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Games as art? Not my kind of discussion, really. Games can be what they want to be, and what you want them to be. Whatever. But art as games? Now this is something I can get behind.
You may debate whether some video games train people to commit real acts of aggression. A Canadian newspaperman provides evidence that Duck Hunt is capable of no such feat.
There’s no Contra in Duck Hunt, but let’s imagine there was. Let’s fantasy. Let’s.
Remember Duck Hunt for the iPhone? Yeah, it was booted from the App Store, and not because of its piece of shit controls and absence of the Asshole Dog, either.
A Duck Hunt knockoff for the iPhone and iPod touch is available for 99 cents, but it lacks two key things: Nintendo’s approval, and the Asshole Dog.
This is creepy in its poignancy, if only because I had no idea how many wacky sporting events Red Bull were putting their name to. Reader md galaxy was at the Red Bull Flugtag in Chicago on the weekend, Flugtag being the word the kids (and the Germans) use these days to describe a Birdman Rally. And while the entrants he spied were the usual mix of serious engineering students and drunken buffoons, one team stood out amongst the rest. The Nintendudes. And their tandem Duck Hunt entry, which involved not just the it-might-fly duck, but the no-way-in-hell-this-is-flying dog and the utterly un-aerodynamic duo of a Nintendo Entertainment System and NES Zapper. Nintendudes plan flight of fancy [Midstate News]
CrunchGear points to this pretty amazing Duck Hunt NES zapper lamp that features not only a Duck Hunt lampshade and orange plastic zapper, but also a replica Duck Hunt cart made of cardboard.
Lamp creator fluffypants says that the typical cartridge wasn’t large enough to be stable, so she created a 1.5 scale replica to serve as the base. Pretty neat, though I wish she had slapped on a mocking dog on the other side of the shade.
Duck Hunt NES zapper lamp [Craftster, via CrunchGear]
MTV Multiplayer tapped a number of industry folks to judge their latest stop on the road to their naming the Greatest Animal in the History of Video Games.
In January they named the greatest horse of videogamedom, Epona, from the Legend of Zelda series. This month they selected the best dog, PaRappa the Rapper, of course.
The judges this time around were Leigh Alexander, of Gamasutra and Sexy Videogameland, Tofuburger of I Can Has Cheezburger, Evan Wells of Naughty Dog, and myself…. of here.
Hit up the site to read everyone’s reasoning and their number two and three spots. I picked the dog in Duck Hunt and the zombie dogs of Resident Evil as my runners-up.
And The Award For Greatest Video Game Canine Goes To… [MTV Multiplayer]
