I’ve always been a big fan of Pac-Man, that pill chomping yellow ball of the 80s video game craze. I’m not the only fan. Let’s take a look at some disturbing Pac-Man images that I’ve culled from the Net.
Killer Pac-Man

Whoever created this monsterpiece probably had a fixation on both Pac-Man and Jaws.
Image downloaded from Tech Funked.
Pac-Man’s skull unearthed

Whoah! If Pac-Man had a skull, it’ll probably look like this. Kudos to the artist who came up with it.
Image downloaded from Pen Machine.
3D Pac-Man

This piece is pretty standard despite the impressive 3D rendering. I detest the way the artist portrayed our heroic …read more

Hahahaha! I can’t stop laughing. I don’t know which is funnier: seeing The Goonies video game being played to the beat of Good Enough by Cyndi Lauper or watching Captain Lou Albano (who played Mario in the Super Mario Brothers animated series) in the music video for the movie The Goonies. I can’t make up my mind. Go watch the videos and tell me:

As promised, I’m here to talk about The Goonies, not really much about the movie of the same name, but the 8-bit video game that inspired an entire generation of video game addicts.
Actually, there’s not much to talk about as game features go. The only news concerning The Goonies is the fact that it has already celebrated its 20th anniversary and that a remake of the classic game is now available as shareware. More on this later. For now, let me share a bit of video game history.
There are two versions of The Goonies video game, one for the MSX …read more

I just want to share two videos I found about the impending release of Diablo III. Whew! It’s shaping up nicely … very nicely.

Well, it’s not exactly retro gaming, since Diablo III hasn’t even been launched yet. But its predecessors, Diablo, Diablo: Hellfire, Diablo II, and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, are already classics in their own right.
For now, though, let me focus on Diablo and its expansion Hellfire. These two are probably two of the most played games on my old Pentium 200MMX. Yeah, not Pentium 4, not even 3 or 2, but just plain Pentium, and I owned two of them back in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Why Diablo? Well, for starters, it’s the only game, aside from Dungeon …read more

I’m starting to feel sorry for Mario and Luigi. So much fan fiction, most of which on YouTube, and a majority of them plays up the plumber brothers’ negative traits to the point of absurdity.
Take, for example, this video series, dubbed Stupid Mario Brothers, by Rich Alvarez. They portray Mario and Luigi in the worst light possible. Here’s the pilot episode:

It actually gets worse, and the series is on its second season! Some people actually like the series. Too bad I can’t see the humor in it.

And I thought I knew everything there was to know about Super Mario Brothers for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Family Computer. I only correctly answered six of 15 questions! Sigh. I think I need to brush up on my Super Mario Brothers secrets.
Do you think you know more about the game than anyone else? Take the test either in html format or in flash animation.

It’s time for another speed run, and this month’s lucky pick is Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

I’ve only played Star Fox a few times in the past, but if I had a guide like this back then, I’d probably finish it, too … in a few days … or maybe a few months. Haha!

Yeah, my sentiments exactly—that is, if I belong to the generation of basketball fans (especially of the National Basketball Association) that only knows Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Yao Ming. But I belong to the previous generation of basketball fans that idolizes Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Michael Jordan.
Wait a minute … Larry Bird is on that list, but where’s this Dr. J? My, my, you’re really not a basketball fan. Hehe.
This post, however, is not about basketball, per se. It’s actually about an old game I’ve dug up called Dr. J and Larry Bird Go …read more

Talk about fanaticism. Producing cartoons is one thing, but stop-motion animation is an entirely different animal, especially if it concerns Mario and his twisted world. But someone’s eventually bound to do it. And so we have Super Lego Mario—the video game Super Mario Brothers done in (what else!) Lego bricks.
So far I’ve watched three videos, two of which show Worlds 1-1 and 2-1. The last video features the King Koopa stage. Well, let me shut up and let you watch the videos for yourselves.

Amazing, eh? The fusion of genres. Now, it’s only a matter of time before the Lego series …read more