Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

• Yet another way to play tons of old Nintendo games - in your browser, as java applets. Welcome to vNES. It's a little slow - because hey, it's Java! - but it's cool to be able to play NES in your browser without having to go to the trouble of tracking down an emulator and a bunch of ROMs. (Via)
• Speaking of online games, check out this exhaustive (and exhausting) list of "good experience" games. Holy crap! All right, we're just not getting anything done today, apparently. (Via)
• Okay, we'll admit it, we like video games. So here's another bullet point about them. This time it's a list of the Holy Grails of Console Gaming - those special, hard to find games that would look sweet in your collection, and even sweeter up on eBay. Heh. Bubble Bath Babes... (Via)
• All right, just one more game. This time it's the utterly pointless, but funny for a few moments at least, Text-Based Pong. (Via)
• It's funny because it's true: Indiana Jones is denied tenure for being a terrible archaeologist. (Via)
• Holy crud! Some Belgian dude made himself a mechanical lion that he can literally ride around on - video here. Sadly, he never says "And I'll form the head!" in the video, but you know, he could be working on four other lions as we speak... (Via sfg)

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