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robotnik2004) wrote2003-12-16 11:57 pm
robotnik2004) wrote2003-12-16 11:57 pm
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I am mesmerized tonight by two little videos which appear to be flawless run-throughs of the old Nintendo games Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man 2. (Both links go direct to streaming videos.) I played the crap out of both of these games in the NES years with my siblings and then with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foogie in our frosh dorm room at Crazy Go Nuts University. There's considerable nostalgia mojo just in hearing the music and watching Mario and Mega Man pogo around. But can these videos really be actual games, "filmed" in a single "take"? Or have they been edited or manipulated? They are, I repeat, flawless performances. It's cooler to imagine they represent actual play, but I really don't want to think about the hours necessary to hone one's game to this kind of robotic precision.
For more Nintendo nostalgia, you can do no better than Seanbaby's NES and Mega Man pages: "Metal Man. He was some robot that was made out of metal. He was the dork of the group. I mean, all of the other guys are made out of metal too, but they have other cool stuff. It's like you getting a costume that says, "Human Man," and trying to fight crime." Hee.
Tangent #1: A trivia fact for those that didn't know me in the early 1990s. In the fall of 1991, I painted a portrait of the Mario Brothers on the back of my red leather university jacket. It looked hella sharp and was not at all dorky! despite what you might now suspect. It was in fact exceedingly cool and I will stand by that interpretation. If you didn't recognize Mario and Luigi (and in 1991, most people over the age of eleven didn't), the icons were strangely compelling, cheerful yet unsettling in that iconic Japanese design way. And if you did recognize them, then you had to give me props for being way out in front of the hipster appropriation of Japanese kiddie culture.foogie and I actually set off a bit of a campus fad for jacket-painting, I think. (OK, by the end it might have gotten a little dorky.)
Tangent #2: I've got both videos playing in separate windows on my desktop as I type this. Mario and Mega Man have very distinctive jumping arcs. Even without the raccoon ears that give him the power of flight (for some reason), Mario's broadjump beats the fuck out of Mega Man's. But Mega has that adorable anime leaping pose.
Edit: Word on the street tells me that the Mario video, at least, is faked. My faith in humanity is simultaneously damaged and restored.
foogie in our frosh dorm room at Crazy Go Nuts University. There's considerable nostalgia mojo just in hearing the music and watching Mario and Mega Man pogo around. But can these videos really be actual games, "filmed" in a single "take"? Or have they been edited or manipulated? They are, I repeat, flawless performances. It's cooler to imagine they represent actual play, but I really don't want to think about the hours necessary to hone one's game to this kind of robotic precision.For more Nintendo nostalgia, you can do no better than Seanbaby's NES and Mega Man pages: "Metal Man. He was some robot that was made out of metal. He was the dork of the group. I mean, all of the other guys are made out of metal too, but they have other cool stuff. It's like you getting a costume that says, "Human Man," and trying to fight crime." Hee.
Tangent #1: A trivia fact for those that didn't know me in the early 1990s. In the fall of 1991, I painted a portrait of the Mario Brothers on the back of my red leather university jacket. It looked hella sharp and was not at all dorky! despite what you might now suspect. It was in fact exceedingly cool and I will stand by that interpretation. If you didn't recognize Mario and Luigi (and in 1991, most people over the age of eleven didn't), the icons were strangely compelling, cheerful yet unsettling in that iconic Japanese design way. And if you did recognize them, then you had to give me props for being way out in front of the hipster appropriation of Japanese kiddie culture.
foogie and I actually set off a bit of a campus fad for jacket-painting, I think. (OK, by the end it might have gotten a little dorky.)Tangent #2: I've got both videos playing in separate windows on my desktop as I type this. Mario and Mega Man have very distinctive jumping arcs. Even without the raccoon ears that give him the power of flight (for some reason), Mario's broadjump beats the fuck out of Mega Man's. But Mega has that adorable anime leaping pose.
Edit: Word on the street tells me that the Mario video, at least, is faked. My faith in humanity is simultaneously damaged and restored.
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;)
But I still love ya! And I'm sure you still got all Da Ladies with it. It was, after all, the early 90s.
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But just to further horrify you: jackets at my alma mater are color-coded by faculty: red for Arts & Sciences, blue for Med and Ed, gold for Engineering. But then the unofficial engineering color is purple, so the engineers dye their gold jackets (and themselves) purple after the first exam cycle. The colors sort of bleed through, for a sort of exposed-to-toxic-waste look that is highly prized.
Always go out dapper like Harry S Truman...
Re: Always go out dapper like Harry S Truman...
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And to show that there's no hard feelings about the (possibly deserved) fashion critique, I will say that I completely agree with your post about those puffy winter jackets.
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Seanbaby rocks, too. Mega Man was my favorite NES game, but man did I suck at it. I think it led to my lifelong hatred of "jumping" games.