As if things couldn’t get any better than our adorable and popular Super Mario Brothers Mushroom Candy and our imitation retro-controller Nintendo Power Mints, behold our motion sensor powered Wii Controller gum tins that are pretty much the same size as the real ones, but lacking the ever-important safety strap. After you’ve finished off the peppermint gum you can use the case to store useful things like pens, DS cartridges, memory cards, ball bearings, or any small thing you need to tote around inside a Nintendo controller.

If you’re feeling of a particularly DIY spirit you can attempt to mod the case into something useful like a toothbrush timer, pre amp, actual remote control, or any of the other projects featured over at Make.

Here’s an interesting blog featuring tracks from video game soundtracks, along with a bit of insightful commentary and historical context. Not only do they include symphonic renditions of tracks from Final Fantasy, there are nods to more obscure tracks such as the medievel-eque vocal track“You Were There” from ICO [PS2], “Let Mom Sleep,” the breakdance-inspiring title track from Jet Grind Radio [Dreamcast], the brooding, Eastern-European “Waiting For Action” track that opens Hitman 2 [Mult.], and the instrumental 90s-Jrock combat accompaniment, “Blue Water, Blue Sky “ from Guilty Gear X [Arcade].

I had Hitman 2 for the PC and loved the puzzle-solving / strategy aspect combined with the creeipiness of the environment and badass factor. Hearing the soundtrack makes me want to dig up those disks and pretend to be a bald super assassin once again.

Check out the entire collection here: VGMe >> Music.

And by “arsenal” we mean only a dozen :-). If you’re wondering what sort of little gifts you can buy for the people at work or to stuff into a bunch of stockings, candy will fit the bill. And nerdy / gaming geek candy is even better. If you buy 12 or more each of our Nintendo Mints, Game Boy Advance, Mushroom Candy or Nerds, we’ll hook you up with a 10% discount on the lot. You can mix up the colors of each, too. Yay for discounts!

• The Super Mario Brothers Flautist with beatboxing added
• Beating Super Mario Brothers in 5 minutes *SPOILER*
• The Super Mario Bros. theme song played on two Tesla Coils The nerdiest of the nerdiest.
• If you’re feeling bummed you can’t play the original SMB in 3D like your current favorite games, now you can
• Line Rider, Super Mario Bros. Style. No doubt you’ve played with making a track for the scarf-sporting little “dude” in Line Rider, but I bet you haven’t seen him ace the first level of SMB.
• How about Mario Bros. World of Warcraft style?
• Or even better, Live Action / Talent Show style.
• And the best alternate-universe version, a crazy Mario world that’s like a bad dream or extreme food poisoning where flower pipes float and gravity is somewhat… unusual

No, not “mushroom candy”–candy that tasted like mushrooms would be pretty gag-inducing (but we found some chocolate candies in the shape of mushrooms if the subject intrigues you). We’re talking about candy that come in a mushroom, Super Mario Brothers style. Once you’re done with the candy you can use the mushroom part to store a collection of small things. Check them out: Super Mario Brothers Mushroom Candy.