The Pop-Culture E-Zine
Got an error page to present on your website? I know ours needs a bit of sprucing up! Perhaps we could use some classic video games for inspiration. Take a look at these little beauties.
How about a Super Mario inspired error message
A confronting Dead Link error message. Poor Link
An entertaining Pac-Man game
source: econsultancy
There are times when words should not be spoken, or on this case, written. This is a must watch video! Awesome doesn’t do it justice. Press play, turn it up and enjoy this audio visual bliss!
source: owatax99
With the upcoming fourth season of Game Of Thrones, our good folks at BuzzFeed thought it would be a good time to recap the brutality of past seasons in 8-bit animated GIF glory!
WARNING: Contains spoilers!
14. White Walker beheads a ranger of the Night’s Watch
13. Renly Baratheon assassinated by shadow.
12. The Hand of the King’s Grand Tournament.
11. Bronn volunteers to fight for Tyrion Lannister.
10. Jon Snow saves the Lord Commander from a Wight.
9. Dragon Rampage – did someone say Rampage?
8. Samwell Tarly kills a White Walker.
7. The Wildfire.
6. The Hound vs. Beric Dondarrion.
5. King’s Landing Battle.
4. The beheading of Ser Rodrik.
3. Viserys commits suicide.
2. Eddard Stark’s Beheading.
1. The Red Wedding.
source: BuzzFeed
I honestly thought that we were done and dusted with the whole Flappy Bird thing. We already had our fun with Flappy3D-VR on the Oculus Rift. Seems like the little bird has a bit of fight in it yet!
Drum roll please, I now present to you – the 8-bit version of Flappy Bird for the Commodore 64! I must admit, the game does suit the 8-bit system quite well – mmmm, all those lovely sprites. Download it now and have a go. I’ll get my TAC-2 joystick ready!
source: Sos Sosowski
With the official end of the summer season only a few days away, I thought I would reap the retro gaming harvest from the garden. It has been a fruitful summer indeed. That Osmocote organic fertilizer has done the trick once again! Ah, if only the classics could grow on trees! One can only dream.
Nintendo Harvest
Sega Harvest
Commodore 64 Harvest
Atari 2600 / 7800 and ST Harvest
PC-Engine Harvest
Atari Jaguar Harvest – Do The Math!
Nintendo Virtual Boy Harvest – Be careful, it can make you sick!
Atari Lynx Harvest
I reckon Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld should get together with Nintendo and thrash out some rights to get this show syndicated! If this is a taste of a typical episode, then I know I would watch. What do you reckon?
source: Esquire Bob Animations
John Rambo: the one man war machine is back. With the imminent release of his latest video gaming incarnation, Rambo: The Video Game, we look back at some of his earlier video gaming outings.
To date, there have been ten Rambo based video games. The 1980s is where it all started for the Vietnam veteran.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
[Developer: Ocean Year: 1985 Formats: Spectrum | C64 | Amstrad CPC]
The perfect Commando rip-off, Rambo: First Blood Part II upped the ante by scrolling in eight directions. The premise of the game was simple, Rambo is sent on a reconnaissance mission to obliterate anything that moves in the Vietnamese jungle and rescue the POWs. The C64 version was damn awesome and Martin Galway’s SID tune just topped it all off.
Rambo
[Developer: Pack-In-Video Year: 1987 Format: NES]
They say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that is the case, then Pack-In-Video’s Rambo tries very hard to be like Nintendo’s Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link. Pack-In-Video’s earlier attempt on a Rambo game came on the MSX in 1985. However, that one was quite rubbish. The NES version has basic RPG elements and features that simply don’t feel very Rambo-like, but at least it is still playable and somewhat entertaining. I don’t recall John Rambo battling dragonflies or hungry tigers in the movie?
Rambo III
[Developer: Ocean Year: 1988 Formats: C64 | CPC | Speccy | MSX | Amiga | ST | PC]
Ocean had a reputation for getting the rights to blockbuster movies. Rambo III was no exception. Before they gave us the sublime Platoon and Robocop, Ocean gave us a boring version of Rambo III. The game was broken up into three stages – raiding the enemy fort to rescue Col. Trautman; destroying the enemy compound by priming explosives; and the final stage being a 3D shoot-out, with enemies coming towards the screen.
Sega’s rendition of Rambo III [1988] on the Master System was a competent Operation Wolf ripoff, but their Mega Drive version in 1989 hit the bullseye. If you want to play Rambo III, play it on Sega’s 16-bit beauty.
Imagine if Sonic The Hedgehog could be completed in a blink of an eye! What would our most popular video games be like if they had a super easy mode? Can’t imagine in it, can you. Well, press play and take a look at how super easy mode would be like on your fave video games.
Imagine your favourite video game characters made the transition to a Mills & Boon romance novel – what would the novel be like?
Imagine no more! The clever people at Shutterstock have accomplished the feat in creating fictitious romance novels based on our most favourite video gaming characters, from Link and Zelda, to Pac-man and Ms. Pac-Man. So, which one of these novels takes your fancy?
Collector of Hearts, starring Link and Zelda
The Forbidden Peach, starring Mario, Princess Peach… and Luigi
Fierce Moves, starring Ken and Ryu
Hungry for Love, starring Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man
Shot to the Heart, starring Dog and Duck
source: Shutterstock
With the meteoric rise and fall (pardon the pun) of Flappy Bird, it was only a matter of time for someone to make a first person virtual reality version of the game. Thank you Braycen Jackwitz for Flappy3D (Ed: and for the induced motion sickness!).
source: Braycen Jackwitz