I’ve been with 4cr for a while now, and during my time, I’ve seen great rebels like Vinnk and Edgar succumb to the lures of parenting. As is my way, I thought, “If the cool kids are doing it, then so should I.”

After convincing my wife to rock the casbah, we were pleased to find that we would, in fact, be having a tot of our very own. The actual due date is rapidly approaching - only a couple more weeks to go - and we’ve finally finished up the nursery this week. All that’s missing is, you know, the newborn. As I am a tremendous nerd, and my wife is (luckily) fully supportive of such things, we decorated in a neat Nintendo theme. Hopefully, our kid won’t grow up to be a Sega fanboy, or else he might end up being put up for adoption. I kid, I kid. Kinda.

Check past the break for a couple of photos of our beloved nerdy nursery, which I have affectionately dubbed the “nerdsery.”

It was either that or “Professor Fantastic’s room of Awesome.”

Let me start off by saying that Etsy is awesome. There are so many fantastic little art pieces and doodads and such. The only bad thing I can think of about the site is that it pains my wallet every time I go. The main framed art comes from Fort Awesome Studios, who not only have one of the best names ever, but they have some of my favorite video game fan-art available on the net.

Hangin’ out with the frog humidifier, you see a stuffed Link and a Club Nintendo Mario hat. These items are destined to be found on the floor of the nursery within the kid’s first couple days in the house.

Some of the neat artwork - wall one…

..and wall two!

These adorable robots come from Stephen Edwards Graphics. Not Nintendo related, but really, how could we resist these little guys?

Finally, the good folks at fangamer.net have this totally awesome Super Mario RPG-inspired poster entitled “Starry Starry Pipes,” which is really just fantastic.

So, that’s it. Hopefully our son won’t grow up to think that we’re terrible parents for forcing daddy’s love of Nintendo upon him. And if you know of any other cool game (especially Zelda) related stuff on Etsy, let me know, and I’ll try to convince the wife that we need them.