Posted on 23 September 2008 by admin
From Topless Robot:
Drugs. One can only blame illegal substances for the exceptionally large number of bat-shit insane, totally weird, fantastically awesome or otherwise completely misleading (yes, they’re all part and parcel of the same grouping) cover art designs to original NES games. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, these covers often had nothing to do with the game, as if the people bringing it over had never seen a single screenshot from the cartridge inside.
Trying to narrow the list of the hundreds and hundreds of NES game box covers down to the Top 10 Most Ridiculous is nearly impossible, considering that roughly one out of every three covers has a reasonably high “What the fuck?” factor. So let’s dive in and highlight 10 completely ridiculous NES Box Art Covers and we can call it a day.
NES, Nintendo, funny
Posted on 30 April 2008 by admin
I was born in 1976, so video games were a huge part of my life. I don’t have as much time to play them now, but I do have a Wii, which I enjoy, but miss that feeling of opening the newest, best-graphics-ever, can’t stop playing, games. It occurred to me recently that many of the games I played as a child, and teenager, changed my life in many ways.
Here are the 7 games that changed my life, and how they did it:
#1 – Mattel Electronic Football (1977)
I still remember my neighbor getting this amazing creation. I was about four years old, but I remember being blown-away by the cool noises it made. I didn’t understand it, or have a clue how to play it, but I carried it with me as often as I could.
How it changed my life: I don’t know if Mattel branded the units, but my neighbor’s had a Tampa Bay Buccaneers logo (yeah, the orange and white one). The day I saw this game, I became an instant Bucs fan. Continue Reading
