MetaFilter posts tagged with Awesome and games

Not changed: the Spread Gun is still ridiculous.

Pope Guilty — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:16:40 -0800

Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 is out! An expansion on the original game, which let you play as various NES characters transplanted into Super Mario Bros., but using the rules and abilities of those characters from their original games, version 2 offers more special abilities, more characters, and your choice of audiovisual "skins" based on four Mario games from the NES, SNES, and Gameboy, along with one based on Demon Returns. There's even instructions for playing with a gamepad! For more information, see the Super Mario Bros. Crossover Wiki or watch the exciting Super Mario Bros. Crossover trailer! [Previously]

Go-Karting with Bowser

Navelgazer — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:02:47 -0800

Okay, you're good, kid. You've got skills. But do you know how to wheelie, drift, and draft? Do you know how to make the most of your environment? Do you know how to get the sickest air and make the most of your tricks? Huh? Do you know how to make sure you get the best gear? Huh? DO ya? Don't even tell me you know how to dodge blue shells! You know what? Lemme just show you how the pros do it: Luigi Circuit Moo Moo Meadows Mushroom Gorge Toad Factory Mario Circuit Coconut Mall DK Summit Wario Gold Mine Daisy Circuit Koopa Cape Maple Treeway Grumble Volcano Dry Dry Ruins Moonview Highway Bowser Castle Rainbow Road As a note, I avoided the cheesier glitch-exploits, and things get a lot crazier around Grumble Volcano and thereafter.

Wow. Just Wow.

crunchland — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:04:19 -0800

The nerdiest thing you will see today.

No Computer Carts Required!

Lutoslawski — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:39:28 -0800

A playable version of Eschaton! Inspired of course by the beloved game of the students of the Enfield Tennis Academy in Infinite Jest. [via mefi projects] Pretend nuclear war, anyone?

Before everything, there was PLATO

WolfDaddy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:29:57 -0800

Touch screen. Awesome graphics. Online community. No, I'm not talking about the latest handheld device to hit the market, I'm talking about Control Data's PLATO system. PLATO People. Preservation efforts. Empire.

Ogre, anyone?

jbickers — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:32:22 -0800

From Steve Jackson to TSR to FASA to Mayfair - an awesome retrospective on the joys of microgames.

It's not Friday and it's not Flash, but...

speicus — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:09:45 -0800

What do you get when you mix a fiendishly difficult and addictive puzzle game with the feel of a hack & slash RPG set in a cartoonish, slightly tongue-in-cheek fantasy world? That would be Deadly Rooms of Death (DROD for short). The game is freakin' huge, with 25 levels filled with unique rooms, and it also happens to be free.

Robotron: 2084.

moz — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:32:40 -0800

Robotron: 2084. Presented is an interview with the creator of the fantastic game from the mid 80s; regarding the design of enemies in the game, he has this to say: "Some of the most interesting and deadly aspects of the enemies were bugs caused by improperly terminated boundary conditions in the algorithms. Often these bugs produced behavior far more interesting and psychotic then anything I conceived of." There are many more interviews of classic game authors in the book which is the source for this interview, James Hague's Halcyon Days. (Link thanks to Glish.)