In the Wikipedia entry for Karateka, the game is mentioned as having received some notoriety as an Internet meme. Apparently, someone toyed around with the idea of rotoscoping the final sequence where the hero approaches Princess Mariko and replacing it with the hero performing MC Hammer’s dance from the hit single U Can’t Touch This.
I […]
In my last post I talked about Karateka, giving a little background about the video game (for those who don’t know about it) and lavishing my praise on, in my humble opinion, one of the best fighting games.
I mentioned that Karateka had all the elements of a good video game, including humor. Well, if you […]
I used to co-own an Internet gaming cafe with a group of friends, and before it was called that, the small shop had been a simple network gaming cafe, where we congregated for serious slugfests after work (yes, we had day jobs).
And by “serious slugfests,” I meant SERIOUS because every member of our eight-man barkada […]
If there’s one game that satisfied my thirst for explosions and destruction, it was Missile Command. Of course, I’m talking about my 80s self, since there are now dozens—if not hundreds—of video games that can sate this craving.
Well, my 80s self is starting to rear its ugly head again, which is why I’ve been scouring […]
I wonder what Rick’s middle name is? I guess he doesn’t have one…
Ok, loyal readers that I’ve treated terribly over the past few months. Have you ever finished this damned game? Call me a wimp if you must, but Rick Dangerous has to be one of the most flippin’ difficult games of all time ever!
Earlier today I stumbled upon this viral marketing flash game for Ubisoft’s 2003 masterpiece “Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time“.
Viral ads are usually fun for all of 30 seconds, but this one is different. It’s a mini-game in which you must guide our hero to stop the evil Vizier from releasing the Sands […]
Forget about Tony Hawk’s Project 8, because John Freeborn has created the only skating game that’s going to matter this year:
Apparently this took two years to make, so that’s probably about as long as the aforementioned Tony Hawk game. John has done a great job to say this was a one man effort, but it’s […]
A human known only as GT Karber has treated the Internet’s retro gaming tube to, strangely enough, a text adventure version of the world’s most authentic tennis simulator, Pong.
Check out the screenshots, yo…
…If you have one…
Now this is what I call a storage solution! Brave Space Design have taken the iconic shapes from Tetris, and have created a flat-pack furniture storage system that would look great in any gamer’s place of retro worship…
A set of these all up in your hizzouse would surely make you the envy […]
I make no secret about the fact that I can’t read a clock face… I have no idea what happened, but I remember being upset on my 16th borthday, and since then I’ve not been able to tell the time on a regular clock face… Oh byzantine analogue chroniker!
Anyway, that doesn’t matter anymore, because Buro […]
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