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Everyone's a Nintendo Fanboy
Submitted by Tom on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 15:01Haven't posted in a lil while, as I've been on holiday (and completely forgot to set an out-of-office notice, whoops).
To keep things ticking over, here's a wonderful video game related parody of "Wonderful World". I'm sure the Satchmo would approve.
Amusingly enough, the mid-90s Nintendostalgia continues, with a team of geeks celebrating Obama's win in their own special way: Super Obama World!
Yes, now you can take control of the incoming leader of the free world (I say free, Britain costs extra) and defeat lipstick-wearing pigs against a colourful 16-bit backdrop! What better way to celebrate the President-Elect's technical-savvy and forward-thinking nature, than portraying him in a 15-year-old video game?
Still, could've been worse. I hear if McCain won, they were planning a Palin-themed version of Bejewled.
In a World Where Music Is Honest
Submitted by Tom on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 11:39Quite possibly the weirdest, and yet somehow coolest, music video of all time was A-Ha's Take On Me (with the 90s cover version by A1 possibly being the worst video of all time).
As is the case with many awesome videos, it has next to bugger all relation to the song itself (unless "Take on Me" is something you yell when you're coming at a cartoon Norwegian with a pipe wrench). Well, some ingenious soul decided to correct this mistake, and produced a version of the song more homogeneous with the images on screen. Click below for truthly goodness!
Extra points have to be awarded for the use of the phrase "Pipe Wrench Fight" as backtime, but possibly missed a trick by not mentioning the "Nice Cold, Ice Cold Milk" poster that dates the video even more than the hairstyles (which are apparently still popular in parts of Europe).











