When you first spin up BioShock Infinite later this year don’t expect to see the recently-announced retro-difficult 1999 mode on the main menu. That’s because it’s so tough Ken Levine doesn’t want “the non old-school, hardcore gamer” stumbling into it.
Check out this psychedelic trip of a game, courtesy the bygone days of laserdisc. In the laserdisc/CG arcade game Star Rider, racers are superimposed over a futuristic dreamscape, enabling the background to display much more advanced graphics than were typical at the time.
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But they aren’t nearly as impressive as the rendition famed DJ DeadMau5 performs using the sort of equipment you’d see in a 1950s science-fiction film. This is definitely no waste of time.
Not all rap stars can be video game experts as well. In a recent interview, controversial white rapper Eminem explains that today’s games are just too complicated for his old-school tastes.
Is your home decor missing something? That Space Invaders feel, perhaps? Mine’s not (woodblock prints of Lu Xun lord over my desk, thankyouverymuch), but if I had a spare wall and a spare $US 45 and didn’t already have tons of stuff on my walls that would clash horribly on a number of levels, well – it’s a pretty clever (and removable!) use of empty wall space. blik Invader [via bits bytes pixels & sprites]