Quickie vid

Carrying on the 8-bit tradition, in this video a group of skaters roll down San Francisco streets wearing lit-up hat contraptions in the shape of Tetris pieces.

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.

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.

The two faces of Tetris

I’ve had a wicked caffeine headache all weekend (the downside to having an office espresso machine) – so peep these pics which have been living on my desktop for a few days.

Tetris – so simple, so evocative.

(Second pic from GameOvr)