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November 29th 2018

Awesome Stocking Fillers To Fill Your Boots With!

Busy hunting down a whole heap of gifts and stocking fillers for the special people in your lives? We know the feeling! Each year the task seems to get harder, longer and way less fun, right?

Wrong! With our huge collection of fun and funky gifts to suit everyone, we're determined to bring a whole heap of good times into shopping for some great goodies. To make life even easier, we've picked out some of our top selling and face stocking filler gifts. Take a peep!

Nintendo NES Cartridge Coasters

Adding a splash of cool in practi-cool (yeh we did!), game away in style with our ace set of Nintendo NES Cartridge Coasters! A great little gift for the gamer in your life.

Disney Mickey Mouse Limited Edition Gold Lip Balm from Mad Beauty

Who doesn't love an awesome lip balm? Sprinkle some Disney magic into your gift selection this year with this stunning Disney Mickey Mouse Limited Edition Gold Lip Balm.

DC Comics Batman Bath Duck

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August 16th 2015

10 Things 90s Gamers Will Remember…

As 80s kids, we spent much of our childhoods living through the weird and wonderful time that was the 90s. This was a strange, mysterious and generally colourful place where you could be wowed by even the simplest things like analogue controllers, 3D gaming and even split screen gaming!

Like most teenagers in the land then and now, gaming was a huge part of our social and anti-social lives. It passed the time during school holidays and weekends, it brought friends together aaaaand probably caused the odd sibling argument over who was hogging it the most. We've all been there.

Doing what we like to do best, we've been looking back on these good old days (are we really that old already?!) and thinking up some of our biggest memories from these pixel-tastic times. Check out some of our top retro gaming memories!

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1. When you console was one of the only things you could play music with...

Yep we've been there. When we first had a PS1 we were still rocking our old tape player. This might just be us being behind the times but for a lot of us, the trusty console was the newest and best thing ever and we used it for as much as we sure could.

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February 15th 2014

Are Consoles Really Getting More Expensive? Then Vs Now

Hello gamers!

In a world these days full of RAMs, GIGs and High Definition dodaas, we often find ourselves looking at some of the very latest technology and thinking....wow it's amazing but also sooo expensive! This got us thinking, were consoles always so much? How would the prices back in the 70s, 80s & 90s compare to what we're paying now?

Well! To find out just that, we thought we would put together a little comparison, translating the classic price tags into modern day values so we can see just how much we were (okay okay...our parents) were pay for some of our all-time favourite consoles. Take a look...

1977 Atari 2600

£169 (bundled with Combat) = £890.83 now

1986 NES

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October 2nd 2012

Power Up with our selection of official Nintendo gifts and accessories!

As a huge computer game fan it is my absolute pleasure to be able to show you the awesome range of Nintendo Gifts currently on offer at TruffleShuffle.com!

For those of you that like to flash your cash in style we've got a selection of Nintendo Wallets that will be right up your street!  Mario has always been a fan of golden coins and these wallets are the perfect place to store yours.

Also available are these larger hinge wallets featuring the super cute but hapless baddy Koopa Trooper.  He may look like butter wouldn't melt but he's more than capable of guarding your precious cash!

And this classic design featuring Mario surrounded by coins and powers up is also available as a hinge wallet.

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April 16th 2012

Is this a little unNESessary?

If you’re still pining for the days of Duck Hunt and Super Mario 3, take heart, because this Nintendo Controller Coffee Table has just what your den needs.

The perfect piece of furniture for any retro gamer is this awesome Nintendo Controller Coffee Table.  The brainchild of designer Charles Lushear, what makes this table all the more desirable is not only its looks, it is also fully functional, letting you enjoy saving the Princess from the nefarious grip of Bowser for the umpteenth time, while sipping on your morning cuppa.

Constructed using premium maple, mahogany and walnut, this table will cost you a bit more than one shiny gold coin ($3,500 to be exact!) but is the perfect example of old skool Nintendo cool.

August 20th 2011

Retro gaming has never looked so cool!

We’ve just found out about an amazing exhibition that’s happening in far away Los Angeles.  ‘Super I Am 8 Bit’ is a group art show where over 100 artists re-imagine their 80's gaming fantasies, delusions and secret desires via all sorts of media - painting, sculpture, plush, and even some more interactive experimentation.  Get ready to see some classic computer game characters as you've never seen them before!

Check out this awesome flyer for the event, which features some of my favourite characters like Mario, Pac-Man, Sonic and Mega Man all leaping out into action from underneath Princess Peach’s skirt!

This short video shows one of the past events, and is a glimpse of the kind of goodies that you might expect to see at the new 2011 version.  Keep your eyes peeled for a DJ using a GameBoy as a soundsystem!

For more information visit http://iam8bit.com/.  It all sounds right up my street, it’s just a shame it’s so far away!  Here’s hoping that the exhibition can find it’s way to the UK at some point soon, don't keep a Nintendo fan boy waiting…