Alex Griendling designed and illustrated this map of Super Mario World’s Dinosaur Land In collaboration with Neutral Ground which were then laser engraved onto 14″ x 18″ pieces of hand-selected wood.
The digital illustrator Filip Hodas has imagined a world where the elements of current pop culture are wreckages in a broken landscape: inhuman, full of pathos and nostalgia.
Defenders of Ataros
The imaginative work of Dan Hernandez (in his exhibition at New York's Kim Foster Gallery) takes the structure and narrative of Sega-era video games and redoes them visually and symbolically with religious imagery.
Titled Genesis 2014 (for the Sega Genesis console) includes side scrolling fighting games to top-down shooters. I want to see a kickstarter project to turn these into actual videos games soon.
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Yesterday, the Internet Archive released 900 classic arcade games for you to play for free in your web browser.
Street Fighter elsewhere: 'Like' on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/streetfighter Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/streetfighter Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/streetfighter Google+ http://bit.ly/SF-Gplus ©CAPCOM CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Capcom has put together and extensive documentary about the Street Fighter games, players, history and culture.
See also Animated GIFs of Fighting Game Backgrounds
Thanks for watching my animation! I did it in order to teach myself Cinema 4D and Vray in my spare time, the renders aren't perfect but the best I could get out of my machine. While I setup up most of the geometry using tracers, Xpresso and Thinking Particles, I had some help along the way from the following great resources... I edited the motion captures from this archive >>> https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture and used Microsoft Kinect for some parts aswell I tweaked the character models from >>> http://thefree3dmodels.com/ Sound effects we're mostly sourced from >>> www.freesound.org And the music is obviously from Capcom's Street Fighter 2, play it here >>> https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/street-fighter-ii-collection/id459660048?mt=8 If you like this, then checkout the original & far superior Quayola and Memo 'Forms' >>> https://vimeo.com/37967381 Peace! Gif> http://tinyurl.com/afmwoss
From the video page:
"I did it in order to teach myself Cinema 4D and Vray in my spare time, the renders aren't perfect but the best I could get out of my machine. While I setup up most of the geometry using tracers, Xpresso and Thinking Particles, I had some help along the way from the following great resources..."
Walking around in the dark, not sure which way is which, and only your less spatially developed sense (hearing) left to guide you. This game is so simple in its visual presentation, eschewing fancy graphics for sensorial clarity. You Must Escape, second place winner in this year’s Ludlum Dare, has me hooked.
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Gotta love the whimsy of the Google Easter eggs. Here's a new one. Search for Atari Breakout and suddenly you're playing the old favorite.
The folks at Out of Print (one of my favorite purveyors of lit geek tees) offer this Super Nintendo-style Gatsby the Game. Score 25,000 points and they will donate a book.
Redditor RudeBootie has an album of 125 fighting game backgrounds as GIFs.
how many can you name in the comments?
This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes.
From the project video:
"This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls."
The very cool idea of using physical things as the interface for interactive systems is starting to fulfill its promise. The second generation of the Sifteo Interactive Cubes is more than just a novelty. Now they are a gaming platform.
Sifteo Cubes are classic play, made interactive. The award-winning, tactile entertainment system is unlike any game platform you've ever tried, yet you'll be hooked in seconds. Perfect for families and individual players alike! Ready for play right out of the box, Sifteo Cubes get your hands and mind moving with an ever-expanding library of exclusive titles from top game developers.
This is like a wonderful, marvelous dream! In Japan, of course, at Kumi Yama.
Le Kumi Yama crée en l'honneur du Japon, n’a pas d’équivalent et c’est sans doute pour cela que l’événement gagne en notoriété chaque année. Une renommée qui fait écho au niveau international. Des médaillés des X Games, des champions du monde, la jeune garde du freestyle, les icônes de la discipline, les “stars”, les “retraités”, les amateurs...tous s’y retrouvent pour le contest unique par équipe de 3. Un événement qui réuni depuis 5 ans, différentes générations du freeski et du snowboard...dans une atmosphère atypique sur le snowpark du glacier des 2 Alpes. Pour ses 5 ans, le Kumi Yama annonçait une grande fête du freestyle aux 2 Alpes...et l'on peut dire que l'anniversaire s'est très bien passé. Du beau monde de la scène freeski & snowboard était présent pour cette BOUM pas comme les autres...réunissant 19 nations. Pour l’occasion, le Snowpark s’est paré d’un décor inspiré de l'univers de Mario/Nintendo...et le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est que ça a inspiré les photographes et notre filmeur qui vous propose un VERY VERY BEST OF de la version Party 5 du KUMI YAMA. Le reste, on vous laisse le lire, le voir... sur http://www.kumi-yama.com & http://www.facebook.com/KumiYamaGames Musiques : Gab Puy : http://badkiss.bandcamp.com/album/shuffle Mario Galaxy Intro By Dibia$E http://www.mixcloud.com/artist/dibiae Sub Castle By Daniel Damage
