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We love geekery.
We respect venerable good ol’ video games that made history (in one way or the other!).
Here’s a poker of video game history makers, somehow shaped for new challenges and, more important, fitting your pocket so you can retro-play wherever you are.

No more arcades? So what about an all-time classic?
Enter Classic Arcade Space Invaders: 1978-design still intriguing; hordes of swarming hostiles ready to invade us!
(I guess I’ve exterminated zillions of them, don’t tell SETI about it).
Check this MGA’s Classic Arcade Space Invaders
LCD version: small joystick, same threat, same hours spent fighting ‘em.

Remember Missile Command?
Atari’s smash hit featured the very first trackball around and, as coins were spun in, the trackball was spun around tracking down falling missiles from a bunch of soon-to-be-destroyed bases (you, by the way).
MGA’s Classic ArcadeMissile Command even reproduces the same arcade cabinet, without the need for coins alas.

Again, long before PSPs and even Nintendos portable consoles, Mattel was ruling with their pocket games.
By today standards they barely seem laughable, but back then… the LEDs minimalistic-displays were hard to beat and the games were tough.

Take for example Mattel’s Classic Basketball Game: check NBA-style schemes against a processor that maybe doesn’t even reach a MegaHertz clock…
One player or two can try this one.

For a complete and shared experience there’s even a Classics Sports Plug and Play featuring old-school football, baseball or basketball you can play on standard TV sets (no HD-TV allowed!).

Batteries not included, fun is!

The friends at portable-console.com report that gaming giant Nintendo has unveiled its new version of the DS handheld games console - the Nintendo DSi.

The Japanese company said the third version of the console can be used to download games, play music and take photos.

The Nintendo DSi is due to go on sale in the US on April 3 and will cost US $169.99.

Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata said: “We want to change the DS from something that’s in every household to something that’s for every person.”

The company says it has sold nearly 80 million of the consoles around the world since they went on sale in 2004.

A Nintendo DSi short feature list:

World’s largest online retailer offering gift cards in return for old video games.

E-commerce giant Amazon has unveiled a video game trade-in program, offering customers gift cards to the most popular store on the Web in return for old video games.

It’s a move that could position Amazon to better capitalize on one of the healthier media segments: games. Reselling used games also could be potentially lucrative for the world’s largest online retailer, considering that prices on pre-played titles can still remain fairly high while still representing a discount from the $50 and $60 cost of new products.

Amazon is accepting old games from the major console systems, including Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation. The online retail giant is not accepting PC games, however, a move that has garnered criticism in the site’s discussion forum.

Check here for Amazon’s video game trade-in program.