The Nintendo 3DS is not released in the United States until Saturday. So lining up on the street outside a Manhattan Best Buy seems… smart? No, that’s not the word we’re looking for…
New York Republican Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino invokes a certain video game plumber in the latest flyer attack on his opponent, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, eldest son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo. See what he did there?
The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today’s issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub’s Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles.
That student who was scheming to turn the student centre at Columbia University into the girder level of Donkey Kong ended up like the dog who caught the car. The scheme’s been called off and all donations have been refunded.
Lerner Hall is Columbia University’s student centre, opening in 1999. Its ramped interior, visible through the glass facade, also resembles the girder level of Donkey Kong. You see where this is headed.
There is nothing more tragic in the word of arcades than a disused classic cabinet sitting in some forgotten place as a glorified table.
Fred Bobrow, owner of the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, New York, might not look like a criminal to you, but he has broken Beacon Law, and paid the price.