August 29th, 2008
I do … I remember it very well. For those not in the know, here’s a brief backgrounder, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Tron is a 1982 Disney science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Dr. Lora Baines […]
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August 29th, 2008
The uses of Lego as a multimedia tool never cease to amaze me. This especially rings true for the legions of retro gaming fans who have devoted endless hours of creating stop motion animation recreating their favorite video games.
Here’s yet another example of human ingenuity, Lego, and love for old video games:
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August 24th, 2008
Here’s yet another take on the history of video games:
Great production. Hey, what else can I say? Wait! I need to ask this question: Why the hell did the video jump from the 1980s to the 1990s? I’m sure I am not the only one asking this.
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August 24th, 2008
Actually, this has nothing to do with Saberwulf’s suffering at the hands of Orchid in the side-scrolling video game classic Killer Instinct. It also has nothing to do with Orchid flashing her bumpers at the end of a very long combo. It does, however, have everything to do with my reaction to the video below:
Although […]
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August 13th, 2008
Ahh, another Max Payne video. This one, however, shows a neat little trick that will change the entire Chapter 2 of Part 1 into a rat extermination quest. At the opening sequence of the chapter, arm yourself with a grenade, chuck it into the gap of broken tiles in the wall, and run like crazy, […]
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August 13th, 2008
I’ve been paying extra attention to one of video gamedom’s most beloved heroine’s of late, first on my PC and then on my neighbor’s rickety Playstation. I’m a late bloomer when it comes to Tomb Raider, you see—I only started noticing Lady Lara Croft’s, uhmm, video games when they were already classified as classics. Duh.
Anyway, […]
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August 10th, 2008
As I said in a previous post, Super Mario World is replete with glitches. Wish I played it more back in the days when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was still the “IN” console. Also in the last article, I showed you a video of a glitch involving Mario, Yoshi, an apple, a feather or […]
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August 10th, 2008
Among all Super Mario Brothers games, Super Mario World is probably the one with the most glitches—that is, if we base our assumption on the number of videos about the topic on YouTube. Most of the glitches, however, occurs only when Mario is riding Yoshi, jumping up to let Yoshi eat an apple or some […]
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August 6th, 2008
There was a time that only big entertainment industry outfits were the only ones capable of producing animation out of clay. Now, every Tom, Dick, and Harry (or Jane, for that matter) can film, edit and publish these works of art.
As an example, I give you Retro Games by Sander van Kessel. Enjoy!
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July 31st, 2008
What do Breakout, Joust, Pac-Man and Q-bert have in common? Well, aside from being really old video games, the four have been featured in a cartoon-like video of someone’s Top 20 Retro Games of All Time.
Here, go take a gander (hint: focus on the way the games are represented rather than struggling with the fact […]
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