8-Bit Trip

Check out 8-bit Trip, a very cool tribute to the pixel-y games we all know and love, rendered in incredible Lego stopmotion. It took 1500 hours to create, which is probably the same amount of hours I’ve accumulated playing Tetris.

The chiptune soundtrack is available on iTunes. If you’re into 8-bit music, check out Nobuooo, user-generated videogame music news. They’re also on Twitter at @Nobuooo.

Just funnin’

Re: my last post — duh! of course I was going to buy Layton, the sequel to the bestest DS game ever.

Thanks to GameSetWatch for alerting me that Layton is Twittering. Find him at @TopHatProfessor.

In honor of purchasing the game last night, I have set my desktop wallpaper to one of the promotional images kindly provided by IGN. Grab one here if you’re similarly inclined.

The real dilemma now, of course, is when to buy Fat Princess for PS3 — before or after the Layton cartridge arrives?

The Gamer’s Dilemma

Have: copies of Henry Hatsworth (stalled by unlocking the hardest bonus level in the game and having to replay other levels to open normal path) and Elite Beat Agents, both at approx. 50% completion

Want: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Dare I indulge in Layton and return later to my current plays? Or should I be true to the two cartridges I’ve got in rotation now?

Real life video games

Spotted these excellent photos by Hamburg photographer Partrick Runte of video games brought to life and figured it was as good an excuse as any to update this old thing again.

This shot especially speaks to me, as it reminds me of Pac-Manhattan, “a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980’s video game sensation Pac-Man.”

Also, the figures in the Tetris photo (specifically the square and the L shape in the foreground) look like an 8-bit version of Romeo and Juliet, discovering that they fit together despite their differences, while their various-shaped family and friends look on.