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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Kotaku’s 2010 Summer of Gaming might be over, but there’s still plenty of sunshine left this season. Why not spend the time looking over the summer-related things we wrote about last week?
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Even if you owned a Nintendo 64 and loved playing Banjo Kazooie as I did, you may not think of Rare’s bear-and-bird action game as a summer game. One wonderful part of it was.
I used to work for a guy who just didn’t understand why there weren’t any great surfing video games. I couldn’t explain it. Does the world need one?
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The summer of gaming continues, and we’re spending part of the week watching clips of the most summer-styled games. Today we’ve got surf and turf the hard way, courtesy of horrible NES class T&C Surf Designs Wood & Water Rage.
Three years ago someone built a solar-powered video game console. It was a novelty. You couldn’t really say it was ahead of its time, because that assumes such a time will come.
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As we get in a summer gaming mood here, we’re spending part of the week watching clips of the most summer-styled games. How about an ’80s movie? Here’s Epyx’s 1984 hit, Summer Games for the Commodore 64.
Nothing’s better than an ice-cold disembodied hedgehog head on those simmering summer afternoons. Could this possible be the only video-game themed ice cream around? Photo by Juston Western. [Flickr]
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As we get in a summer gaming mood here, let’s spend part of the week watching clips of the most summer-styled games. Does it get any more summery than ridiculously attractive people playing volleyball on the beach?
