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1 Dress Your iPhone in Pac-Man With This Wallpaper
Kitchen
2 Life Is Now Complete With the Pac-Man Cookie Cutters
Love It or Leave It
3 LEGO Accessories: Love It or Leave It?
Tech Shopping
4 Catch Pac-Man Fever With These Finds
Video games
5 Eighties Arcade Table: Totally Geeky or Geek Chic?
Gadgets
6 10 Geeky Gadgets to Help Spice Up Your Kitchen
Poll
7 Ghost Lamps: Love 'Em or Leave 'Em?
Video games
8 Every Geek's Dream: Tabletop Pac Man and Galaga Arcade
Video games
9 Get Your Retro Game On With Pac-Man and Atari Controllers
DIY
10 DIY Geeky Pac-Man-Carved Pumpkins
Music
11 Daily Tech: HP Rolling Out Its Own Music Download Service
Video games
12 Google Transforms Logo Into Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man Game
Halloween
13 Geek Treats For Your Halloween Party
Costumes are great, but carving pumpkins is one Halloween tradition we'll never skip. Feeling creative? Get out your carving tools and create the geekiest pumpkin of them all — you could win a bag of sweet treats that won't rot your teeth. We're giving away a fun prize pack for the geekiest pumpkin photo submitted to our Geeky Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest group. So grab a template (or Read more
Step aside, first person 3D gaming, an old champion is back to take the video game reigns. Actually Pac-Man hasn't gone too far, remaining a staple in most arcades and maintaining global popularity 30 years after it was first introduced. The striking graphics of Pac-Man's maze world, where he eats pac-dots and speeds past ghost enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde), makes perfect home goods Read more
Was one of your New Year's resolutions to finally learn to play a musical instrument? If you haven't gotten on that yet (it's almost August but you still have time!) and feel that a piano is too big, a guitar is too mainstream, and drums would drive your neighbors insane, the ukulele is a good choice for its compact frame and soothing sound. But don't just run out and pick up any ukulele — try Read more
What do you get when you take gorgeous landscape photographs and insert your favorite 8-bit details? 8-bitscapes, a collection of 8-bit inspired prints. The collaboration between photographer Kevin Rozario-Johnson and illustrator Jamie Sneddon is comprised of eight "strictly limited-edition" prints, with retro gaming characters making their way through some familiar and not-so-familiar Read more
Oh sure, you may have the Pac-Man oven mitt, shot glasses, or even the Ghost lamps, but your Pac-Man collection is not complete until you have these Pac-Man cookie cutters ($19). Now two of your favorite things — cookies and vintage video games — can come together in one delicious bite. All four cutters (three Ghosts and one Pac-Man) can be yours, and the price is definitely right for any Read more
Halloween's not just the time for ghouls and ghosts, it's also the time to get serious about candy consumption. So if you are looking for a few geek-centric candies to pass out to those special friends, check out our candy stash, and get ready for your Halloween night. Grab some of these cute candies and give your geeky Halloween pumpkin a run for its money! Read more
Pac-Man (and his costars) are getting quite a bit of play on the Internet recently, and the love continues with these Ghost Lamps ($70) from ThinkGeek. Coming in a set of four, the lamps will light up your life (or your desk, anyway) with soft colors of red, yellow, green, and white. If nothing else, they'd probably look great in a bookshelf or as a nightlight for your geeky baby. Read more
Aren't making your own Halloween costume this year? No sweat — Spirit is here to save you. The mega once-a-year costume shop has been popping up in towns across the country to get ready for the upcoming frightful holiday, and the good news is, it's got plenty of geek-inspired costumes for you to choose from. I've picked out 10 eye-catching numbers from its 2010 lineup, and now it's your turn to Read more
I know I was lamenting earlier about how I don't put pen to paper much these days, when out of the blue comes the lust-worthy Limited Edition Moleskine Pac-Man collection. It's enough to make me run out and buy an economy-sized pack of ballpoints from the Back to School section at Target! On sale and ranging in price from $10 for the smaller ruled pocket on up to $20 for the large gift set, Read more
Sometimes you stumble upon something great on the Internet. Other times, your friends send you a link that makes your day. Take for example this Pac-Man wallpaper sent by a pal that fits your iOS 4 iPhone or iPhone 4. The wallpaper surrounds your folders and app icons with dots and Pac-Man ghosts to show off your love for retro gaming (get the full image from this Japanese website). Need to know Read more
