It was bound to happen sooner or later, so don’t feel bad. Can you guess what game dethroned good ol’ Mario? Here’s a hint:

Well, it’s not much of a hint since the video turns into a dead giveaway ten seconds after it starts. Hey, at least you know what game toppled Super Mario Brothers as the best selling video game of all time.
Here’s an excerpt from Yahoo! Games’ Ben Silverman’s story “Wii Sports is best-selling game ever”:
According to game-tracking website VGChartz, sales of Nintendo’s pop-culture phenom Wii Sports have surpassed those of legendary Super Mario Bros., making the breakout Wii …read more

Dangnabit! The title is a dead giveaway! Well, I\’d like you to take a gander at the image below:\r\n\r\n

\r\n\r\nPretty little Lego spaceship, eh? It\’s actually a model of Samus Aran\’s gunship in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and is part of a collection of images on Flickr known as Metroid Quarantine. The collection of Metroid-related pictures is but the tip of the iceberg. The group also has a website known as (what else!) Metroid Quarantine, The Metroid Blog.\r\n\r\nGo check out Metroid Quarantine\’s other photos.\r\n\r\nOh, and if you\’re wondering what Samus Aran\’s gunship looks like in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, here\’s a …read more

Monty Oum\\\\\\\’s short films and other works have been posted and re-posted on the Internet ad nauseum, but there\\\\\\\’s only one Monty Oum and we are amazed at power of his craft. Take the Haloid: Samus Aran versus Master Chief video as an example. To date, the film, first posted by ACEfromRUSSIA on YouTube, has racked up more than 1,828,394 views. That\\\\\\\’s not bad, considering the original high definition video posted by Monty Oum on GameTrailers, well, lags behind at 338,342 views.\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nFor the benefit of those who don\\\\\\\’t know who Samus Aran and Master Chief are, and what the heck …read more

Like I said in a posting last month on MMOtaku, another b5media technology blog I’m handling, I am starting to love machinima. This revolution in independent film making is nothing new in the world of massively multiplayer online games. It is, however, very rare for old or classic games to get the attention of producers and directors as good machine cinema fodder.
Fortunately, there are old or classic games that do make the cut. Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, and The Sims series come to mind.
Armed with this information, I quickly scoured the Web and …read more

First off, I want to apologize to readers of this space for being remiss in my posting duties. December is a hectic month, what with the holidays just around the corner, and finding time to play good, classic video games is getting harder.
So with that in mind, I’ve decided to start a new topic or category, Video games I want to play forever. It’s very literal. It will feature video games that I love and those that I want to keep playing until my computer conks out, or until my body crumples from exhaustion.
Without further ado, I present to you …read more

\r\n\r\nSo who hasn\’t heard of The Three Stooges? You know, Larry, Curly and Moe? No? Doesn\’t ring a bell? Well, if you have no inkling who the three are, then you probably don\’t belong to the generation that watched the original black and white series or their voluminous re-runs.\r\n\r\nI watched a few seasons on the boobtube when I was younger, even the ones with Shemp in it. Yep, before Curly, Shemp was the one taking the beating from Moe, and sometimes Larry. Hmmm, before I go on to the gist of the story, let\’s take a closer look at The …read more

I’ve always been a big fan of stop motion animation. So it also means that I’m a fan of stop motion videos featuring our beloved retro games. In the past year, I’ve posted a few stop motion videos, including one that shows the Super Mario Brothers in Lego and one that substitutes Tetris blocks with living, breathing human beings.
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 …read more

You may already be sick of Tetris, especially after staring at the world’s largest game of Tetris (maybe because the blocks are of the same color?), but I’m back with another Tetris video.
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:
The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond @ Yahoo! Video
Actually, Guillame Reymond and the Gameover Project aren’t the …read more

No. I’m not the one who came up with the kooky idea of turning an entire building into a pseudo-monitor just to play what is probably the biggest Tetris game in the universe (unless there’s some alien race out there who implemented the same idea several years ago).
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 …read more

I grew up in an era when Sho Kusugi and Michael Dudikoff ruled movie theaters worldwide. So it\\\\\\\’s really no surprise when I tell friends about my childhood antics, of donning a black kimono and threatening the neighborhood dogs and cats with my wooden katana and shurikens made from metal bottle caps (I\\\\\\\’ll explain how it\\\\\\\’s done if you have the time to read or listen). Needless to say, I was enamored with the ninja and its seemingly mystic powers, even to the point of seeking out a person who practices ninjitsu and asking him to train me.\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nUnfortunately, I never …read more