Pulsewave contest winners!

Not that we want you to stop sharing your Game Boy memories, but we've picked our winners for the Pulsewave/Nonfinite/8bitpeoples/us contest. So now if you craft a heartwarming tale about your childhood love of TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan, it'll have to be for your own reasons.

The grand prize of two Pulsewave tickets, $25 at Nonelectronics, a Pulsewave poster, and an 8bitpeoples prize pack goes to Simon Forkton, who charmed us with his tale of chiptune busking for Game Boy money.

Our runners-up are Bleo, who "can proudly say that I wrote a song that was heard at the Sundance Film Festival... on the toilet" and ZenAlbatross, who took a bus ride with Kirby. They'll each get a single Pulsewave ticket, a poster, and $10 at Nonelectronics.

Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to Pulsewave, 8bitpeoples and Nonfinite Electronics! We love being able to put awesome stuff in our readers' hands.

[Image: Nonfinite's custom "Monochrome" Game Boy case]

In case you missed last week's post, we've teamed up with the organizers of NYC chiptune show Pulsewave to celebrate the Game Boy's 21st birthday by asking readers to share their favorite memories of the cherished handheld.

We're giving away tickets for this weekend's Pulsewave event to the commenters with the best stories. Even if you're nowhere near New York, you can win free tickets for a future Pulsewave, as well as other prizes like a Pulsewave poster and gift certificates to mod your Game Boy (or buy other items from the Nonfinite shop).

We mentioned before that we're also giving away a "secret bonus item", which we can now reveal: it's an 8bitpeoples Prize Pack that will include albums and more from renown chip music label 8bitpeoples!

So, if you love chiptune music, Game Boy mods, waxing nostalgic over old handhelds, or free stuff, you definitely need to make entering this easy contest a top priority.

See also: Super, super awesome Pulsewave flyers

Tiny Contest: Tickets to NYC's Pulsewave, Nonfinite gift certificates, and more!

Are you in or near NYC -- or will you be on July 31? If so, why not check out this month's Pulsewave show, featuring chip artists like Sadnes, Nonfinite, and Battle Lava, with NO CARRIER visuals, for free?

The event's organizers are celebrating the 21st birthday of the Game Boy with this special show, and we're celebrating their celebration with a giveaway! We have free tickets to paradise Pulsewave and other prizes for the commenters with the best Game Boy anecdotes from the last 21 years. Just tell us your favorite Game Boy memory -- or on Twitter with the hashtag #DMG21 -- to enter!

More details follow (you don't have to be in NYC to enter; the tickets are good for any future monthly Pulsewave show, in case you're ever in the Manhattan area ):

The full rundown:

The winners will be chosen from the comments of this post and from Twitter. We always encourage people to leave real, meaningful comments in our contests, but it's extra important this time, since these are being judged. In other words, not just any comment will qualify -- you have to actually tell us a story. You have until Wednesday, July 28, at 11:59 PM EDT.

Speaking of stories, here's Sadnes, who will be at this month's show, telling the story of that time a girl didn't like Chris Isaak as much as he liked her:

Much thanks to Pulsewave's organizers, as well as co-sponsors 8bitpeoples and Nonfinite Electronics, for helping make this contest possible!

See also: Super, super awesome Pulsewave flyers

Modded duotone (Black/White) Game Boy by Nonfinite. I showed off this glorious customization before, but this post comes with video and a demonstration of the system's chip music capabilities. Fuuuuuuuckkkkk.

I have a whole round-up of chiptune-related links I've been meaning to share with you this past week:

See also: Nonfinite shows off Starpause underclocked, modded Game Boy

Nonfinite shows off Starpause underclocked, modded Game Boy. Great video of a backlit system! Someone definitely needs to buy one of these for me for Christmas.

See also: Modded duotone (Black/White) Game Boy

[Comment to enter our chiptune contest — you can win a copy of the two-disc Blip Festival 2008 album!]

Modded duotone (Black/White) Game Boy. Fuuuuckkkk.

Sent from the future to save mankind, this custom sysem features several modifications by Nonfinite:

My birthday is this July, so waste no time trying to find me one of these for my present. Here's a shot of the portable's back, to give you a better idea of the duotone setup:

Please note that I'm not sharing this today because it's the Game Boy's 20th birthday; I'm putting it up on Tiny Cartridge because we post dope handheld shit on the regular. If he were still alive, I'm certain Gunpei Yokoi would be refreshing this site every five minutes, replying to us on Twitter like it ain't a god damn thing.

R.I.P. Gunpei Yokoi.

See also: Gunpeipercraft, NSFW: Manga Girl Custom Yellow Game Boy, Custom Game Boy painted by The Popo

Ohhhhhh snap! I would love to acquire one of these and play an evil game of Final Fantasy Adventure. Hardware hacker and chiptune artist Nonfinite didn't stop at just creating a red-screened system:

Nonfinite says that DIY kits and pre-modded units will be available for purchase at the upcoming Blip Festival event. Presumably, he will also eventually sell the systems through his online shop.

You can see more photos and a video of the handhelds, at the above link. The blue/purple one, in particular, looks like the fucking business.

[Via Gameboy Genius]