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Mock Up Frenzy!

The Pixelation forum have challenges on a regular basis where by the forum members can enter works of art specific the the requirements of each challenge. This time around the criteria was to de-make a modern game to within the limitations of the graphical power of the humble Game Boy. The results speak for themselves, with all manner of games de-made including The Legend of Zelda The Twilight Princess (above), to Bioshock, Yoshi’s Story, Burnout and Boktai (shown below) all getting me excited for games that do and will never exist! (Read on …)

Space Invaders Pillow

Not content with allowing Nintendo to be the only company to squeeze the life out it’s classics, Tatio is joining in with of all things a set of pillows.

These pillows are part of the 30th Anniversary of Space Invaders and Taito’s been celebrating the historic event with numerous merchandise offers, the latest being these pillows. While these pillows are awesome I can’t help but think they’re lacking a duvet to accompany them, they feel like only half of a product. The cynic in me suspects that will arrive later. (Read on …)

Fresh Street Fighter IV Screens

A fresh batch of screen shots for your viewing pleasure, they include pretty much most of the characters, except for Akuma and the hot off the press announced Cammy. (Read on …)

Noooooooooooooo!!!

Those of you with a sensitive disposition should look away now. For the rest of you sick, depraved individuals, watch as a dear old friend is killed in the most horrible way imaginable.

(via CubeMe)

Akuma

We all knew Akuma would be in SF IV, there was just so little information or images. Fortunately they’ve supplied some images, but they are still being cryptic with any details. So just enjoy the pictures. (Read on …)

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, AAAAAahhhhhhhh!

From the mind of French designer John Nouanesing comes the Geekini, a very desirable NES controller (female not included). This is only a concept piece at the moment (aren’t they all), but if it were to ever go into production then you can take the Wiimote and shove it, I’m going old skool.

More pics after the jump ;)

(Read on …)

My God, it’s full of stars…

Now this is my kind of arcade machine… it’s yellow :)

Looking like something from the control deck of a Pan American spaceplane, Martijn Koch’s Retro Space packs in arcade-quality Sanwa joysticks, pushbuttons, an Su20 trackball and includes over 100 licensed arcade classics and a suite of emulators. The cabinet also functions as an HD media jukebox, with a 2×90 watt speaker system and everything visual displayed on a 24-inch 1920×1200 monitor.

As expected there is no price on the website, but you can contact Martijn Koch for a price list and order form.

(via Retro Thing)

Mega Man 9 Soundtrack

Fortunately for us gamers Capcom understands that there is a market for game music (or a least they understand there’s money to be made from it). So it comes as relatively no surprise to find out that the yet unreleased Mega Man 9 is getting the soundtrack treatment. (Read on …)

Resurrecting Tennis for Two

You haven’t played it old school until you’ve played it on an oscilloscope!

Most poeple when asked about the early computer games, myself included, would have probablly mentioned Pong as the game that started it all. And they would be on the right track. Although fourteen years before pong there was Tennis for two, a side on view of a tennis court using an oscilloscope screen. (Read on …)

War Games 25 Years On

25 years is a long time, for a movie that puts you in auto classic status, not that WarGames needs such generosity because it is a classic anyway. Made around the time video gaming was in it’s infancy WarGames inspired a whole generation of would be hackers, gamers and geeks alike and made you believe even us geeks could get a girl as attractive as Alley Sheedy.

Wired’s article, comprised as an interview with Walter Parkes, Lawrence Lasker and Peter Schwartz delves into what makes WarGames so popular today and their influences at the time that shaped the movie. It’s well worth a read if you’d like to not only know more about the film but also the gaming industry during the 70s/80s.

WarGames at Wired Via laughingsquid

Mega Man Week

Games Radar is having a Mega Man week and as part of the celebrations they have uploaded 150 exclusive Mega Man images to download. That’s more Mega Man than you can shake a stick at, trust me I tried. If you want to check out the Mega Man loving head over to Games Radar

Pixels Escape into the the Real World!!!

Today I have been blown away by RETROnoob: Lee Vidal he is so “The Man!” at the moment for his amazing artwork over on deviantart! I mean who would have thought of using real life photos and merging them with old school computer games images to give you this crazy Pixel meets the real world. (Read on …)

CoD4 Greatest Game Of All Time? (No Pressure Treyarch!)

UK monopolising retailer Game has released the yearly top 100 as voted by the UK public and there are some interesting choices in there, CoD4 at number 1 should give Treyarch’s Call of Duty World at War something to worry about, no pressure!

Check out the full list. (Read on …)

Brian Fehdrau Interview

Secret of Evermore for the Super Nintendo represents one of the last of Square’s RPGs for Nintendo, conceptual work for the N64 shows they had started, but ultimately switched to PlayStation. It would be about eleven years before Square finally work with Nintendo and in that time failed to recapture their peerless 16bit masterpieces.

Corbie Dillard from VC Reviews has just recently interviewed Brian Fehdrau, the lead programmer for Secret of Evermore who gives an insight into working for Square and with Nintendo in the 90’s. The interview is very informative, but for me the most interesting parts are the discussion about Secret of Mana 2 and why it never got released outside of Japan (Fehdrau states the game was too buggy), why they never made a sequel to SoE and finally Square Enix’s reluctance to adopt the Virtual Console.

See the full interview at Super-Nes

Source vc-reviews

Video Game Technology May Help Surgeons Operate

OK first off, I would just like to point out that future surgeons are not forgoing their five years of doctor training in favour of Trauma Centre on the Wii or DS. Secondly I’m not quite sure where the stereoscopic game inspiration came from, as far as I know there aren’t any. Robert Howe, PhD is probably referring to Virtual Reality headsets of the 90s.

Since this is a “gaming cures cancer” type story I thought I’d let the later pass. Surgeons from Boston’s Children’s Hospital were able to utilise technology from gaming to successfully carry out intricate beating-heart operations in babies.

Robert Howe, PhD, of Harvard University, plucked a solution from video games – splitting computer images in two and cocking them at slightly different angles. When wearing gamers’ flickering glasses, users can see ultrasound images of the beating heart as a hologram. “You definitely have depth perception,” says Vasilyev. “You feel like you’re inside the heart chamber.”

The scientific team was already testing a three-dimensional ultrasound imaging system. But although the images are 3D and displayed in real time, they give little indication of depth and surgeons became disoriented when guided by these images. Fortunately none of the surgeons were avid 360 gamers, could imagine an RRoD during major heart surgery?

Source physorg

Street Fighter IV Coming To London!

Capcom will be wheeling out SFIV for the Battle of Destiny, the Road to Evolution event at the London Metropolitan University on Saturday, 27th July. The Battle of Destiny tournament is a world wide tournament that pits players against each other in a battle of mortal combat (no, not the game and not literately), the winner will get to go to Las Vegas and get to duke it out against other world warriors.

Other games that will be hosting tournaments will be Hyper Street Fighter 2 - Anniversary Edition, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Capcom Vs SNK 2 and Street Fighter 3 : 3rd Strike, if you are any good at any of these and you fancy you chances in the world arena head over to battle of destiny

Source Eurogamer

The Bullfrog story

Alex Towers first entered the gaming Industry through the English institution that was Bullfrog and stayed there a good many years, over at Gaming Verdict he recounts with fondness his experiences at Bullfrog until his departure after the EA take over.

Separated over two parts Alex’s retrospective covers all manner of high jinx and anecdotal trivia about Bullfrog and the people that worked there from the dodgy first beginnings in an office above a Hi-Fi shop to Lego mind storm racing and being the Kings of Everything. What is refreshing is the fact that Alex respectfully remembers his time at Bullfrog and not once does he resort to bitchy back stabbing of fellow employees. Obviously there were tough times but as a whole Alex recognises that the time spent at Bullfrog as the best experience within the gaming industry.

Gaming Verdict

LowRez

Continuing my quest fashionably geeky apparel I’ve managed to find Lowrez, a German website that probably has the largest collection of t-shirts in one place.

The t shirts are divided into for categories:

Pixel Designs “First there was the pixel. It’s the smallest part of a videogame-screen. Before there was the 3D-age with it’s polygonal characters and objects, these things were drawn pixel for pixel with love. Good artists at this period were able to fill a 16 x 16 pixel small sprite with live and charm.”

Scanline designs “Since the video line is drawing all images line by line on the screen, so called scanlines appear while displaying low resolution images. This is due to the fact that you can still see the spacing bewtween those lines. The designs shown here are visualizing this effect at a larger scale.”

Vector Designs “In vectorgraphic games the objects are drawn directly by the electrobeam of the monitor on the screen and not line by line like others monitors are doing it. This creates a picture with lines and dots on a black background, which has its own charm. The advantage of this technique is that the objects can be rotated and scaled in unlimited ways, which wasn’t possible with the low resolution pixelsprites at this time. Successful games of this era were “Asteroids”, “Tempest”, and “Battle Zone”.”

Retro Designs This section is made of retro cool, but with a funky modern twist and a hint humour too

Lowrez

Pong Dinner Table

I like eating and I like playing games, so for someone to come up with a dinner table with a game embedded in it is a fantastic idea.

Using some 2,400 LED lights as well as a couple of trackpads, Designer by Moritz Waldemeyer has given the seminal Atari game a very tactile upgrade. I suspect this table was insipred by Air Hockey tables that were once taking up space in our precious Arcades, which in turn would have been inspired by Pong in the first place, a bit like an Arcade circle of life.

The table is part of MoMA’s Design & the Elastic Mind Exhibition which is show case for unique interface devices.

Source Ubergizmo

Donkey Kong Hockey

www.ncsxshop.com

NCS Product Synopsis Updated on May 20, 2008
©NCSX Nintendo’s Micro VS System line-up was released in Japan around the same time as the Game & Watch handhelds. In the case of today’s Donkey Kong Hockey game, Nintendo shipped the product in November of 1984 or an impressive 24 years ago. Both Micro VS and Game & Watch form-factors featured simple LCD graphics, simple game play, and a simple design that’s innocuous, understated, rounded and not forgetting awesome.

Game Play and Functions
Donkey Kong and Mario playing hockey!! - What more can a girl ask for out of life?!?!

In Donkey Kong Hockey, players control Mario and attempt to score goals against Donkey Kong. You can also swap to two player mode by selecting the Game B option. Whomever is the first to score 10 goals wins the match. But its not that easy! - be on the look out for the referee and “Crazy Spots” that make it a wild game, well maybe not wild, but its Mario & Donkey Kong…hello!
(If the ball passes through “crazy spots”, it will speed up and change course)

And if the Hockey action’s not enough, it also includes a handy clock function with alarm, genius. Oh & lets not forget the retractable cord on the controllers, just like playdoh peoples hair.

Sale Offering
You can pick up one of these, factory packaged, and in mint condition for US$55.90 per unit which includes free shipping by UPS Ground within the U.S……… get me the phone.

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