It must be Thursday.

Now normally on a It must be Thursday post I will give you readers an offering of something odd or funny that pertains to the wonderous world of electronic gaming. However with todays post I give you something that is just flat out awesome!

Thanks to Kotaku for the heads up on this vid. Pixels was created by Patrick Jean and music provided by Naive New Beaters. Enjoy!

Boe - The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Box Art Wednesday. What if?

Taxi 8 bit by RetroPeachy

Faulty towers by RetroPeachy

Golden girls by RetroPeachy


We have a very special presentation of Box Art Wednesday for you readers! Thanks to the incredible musical talent of my friend, Peachy, from over at the Retroist I am able to post some of his 8-bit musical offerings for your enjoyment.

Because who of us hasn't wondered what a Taxi NES game would sound like? Peachy can answer that question and more for you over at http://soundcloud.com/retropeachy

Since I have an Atari Label Maker at my disposal I went ahead and created these what if? cartridge scans for these popular TV shows.

Angela's Theme/Taxi - Peachy

A place to store your Rupees.

So there I was...my Buzz Lightyear wallet had finally given out on me...I had to go and purchase a new one. I hate shopping for clothes almost as much as I despise wallet browsing. Why? Because the world tries to force you to purchase one of the leather versions. Forget that nonsense. I carried my Super Mario Bros. wallet for 15 years and when it gave out I picked up the Buzz Lightyear version and it lasted over ten years.

Luckily my wife dropped by our local Hasting's on the way home and found the above wallet. The only way I could have been happier was if I had found some green rupees in the thing!

Zombies at my Neighbors - Singlefile

"I can't believe we said no to free beer! "

I'm not sure how many times I've sat in my command chair with a bowl of popcorn on my knee and a frosty mug of IBC Root Beer in hand watching the classic horror/comedy Tremors and thought to myself, why did they never make a video game for it?

I no longer have to wonder about such a game! Thanks to programmer Tom Fulp and artist Johnny Utah with music help by Midimachine we have Tremerz!

Head over to http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/531965 to give it a play. Good luck and most importantly, do not let Earl and Valentine down.

Exciting weekend for Encom.

The gaming world has been abuzz since Encom announced two weeks ago that Alan Bradley himself would deliver some exciting news about a new product in the pipeline. Last Friday evening, Mr. Bradley who was joined by his wife Lora, announced the soon to be online version of the classic Kevin Flynn programmed Space Paranoids game. He even went so far as to describe the amount of effort he had to work at to keep Space Paranoids from being an updated remake, that is correct, we will get to play the original like we remembered it. Although Bradley mentioned he made sure the programmers added 15 additional levels that came from Kevin Flynn's own workstation.

Of course the big moment came when the press conference was interrupted by the public group known as Flynn Lives, this was made easier as an Encom helicopter soared overhead and a parachutist swooped down over the crowd, landing and jumping into a waiting vehicle nearby. Most of the attendees, both Encom employees and Flynn Lives members think that it was Sam Flynn himself who parachuted down.

Moments later a spokeswoman for Encom apologized for the interruption and shut down the conference since things had gone so far out of control.

I for one wish I could have been in the audience myself but while the Radium Chimp training went well we had a massive cooling leak from one of the main reactors. Luckily everything is fixed and I am able to report that only three henchmen lost their lives controlling the leak. So a pretty exciting weekend all around.

A big thanks to the Blue Parrot for the photos above!

Listening:
Angela - Bob James

Still more Saturday Supercade!

How do you make a Duck Tales shirt even cooler? By making it a shirt of Scrooge McDuck from the NES game is how!

Thanks to 80's Tees for the pic above.

Still Saturday Supercade!

How many times lately have you been saying to yourself, "What I really need now is an Atari 2600 cartridge that is also a flash drive."