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[games] - Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders

youtube: Playing the Wii in a Movie Theater, Game Evolution, and a long Mario History Movie

Made by overlaying multiple saved-replays, the 1k project and 3k project (ignore the 1st half of this one).

2 different styles of "wire swinging" game: kumo-neko and Double Wires

mouse dexterity game: The Missile Game 3D by Damien

cute, violent, snake clone: Snake

Mario Tissue Box Cover (see also the guerrilla art meme that got 5 girls arrested)

dice/gaming pencil

[games] - Arcade racing brought to life

Gaming now and then, nostalgia trip for some.

Plasma Pong (via). download.

Voet Cranf :: Saltacol v1.0 web-game.

YouTube - SuperMario Sleeping, 1997. capital A art.

GameSpy: The 2006 Independent Games Festival Finalists with some very intriguing looking entries, like Rumble Box on page 2.

[games] - Vib-Ribbon "Vib-Ribbon is a rhythm video game in the style of PaRappa the Rapper and more recently Amplitude. The game was unique in its execution, the software loaded into RAM enabling the user to remove the game-disc and insert a music CD. The game then generated a unique level on the fly based upon the current track." The official site VibRibbon.com has movies and screenshots. See also this movie of the sequel: mojib-ribbon (.asf - streaming windows media video)

I sank 27 hours into Jade Empire whilst borrowing an xbox. A great mix of genres, and a well told tale.

Videogame teaches female sexual gratification
see also: Feel the Magic: XY/XX for nintendo DS, and it's sequel The Rub Rabbits!

an old video game by Penn and Teller called Smoke and Mirrors

i am genmon. great article on the addictive design of Animal Crossing: Wild World.

[games] - in my past - part 2
Then I was old enough to leave the house by myself, and found the arcade: Hard Drivin', Final Fight, Golden Axe, Street Fighter II, Paperboy, Operation Wolf, Out Run, Smash TV, Mercs, Rampage, Super Sprint...

After outgrowing the atari (ie getting jealous of my friend's computers) i discovered the continuing joys of hardware upgrades, with the pc. 386, 486, 586, 686: SimCity, Lemmings (play online!), Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max: Hit the Road, Monkey Island series, Freddy Pharkas, Prince of Persia (play online!), Myst (oh myst..), Syndicate (video and game!), Grim Fandango, Descent, Dungeon Keeper II, The Sims, Wolfenstein 3D & Doom & Quake and other first-person shooters (serious sam, tribes 2, no one lives forever, quake3, return to castle wolfenstein, ut2004, counter-strike, half-life), IL-2 Sturmovik, Darwinia, with a brief foray into MUDs.

with the occasional stab at a friend's console system: GoldenEye, Wipeout XL, Herzog Zwei, Klax, Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, Pilot Wings, Return Fire, Road Rash 2. (and watched a friend (hey Justin!) play most of The Secret of Mana, and The Ocarina of Time)

and finally i bought my own console, a Playstation2. most enjoyed so far: Katamari Damacy & We love Katamari, God of War, Ico, Rez, GTA: Vice City, Spiderman 2, SSX 3, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, the Burnout series, Mad Maestro, Resident Evil 4, Sky Odyssey.

[games] - in my past - part 1
The Escapist - The Left Behind "I know I'm not alone. I've seen entire tribes of refugees during my travels, people fixated on one dead game or another."

the first game i ever played, was Space Invaders on my mom's greenscreen amstrad.
possibly the second, on the computers at her office, was Leather Goddesses of Phobos (a text adventure, that came with a scratch-n-sniff card, and a "lewd" setting...)

at my grandad's house, when on holiday, i got to play a small handful of Apple II games: Choplifter, California Games, Black Magic, Frogger, and Rogue (play nethack!)

then for christmas one year, i got an Atari ST: cue hours of Dungeon Master (play the clone!), and more...
Altered Beast, Another World, Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Battle Chess, Buggy Boy, Elite, Flood, Gauntlet, Gods, Ikari Warriors, International Karate plus, Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's Super Off Road, Joust, Kick Off 2, Magic Pockets, Marble Madness, Mega-lo-Mania, Midwinter, North & South, Populous, Powermonger, Pirates!, Super Hang-on, Speedball 2, Stunt car racer, Super Sprint, Wicked, Wizball, Xenon 2 Megablast,
if you're feeling masochistic, download this emulator, Steem Engine, and games.

plus, scattered encounters with Game & Watches and Game Boys.

[games] - the sequel to (the best ps2 game ever) katamari damacy comes out tomorrow in N.America: We Love Katamari (official site). here's some fan art that the original inspired.
Katamari Fantasy Night cosplay.
Katamari hats
Katamari Doh-macy
Katamari Damacy iPod sock
Katamari Da Vinci
Katamari papercraft
more Katamari cosplay
rock rolling
lots of pictures at the katamari-club gallery(bottom of page), and at
Flickr:katamari including sculptures, cake, toys, and more cosplay
another cake
models
yarn blanket
some great katamari wallpapers
vinyl models
some discussion from kottke
Custom Magnetic Katamari
and finally some words from/about the creator of the game, Keita Takahashi, on the game's design, games for the elderly, his keynote at the GDCE, and some of his other art.

[toys] - The ultimate football table

a Giant football table by maurizio cattelan. "In 1991 he made Stadium, an enormously lengthened table-football game designed to be played by two teams of eleven players."

Human Foosball. life size, inflatable.

'soccer board game' by kosuge 1-16 and yokocom (via)

Table football - Wikipedia. overview of the sport, strategy and variations.
A brief history of football tables

funny trick shot video (wmv)

The Football Table Robot from Freiburg uni (videos, article). And the Foosbot from Rice uni (via).

[games] - a metric whackload of TV video game commercials, primarily japanese, but also retro/foreign/US.

[games] - Ten unmissable examples of New Games Journalism

[games] - plasma meets asteroids. best clone ever. mono. (download)

[games] - Someone keeps stealing my letters...

[games] - Schadenfreude Interactive

[games] - Katamari Damacy is out for PS2. go buy it NOW. pure joy.

[games] - Speed runs through some classic and modern memories. mario, doom, zelda, half-life, etc.

[games] - Fractal Tic-Tac-Toe

[games] - Lovechess. cough.

[games] - antiwargame (via)

[games] - Mogi: Second Generation Location-Based Gaming [see also, the short story Maneki Neko in A Good Old-Fashioned Future]

[games] - The Kingdom of Loathing. hilarious lo-fi adventuring. (i'm quiddity, the level 2 pastamancer (yeast scholar)). a limited number of Adventures per day (40 battles/explorations) means the addiction is self-limiting too!

[games] - am intrigued. katamari tamashi (movie) (via octopus dropkick! via glitchslaptko)

[games] - yeti baseball

[games] - CurveBall and fly_2 (more at parent and addicting games)

[games] - The Scrabble that will destroy the world

[games] - the National Budget Simulation

[games] - fullscreen it. about 15 mins. stunning. Samorost (via k10k)

[games] - Truck Dismount. as much fun as a barrel of monkeys.

[games] - Britain attempts world's silliest video game. nice gamepad. wants.

[games] - Minions!

[games] - Slashdot | Sam & Max in 3D. oink!

[games] - you owe it to yourself to download the free Flying Model Simulator. fly the glider, absolute tranquility by the spoonful.

[life/games] - Deep play

[games] - retro Atari Coin-Op Flyers

[games] - The Art of Urban Warfare

[game] - I Have No Words & I Must Design

[retro] - you feel an urge

[game] - Bookworm. A sort of scrabble meets tetris. timesink.

The Floating Eye cannot hurt you, but it can paralyze you with its hypnotic gaze.

[game] - pong. addictive like you wouldnt believe.

x-box comes out soon. do Not buy one.

crackmonkey.
GameSpot: Beta Test Center.

State of Emergencygameplay.mov demo. 5.2Mb

it reads like the paper of an english major/economics minor undergraduate. An anthropology of a semi-existent universe. Really quite neat: The In-game Economics of Ultima Online [via antenna]