Your Dream Of A Winona Ryder-Themed Arcade Has At Least Been Partly Realized
Remember that Amanda Visell X Michelle Valigura collab, which retold Star Wars from Princess Leia’s various perspectives? Well they’re back with another pair of video game concepts that we all wished was real, which this time taps into two of Winona Ryder’s most iconic roles.
Alas, both Lydia's Trouble With The Living and Veronica's Heathers are sold out, despite the rather hefty price tag of $250 each. It’s also worth noting that only five of each was made; sorry for the late heads up, which I guess is one of the bigger downsides of this weekly format. Though they went on sale on a Friday, when most stuff online goes unnoticed anyway.
At any rate, what else have you missed last week? Well, let’s see…
Speaking of cross-overs, it’s the Chrono Cross X Miami Vice mash-up that you had no idea existed but will soon be glad it does…
This combination of Akira and Pac-Man also works very well for me (via atariforce)…
Sticking with Pac-Man, here’s a kinda crazy comic produced during the height of Pac-mania. Again, a huge fan of artwork depicting video games back in the day; the super abstract visuals gave artists plenty to work with (via tvgame)…
And here we have the late, great Lily Tomlin discussing her addiction to the game. The following is a joke btw… I think?
The arcades sure have changed over the years. Where it was the place to go for Pac-Man, now it’s the place to play… Rock'em Sock'em Robots? Gigantic ones to be precise (via aworldofgames)…
As noted last time, I’ve been playing Breath of the Wild, which was going great until I made a horrific discovery that is brilliantly articulated via the following comic (via humblegoat)…
Speaking of Zelda, here’s a wonderful piece from the always awesome Kyle Fewell…
As some of you may know already, I’m fairly embedded in the Garbage Pail Kids scene, which is how I came across Mark Pingitore’s rendition of Samus…
Bloomsbury UK asks: “Is this the greatest epigraph ever?” I’m inclined to say yes…
We’ve all seen videos of an American gamer checking out the Japanese flavor of familiar hardware and software, right? Well, how about the reverse? In the following we see someone that runs an game store in Japan, who also apparently has zero familiarity with the NES. Seems a bit odd; most Americans in any given game shop has at least some knowledge of the Famicom at this point (or so I’d like to believe, even if it’s because of the internet). Anyhow, it’s amusing to see the fellow be impressed by the American styling, which he prefers over the Japanese esthetics, as well him forgetting to press down on a NES cart for it to work…
Speaking of regional differences, does anyone know if the American version of Deroon Derodero, called Tecmo Stackers here in the States, has this green elephant that’s basically sniffing himself (via obscurevideogames)?
Which wacky box art do you prefer? This one for I am a Teacher: Teami no Kiso (via vgjunk)…
Or this one for Forget Me Not: Palette (also via vgjunk)…
Speaking of box art, remember the ones in the vein of that Criterion Collection that members of Select Button produced did many moons ago, which I somewhat recently came across and shared? Well, I also found a similar batch from NeoGAF…
And speaking of oldies but goodies, and back to Select Button; was recently reminded of the Averaging Gradius project, which recorded various participants (including my good pal Nullsleep) and their playthroughs of Gradius, to study how different people handle similar situations in a game…
And sticking with shmups, the place to go on Tumblr regarding the subject recently introduced me to the work of Daniel Vendrell Oduber. Am particularly fond of his pieces on M.U.S.H.A. and Gaiares…
So the latest meme that I’ve become fascinated with is one hailing from China that stars Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou Project. Here’s some of my favorites…
Now might be a good time to highlight the Thexder resin kit that miki800 shared not too long ago. Pre-orders are being accepted right this second…
Whereas this TwinBee model/figure/toy is still in the prototype phase. But thus far, looking great!
Also courtesy of Video Game Densetsu is footage of a Japanese toy store that includes the launch of Dragon Quest 3…
Speaking of Dragon Quest…
I really miss Capcom’s Secret Files, which you can read more about here, cuz they were chock full of such goofy personality, something that’s a bit lacking from the company these days. Stuff like (via ouendanl)…
Just a friendly reminder why MUGEN is still the best…
And finally: yes, that’s Doom running on an ATM…
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Release: DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 18, 1996 May (PCPX-96027)
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In terms of structure, this DemoDemo is strange in that it splits it demos equally between the accessible sections for reasons I couldn’t wholly tell you. That being said, you better love yourself some scrolling shooters and puzzle games, as they by far constitute the bulk of this disc’s playable content. If you do happen to like shooters in particular, though, it’s worth noting that Dezaemon+ demo on here is neat in that aside from letting you play sample content, you can even mess around with the series-defining shmup editor for things like graphics and sound, although you understandably don’t seem to be able to actually save any content you make within the demo. With that out of the way, here’s the full content breakdown:
DemoDemo PlayStation
Volume 18, 1996 May
PCPX-96027
Demo PlayStation:
Playable Demos (Silver disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):
-Victory Zone 2
-Circuit Beat
-City Bravo
-Dezaemon+
-Kyuiin
Movies (Green disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):
-Kowloon's Gate
-Samurai Showdown III
-Hokuto no Ken
-Sonic Wings Special
-Expert
-Creature Shock
-Bonogurashi: Kore de Kanpeki Disu
-True Pinball
-Ebisu Yoshikazu no Ooana Kyoutei
-PoPoLoCrois Monogatari
-The King of Fighters '95
-Shutokou Battle
-Feda: Emblem of Justice Remake
-ThunderStrike 2
-ClockWerx
-Meru Purana
-Extreme Power
-Kojima Takeo: Mahjong Teiou
Request PlayStation:
Playable demos for the following games in clockwise order, starting at the top:
-BreakThru
-Mezase! Senkyuuou
-Kururin PA!
-Unstack
-Tecmo Stackers/Deron Dero Dero
-Pepsi
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