BigRig Creates came across an animation online that caught his attention: a purple Nintendo GameCube with a small Jacuzzi on top of it, complete with bubbling fluids and illuminating accents. He was immediately taken back by the concept and wanted to make it a reality.

Mario Party games have always been the real deal at bringing people together around a TV screen, and it all began with the first title on the N64 all those years ago. The fourth one, Mario Party 4, was released in 2002, and it was the moment when eight dependable party friends, as Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Waluigi, Luigi, Princess Daisy, Donkey Kong, and Bowser, all came together for the first time in a board racing showdown on the GameCube that had them all rolling the dice for some silly minigames.

Pokemon fans grew up watching trainers pull out sleek red Pokedex devices to learn everything about wild creatures they encountered. Now, one serious maker has transformed that fantasy into a fully functional device that is nearly identical to the ones trainers shown on the show. Mr. Volt spent months working out and creating every single part of the project on his own, minus the software.

Handheld console fans have long praised Nintendo’s Switch Lite for its compact size and low price, but many have wished for a variant that included those fancy premium features without sacrificing portability. Fortunately, Tito from Macho Nacho Productions stepped up and created exactly that type of machine through a series of painstaking modifications that transformed a regular Switch Lite into something far more capable.