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Owen Good: When All Else Fails, Try Selling Your NES for $35,000 [Halp]

Owen Good — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:00:00 +0000

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Several months back, a rare NES game sold for more than $40,000. It's not one of the 42 games offered along with an NES in this eBay lot but you know what is? The eternal thanks of the seller. More »

DOS Month Day 15: Blake Stone

DOS Month Day 15 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:06:00 +0000

Since I have been talking about FPS of the past, why not do one more? Blake Stone is one of the FPS that very few talked about. It's not that it's bad but the game is just not well known. You can relate to games like Wolfestein 3D because it was one of the very first FPS to show yourself shooting Nazis yay! And Doom because well it's Doom! Blake Stone on the other hand has very interesting aspects. You can collect money to buy yourself health and I think weapons later on. There are also these scientists that will either help you or shoot you down or you can even shoot the good scientists down after they helped you har har har! Overall, this is another title you can check out and have a blast with.

DOS Month Day 14: Wolfestein 3D

DOS Month Day 14 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:01:00 +0000

Since it was only fair to mention Doom, why not mention the one that has always been in the shadows of Doom. Wolfestein 3D made us hate the Nazis even more. As a prisoner of these demented monsters, your only goal is to escape, get the hell out of there, abandon ship, whatever you might call it, just find a way out! The game itself is incredible and very tough as well. Getting shot right in front can really damage your health so in a way the game is very realistic. Don't forget to look at your poor guy's face in the bottom of the screen since you will see him bleed more and more as you take more damage. Heal him! Find soup, eat a turkey leg, or just find the health kit, you must survive! As much as you love Doom you have to give this one a try. I say it's just as good but not as long. The final boss is........

DOS Month Day 13: DOOM

DOS Month Day 13 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:57:00 +0000

No need to introduce this awesome classic of classics! This game had me obsessed with killing aliens back in the early 90s and you just couldn't get enough of Doom. With a killer sequel after wards this game really placed a foundation for future FPS games. This is all that you had to play in order to feel pleasure in blowing things up on your PC. With massive levels and a long cruel story line with a saddening ending Did I said too much? Doom is one title to come back over and over and over. If you haven't tried this one out yet, it's waiting for you, at least pick up the shareware for some alien bastard action!

Finds 211: Pokemon Games and Asian PC Games!

Finds 211 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:48:00 +0000

Another interesting set of finds today. It has been a while since I went out looking for stuff but I am happy with the games I came upon this time around. As usual I picked up the Pokemon games which are all in working condition although some of them have names written in the cart. I also picked up a Game Gear game from the Disney series of Donald Duck I'll test that later today . I also picked up a couple of CDs which looked like PC games for older OS except they were they games Dragon Ball Z and Smash Bros! I have to try them out but sadly they don't work on Windows 7, the case says they work on Windows 95/98/2000/XP so I'll have to somehow get a hold of an XP machine and try them out. Photos below!

The covers for these games. I think the language is Chinese? Maybe?
AWA?
WAAAA?
WAAWAW AWAW?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

Pokemon Games FTW!
Donald Duck Game, man he looks like he is freaking out! Can he ever get a break?

So that's all for now, I might have more stuff coming in the weekend but I'm not so sure. Until next time!

JC Fletcher: Artist turns 100 classic controllers into alarm clocks

JC Fletcher — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Artist Roger Ibars wired one hundred different game controllers -- from the familiar to the obscure -- to travel alarm clocks, creating a series of wonderfully impractical devices. While we can't buy our own it used to be possible to buy a similar device, but they're hard to find now , we can all enjoy the beautiful photographs Ibars took. It's a collection not only of his art, but of the collected works of game and peripheral companies over 30 years.

Ibars granted Joystiq the natural home for art about joysticks permission to share a selection of high-resolution images with you, which you can find in our gallery below. It's going to be really sad if Kinect makes controllers obsolete, because future galleries will just include blank spaces with tiny alarm clocks in the background.

Gallery: HWD Corporation by Roger Ibars

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