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Let Your Fingers Do The Dancing

For true fighting games, a real arcade stick is a must to execute those flashy ultras and focus attacks perfectly. $129.90 for each at NCSX.

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Hori Real Arcade Pro Joysticks, PS3 & Xbox

Waitaminute! This blog isn’t about comic books! Duh! It’s about retro and classic video games. So where are the crossovers in the video gaming realm? Believe it or not, the most well known crossover in this world still has something to do with comic books. Ever heard of the Marvel versus Capcom series?

Here’s a little backgrounder courtesy of Wikipedia:

Marvel vs Capcom is a series of fighting games created by Capcom in which characters created by Marvel Comics and Capcom’s own characters appear together. While it was the first versus series involving Capcom, the name Marvel exists to distinguish it from Capcom’s other versus series with SNK, Tatsunoko Production, and Namco’s crossover role-playing game with Capcom, Namco x Capcom.

The Marvel characters depicted in these games were often based on their incarnations in various early 1990s animated series (particularly X-Men), and were often voiced by the same voice actors.

Many of the characters and fighting mechanics used in these games were first developed and refined in two other fighting games Capcom had developed earlier, serving as precursors to the series: X-Men: Children of the Atom, which featured characters strictly from the X-Men universe, and Marvel Super Heroes, which gleaned characters from Marvel’s entire roster (X-Men included).

Although the tag-team fighting concept was not new, it was refined with this series (although fans would argue whether this was for better or for worse). New fighting game terminology, such as “Aerial Rave” (the act of performing a combo on an opponent while the opponent remains airborne) and “Variable Combination” (the act of having two or more characters on the same team to perform their hyper combos at the same time) were added to the fighting game vernacular with this series.

Well, this post is not really about Marvel vs Capcom, but about a fantasy crossover between two very popular video game worlds, that of Super Mario Brothers and Gordon Freeman’s Half-Life. Go check out the video below:

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Gordon Freeman in Mario Land

Come to think of it, these piggy bank arcade game machines don’t just force you to save but you can probably make them pay for themselves by allowing others to play Tetris and Breakout on them. Hey, at USD 40.74 per piggy bank, that’s not such a bad idea.

Check out the product brochure at Strapya. Oh, and watch this video:

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Play Tetris and Breakout on a piggy bank

Here are two of my favorite retro gaming t-shirts:

The maker of these retro video gaming t-shirts, 101tshirts.co.uk, also produce retro television, movie and music shirts. Not a fan of t-shirts? No problem. The company specializes in printing our favorite retro video gaming icons on different products like hoodies, kitchen aprons, satchels, sports bags, and drawstring bags.

Go check out their other designs and tell me what you think.

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Retro gaming t-shirts featuring Mario, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man

Sigh. It’s quite unfortunate, however, that like most speed runs, this speed run of Shang Tsung on Mortal Kombat 2 is tool assisted and played on an emulator. Ahh, but what the heck. It’s still fun watching a character beat up all his opponents from start to finish.

Next time, I’d like to see the player do it without the tool assist. :p

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Speed Run: Mortal Kombat 2 on Sega

For those who have no inkling of what stop motion animation is, here’s a short description from Wikipedia:

Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion animations, known as claymation, for their ease of repositioning.

Well, now we know that clay isn’t the only good medium for stop motion animation. There’s also Lego, patient men and women, and just about anything you can get your hands on as this video proves:

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Retro games in stop motion video

Look, ma, no hands! It’s strange seeing Pac-Man land blows on the diminutive Mario without flailing arms and legs. It must be his, er, its big mouth.

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Pac-Man pwns Mario

This video is a classic. Made by Guillaume Reymond of the Gameover Project, the video is no laughing matter as it uses stop-motion photography and a dozen or so men and women. Yes! Live human beings!

Go check out the video and tell me afterward if it doesn’t command respect:

Actually, Guillame Reymond and the Gameover Project aren’t the only ones who uses live humans to test weird ideas, such as emulating an old popular video game like Tetris. The Japanese are probably way ahead of them in terms of entertainment and ingenuity as this video proves:

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Tetris, according to Guillaume Reymond

Here’s the description that came with the video of the World’s Largest Tetris:

Take a Linux computer, a joystick-frequency radio, 10,000 Christmas lights, a building, and you have the biggest game of Tetris in the world. Here is the largest Tetris game made with lights in a building. Amazing!

The author of the video neglected to tell us how much they spent on their electricity bill.

Well, without further ado, I present to you (what else?) the LARGEST GAME OF TETRIS:

Check out Re:Retro’s other postings on Tetris.

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Playing Tetris on a building facade