Long before Axl Rose was suing his former bandmates over Guitar Hero, or professional orchestras performed live overtures from Final Fantasy, all gamers had to listen to were chiptunes— video game music composed from 8 bits.
Nostalgic for your computer gaming youth were you spent all day glued to the yellow and black screen of Oregon Trail? Your oxen might have been moving at a strenuous pace, and you and your wagon were eating a meager amount of food each day, but you never seemed to get to ford that river before [...]
By now, we all know the basics of Scott Pilgrim: the titular clueless 23 year-old plays bass in a garage band, sleeps ‘til noon and generally just drifts through life until he hooks up with literally the girl of his dreams. The only problem is that in order to keep dating her, he has to [...]
Chris Sims at Comics Alliance has made the incredible happen. He’s smushed together superheroes from the Big Two into classic video games. Go over there and dig ‘em all. Some of my faves below:
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thanks to this, I won’t be doing any more work today. (Don’t tell Peter.)
The final installment of Doctor Octoroc‘s now-viral 8-bit tribute to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog is out, and I couldn’t be happier. Each part of the game-inspired treatments still captures the charm and humor of Dr. Horrible, right down to the heartbreaking end. Even Penny’s death in 8-bit was hard to watch. (Watch the full screen [...]
After last week’s Act l of Doctor Octoroc‘s 8-bit interpretation of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog went straight into the hearts of fans everywhere (watch it here), we’ve been yearning for more. Luckily, the wait wasn’t long.
There is little you can do with the Dr. Horrible franchise that I would grow tired of. Comics, t-shirts, sequels: I’ll love them all equally.
