games

Saturday 2 May


Monday 9 March

  • The History of Street Fighter (14:20) - It is a matter of skill. Two warriors meet to test themselves against wildly different styles of combat. They are Russian wrestlers and tonfa-swinging Englishmen, American boxers, Indian mystics, New York brawlers, crazed jungle monsters and quiet masters of the... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 18 November


Thursday 13 November


Saturday 13 September


Wednesday 9 April


Wednesday 23 January

  • Super Mario 2 ... with Drums! (14:08) - I hate to post another youtube video.. disjointed is turning into a youtube repository, but anyway this one is too good to pass up. Italian drummer Andrea Vadrucci has a number of videos online of him adding percussion to various... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 2 January

  • Human Tetris (23:31) - I got my first Gameboy for Christmas in 1989. By this day in 1990, I had very sore thumbs.... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 18 December


Thursday 6 December

  • Street Fighter IV (11:55) - Exciting news for Street Fighter junkies! News is slowly trickling out about the upcoming addition to the franchise, Street Fighter IV. It has been 10 years since SF III and while there is no release date for SF IV, hopefully... | 6 Comments

Tuesday 13 November

  • iPhone Gameboy Emulator Released (22:20) - Awesome news for iPhone and iPod touch owners, a new emulator is climbing the ranks. I'm hoping that once the iPhone SDK is released in February, someone will be able to get the Wii classic controller to work with the... | 2 Comments

Sunday 7 October


Wednesday 3 October


Monday 1 October


Tuesday 22 May

  • Pikachu IRL (20:32) - Just like in super smash bros. ... | 0 Comments

Saturday 19 May

  • The Guitar Zeros (15:13) - The Guitar Zeros are a 4 piece band with a drummer, a bass controller player and a guitar controller player? What is a bass controller and a guitar controller? A modded Guitar Hero 2 controller hooked up to a PC... | 0 Comments

Thursday 10 May

  • real world mario (21:41) - Mario: "Where are my mushrooms??" Princess: "I think you're super just the way you are." Mario: "Where are my f**king mushrooms???" Princess: "I threw them out..." ... | 2 Comments

Thursday 26 April

  • 8 Year Old Guitar Hero Expert (21:23) - Ok, last Guitar Hero post I promise. Anyway, this kid is 8 years old and while he isn't as good as iamchris4life, this kid can get 5 stars on expert on all the hardest songs and the guitar is about... | 0 Comments

Monday 23 April

  • Debris by Farbrausch - Breakpoint 2007 PC Demo Winner (09:47) - The demo scene is alive and well. Debris by Farbrausch [download for PC] was the winner for best PC demo at this year's Breakpoint demo party. At only 177K in size, it is 7 minutes of amazing 3D. If you... | 2 Comments

Monday 16 April

  • #1 Guitar Hero 2 Player on XBox Live (11:45) - I googled the #1 ranked player in Guitar Hero 2 on Xbox Live (iamchris4life) and found some videos of this kid playing the game that are just insane. He pretty much scores 100% on everything on Expert mode. Here he... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 March


Tuesday 6 March

  • Nintendo... (19:10) - It's a cereal... WOW! ... | 0 Comments

Thursday 15 February

  • halo sleeping video (22:06) - This is an old one, but the fellas at the bar tonight had never heard of it, so here it is. ... | 1 Comments

Friday 17 November

  • playstation 3 launch day (10:02) - Who says it is going to be hard to get a PS3? Anyone with $3000-$5000 can get one from ebay no problem! Be careful waiting in line though. You may get mugged and shot.... | 0 Comments

Friday 13 October

  • Tiger Handheld Games Gallery (14:39) - When I was a kid I would convince my mom to buy me one of these every 6 months or so. I would only ask once every 6 months because that was the time it took for me to forget... | 0 Comments

Monday 9 October

  • Videos of Street Fighter Combos (11:10) - I thought I was pretty good at Street Fighter, but I never could pull off combos like these. Check out more combo videos here. ... | 0 Comments

Saturday 23 September

  • mario cake (15:54) - warning, sound.... | 0 Comments

Friday 16 June

  • Ditch Lumbergh, The Game (15:01) - It's Friday, collect all the TPS reports and red staplers and get out of the office before Lumbergh finds you!... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 9 May


Wednesday 12 April

  • Nano-arcade (11:03) - Scott Lawrence created a miniature arcade cabinet using an ipod nano to run mame, take a look at how he made it here. Pretty cool, though it's gotta hurt your eyes after a while.... | 6 Comments

Thursday 23 March


Saturday 18 March

  • The Worst Decisions in Video Game History (00:31) - A look back at some of the video game industry blunders from the past 10+ years. Among the most notable in my mind; Nintendo dropping Sony as a partner for the SNES CDROM. Other favorites include Nintendo's bloodless Mortal Combat... | 0 Comments

Thursday 9 February

  • Powerglove Mouse (13:37) - The time has come to bring new life into our old friend and to welcome him back as a productive member of society with the ‘Powerglove Mouse’. With this hack I can strap on the Powerglove and have total control... | 2 Comments

Friday 3 February


Tuesday 29 November

  • Mega-Man. Rock Opera. (10:38) - Track 8: Due Vendetta A dim light flickers in the rubble, and gears start to turn again. Mega Man is not dead. Wily’s forces are defeated, but not for long. It’s only a matter of time before Dr. Wily creates... | 1 Comments

Monday 7 November

  • Google Maps RISK (22:38) - The classic game of world domination, implemented on top of Google Maps using the Google Maps API. Awesome. Takes me back to Saturday mornings in high school...... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 25 October

  • 20 Worst NES Games of all time (09:55) - It looks like a knight and a ninja, but it could just be a retarded kid with a teapot on his head fighting a girl wearing pajamas and a paper plate on her face. You can't really tell in... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 20 September


Thursday 18 August

  • Arrested for Virtual Mugging (13:25) - A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software "bots" to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for... | 0 Comments

Saturday 13 August

  • Video Game History Totem Pole Tattoo (09:21) - as the native people in the pacific northwest (and other places) used totem poles to tell stories and keep family chronologies, my design was intended to tell a history of some of the important games that influenced me and... | 4 Comments

Tuesday 10 May

  • I am 8-bit (13:10) - Photos from a gallery opening in LA devoted to 8-bit gaming. ... | 2 Comments

Wednesday 13 April

  • The Enlightenment (12:55) - So, there are some mysteries in life that we may never know the answers to. Is time continuous or discrete? Is the universe infinite? Are those two the same question? People spend their lives searching for answers to the questions... | 5 Comments

Thursday 7 April

  • Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology (10:08) - Reuters is reporting that Sony has been granted 2 patents, both describing 'Method and system for generating sensory data onto the human neural cortex'. These are patents 6,729,337 and 6,536,440. The patents go on to 'describe a technique for... | 3 Comments

Tuesday 29 March

  • Not Pron (12:15) - Not pron mixes up old school geekiness like anagrams and Morse code with new school geekiness like ascii and hidden files. I just started playing last night, but I'm already a big fan. ... | 3 Comments

Monday 21 February

  • Katamari Damacy reenactment in Play-Doh (12:47) - Cory Doctorow: This enterprising Katamari Damacy fan made his own Little Prince and Damacy out of Play-Doh and then rolled up lots of wee household objects with it in a splendid reenactment of a deeply weird video game. Link...

Tuesday 15 February

  • Tetris! (21:26) - What does this have to do with the video game? It is all resolved in the end....

Saturday 12 February


Thursday 10 February

  • Seamful Game (11:34) - Seamful Game, by Matthew Chalmers from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), is a GPS and WiFi based game played in the streets using PDAs. To be successfull, two teams of runners must develop an understanding of the network coverage...

Thursday 3 February

  • Street Fighter Online (13:27) - Do you like Street Fighter? Would you like to play it against others? Online? For Free? That's right. Online Multiplayer Flash Street Fighter! Looked pretty sweet up until it crashed Firefox on OSX for me. ...

Wednesday 2 February


Monday 31 January


Monday 24 January

  • Super Pocket Famicom (Nintendo) 8bit Handheld System (10:26) - Gametech Japan has released a handheld system that uses Famicom cartridges (the original 8-bit Nintendo) that plug in directly, without need for a convertor. (An inexpensive pin converter allows you to play your American NES cartridges on this system...

Friday 21 January

  • Every Video Game (17:32) - At everyvideogame.com you can play nearly every game from Nintendo , Gameboy, Sega Master System, and a few Arcade Games. While emulation is nothing new, on this site all you have to do is click on the title of the...

Tuesday 18 January


Saturday 15 January

  • Katamary Fun (22:27) - The official Japanese site for Katamari Damacy has lots of downloadable fun things for fans of the game, including a cut-out version of the King of the Cosmos' nose that you can wear around the house! ...

Thursday 13 January

  • Privacy in Halo 2 (14:19) - Our friend George Hotelling has an interesting writeup about Halo2. To summarize, don't call off work and play Halo2 all day if the bossman knows your Xbox live screenname... --Ryan Here's a question and answer from Bungie's latest weekly...

Wednesday 12 January

  • Sheet-music for Super Mario (23:44) - This guy, who calls himself "The Blindfolded Pianist," has gone through all of Super Mario Bros and figured out the sheet music for it. Link (via Kottke) ...

Monday 3 January

  • Barcade (14:56) - I have been looking for something like Barcade for a while now. Located in Brooklyn, it's a combo bar/arcade featuring 20 revolving beer taps and more than 20 vintage video games (Donkey Kong, Beserk, Galaga, Defender, Tempest, Asteroids and many...

Monday 20 December

  • Nintendo DS bleeds UHF (14:55) - For some strange reason the Nintendo DS seems to interfere with some older television sets, broadcasting a faint image of the screen to the television. Engadget reported on this a couple weeks ago. I found some better photos here....

Tuesday 14 December

  • EA is the Devil (00:49) - First they overworked their employees. Now they have put a 5 year stranglehold on the football videogame market by striking up a 5 year exclusive contract with the NFL. Sega/ESPN and 989 will not be able to use NFL team...

Thursday 18 November

  • Metal Gear Acid Trailer (14:04) - The more I see of PSP games, the more I am amazed this thing fits in your hands....

Monday 11 October

  • More game themed crap (18:45) - -Want something like Jackass centered on classic video games? Then Mega64 is for you. I particularly like Shenmue and MGS. -Do you like to mix your love of dance with your love of mutilating your opponent in a fighting game?...

Wednesday 6 October

  • PSP Video and PSP Troubles (14:03) - This 2 1/2 minute video of the Playstation Portable looks very impressive. The graphics are amazing for such a small unit. Unfortunately, due to battery problems, we may not see the PSP until Fall of 2005!...

Friday 17 September

  • Are Educational Games Possible? (00:42) - Games have yet to revolutionize the education system or even make much impact. Some would say there just isn't a way to make learning fun. But there are some areas where software can be truly one of the best ways...

Friday 10 September

  • Playboy to feature the Girls of Video Games (01:01) - I would have bought this, but they left Chun-Li out. Playboy is taking a chance on silicon instead of silicone. The October issue of the men's magazine features several video game characters posing in the nude — images created by...

Friday 20 August

  • The Political Machine (00:26) - So, you just can't wait to vote. You picked your horse and your gonna ride him till the finish line. Until November you can hold yourself over with Political Machine a new game from publisher Ubisoft and developer Stardock. Pick...

Tuesday 17 August

  • Urine Control (11:37) - Finally, a video game system where your penis is the controller. Only the geniuses at MIT could come up with this one. The You’re In Control system uses computation to enhance the act of urination. Sensors in the back of...

Sunday 8 August

  • Mario and Dracula with a splash of Chocobo (22:46) - -Some time ago I posted a couple flash movies (original post) called Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom pts. 1 & 2. Finally Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom 3: The Thwart of Wart has arrived. (via Newgrounds. [Tomo turned me on...

Friday 16 July

  • Finding Bobby Fischer (12:01) - Infamous chess recluse Bobby Fischer has been detained in Japan after trying to use an invalid US Passport. Fischer has been wanted since 1992 for playing chess in Yugoslavia during a period of UN Sanctions against the country....

Monday 21 June

  • Mogi (17:17) - Mogi is a game where players move outside, pick-up virtual items through their mobile phone interface then trade with other players to complete collections. It is based on a player's location. From the Web interface, players see in real time,...

Wednesday 9 June

  • More hot Tetris action (00:59) - "From the dudes who brought you ghetto ninja turtle costumes, come ghetto tetris costumes"!!! ...
  • Church of Tetris (00:50) - Oh, Tetris, thy Glory great, Give us today our daily blocks, So that we may clear them. And give us strength, Through our gaps and mistakes, To obtain a tetris. Start. "The Church of Tetris is founded on the belief...

Monday 10 May

  • Mega Man's Maker (04:37) - According to Wired Magazine, tomorrow is ol' Rocky's 15th birthday. Well, actually, he celebrated that in December of 2002. In any case, the creator of the original Mega Man gets interviewed in Play Magazine and you can read his special...

Sunday 9 May

  • NES Controller Belt Buckle (17:02) - It's a belt buckle made out of a NES controller! I guess it's cooler than my 4-button NES/DNA controller jacket. ...

Friday 7 May

  • GBA Messenger (09:55) - "Today, Majesco revealed a new device the company will be producing for the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP: the GBA Messenger. According to the company, GBA Messenger lets users chat or send text messages to each other...

Thursday 6 May

  • PacManhattan (06:38) - The name says it all. Live action Pacman played on the streets of New York. As seen on boingboing, /., et al. ...

Sunday 11 April


Friday 9 April

  • Puzzle Pirates (13:38) - For those of you who like puzzle games, you should check out puzzle pirates....

Thursday 8 April

  • Metroid What? (22:37) - John Woo to produce Metroid movie! Will it be yet another lame video game movie, will John Woo be replacing doves with little metroids.. ...

Monday 5 April


Friday 2 April

  • Jesus (17:25) - This was a game for the original Nintendo. I don't think it ever made it this side of the Pacific. I wonder why. The full title is "Jesus: Dreadful Bio-Monsters". Naturally. From the Top 25 things you may not...

Tuesday 30 March

  • Video Gaming For Your Health (00:19) - Lose 95 pounds or more and make new friends by playing video games! Read Tanya's story. Why didn't the Nintendo Power Pad turn us all into fitness freaks? I guess virtual running isn't as fun as dance dance revolving....

Thursday 25 March


Wednesday 24 March

  • Times Square Billboard Video Game (22:28) - Look! You can now play a racing video game on one of the giant screens at Times Square! It is controlled by your cell phone! It's a slight improvement in resolution from Blinkenlights! It's actually an advertisement for Yahoo! Autos....

Friday 19 March

  • Accidental Video Game Porn Archive (01:09) - Suggestive screenshots from all your favorite games of yesteryear (and today) can be found at the accidental video game porn archive. Among my favorites: Kirby, Kung Fu, Zelda, and yes, even more Pikachu....

Monday 15 March

  • New York Romscapes (02:53) - New York Romscapes is a series of Super Mario-ized photos of New York by the chiptuner Nullsleep of 8bitpeoples (co-founded with Metro Detroiter Mike Hanlon aka Tangible). If you're feeling the 8-bit love, peep this first episode of pixelly animation...

Friday 27 February

  • Mario Bruthas (03:36) - Technically mediocre, not very funny three part Super Mario flash series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3. Compare to this. [via boingboing. I have to say that Cory Doctorow is a bloody wanker.]...

Thursday 26 February

  • SimWar (03:05) - Another non-gaming use for sim game technology: the Department of Defense is having the developers of the online sim There develop an Earth simulator that is to scale. It will be used to simulate warfare as well as to practice...

Wednesday 25 February

  • Pimpin' Ain't Easy (03:01) - Here's a sim that's NSFW: Play The Pimp And Get Rich. Similar to the traditional dating sim in that the player has to forge relationships with girls and make them happy. After you've satisfied them with "a good humpin'" you...

Tuesday 24 February

  • SimCity (13:12) - The UK has a new weapon to fight flooding, a 3D SimCity-like video game called FloodRanger which allows players to budget and plan for jobs, housing, infrastructure, and, of course, flooding. The player can build dams or reservoirs but must...

Monday 16 February

  • Alphaville (02:19) - An essay by Peter Ludlow, a UMich philosophy/linguistics professor, about the thugs in The Sims Online called "griefers" who have organized into actual mafias and the concerted reactions of groups of Sims citizens forming shadow governments to fight back in...

Wednesday 11 February

  • Virtual Democracy (01:30) - An interesting Wired News article on how government agencies are taking lessons from online game world developers on democratic participation. Will useful social experiments, whose results are applicable to the real world, one day be conducted in these virtual worlds,...

Monday 9 February

  • Tetris: From Russia With Love (22:35) - Everything about its development links so closely into that era's political and economic context. Tonight on the Beeb there was/will be a documentary on the creation of Tetris. I wish I could watch it....

Sunday 8 February

  • Cammy Cosplay (12:28) - Cosplayers as Cammy from Street Fighter! (beware of random nsfw images on top and bottom of page)...

Tuesday 3 February

  • Game Fashions (23:02) - 1up.com's "Game Fashions" features video game-related clothes and where to find them. The above can be found at Hot Topic....
  • War Pipe: Broadband for Gamecube (07:30) - The folks over at warpipe.com have created software for Windows, OSX and Linux to link up Gamecubes to your home network + Internet for multiplayer action online. Currently they support Mario Kart: Double Dash, 1080: Avalanche and Kirby Air Ride....
  • Update (02:24) - Some of the later SB ads were better. If there was any doubt before, IBM is seriously trying to mainstream Linux. Even Kurt Vonnegut is getting in the mix. Also, regarding the new Pepsi free music download campaign: Pepsi drinkers...

Thursday 29 January

  • Nintendo Remixes (22:39) - Nintendo Cartoon Hour and Nintendo Bloopers [via albinoblacksheep]...

Wednesday 28 January

  • Legend of the Red Dragon (13:51) - Legend of the Green Dragon is a web based version of my all time favorite door game, LoRD. 10 years ago there wasn't a day that I didn't play this at Metrodata. You can find a bunch of installations out...

Wednesday 21 January

  • Nintendo DS (dual-screen) (07:25) - According to this press release, Nintendo will be releasing a new portable gaming system with two 3" lcd screens and two processors. ... players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing...

Tuesday 6 January

  • Powa Glove (01:37) - "I love the power glove... It's so BAAAAAD."...

Tuesday 16 December

  • jingleballs (22:45) - Jingleballs is a flash game where you run around throwing snowballs at holiday shoppers and steal their gifts. Half the reason I posted the game is because I was just impressed with the game in general. Flash games have certainly...

Thursday 11 December

  • Violence In Gaming (02:33) - A dispute between two Counterstrike teams after a match in LA ended with a gun pulled to one kid's head [press release]. As Chris, and others attempted to calm the situation a member/associate of Team BZ ran to his car...

Saturday 6 December

  • I (20:51) - At Shoryuken you can order DVDs filled with hours upon hours of Street Fighter tournament coverage, read up on how to enhance your skills, or finally learn why the Japanese are better Street Fighter players....

Wednesday 3 December

  • SMB1 Shenanigans (00:04) - Super Mario Bros. 1 hacker video Old and of somewhat shit quality but somewhat relevant with all the SMB3 Time Attack hype. It's not as exciting but contains all sorts of hacker sorcery but watch out, it's a huge 100...

Tuesday 25 November

  • Super Mario Bros 3 Pwnage (22:02) - Super Mario 3 Time Attack Video of Super Mario Bros. 3 getting pwned. The player, who calls himself "Morimoto", makes it to World 8 in just over 2 minutes in probably the quickest way possible, then goes on to levitate...

Wednesday 22 October

  • Parents Sue Makers of GTA (10:14) - KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A $246 million lawsuit was filed against the designer, marketer and a retailer of the video game series "Grand Theft Auto" by the families of two people shot by teenagers apparently inspired by the game. Read the...

Monday 20 October

  • Avatar High (11:10) - Avatar High is an online flash game where you run a virtual high school. Its kind of like the Sims. You create 8 students for the school and control their actions, watch their emotional levels. Deal with them getting dumped,...

Thursday 9 October

  • ghettopoly. (09:01) - ghettopoly. my best friend and i want this. someone buy it for us....

Monday 6 October

  • Games to waste your time (18:06) - Worlds Smallest Arcade Games: Wowee wow wow! That sure is small! Play Pacman, Pong, Asteroids, Breakout, Tic-Tac-Toe FlySui: "Man who catches flies with chopsticks can accomplish anything." Catch as many flies with your chopsticks by using your mouse....

Tuesday 30 September

  • Megaman vs Metroid: The Game (10:45) - Play the most awesomest game today (via 0xDECAFBAD). It's a cultural experience more than anything. I am seriously thinking about rewriting my megaman engine in Flash, having never seen a sidescroller done so well in it. Or am I just...

Friday 15 August

  • games (15:40) - Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? Chokin Chikin...