Marx and Mario

August 17, 2009 12:22 PM

Amusement (French Vogue meets Nintendo Power)takes iconic video games and discovers their origins. Jean-Yves Lemoigne fantasizes about pixels (NSFW?). Game couture?
posted by geoff. (16 comments total)

I noticed Amusement started to get some press at Kotaku. I have a subscription at an ungodly 100 euros a year. I justify the cost on keeping up my French to at least a read a magazine level. Hey I went from Paradis to a video game mag, I'm regressing!
posted by geoff. at 12:28 PM on August 17

Now there's some decent side-scrolling action!
posted by mazola at 12:42 PM on August 17 [5 favorites]

that's really cool, despite the horrific site design.
posted by shmegegge at 12:46 PM on August 17 [2 favorites]

Here are the 200 covers for the similarly arty Edge Magazine's 200th issue
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 12:49 PM on August 17 [1 favorite]

Technically, I believe those are voxels.
posted by homuncula at 12:53 PM on August 17 [1 favorite]

homuncula beat me to it.
posted by dunkadunc at 1:13 PM on August 17

Also: Voxelstein 3D: Freeware Murder Simulater For The Masses
posted by dunkadunc at 1:25 PM on August 17

@East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94: Good god, I assumed that it would be the covers of the 200 previous editions and then was confused when I looked at the page and they all seemed unfamiliar. They did a split run of 200 different covers **for the same edition of the magazine**- - - - 200 DIFFERENT COVERS FOR THE SAME EDITION. Sorry. I got over excited.
posted by silence at 2:37 PM on August 17 [1 favorite]

Kind of makes me wish that I was a lego man.
posted by pwedza at 2:44 PM on August 17 [1 favorite]

Oh. Posted this in a similiar article about video game photography. If I had known it wasn't actually linked before I would have done so.

Beaten! But still pretty good!
posted by Askiba at 3:03 PM on August 17

Nicely done, Edge.
posted by five fresh fish at 3:37 PM on August 17

I wish my french was even close to being good enough to read this. I guess I can look at the pretty, blocky pictures..
posted by The Whelk at 3:45 PM on August 17

Is there anywhere that lists what games those 200 Edge covers all come from? I recognized a lot of them, but not all. This one, for example, I have no idea.
posted by adamdschneider at 4:36 PM on August 17

Here is an attempt at a list
Here is another
This is the forthcoming Deus Ex 3
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 4:46 PM on August 17

Aha! Here is a complete list (scroll down)
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 4:55 PM on August 17

Ah, thanks! I didn't even know DX3 was in development.
posted by adamdschneider at 7:48 AM on August 25