Incredibly well directed stop-motion video from Marcus and Hannes Knutsson. Stick with it — it’s not just World 1-1.
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Tag Archives: video games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxp5XF7sAfQ
For some reason today I am linking a mashup up Busta Rhymes “Don’t Touch Me (Throw da Water on ‘Em)” and Koji Kondo’s “Athletic” from the game Yoshi’s Island. Music by tenlettername, visualization by stuff3.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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- The Incredible Machine (NA)
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- The Incredible Machine (NA)
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- Pararancho (JP)
The Incredible Machine VS. The Incredible Machine VS. Pararancho, 1992/94
First off, there was a version of The Incredible Machine for the 3DO?
Second, I like that cover.
Petition: Build a statue of Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan John-117 on the lawn of the White House
I get political on this here tumblelog from time to time, but I try to keep it to commentary and not be overt, day in and day out, about it.
I am, however, going to have to break that rule today by putting out a call to action to sign this petition to build a statue of Master Chief on the White House lawn. I can’t think of a man more deserving of the honor than him.
As part of our continuing coverage of animal mods of games in the Grand Theft Auto series, here is a series of short vignettes about a horse in the big city.
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So the game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is released tomorrow in Europe and next week in the U.S. Similar to Mario Kart 7, your vehicle transforms between three forms: land, air, and sea.
There’s one “character,” “Ages,” whose vehicles are the Hornet from Daytona USA, the Hornet from After Burner… and the Dreamcast controller.
I think I might want this game, you guys.
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Super Mario 64 Multiplayer Hack
Super Mario 64 Multiplayer Hack
After years of roaming the worlds in Super Mario 64 alone, you can now do so with a friend! Just as Nintendo had originally planned, this modification turns all of SM64 multiplayer.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
Sim-plicity: I am a human being
Sim-plicity: I am a human being
For his latest Sim-plicity column for PC Gamer, Christopher Livingston played Real Lives, an educational life simulator by Educational Simulations. During the game, his character is kicked out of school at age 7, works as a child laborer, contracts syphilis, illegally emigrates to Denmark, and is married for four years before her husband dies:
I don’t really have a conclusion. I feel like I did poorly — I didn’t amass riches, conquer a profession, or live happily ever after — but the game isn’t saying I did poorly. It’s not saying anything. There are no points, there’s no score, no achievements or badges. But I can’t help feeling that, as a human being, I failed.
Livingston cracks wise throughout the whole piece, which makes his serious, almost somber conclusion after his character dies all the more jarring. Billions upon billions have been born into poverty, and by the end you can see him realizing this, however briefly.
I find the way this game provides perspective on the lives of others to be exciting and depressing in equal parts.
Fishing Using Game Boy Pocket Sonar
Fishing Using Game Boy Pocket Sonar
Drop 1410 writing on his Game Boy Carts blog:
Bandai developed the sonar device with Honda Electronics. A fish-finding sonar device designed to be used in conjunction with Nintendo Co.’s Game Boy hand-held video-game machine has been introduced by Bandai Co.
The device can detect fish up to 20 meters deep when placed on the surface of the water. It provides a readout on the Game Boy screen.
This is amazing.
Wikipedia: Alfred Chicken
Alfred Chicken is an old platformer for a few systems: Game Boy, NES, etc. It apparently had an unusual advertising campaign in the United Kingdom, according to Wikipedia:
Karl Fitzhugh, the Product Manager of the Amiga version of the Alfred Chicken video game, ran as the Alfred Chicken Party candidate in the 1993 by-election in the Christchurch, Dorset constituency. The exercise was done to promote the original game’s release. Fitzhugh finished second last with 18 votes, two votes ahead of the Rainbow Party candidate.
He also finished five votes behind the “Ian is King” party candidate.