Zune scoff, Rush, and Missile Command.
An interview with Joel Hedge, master of Xybots and Battlezone, from the King of Kong DVD extras. He was the high score record holder on twin galaxies until just a couple months ago.
Unfortunately the word “Xybots” can only be used to answer the question “What is Xybots?”
DEFENDER of the favicon lets you play the arcade classic Defender in, well, the favicon of the page.
(↝via MB)
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This is Amis’s startling aria to stand-up console video games: Space Invaders, Missile Command, etc. He published it early in his career and has never allowed it back into print. This might be expected, given that in the book he blames the machines for his inability to find any girlfriends.
—Tom Bissell on Invasion of the Space Invaders by Martin Amis
which led me to the Rogue Restoration Project.
which led me to the unmaintained Cthangbad.
now I want to make another try at getting into nethack.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09152006
and finally: Wallace, a genetic algorithm for teaching a computer to play Super Mario Brothers.
Once I was at a roof party/show at a gallery/living space in bushwick/east williamsburg and aliens landed up there. They looked around at all the hip kids with their clothes and their haircuts and their music and they said to me, “What happened?” So I pulled out my iriver and showed them this. “Ahhhh, I see…” they said. And they checked some things off on their clipboards, got back into their ship and flew away.
Grand Table Tennis
Sweet, Rockstar is releasing a table tennis game, and it looks pretty sweet (I was a fan of Virtua Tennis). Ridiculous graphics as its xbox 360 only.
IGN: Why the $39.99 price-point? Most games have gone up in price. Is that an indication that it’s not a full-priced game, or is it something different?
Sam Houser: Rockstar’s relationship with people who play our games is something we value and treasure greatly. We believe that Table Tennis is as pure, polished, intense and fun a game as the other games we have created, but it would be naïve of us not to recognize that this is a different sort of game to Grand Theft Auto, for example. In terms of value for money we think the hundreds of hours of gameplay of Grand Theft Auto is probably worth more than the $50 price tag, but rather than pushing to increase the price of games, we’d rather keep on over-delivering on value.
43 NintendoDS
Finn, get your shit together with this organizer for your Nintendo DS.
btw lifehacker is the source of the most annoying reposts on the internet.
Check out these screenshots from the unreleased video game Penn & Teller’s Smoke & Mirrors. Awesome to see stuff like this surfacing.
The most infamous part was “Desert Bus,” a “VeriSimulator” in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, I’d read the bus veers to the right, so you can’t just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the game, you got one point.
(↝via Waxy)
I almost died laughing when I read that in Takeshi’s Challenge one of the challenges was “forcing the player to sing karaoke continuously for one hour while leaving the controller untouched.”
Also: Takeshi Kitano. What can’t he do?