WARNING: No t-shirts are contained in this post.
In addition to the delightful pun, ElectroCity is a free online Flash game that has value: not merely entertainment value, but social, educational, and environmental (at the very least). Potentially a lot for a seemingly simplistic game to accomplish, but ElectroCity pulls it off with ease. If you’re in the mood for a refreshing gaming experience, I highly recommend playing ElectroCity.
A sample game board of ElectroCity with windfarm, seaport, and ski resort.
Continue reading ‘ElectroCity: Gaming for Environmental Responsibility’
The King of Games is a group based in Kyoto that makes video-game shirts based which are officially licensed by Nintendo. This allows them to make awesome things. Case in point:
Zelda 20th Anniversary at The King of Games
This shirt commemerates the 20th anniversary of the Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda for the Famicom. The four shields represent the evolution of Link’s shield (from the series’s humble beginnings on the Famicom to the beautiful and epic Gamecube release, The Wind Waker), and the two crossed swords in the center of the design are (of course) Master Swords. And look! There’s Hylian text!
I don’t know what this says, but it’s still TOTALLY RAD.
The shirt comes in heather grey and white, and though it’s sort of hard to tell, the print is in a rich, velvety green. You can also get the design on a hoodie in either grey or dark brown.
Not a Zelda fan? Wait— that’s a stupid question. Everyone likes Zelda. But maybe you’re just looking for a game that’s a wee bit more… esoteric. Like a game that features children who use psionic powers, yo-yos, and bottle rockets to deafeat oddball foes like Annoying Old Party Men, Big Piles of Puke, New Age Retro Hippies, and Unassuming Local Guys. Well, The King of Games has got you covered.
Continue reading ‘Zelda, Earthbound, and More at The King of Games’
I’d say to her, “Voo-lay-voo?”
OK! That’s enough!
Ahem… to the few of you out there who really know what I’m talking about, I salute you. And on a very related note, there’s this really awesome t-shirt I found on Etsy:
Grog at Juror2
Being such a huge fan of Monkey Island (at least, The Secret of and LeChuck’s Revenge, which are indisputably the two best computer games of all time in the history of the universe ever), there’s no way I can resist the temptation of either pirates or grog, and in combination… well, let’s just say I don’t regret anything. What seals the deal on this t-shirt for me is the description, which includes all 11 ingredients of grog (according to the important-looking pirates, at least). The significance of this description is immense: this person knows Monkey Island. Which is awesome!
Another thing that is awesome is the sheer number of options available for Grog (and the rest of Juror2’s shirts): nearly every design is available on six different styles in a large range of sizes, with at least three different colorways per style. That’s pretty impressive for somebody who screenprints on their ironing board!
Continue reading ‘Oh, I wish I could pay-lay some French with Governor Marley…’
This is Greg’s (deservedly brief) response to my response to his response to my original post about video games as art, as well as Colin’s response to my original post!
Greg’s response:
Myst: I agree with you that Myst probably doesn’t quite cross the boundary into “art”. I think of it as more of a precursor, I guess? A game that could be considered an important breakthrough on video games’ path to artdom? Something like that?
Continue reading ‘Video Games as Art 4′
Does anybody actually care about video games/art? Because it seems like not many people are actually reading these entries. Is it because they’re too long, or that you’re just not interested? Please let us know!
Either way, this is my response to Greg’s response to my original post about video games as art:
I think the analogy of video games to film (before TV, of course) and even to theater (before movies, of course) is pretty apt: when a new medium comes along, the older one gets elevated to the status of “Art” an the new one to “entertainment.”
On what people interpret as “Art”: I think it is less important that somebody, somewhere interpret video games as art than it is for there to be:
Continue reading ‘Video Games as Art 3′
I forgot to include part of Greg’s response to Video Games as Art when I originally posted it! Well, it’s there now, so you can either go read the whole thing or just the part that I left out below:
Continue reading ‘Oops!’
Over at NerdyShirts they’ve got a new Beatles/Wii crossover design. They’ve taken the iconic Let It Be album cover and recreated it using Mii representations of the four Beatles:
Continue reading ‘Let It Bii’
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