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Wallpaper Madness – Super Mario
Figured some more quick easy content I could post would be some wallpapers that I enjoy. Is there a gaming subject with more wallpapers dedicated to it than Super Mario Bros.? I guess maybe some game with tits in it . . .
Press Button C to throw a Grenade . . . Awesome Power!
I’ve been infatuated with the Metal Slug series ever since I downloaded a NeoGeo emulator and tried it out on a whim. I used to think Contra 3 was the pinnacle of side-scrolling shoot’em-ups, but I was completely blown away. I am a firm believer that sprite graphics make a game timelessly beautiful, and the Metal Slug series easily backs up that claim. The amount of work that went into every detail of the animations is breathtaking. It’s also a blast to play, and if you add a friend in the mix, it becomes 450% better.
Luckily my good friend Noah was on hand to fight off the alien forces. He may be a little rough around the edges, but my wisdom and his courage (combined with the ultimate power that is INFINITE CONTINUES) allow us to persevere.
Has there ever been a more awesome attack than the unstoppable Zombie Vomit Bloodstream?
I wish games could look like this
Recently discovered Magical Game Time, a website devoted to video game artwork by Zac Gorman. I’m really digging it. Here are some of my favorite pieces.
May the way of the Tero lead to the Hriforce.
See this picture right here ^^? It is from the instruction manual from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. And let me tell ya, that was probably the best instruction manual ever crafted by a human. This is back from a time period when instruction manuals had some class. Nowadays all you get is a diagram of an XBOX controller and what all the fucking buttons do. Basically I am like an 80 year old man talking about the time before the war, because I miss that shit.
What could have done this?
So here is a trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. It is a 4 player co-op team based shooter in which you either play Umbrella agents (a la HUNK) attempting to cover Umbrella’s involvement in the Raccoon City outbreak, or a team of US Government SPEC OPS sent in to collect evidence and bio-weapon data. It is also considered non-cannon, with one major example of this being the fact that you can kill Leon S. Kennedy on his fateful first day as an officer.
I’ve been a fan of the Resident Evil franchise ever since playing RE 2 back in 1998. The series has evolved over the years, with the most drastic change being the leap from survival horror to action in Resident Evil 4. I don’t have a problem with this. It has evolved beyond the limitations placed on it in the early days, and is also following the current direction of gaming.
From the reactions I’ve seen to this trailer however, you’d think the game was called “Resident Evil: Your Mothers a Whore.” People are getting internet-level upset about this. I don’t see the point of this reaction though. It may not be my long wanted RE 2 remake or Outbreak File 3, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a good game in its own right. As long as it has the settings and characters I like, the format of the game itself should be fine, as long as it’s fun to play.
Don’t tell the internet though.
Hursh Only – Flashback – VH – No Infinity – NIGHTMARE
So at first I wasn’t going to make a post about this, because it applies only to me, but then I remembered that everything I post here applies only to me. So after following an online tutorial, I finally managed to make my original “fat” PlayStation 2 start reading discs again. Even though I have a fully backwards compatible PS3, this was still necessary for one reason: Resident Evil Outbreak (files 1 and 2).
Outbreak was easily my most played games on the PS2, but they had one major flaw: horrendous load times in between rooms. Playing this game on a non Hard Drive enhanced PS2 would literally leave you waiting between 10 – 15 seconds every time you walked into a new room. Needless to say, this get’s pretty unbearable. Luckily, if you were an idiot like me and shelled out 100 bucks for a relatively tiny HDD for the sytsem, you can reduce these loads to between 2 and 4 seconds. This is why it is so significant that I have regained access to my original PS2. For some reason, the hard drive inside the PS3 cannot be made compatible with Outbreak, and thus playing the game on that system is out of the question. I’ll have to use what time me and my old PS2 have been given back together wisely, and hopefully make some delightful Outbreak videos.
Now if only there were a way to access the long dead multiplayer . . .
Fire will hurt Jason the most. -OMG . . . MARK?-
Friday the 13th is a terrible NES game. No one is arguing otherwise. I have to say though, as a child I found it quite terrifying. Every single time Jason just randomly bust all up in your grill I shit my drawers.
The game is really about resource management. You have to try and equip all 6 characters, you have to make sure someone is close to the lake at all times to help the children, and most importantly you have to keep the only man Jason fears alive.
There’s a lot more to this game than is displayed here, including more powerful weapons (machete, axe, pitch fork, torch) and an optional battle with the floating disembodied head of Mrs. Voorhees. Also the game doesn’t end until you kill Jason THREE FUCKING TIMES. Christ.
PROTIP: DO NOT LOOSE MARK. ALL OTHER CHARACTERS ARE MEAT SHIELDS TO BE THROWN AT JASON.
All life beings with Nu and ends with Nu.
Super Metroid is a Super Nintendo game. It is one of the pinnacles of what gaming can achieve, and can be compared to a masterwork painting from the Renaissance. If you disagree with this fact then YOU ARE MY ENEMY!
Regardless, here is one of the (many) amazing music tracks in the game, and a balling remix of it. This music plays in the underwater region of Zebes, Maridia. It is very morose and somber, and gives me a feeling of drifting slowly deep underwater. Which is appropriate.
R66-Y, that is my name, but you can call me anything.
Robo from Chrono Trigger is so goddamn badass. Not only is he a immortal killing machine, but he also spends 400 fucking years restoring an entire goddamn forest across a continent. Such a baller deserves the only the best theme music, and luckily that’s what the developers of Chrono Trigger gave him:
If that wasn’t awesome enough for you (and if it wasn’t go straight to hell), you can also combine it with Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up to form the ultimate crossover song, as well as the anthem of our (and every future) generation.
