and bored with a console and a Mortal Kombat game nearby, she would totally plant heel in your rear end, as What They Play discovered when they asked the actress which games she was badass at.

Anything Mortal Kombat. I have that down and I don't cheat. That game just works well with my brain. The way my brain fires signals works well with how that game works. And I'm just really good.

So in that situation you'd be in for a beating, unless you somehow tricked her into confronting her own ironic Kryptonite.

The Mortal Kombat that just came out (Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe), I hated playing as Superman. His combos were so weird. I don't know, I just thought it was lame.

Megan apparently began playing back on the Super Nintendo, where she mastered Disney's Aladdin, which is an excellent choice of game names for a celebrity of drop. Nowadays, when she isn't kicking ass or tending her garden in Viva Pinata, Fox spends her time trying to play with her Wii, but it's hard.

I'm totally a fan of the Wii, I'm just not good at it. I actually have a Wii Fit and it's actually a really hard workout. It's pretty interesting. I think it's amazing you can combine exercise and gaming. There really are games like Raving Rabbids and there are these little missions that you have to do where you run. You're running with your arms but I swear to God I was so out of breath after every time I completed a mission. It really gets your cardio workout and it's a video game, which sounds crazy. But I think that's amazing. I hope we keep heading in that direction.

Just to take the wind out of you guys' sails, we've already come up with every possible iteration of the Wii being hard for Megan Fox joke imaginable, so you couldn't possibly impress us at this point.

Megan Fox: Celebrity Gamer [What They Play - Thanks Joon!]

Hackaday reader Matthias rigged up this solution, which makes the cart show up on a PC as an external drive with the ROM file inside. From there, it's playable on one's choice of emulator.

Admittedly, the number of cases in which one has a working cart but no working console, and a working emulator but no working ROM, are probably quite low. But I remember Dad asking me what was the point - when free WiFi is so plentiful - of jailbreaking my iPhone and rigging it to serve as a dialup modem for my laptop. "Self esteem," I said.

In other words, whatever this thing does for you isn't important; the thing you made it do, however, is. Good work, Matthias.

USB Reader for SNES Game Carts [hackaday]

The necklace costs $25 seller, who maintains the classic Nintendo blog "The 72 Pin" handmade this from the following materials:

• Sisal
• Packaging Tape
• Paper Flower
• Fully functioning Super Nintendo

Bewbs are display only.

Not interested? Perhaps you would be interested in his GameBoy Advance necklace. $20. (Bottom) Again, Bewbs are not included, for display purposes only. (Of course they are.)

The 72 Pin's Etsy shop is, clearly a front for used video game sales. How long it lasts, who knows.

Fully Functional Super Nintendo Necklace [Etsy, thanks EgyptianRuin]

Modder Vomitsaw (I went back to the original source on this, just so I could share that word with you) on the Ben Heck forums gets the credit-slash-blame for this one. It carries on the proud tradition of his original 8-bit Nintoaster.

On a personal site, Mr. Vomitsaw describes its construction.

Built from nothing more than a Super NES, a toaster, four different types of adhesives, magnets ripped from a broken hard drive, six orange LEDs, a bunch of resistors, plexiglass, and many many spare wires. Not too dissimilar from my previous toaster, only this time the temperature comtrol knob DOES serve a purpose! If for some reason you feel the need to adjust the brightness of the orange LEDs, now you can. I'll admit though, it does seem to take issue with my copy of Super Mario World 2. The game seems to randomly glitch and ultimately freeze at certain points, then lose my saved game. It could be my copy of the game, the length of wire used to relocate the cartridge slot or a combination of the two. I'm not too concerned about it though because it was able to play every other game I tested in it flawlessly, including Super Metroid which I was able to play through from start to finish without issue.

Here's a video showing its creation. You know what this inevitably means - the Mister Coffee N64.

Projects - Super Nintoaster [Stupidfingers via Engadget]

Why? According to the seller, it features level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, five laps of the first track from Super Mario Kart and the home run derby from Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. That's practically a hundredth of a full game, right there!

For further details on this high priced item, hit up the eBay auction.

SNES Super Nintendo Powerfest '94 Competition NWC II [eBay via VGPC - thanks, Tony!]

8-player SNES game? Load up on spells, bring your friends [Opposable Thumbs]

It takes talent and patience to lay down these tracks with that kind of interface, is all I can say. I'm trying to imagine someone working on the percussion for "Never Gonna Give You Up." and can't believe they lasted more than six runs through that opening drum roll without quitting in disgust. Guess that means they got it right on the fifth try.

(And I can't believe I made it through a post about Chocolate Rain without the obligatory move away/breathe in joke.)

We've linked the YouTube video of the Zelda theme and Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" after the jump. The rest can be found at the link.

Theme from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!
Chocolate Rain
Rick Astley: "Never Gonna Give You Up"
Theme from Sonic the Hedgehog
The Beach Boys: "I Get Around"
Theme from Super Mario Bros. 3
Genesis: "Land of Confusion"
Queen: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Nirvana: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

The 10 Most Creative Mario Paint Compilations

Journey: "Don't Stop Believing"

Theme from The Legend of Zelda

Who said games aren't educational? It may not have the sex appeal of my personal time-merged favorite, The 1K Project II for Trackmania Sunrise, but the ensuing write-up, which helps explain quantum theories with a SNES classic gives it an intellectual bonus. The Super Mario World hack, by the way, is known as Kaizo Mario World and looks infinitely unenjoyable. What you're seeing above is 134 playthroughs of Kaizo layered upon each other using a custom SNES emulator.

Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics [Mechanically Separated Meat - thanks, Ricky!]

[via GoNintendo]

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The newest additions include Shining Force for the Sega Genesis and Super Turrican and Super Turrican 2 for the Super Nintendo. The ESRB has also rated Dr. Mario Wii for the Wii, but it's unclear if this is strictly a Virtual Console title. Could this be a new Wii release? Something for the original Wii Ware service?

It could simply be the NES puzzle game with an unusual slight renaming. That's probably the safest, least exciting bet. E3's just around the corner, as is a VC update, so we'll know soon enough. Michael McWhertor

Is it real? I don't know, as I was absent during most of the Sony/Nintendo negotiations for this ultimately failed partnership, but it sure looks like the genuine article. Game Rave promises more updates "very, very soon." Michael McWhertor

Super Famicom Play Station Prototype [Game Rave]

Of interest to our gaming demographic are some fantastic Photoshop creations like the Game Boy Transformer pictured here, as well as awesome Super Nintendo and Xbox renditions on the second page.

The rest of the Something Awful Forum Goons' creations are far more standard stuff, including espresso machines, iPods, the Lincoln Memorial, digital cameras and (watch out) vibrators. Hilarious stuff. Michael McWhertor

Transformers [Something Awful]

Here's a great Super Mario Kart commercial from 1992. The presentation is hilarious with it's quick cuts and Monster Truck Show style voiceover. "It's got two speeds! Fast and Way Too fast!"

This is a fine example of an ad that would make you run in to your parent's bedroom at 7am all cracked out on sugared cereal and beg them to buy that game for you. I tried that method just last weekend and you know what? It totally still works.

In a nod to the late Notorious B.I.G.'s tune "Juicy", Soulful Commandoe has released a tee by the same name, highlighting the two consoles Biggie Smalls namechecked to show that he'd "made it." He also apparently had a pretty big phone bill at the time. At least it's more creative than the billionth mention of rims in modern hip-hop.

The Juicy tee is available over at Karmaloop for $29, should you want to show your 16-bit and B.I.G. love. Michael McWhertor

Juicy Tee [Karmaloop]