Gamers! Tonight We Dine In Hell!!!

There’s something hilarious about a game that is designed to do nothing more than taunt, harass, and utterly piss off anyone playing it. With the combination of annoying old school action game music, cheap tricks, and traps designed to screw over anyone with basic gaming instincts, this game has it all. I’m pretty […]

Worst. Christmas. Ev–, Well, You Know.

Since tomorrow’s December 1st, and the Christmas blitz started about a minute after the Thanksgiving turkey was carved, I dug up an old relic to make everyone feel better about their holidays. Watch the commercial above. Can you imagine waking up on Christmas morning, running downstairs, and finding an oddly-shaped midget dressed as […]

The Lost Nintendo Sex Ed. Tape

There’s no way this is real, but I still got a few laughs from it. According to the youtube page, someone’s grandpa who works for the American Board of Education found it in the attic. Either way, does watching Princess Peach’s chest expand to the sound of old school Mario sound effects ever […]

The Baddest Tattoo You’ll See Today

I love the power glove, it’s so bad - and so is this tattoo, but not in good way. One look at this thing, and it makes me wonder how much alcohol was consumed before this actually started to seem like a good idea.
I just wonder … if someone is gonna get […]

A Must See: The King of Kong

Over the weekend, I ventured over to a small local theater - the hole in the wall kind that actually shows smaller, independent films, and watched “The King of Kong”. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a documentary about two gamers competing for the all-time high score in Donkey Kong.
Let me tell you, […]

Quiltbert

You know one good thing about old school games? They all had such crappy graphics that it’s easy to duplicate them with random arts and crafts using things like legos, paper, and yarn. Thanks to the internets, we now have one more thing craft to add to the collective video game arts and […]

Mario: The Truth Revealed

We’ve all done it - sent Mario to his death after missing a jump and watched him disappear into that void below the screen never to be seen again. The gruesome scene is quickly forgotten just seconds later though when another Mario is placed on the screen, ready to obey our commands all over […]

Wii Virtual Console Sets New Milestone

These days it seems like Nintendo can do no wrong. They’re on the fast track to becoming the #1 console with the Wii, they already completely dominate the handheld market with the DS, and now their virtual console is kicking ass and taking names. Nintendo announced today that gamers worldwide have already downloaded […]

Lego Video Game Screenshots & Characters

Hot on the heels of my lego game animations post, here I am with more old school lego creations. This time it’s not animations, but screenshots and characters from a bunch of retro games. After a somewhat lengthy discussion about legos, sparked by the videos the other day, a friend showed me a […]

Lego Video Game Animations

With some things on the internet, I swear I am the dead last person to find out about them - which I’m sure will be the case with this post. Lately I keep stumbling into sites about using Legos to recreate video games. It’s been kind of like an annoying popup ad, where […]

The Coolest Mario Cake You’ll See Today

Mmm, cake. The only thing better than cake, is a really cool Nintendo cake. I’m not sure how the girl who made this created all the different stuff like Mario, and the “burst” hole where Mario is jumping out of. It looks like frosting, but seems a little to thick to be […]

Game Franchises That Need To Die

X-Play recently started compiling a list of gaming franchises that, although may have had their place in gaming history, have reached the end of their road.
While I can agree that Yu-Gi-Oh! (actually I’m not sure that franchise should have ever begun, let alone come to an end) needs to die, it’s painful to […]

NES Contra Speed Run With Zero Deaths

And you thought you were good at Contra? Pfft … Watch as this guy runs through the entire game without dying once. What I find really impressive about this, is that it isn’t one of those crappy tools-assisted runs where they slow down parts of the game so they can get through it […]

Hot Girl Blowing Out An NES Cartridge

Anyone who had an NES growing up will appreciate what’s going on in this video. This became common practice after you owned your NES for any descent amount of time. I’m still not sure why it worked. My best guess is that the moisture in your breath conducted the electrical signal flowing […]

What exactly is old school in video games?

I came across a video posted by user ‘Lizzy’ over on our sister site, gamediggity.com, today. It shows an NES mod that recreates Super Mario Bros. using Atari 2600 graphics. Take a look at the video:

Watching this got me to thinking somewhat about old school video games. When most people think of […]