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real people mimic video games and vice-versa · by Rafi Kam
In Ravenna, Ohio five teenage girls got in trouble for decorating their town with life-size Super Mario Brothers boxes. The April Fools prank led to a public panic which had authorities threatening criminal charges would be brought against the five girls.
The town’s police chief said:
“The girls found an Internet site called Mario Question Blocks which told you step by step how the game is played, along with instructions on wrapping the packages, just to see what kind of response you get,” McCoy said. “This game is evidently being played all over the country.”
In fact, the site being referred to is not laying out the guidelines for a game but a sort of shock art / political statement – “a comment on public spaces being routinely used for advertising”.
It’s actually a pretty awesome site: http://www.qwantz.com/posterchild/
I love this type of messing with people. I don’t know where they find the time and the devotion to arts & crafts in order to carry this out but bless their nerdly souls.
Next we have another awesome Mario recreation, this one posted at the Inane Asylum by my co-worker Jason. It’s a rockin’ performance of the Mario theme including some dramatic interpretation of the game’s levels. Check out how the crowd goes nuts for this. There may be a market to tap here….
We go from real people re-creating a classic video game to using a video game to re-create a classic moment of reality.
A slow roller up to Buckner….
From the sports blog DeadSpin comes news of some very lonely man who used the old Nintendo game RBI baseball to recreate the most famous half-inning in Mets history. It’s a great job except Kevin Mitchell and Mookie Wilson are white for some reason. And so is everybody else. Damn racist baseball video games of the 1980s.
Last but not least, Robbie at Unkut gives a very favorable review to the graf-themed video game Getting Up.
Even if you’ve never tagged anything in your life, the gameplay alone stands-up once the initial novelty factor wears off. If you ever used go bombing in your youth … this is an essential purchase.
What a wonderful world we live in. Now “getting up” doesn’t even require getting up.
Comments for "real people mimic video games and vice-versa"
great post…i feel those power up boxes.. its an ill as statement of defiance! plus that clip of them cats playin the mario themes is classic.
— Small Eyez Apr 15, 06:35 PM
real life powerup boxes = hilarious
— David of OhNerd Apr 16, 03:00 AM
Yahoo has the story behind the RBI Baseball clip
— rafi Apr 17, 10:57 AM
Youre a dickhead.
— arlene Apr 18, 09:34 AM
get your red sox loving self out of here. this is 06… the year of the met.
— rafi Apr 18, 09:43 AM
Faggotry.
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