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Prochaine Station: Gotham's Soul Breakdance Battle

zenzizi — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:04:50 -0800

BBOY JOKER (single link interactive youtube game) - Patrick Boivin (from visual wizards Phylactère Cola [wiki]) strikes again with a new stop animation game following his success with YouTube Street Fighter.

YouTube Street Fighter

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:56:38 -0800

YouTube Street Fighter (single link interactive youtube game)

The Unfinished Swan

GuyZero — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:22:36 -0800

The Unfinished Swan is an unfinished video game set in an entirely black and white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden. A video of the gameplay.

Like, OMIGOD!

carsonb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:34:51 -0800

80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice. Bonus, dude! Retro video games like flashacized.

Super Epic Video Game News

BartFargo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:44:22 -0800

Super Epic Video Game News. Several Channel 101 alumni are bringing their own distinctive style to game and tech journalism. Perfect for those who love video games, but hate the people that play them. The YouTube comments are an even split between impotent rage and people who get the joke. For those who don't like Channel 101 or video game news, you have been warned.

bits are fun

flatluigi — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:41:47 -0800

The Top 5 Game-Inspired Music Videos (via, with one more) Videos: Architecture in Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind Junior Senior - Move Your Feet Cadence Weapon - Sharks Xiu Xiu - Boy Soprano Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

To be fair, the hosts can be stupid too.

flatluigi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:44:53 -0800

Let's pause for a moment to view the best part of any gameshow -- the stupid contestants. One of my favorites so far.

Cruise Elroy: A Pac-Man Linkfest

churl — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:33:21 -0800

Is it just not enough to play Pac-Man on the Atari, PC, OS X dashboard, web, and cellphone? Try Pac-Gentleman, the Pac-Man board game, or just get some costumes and do it yourself . Still not enough? Master the game, watch the 1984 cartoon (sample episode, more on YouTube), eat the cereal, listen to the tribute album, watch a documentary about the players, or just wait for the inevitable Pac-Man Hollywood Movie. (Also: lots of awesome Pac-Mania previously on MeFi. I don't think I duplicated any previous links, apologies if I did.)

It's Also Acetaminophen-riffic.

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:56:01 -0800

Ready for '90s nostalgia yet? Well, throw some flannel on your Furby and get ready for that decade's most migrane-tastic fad, the autostereogram, or Magic Eye. Of course, the Web can't leave anything alone, so you can watch a moving autostereogram, play a little wall-eyed Tetris or Pong, and create your own image to delight and annoy your friends.

Let's Play!

clockworkjoe — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:30:40 -0800

The Let's Play archive. Ever wanted to play a particular video game, but never got around to it? Let's Play features extensive walkthroughs of classic games like Silent Hill and Flashback complete with screenshots, videos, and commentary. Other games such as Darkseed and The Immortal are coming soon.

Tetris Documentary

loquacious — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:03:09 -0800

Tetris - From Russia with Love (Google Video) A BBC documentary about Tetris and its creator Alexey Pajitnov.

A thing to do with your time and a lot of legos

boo_radley — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:03:10 -0800

Bitflicks : very large and accurate representations of video games made out of Lego blocks.

Invading Space

kika — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:13:21 -0800

Human Space Invaders
1 theatre
67 extras
4 hours of shooting
390 images
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= 3 minutes of video [16 MB QT]
[Site in French, video without words]

Chinlone highlight reel

jonson — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:42:56 -0800

This highlight reel of people playing the traditional Myanmar game of Chinlone is pretty amazing. Being a particularly ignorant westerner, I really had no idea of the grace & athleticism involved in the game.

happy fun vacuum time

boo_radley — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:51:30 -0800

This game sucks. Courtesy of the experimental gameplay project.

GO WEST EAT DOT GO WEST EAT DOT

boo_radley — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:59:54 -0800

DotQuest Can you survive the deadly ghosts in this text adventure? via languagehat's blog in an oblique fashion.

Do unto others. Now!

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:42:58 -0800

Jack Thompson (1992 ACLU Censor of the Year) is an outspoken critic of violent video games. (Previously on...44150 and 44309) His recent "A Modest Video Game Proposal" offers $10,000 to the first game company which "creates, manufactures, and sells" a video game with the (fictional) premise of a father wreaking horrible vengeance on the video game companies whose twisted creations drove his son to bloody murder. More info (@wikipedia)

DJ Format featuring Abdominal & D-sisive

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:56:42 -0800

Witness the Whiteness as borderline-albino Canadian nerdcore MCs kick it Konami-school [Windows Media/Quicktime; more]

"With whom did my father fight and lose?..."

Monster_Zero — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:19:46 -0800

Ikaruga putting you to sleep? Battletoads as challenging as Animal Crossing? If so, consider saving up for an XBox and/or Ninja Gaiden Black, expansion-of-sorts to the infamous Ninja Gaiden (the game so hard it kills your friends). Due out in September, the game's creator claims in an interview that roughly 1% of American players will complete the game's new "Master Ninja" difficulty. You can read the rest of the interview here or grab the outlandishly large trailer. Is there a legitimate demand for games this challenging, or is this just a case of misguided "difficult==better" thinking?

Leeroy

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 31 May 2005 17:29:33 -0800

Video games are stupid [Windows Media, nsfw audio]

Featuring Meatball Sub as itself.

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:50:36 -0800

Peasant's Quest coming soon to theatres. A Lem Sportsinterviews Joint. [Macromedia Flash; largely injoke]

Is That A Dragon or a Duck?

absalom — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:42:39 -0800

Adventure - based on the classic text game of the same name - was the first game ever to contain an easter egg. It seems laughably primitive these days, but when it first hit shelves, Adventure was a programming masterpiece. The text version of Adventure (by Willie Crowther and Don Woods) required hundreds of KB and a mainframe computer to operate, so much that Atari brass told Warren Robinett not to even bother with a 2600 version. He did anyway, and the results are near legendary. The 2600 version of Adventure went on to sell over a million copies at $25 a pop. For his effort Robinett recieved absolutely nothing beyond his $22,000/year salary. Play the 2600 Adventure. (Flash) If you're one of those who requires some eye candy, why not download the Quake 3 Adventure Map, instead?

Friday Flash Fun.

Officeslacker — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:25:22 -0800

Not many sites have a high "gee-whiz-neato!" factor anymore. But this one sure does. Can anyone read Hangul to let us know what the site is all about? Or is it better to just let your imagination run with it?

Video Game Music

riffola — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:25:29 -0800

Video game music is designed to heighten tension, and get you involved in the game, but it's come a long way from the days of Pong, now we have a single video game generating a 4 CD boxset & a greatest hits CD. Game Music Home, one of the first sites dedicated to gaming music is still preserved online. Now there's even a game music database and sites like GameMusic.com, VGMusic.com, etc specialize in selling video game soundtracks. Here's a brief timeline of video game music. Of course with original songs like "Taxi Drivers Must Die" (lyric), how long before we see a video game song on the Billboard charts?

Segata Sanshiro!

qDot — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:56:08 -0800

Segata Sanshiro! Why show people the graphics and gameplay of your video game, when you can simply beat them into playing it?