video games

Totally awesome: Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (link via kottke)

If you’ve got 10 friends and about 14,000 Post-It notes handy, you, too, could spend five hours and create a scene from Donkey Kong on the windows of a four-story building.

It’s true. You can find everything you could ever imagine on the internet. You can find many things that you never would have imagined, too. I never would have thought to program a bunch of video games using form submit buttons, but someone did. Quite nifty. A high nift factor. Niftalicious.

Note: My keyboard goes through a PS/2 adapter and then a USB dongle before connecting to my laptop. This is my excuse for only managing a 6.83 in the 50 yard button dash.

“PimpWar.com, the only place online where you can put on your leopard print hat and get your pimp on. PimpWar is a browser based game where you play the part of a ruthless pimp on a quest for power and money. You will become a master at the art of pimping your hoes, commanding your thugs and battling your enemies to protect what you have and to help your empire grow. This game is NOT for whiners. PimpWar players have 5000 ways to call you a bitch ass. So if you think you can handle it we suggest you get a couple friends together so you are not alone in this bad bad place and then your bring yo bad self.”

“Imagine a computer game in which you follow all the rules, but your characters still die, because someone has introduced a virus into the game. Not only that, but the person who invented the game is the one who is distributing the virus.”

Activision has created an online version of Pitfall! to celebrate its 20th anniversary. You’ll need to get Shockwave to play, but it’s pretty cool.

For about a year and a half … somewhere between the Atari 2600 and Super Nintendo, between grade school and high school … there was Intellivision.

My mom bought Jenny (my little sister) and I an Atari 2600 the second Christmas they were available. We lived in Holly Hill, FL - the closest thing to a suburb of Daytona Beach that existed then. At the time we thought of the gift as a tremendous extravagance, the most incredible present ever. I remember staying up to play Asteroids until 3 am the first night we had it. I got a blister on my thumb and rolled the score over to all 0s. Jenny sat there watching me the whole time. I don’t think we were able to afford River Raid until after Easter the next year. When we got that one, my mom and Jenny and I would sit and play for hours after school. Jenny and I would trade playing my mom while the other did homework. So much fun …

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This 404 Error page just got metafiltered. It is quite possibly the best link I’ve ever seen there. If you played computer games before graphics, you will seriously enjoy a visit.

Jason, link-finder lackey, sends me The Worst Nintendo Game Endings Ever.

Another crazy link from Jason:
I am amazed that the world’s largest fully-functional Tetris game is in Rhode Island.

On the trip from Jacksonville to Los Angeles I scored 508348 points with 420 lines at level 30 on my Gameboy Tetris … not that that makes me cool or anything …

Sylvia says I don’t know nothin’ ’bout no jet lag. She was at the Taj Mahal today; one of the Seven Wonders of the World. I went to Chris O’Brien’s Apartment of Sin last night and destroyed whatever self-respect Ryan might have had in his snowboarding skills.