SMW - The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo.
posted by Pretty_Generic
on Aug 13, 2005 -
20 comments
Wanna make money playing games? In certain Asian countries, workers are paid just cents an hour to camp virtual spawn points to collect gold or items that will then get sold for real currency. Owners of these companies are making tens of thousands of dollars a month whereas their workers are barely earning over $100.
'Sell is a recent graduate from Nanjing University. At 24, he's a manager for Vpgamesell, a large SWG Chinese farming center that wholesales to popular resellers. He started off by selling gil in Final Fantasy XI, but his farming days are over. He's moved up to manager status, helping with marketing and delivery. His many farmers work 10-hour rotations and are paid $121 a month. Sell gets $180 a month and works closer to 14 hours a day because he lives at the office, which is a fairly common practice at farming centers - if you lose your job, you also lose your home.'
Absolutely amazing, this human ingenuity thing...
posted by jcterminal
on Jul 6, 2005 -
47 comments
This game rated JC for eternal salvation, curing of the sick, and excessive scourging at the pillar. Ok, this is getting ridiculous...
a Christian videogame about the rapture and the tribulations? WTF? I guess I know which side I'd be on.
Seriously, though, do these people realize that every single new Christian-centric product is nothing more than a honeypot for harvesting names, addresses, and email addresses? Just like the GOP, people realize there's
money to be made in marketing to Christians. But, the second you sign up, I'm sure you get added to one of the GOP's
spam farms direct mail providers and sold to the appropriate politicrit or ideological demagogue.
Just to show you I'm not full of it, look at who's in the databases of the
Omega List and
Response Unlimited...
Advance Ticket Buyers for the Passion of the Christ,
Peace Frogs (what?),
Y2K Preparedness Buyers, the
current (68k) and
former (19m) subscribers to the Washington Times (aka Moonie Times), and of course, the
Terri Schiavo Donor List.
Take a look at who else is in there -
Limbaugh,
Newsmax,
Fortune Magazine,
Human Events,
Guns and Ammo Magazine,
Oliver North,
the Heritage Foundation,
Linda Tripp donors,
G. Gordon Liddy's Toughguy Database, and
the buyers of the Left Behind Video Series. No wonder we always lose...every single rightwing entity is in there! Via
BoingBoing.
posted by rzklkng
on Jun 30, 2005 -
53 comments
Death sentence for online gamer SHANGHAI: A Shanghai online gamer who murdered another player because of a dispute over a "cyber-weapon" was given the death sentence with a two-year reprieve yesterday at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court.
Qiu Chengwei's death penalty will be commuted to life in prison if he behaves well in jail, and no other crimes relating to him are uncovered.
Not to condone the murder, but is cyber theft or isn't it? Acording to the DMCA if I download a song or movie from cyberspace I am commiting a crime. Yet if someone steals your item in a cyberworld and sells it for real world cash your left without recourse. I feel China had a chance to establish new law and balked.
(more inside)
posted by Trik
on Jun 8, 2005 -
124 comments
The Touhou, or Shrine Maiden, series of "curtain fire shooting games" start off challenging and quickly become hard enough to satisfy any hardcore gamer/masochist. They're also gorgeously crafted works of art, and were created in their entirety by one man,
ZUN. If you want to play them you'll have to
import them* from Japan, but you can download the demos
here.
* site sells naughty things as well. Don't order at work.
posted by squidlarkin
on Feb 1, 2005 -
10 comments
...when Jesus appears in your texture maps. Ok, this is old news (been there since 1996), but from my own game programmer point of view, this site is hilarious, in a bittersweet way.
It's been down for a while, only available through the
wayback machine, but recently got online again.
It might even be informative for all nerdy mefis, since latest news prove games programming stay as a
modern slavery icon.
Might be NSFW if you're working on 'in trouble' game project.
posted by denpo
on Nov 30, 2004 -
11 comments
The Frag Dolls "represent the ladies in gaming with the taste and talent for beating you at your own games. So, for all you guys who think the only gals in gaming are the leather-clad, pixilated beauties on your screens, think again. We're real, and we've got the skills to teach you a few tricks of our own." They're also sponsored by
UbiSoft. Dismantling stereotypes or reinforcing them?
(via Annalee Newitz, and a nice counterpart to this thread)
posted by mrgrimm
on Nov 18, 2004 -
52 comments
Princess Maker 2 - Stressed out from current events? I doubt the game is as much fun to play as it is to be bewildered by, but either might help.
"...is basically a perverse sports management simulation where your entire team consists of a single ten year old girl that you have to raise to adulthood. Much like any decent sports manager game you have to keep track of a nearly overwhelming number of statistics that fluctuate based on training. In Princess Maker 2 these run the gamut from the mundane like "strength" and "charisma", to the droll like "cooking" and "conversation", to the bizarre like "sin" and "temper". "
posted by soulhuntre
on Oct 28, 2004 -
13 comments
The Ultimate Gaming Table. While looking around the webernets to find a replacement for my living room table, I stumbled across
this. Breathtaking in scope and purpose; I salute this person's nerdly vision and dedication.
posted by majcher
on Aug 15, 2004 -
13 comments
The Davinci Code website hasn't been linked on the front page! Check it out and have fun with codes, conspiracies, art and a
challenge. Good fun that might also make you go "hmmmm".
posted by ashbury
on Aug 10, 2004 -
47 comments
Rising Force Mud Remember back a couple of years, when the rage was "Multi User Dungeons "? You know graphical role playing. Well, its still around, And loads more interesting than the new online rpgs than the playstation has going.
So check it out and play awhile if you want.
posted by edmcbride
on Jul 3, 2004 -
15 comments
Policing Virtual Reality. Wired reports on
Sociolotron(NSFW). A MMORPG that allows gamers to rob, rape, and kill other players. Being a gamer, I understand that actions in an MMORPG aren't "real" but how far can you take it?
"Lord Foucault is an admitted rapist. He does it on impulse -- for the thrill of it and for the feeling of control he has over his female victims."
Is this any different than running around and killing dwarves?
posted by jopreacher
on Jun 29, 2004 -
50 comments
Gamegeezers A new forum for the mature gamer. As the site says
"... the new community for the "not so young" gamer. The reason we're setting this forum up is to provide a home for the great many of us gamers out there who are old enough to remember the beginning of this phenomenon known as gaming and are still going to be at it for the rest of our days.
You will find no whiney teenage flamers here. Just a good wholesome community of GameGeezers who wouldn't admit to knowing what "l33t" meant if their life depended on it. "
posted by snowgoon
on Jan 14, 2004 -
9 comments
So I reinstalled an older game,
StarTopia (Flash required and RIP
Muckyfoot, you will be missed), t'other day and discovered I'd lost my manual to it. Never fear, for
Real Time Strategic Carnage had about, oh, a bazillion times more info about the game than did the manual that actually came with the game, which should come as no surprise to most gamers. RTSC has detailed information on a number of strategy games, old and new, and I recommend it to your notice wholeheartedly.
posted by WolfDaddy
on Nov 9, 2003 -
3 comments
