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She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history’s greatest leader was. But you could also imagine an old-school video game where Teddy Roosevelt and Josef Stalin — looking a lot like Nintendo’s Mario — face off riding weaponised extinct giant lizards. Artist Jude Buffum has done the latter and we are all richer for it.
We live in an age of gaming gorgeousness. Gamers’ lives nowadays are filled with fancy normal mapping and illumination engines, powered by slickly encased hardware that outputs onto super-sharp screens. In short, there’s a lot of thought given to aesthetics in the present day. But, it hasn’t always been this way and an upcoming art show will showcase the uglier — yet vitally important — gaming hardware of yesteryear.
I’ve seen many a lovely retro gaming room in my lifetime, but this one from Netherlands resident donkey*kong makes me want to lay my head down on his Famicom pillow and quietly pass away.
There’s a really nice (lengthy) article over at Adventure Classic Gaming that takes a look at puzzles in (as you can probably guess) adventure games, and how those forms have seeped into other genres.
Along with ‘legitimate’ means of preservation, there’s the whole specter of abandonware, which Les Chapelle takes a look at over at the Escapist.
True, this mod could have been done with pretty much any small plastic box, but choosing a Nintendo Entertainment System to house a retro gaming PC is the kind of crowd pleasing coup-de-modding that is difficult to surpass, save by hollowing out a Vectrex or performing electronic taxidermy on an actual anthropomorphic hedgehog.
The beast contains a Windows XP PC loaded with the GameEx emulator front-end and a metric shedload of NES, SNES and N64 games – all of which, I am certain, are fully licenced and were purchased alongside their original packaging.
NES Console Modded as Retro Gaming PC, With Video [Slashgamer]
Our disturbed friends at Retro Sabotage are all suspender-popping about their 20th sabotage since the site launched shortly before New Year’s Eve. Remember, these are flash games that play normally (or close to it) before something goes horribly, comically wrong and beyond your control.
The latest is the “Missile Command Docudrama” although its message is, surprisingly, kind of serious. Tof from Retro Sabotage explained to me in an e-mail: “We wanted an “anti-sabotage” to celebrate the 20th release, and it’s kind of a mirror to Mockumentary (though we got mails of people who somehow believed in that one)”.
In the past I know we’ve linked to some of their other clever redos of classic arcade games. The Xevious Autopsy in particular is worth a look, and I think it’s new since RetroSabotage last got a mention here.
Missile Command Docudrama [Retro Sabotage]
