This wearable, playable Pac-Man arcade is all but guaranteed to win any costume contest this Halloween, and Russell Luzinski has provided all of the necessary steps to make one yourself. Plus, once the contest is over, you still have one hell of a bar-top arcade machine to play around with.
Check out Make for the full set of instructions—although the build would be a lot better if it used a jailbroken iPad instead of a laptop.
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It’s too bad there was a six year gap between the first Star Wars movie and the arcade game. That extra practice may have helped Vader achieve a better showing in the original trilogy.
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You know that our civilization is on a downward spiral when even impressionistic art is based on the video games of your youth. Next thing you know our ground based alien defense will be based on Space Invaders.
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These guys have been getting their asses kicked in Space Invaders for the past 31 years. I’d say it’s time to discover camouflage and the art of guerrilla warfare and only break out their current moves when they go line dancing at an intergalactic hoedown.Â
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True arcade gaming died years ago—they’re just getting around to burying the corpses now? Shoryuken old buddy…shoryuken.
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Remember Tapper? Yeah, we had some good times slingin’ beers in that game. Everything was cool until they sissified it with Root Beer Tapper in 84′. I dunno, some nonsense about advertising alcohol to minors. Hey, I turned out just fine and I only blackout when I drink 2 or 3 times a week.
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