Sitting in front of the tree on Christmas morning with a DVD of a roaring fireplace looping on your television? Tacky!
Sitting in front of the tree on Christmas morning with an 8-bit interactive fireplace roaring on your Mac? Awesome!
What a great Christmas gift: Ted Marten’s incredible Fireplace app has finally come to OS X, allowing Mac users to bask in the retro, pixelated glow of an NES fireplace just in time for the Holidays. It’s even interactive, so you can roast marshmallows on it.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
