April 2011
2 posts
Shit just got intimately intense
December 2009
1 post
August 2008
2 posts
Taking it to the Streets: a "Vigilante" Review
Vigilante was reviewed via SDL MAME in a Linux Yellow Dog environment installed on a PS3.
Vigilante was the lesser known sequel to Kung-Fu Master made by Irem in 1988 and later published by Data East in the U.S. Based on a similar premise to it’s predecessor the storyline follows a wannabe Jackie Chan who’s paraplegic girlfriend (named Madonna… seriously) is kidnapped by a...
June 2008
1 post
Hyborian League Football: a "Pigskin 621 A.D."...
Pigskin 621 A.D. was reviewed via SDL MAME in a Linux Yellow Dog environment installed on a PS3.
Apparently, in the Dark Ages, acts of regional conquest were occasionally determined by proxy games of football. That, or everybody has taken a break between all of the raping, pillaging, and raping to throw a Rugby game together. Pick one, as either is an apt introduction to Midway’s...
April 2008
14 posts
Kevlar isn't knife proof
SNK’s The Super Spy (1990) Being a foot soldier sucks. Imagine putting that much effort into your job. You went out of your way get custom fitted so your green ninja outfit would fit snug like a condom. You get your own kevlar vest. You even went out of your way to find matching knuckle studded fingerless gloves so your outfit would look “together”. And for what? So you can...
Bored At Work: Sissy Fight
what seems like a simple peer to peer online stratgey game of schoolyard tattling quickly manifests into a complex meditation in game theory; in Sissy Fight. i always come back to this game cause it’s so addictive
Diabeetus A-Go-Go
Konami’s Rollergames (1991) …and the bearded man with breasts, the dwarf, the skateboarding chearleader, and the sheriff all root him on.
WatchDan Deacon, Okie Dokie I love Dan Deacon i love his referential 80’s children pop pastiche i love his nonsensical phonetically contructed lyrics i don’t like the green skull though, it just looks cheap
BonerWorld
I just saw Westworld today, for the first time. Definitely a film whose topicality was well ahead of it’s time. Though I can’t help but to think that their notion of the customer’s experience is a bit idealistic if not naive. Here you have a place filled with robotic life-like people designed and programmed to fit your choosen theme (a western). In this world you can kill,...
Another bad date
Midway’s Arch Rivals (1989) I also have a weird fixation with the imaginary back stories behind the background art in videogames. In this picture from Arch Rivals, she looks overdressed and pissed off… clearly the date isn’t going well. Her boyrfriend glances over to see if she is still pissed off that they didn’t go to Delmonico’s Lobster House… she is.
Stay Down
Konami’s Hard Puncher (1988)
Idiocracy Online: Sorry I Raped Your Grandma
Every guy suffers from a juvenile fixation on sexuality. Some say it’s part of the design, others say that our society makes us perverts. In either case, there’s no denying the psychological gravity of sexual thoughts and how they effect our interest or how we spend our time. However, with that said, there is a time and place for that shit. In EA’s Skate, the user is provided...
Pitchfork Feature: Interview: The Gutter Twins →
Racist Ninja
“A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some...”
– J.G. Ballard