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Playable Super Mario Bros. in a shoebox? Genius!

(CBS) - Maybe Nintendo can learn a thing or two about 3D gaming with this awesome homemade cardboard Gameboy.

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Okay - so it only plays one game, but it's still pretty nifty. The engineers (nerds) at Teague designed this to promote their new open source hardware platform Teagueduino.

"Using a Teagueduino and a few inputs and outputs, we put together a physical side-scrolling video game," reads the video's description on Vimeo. "To control it, there's a knob on the side. As time advances the game gets faster and faster - can you avoid all the obstacles and make it to the end?"

If this was for sale, we'd totally buy it.

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