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If you find a girl that is OK with a wedding invitation based on the Street Fighter II fighter select screen you know you have a winner. We don’t know much about the couple other than their names: Joel and Fio. Regardless a large congratulations is at hand. May gaming be a part of their long life together.
Source: Sprite Stitch.
It is not enough to see Koreans adding spice to their lives with a little Salsa competition, but this couple takes it to another level when they combine Salsa dancing and good-ol’ Street Fighter cosplay. Living in Miami we’ve seen our share of incredible salsa dancers, but we’ve never seen anyone perform in a Ryu or Chun-Li outfit and throw-in Street Fighter moves while they were at it. Kudos to this couple for generating an insane audience response for their performance.
You are not really looking at some lost Virtual Boy version of Metroid Prime, but you are looking at Pixel Joint’s recent challenge to its members to re-envision something in Virtual Boy’s red and black look. The web site wanted to celebrate Virtual Boy’s recent 15th year anniversary in Japan the best way the know how and the web site’s members KILLED with their talent.
Metroid Prime by Martin Richard Bodger (above).
Megaman by Matt St George (below).
The world was recently abuzz about Andreas Heikaus’ video featuring a complete played-through of the original Super Mario Bros game on a sidewalk in a street on Hannover. The end result is something that can only be described as mind-blowing and people all over the net were wondering how did Andreas do it. Well, Andreas has updated his Vimeo page with a lengthy video explanation detailing the steps and the process, which should appeal to anyone who is studying film and editing or is just plain curious.
Original Video
Explanation Video
We always like to give you something awesome to take away with you on the weekend and if you are a Mortal Kombat fan like we are, you’ll fall in love with Eric Power’s Mortal Kombat Paperalities video. Eric, can we have Mortal Kombat II Paperalities please?
Remember those old Nintendo World Championships from back in the days? When we used to compete against some of the best players in the country at Super Mario Kart, NBA Jam, and even Tetris? Well, it seems Nintendo hasn’t forgotten either and have recently announced the Wii Games Summer 2010 Tour. This time you will create your own team of badass players to go against other teams in games such as New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Sports Resorts, Wii Fit Plus, and Mario Kart Wii. The tour starts this July 16th so start practicing! Check out Nintendo’s official website for participating cities and full details: http://www.wiigames2010.com/
This year’s South Florida Supercon 2010 totally blew me away. There were more events, more guests, more vendors, more of everything! My only 2 gripes were that the vendor area closed way too early and that the vender area didn’t seem as organized as last year. Other than that it was a spectacular event. Tons of more people cosplayed and there was so much to see that it was kind of overwhelming. The video game area was lacking a bit this year as well. Seeing how E3 was just a week before Supercon I’m pretty certain many of the people responsible for the awesome setup last year were still recovering from E3.
The Supercon Championship Wrestling was definitely the highlight of the show in my opinion! With Cosplayers wrestling as Cobra Commander, Batman, Chun-li, The Joker, and even King Hippo from Punch-Out! With only a short time to check out the vendor floor I wasn’t able to check out everything this year. Maybe next year? The 3000 Brigade Super Smash Bros. Super Show was pretty good as well but it’ll never outdo last years. Can’t wait for next years event!
Video game sprites made out of beads are a strange concept, but if you think about it, they are a perfect combination: Each bead represents one pixel. Fogie Perler realized this and made a ton of sweet 8bit and 16bit video game sprites out of all sorts of colorful beads. He explains the process briefly on his Flickr feed, so if you are looking for something crafty to do with your time, it should give you a nice foundation to get you started.
Some more beauties:
Source: Flickr
Ste Pickford made hand drawn video game fonts for a living during the 8bit and 16 bit era. And to give back to the community, he has made his collection of bitmap fonts available on his web site for any use you like. If you are an independent video game developer you’ll appreciate it. If you are a regular Joe like me, you’ll appreciate some of these amazing unique fonts you won’t find in any modern first person shooter. It’s amazing to see how much individual detail developers pushed into their 8bit and 16bit games.
See more at Pickford Bros.
According to the BBC, the Cassini spacecraft measured temperature differences across the Moon’s surface and produced a map that looks just like Pac-Man. You can read the full explanation from NASA on the NASA web site, but it was only a matter of time before Jesus made way for Pac-Man to become the hottest form of apparitions.
Source BBC.