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This is possibly one of my favorite flash game.  You play as a little pixel German punk that’s on a vandal spree.  Wander around the city and set cars on fire and throw rocks at windows for points and avoid the cops.  That’s pretty much it.  Oh, you can duck in side of doors and find secret passages through buildings to lose them when you’re running from them.  You can also find secret areas that give more time to the clock.

I love the look of this game… mostly because I love pixel work.  But above all, I love the music of this game.  It really brings the whole thing together.

Oh, and the whole site is in German too.  So if anyone wants to give me a actual translation about the site that would be very cool ^_^

So at the next Komiket (Japanese Comic Market) it’s been announced that a homebrew DS hentai game will be available for the public. Woah! Really? Yup, really… it’s not licensed by Nintendo or anything so you’ll need a flash cart to let it I would assume, but I guess there is rumour that it’ll be available in Akihabara after Komiket though.

I wonder if this will open more doors for this type of DS homebrew. I’m more surprised that it took this long really. I really home we see more, because… well… I’m a pervert ^_^

Oh! I never mentioned the name of the title. It’s Half Elf Tentacle Assault and so one can assume it has tentacles in it. Not really my bag, but I’ll be sure to try it out as soon as I can.

Aww, yeah ^_^

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So the other day I talked about those fake artsy Famicom cartridges. Well today I’m talking about real, fake Famicom carts. Wait… what?

What I’m talking about are those Chinese hacked NES games. I found a site that had a huge list of them and some of them look pretty good. Although I’m sure most, if not all, play like crap. Scanning though all these though takes me back to my early NES days, just like looking at those art carts. So of my favorite game memories come from games just like these… well. Not really like these, but from this era of games.

Even though these aren’t “real”, approved games it does look like a decent amount of work was put in to making them. So it makes you wonder, was it better to just whip out a hack or put effort in to making a decent title. Although, there are a lot of just hacking the game and swaping some tiles and sprites to call it a new game.

Anyway, have a look though the list. There are some “fun” NES versions of some titles you wouldn’t really expect. Like Golden Axe, Zelda: Minish Cap, Titanic, Resident Evil… the list goes on and on.

There is crown jewel though. It’s a demake of Final Fantasy VIII.Yup, pretty much the whole story line of that PS classic is in there. How awesome is that? It’s a whole freaking bucket of awesome is what it is. You can find more screens of it here. It looks great too. If this was release as a real NES game back in the day… it would have blown our minds… heck, it blows my mind now.

It makes me want to give my NES a hug ^_^

What defines art?  Are games art?  Maybe, games defiantly have art in them.  What about the packaging?  Lots of people, including myself, hold on to game boxes for the art.  What about the art on the cartridges?  Can that be art?  If you think “no, your out of your tree” then you might want to take a look over here.

It’s a Famicom case exhibit where artists where asked to make and submit cart art for their fictitious game.  How much fun is that!  I mean seriously, this is the kind of thing that really appeals to me being an artist and a huge game freak.  The area on the front of the cart is pretty small so you really have to think about what you want to show to make your game interesting.  There are some fantastic submissions there too.  Looking at all these takes me back to the early days of games where things where more quaint in development.  I even look at these carts and seriously want to play them.  They look that great and believable.

I also like the look of the Famicom carts better then the NES carts that we got over here.  Big grey and ugly.  Boo!  The Famicom ones look some much cuter and fun.  And the colours!  Ahhhh…

This is the kind of thing that really makes me smile.  Truly.  I love art.  I love games.  I would totally put one of these in a shadow box and hang it on my wall.  Simply wonderful ^_^

Now why didn’t Nintendo show any of these titles during their E3 presser?

Dead Rising Wii!

Mad World… looks crazy violent but done in a Sin City style.

I’m sure they would have got a better response then one they got for showing Wii Music and Wii Sports Resort.  This is great news for me since I’ve wanted to try Dead Rising but I’m too cheap to shell out cash for a 360.  Even with the price drop.

If anyone missed the Nintendo E3 show then watch it here… see if you can last the whole thing.

So over the past two days E3 has been going on and Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Ubi and other developers have been talking the talk. So what as a gamer do I have to look forward too? Not a whole lot. That’s not to say I’m losing interest in games… oh heck no. I just find that I’m not at all interested in the these online, multi player, download movie abilities that the 360 and the PS3 can do. I just want games.

Most of the games they showed we’ve been expecting to come down the pipe line soon. E3 just gave us official trailers of when we’ve been waiting for. Gears of War 2, Sims 3, Animal Crossing Wii, God of War 3, Final Fantasy IIIV, more Street Fighter 2, more Prince of Persia, more Resident Evil 5, etc, etc…. Although FFIIIV being on the 360 is quite the shocker and I’m sure that Sony fans are crazy pissed about that. But yeah… nothing there gets me excited.

The Wii’s new add-on that makes the Wii-mote have 1:1 movement is neat but a little late. I don’t see me picking it up until I really need it to play a game. Wii Sports Resort looks fun too, but I still have fun with regular Wii sports so I’ll wait on it too, and Wii Music just looks… meh.

If anything has me jazzed it’s the announcement of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS. Not that I’m a huge GTA fan but it was mentioned that Rockstar has made it’s own original engine for the game. I would really like to see what they can do with this engine. Will it be a 3D game or just a top down. How will they make a whole city in the DS? The DS is no PSP. Maybe they’ve just made a small section of a city. Could they be doing some sort of seamless loading for the city so it’s just done in chunks? Oh I so do want to see. More from a developer standpoint then anything.

So yeah… no real big news this year. I know everyone I’ve been talking to is bummed that there is no big shocking news this year.

What about you? Is there big E3 news that get’s you moist?