I think I actually saved up quarters and beat it when I got older

It's news to me but I do remember being fascinated by videogame attract modes as a kid, maybe because I was too cheap to actually play any of the games.
 
here's a cool amiga game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGIww533Y4 FRANKO - THE CRAZY REVENGE! it's a polish fighter game full of grotesquely muscular dudes pissing and destroying each other. The female enemies in the second part of the game are equally ripped and muscled which shows an admirable egalitarian side to the game's brutal worldview. The backgrounds are fantastic and full of graffiti like NIKE ITS SHIT and RAP and FREEDOM JONES C+C M. FACTORY and THE KLF and probably like a million more. There's some cool metallic synthesized speech effects here too.
There are some incomprehensible driving sections where you try to avoid[?] running over the priests and singe mothers who race across the road at random.
 
Looks like the same guys went to make Doman which was a barbarian game like Savage where your default attack was just effortlessly decapitating people.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDzQLx4wP4&feature=related Elvira Mistress Of The Dark amiga game idk i just like the strange droning music and the weird swordfight system.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHzZU6Yr3R8&feature=related Code name Hell Squad goofy liveaction segments and really awkward tonal shifts where your machinegun-wielding commando guy cracks generic adventure game jokes while standing right next to a dude being tortured to death.

that polish fighting game is really weird, why do some people just randomly have skull faces like just random pedestrians not even SKULL GANG etc. I think we have another Bart the General/Bloodlust Software on our hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDzQLx4wP4&feature=related Elvira Mistress Of The Dark amiga game idk i just like the strange droning music and the weird swordfight system.

I started playing this once because I'm a big ol' fan of Elvira but the controls were pretty clunky.  I did get this screenshot though.

There's long been a discrepancy between culture and the post-crash situation. It's now evident that the New Fifties are over - the scenery still survives, but you can push your fingers through it. Paul Mason talks of a "dubstep rebellion"

oh god yes

it's obvious what needs to be done... For the Frog the Bell Tolls dubstep remix

I know it's Wal-Mart but this commercial made me lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJlByFXcGI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSHeloQ0r5M

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=rate&uid=2393

this was made for ludum dare and it flipping rules! control a weird eyeball bat as other squirming eyeballs fire things at you.

Super Mario RPG is still such an elusive/mysterious game to me. It's kind of like Earthbound 'hey RPGs can be fun and don't have to be in medieval European setting' but where Earthbound was more clever SMRPG was like in the same Easter Egg-collecting cult as Donkey Kong Country (for some reason prerendered games need ridiculous amount of collectibles/goals to complete) and like I'm still not sure I found all the sectrets in that game even though I had the player's guide etc. not that it's a horrible game it's just the same solutions as a Final Fantasy game 'give the player Super X Sword if they kill 1000 guys and travel around the world 5671 times' except it's like X Hammer this time around because it's Marios lolol. Just saying Mario RPG was very FORMULA in some ways despite wanting to be next Earthbound or something and it just made me feel sort of empty. Some of the levels were really cool though like I just remember going through all these weird sewers and pipeworlds and shit and the use of isometric perspective made it really more interesting looking than it should have. I wish more of the game was based off actually Mario logic where 99% of the world is made up of green phallic hills and pipe dungeons. But they overexamined the whole Mario universe and damaged the surrealness of the whole thing. Where do Yoshis come from??? Where dos cloud peoples come from

I was also really amazed by smrpg when we rented it when my sister and I were kids, when our parents were going away and they wanted us to have something to do. actually I thought that was the coolest home game possible, simpsons was the coolest arcade game possible. I'm not exaggerating just to tell a story, my sister and I both were in love with that game for the couple of days we rented it. but I think we got sick of it by the time we returned it, because we never bought it and only rented it again the next time the parents went away. man, I need to scrap everything

smrpg was one of the biggest games in my childhood.  i started replaying it a couple of years ago and made it pretty far but i don't think i even have the save anymore.  now it's basically in the same place that OoT was for me where i'm holding out to see if it comes out on the 3DS (just on the virtual console i don't see them doin a 3D remake or anything) since i'd be more likely to play it like that.  i just seem to lose interest in games i emulate pretty fast.


i think it's because when i'm at a computer i just think "oh let's check the internet and do all these computer things" whereas when you're on a console you're going "this thing is here to play games and i'm here to play games so let's play some games"

i think it's because when i'm at a computer i just think "oh let's check the internet and do all these computer things" whereas when you're on a console you're going "this thing is here to play games and i'm here to play games so let's play some games"

that is the most beautiful use of the English language I've ever seen (single tear drops from eye)

and I think the emulation thing is like some immersion problem like watching ads on Youtube is such a chore even though it's only one ad?? I dunno I think internet raises/lowers people's standards because it is more of a chore. Like, I could never imagine watching The Big Bang Theory online but I have seen it once or twice on TV because it's easier to zone out on TV find something enjoyable like 'hey look at that funky couch'

I'm also curious now what kind of speakers old arcade games had. Because like old fighting games had the most ridiculous sound EVERYTHING EXPLODES welcome to noiseland usa

I'm also curious now what kind of speakers old arcade games had. Because like old fighting games had the most ridiculous sound EVERYTHING EXPLODES welcome to noiseland usa

i'm sure the fact that it's coming out of a wooden box plus the fact that you've got tons of other wooden boxes around spitting out their sounds too probably also echoing around the room makes a big impact in the "arcade" sound, i think that's a big reason why i love going to arcades vs playing MAME or w/e.  even if i had a mame cabinet (which i do want to make one despite me saying all this) it's still not the same as being there with all the noise

Someone should spend way too long making a thing for mame that emulates the demo screen sound from all the other roms you have while you play your game and alters them so they're kind of positionally correct for that real arcade symphony feelin

Someone should spend way too long making a thing for mame that emulates the demo screen sound from all the other roms you have while you play your game and alters them so they're kind of positionally correct for that real arcade symphony feelin

this would rule a lot t.b.h.

http://www.gegl.org/gallery/index.html

what a bizarre/depressing set of pictures

I was looking for the new Bush's Baked Beans commercials because Duke is all CG and terrifying now he seriously looks like pure evil or something. But here's something else since I couldn't find it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgWBN2YP_4

also an old favorite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zia2943T9c&feature=related

aw I was doing this mturk where you decide which screenshots are AMERICAN IDOL and I got booted off after like the 5th time but I managed to save these screenshots beforehand































I don't know if they just take screenshots at random or if it's a 'smart' algorithm in some way but they should just stop whatever they're trying to do and just set up a website/service that takes screenshots at random across all media and people Like/+1 the good screencaps or something

http://photobucket.com/images/pic/

this might lead to potential awesomeness