The Pop-Culture E-Zine
I thought the first rule of Fight Club was that you did not talk about Fight Club! I am breaking that rule here – what if Fight Club was retold in 8-bit pixelated glory? Wonder no more people. Well, actually, it’s more like 16-bit, but that is beside the point.
CineFix are ‘gamifying’ a few Hollywood blockbusters into old school video gaming inspired action. You should take a look!
source: CineFix
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
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
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
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.
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
Imagine if Instagram was invented back in the 1980s – how would you have shared your “I am eating a lobster right now” photos? Before you blow your 8-bit registers thinking about the logistics of sharing photos online in the 80s, the good folks at SquirrelMonkeyCom show us exactly how Instagram would have worked back in the best decade of the 20th century.
This is social media 1980s style!
source: SquirrelMonkeyCom
I wonder what Koji Kondo would make of this – blending Sonic’s tunes and effects on Nintendo’s masterpiece, Super Mario World. Strangely enough, the Sonic music and sound effects do go quite well. I am sure Koji would approve and have a right royal laugh about it.
source: NDSLover350
The El Gamer Cosplayers are at it again. After their awesome KoF2001 rendition, this time it is Street Fighter II that gets the real-life cosplay treatment.
Watch this classic battle between two old foes, Ryu and Chun-Li – Ready, FIGHT!
source: El Gamer Cosplayer
Here is a novel idea, use a group of humans as pixels to depict some of video games’ classic games like, Tetris, Pac-Man and Pole Position to name a few.
Stop motion artist, Guillaume Reymond assembled large groups of volunteer humans (as pixels) for his Game Over project to recreate stop-motion videos of classic video games, complete with self-created sound effects. Enjoy!
Human Pac-man
Human Tetris
Human Pole Position
Human Space Invaders
Human Pong
source: NOTsoNOISY