Games/New York

14

Apr

label: Image Series

Part of a continuing series of images. Click on photo to view full-size.

A malfunctioning news ticker sign reveals its abstract materiality with a lone visual unit.
Perhaps this is pixél vérité?

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on April 14th, 2010 :: Images :: Tags : Images, New York, pixel
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Collision Detection

4

Apr

label: Image Series

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on April 4th, 2010 :: Images :: Tags : Cave, Mushihimesama Futari, Norman McLaren, Spheres, Video
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Collision Detection

20

Nov

label: Image Series

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on November 20th, 2009 :: Images :: Tags : California Games, Double Dragon, NES, Super Metroid, Super NES
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Games/New York

19

Oct

label: Image Series

Part of a continuing series of images. Click on photo to view full-size.

The things you find in New York alleys. Actually, this garbage depository on the side of my apartment building has been bearing some interesting fruit lately: About a month ago I found a stack of gently-read Edge magazines, and shortly after, a broken set of Rock Band drums (and they were in fact destroyed, no doubt in the wrong place at the wrong session). I shouldn’t be too surprised, considering the density of my neighborhood and how gaming is all but mainstream now, but still…I can’t help feeling a little less alone around here.

Of course I peeked.

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on October 19th, 2009 :: Images :: Tags : Images, New York, Nintendo 64, Photo, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
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Collision Detection

27

Jul

label: Image Series

Images from VGMuseum.

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on July 27th, 2009 :: Images :: Tags : Images, NES, SNES, Super Metroid, Zelda II
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Collision Detection

29

May

label: Image Series

Breath of Fire image source: VGMuseum

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on May 29th, 2009 :: Images :: Tags : Breath of Fire, Images, King Arthur's World, SNES
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Collision Detection

27

Apr

label: Image Series

Image Sources: Protector-one and calyxa.

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on April 27th, 2009 :: Images :: Tags : Images, Myst, Super Mario Sunshine
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Games/New York

16

Apr

label: Image Series

Part of a continuing series of images. Click on photo to view full size.

When all of the humans are gone, who will take over: the dead or the rodents?

Collision Detection

31

Mar

label: Image Series

Inspired by Ryland Walker Knight’s Convergence series at Vinyl is Heavy.
Dynamite Headdy screenshot courtesy of VGMuseum.

Posted by Kurt Shulenberger on March 31st, 2009 :: Images :: Tags : Dynamite Headdy, Images, Konami, Sega, Snatcher, Treasure
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Signs of Life

18

Mar

And then there is a game like Soul Blazer (1992), which encapsulates the fragile and tenuous balance between man and universe through roughly translated language that seems hewn from some half-completed philosophic masterwork by an author long forgotten before they could ever be remembered in the first place, illuminating moments of humanity that are probably spun at every minute of every day yet never quite brought to light in such a plain and beautiful way, and makes one wonder if a video game developer can indeed be unashamedly altruistic, wanting nothing more than to use their games as a means to impart simple existential wisdom through lines of code and patterns of colored squares, too small to be counted individually but all equally essential for the glowing tapestry that we can sometimes actually take to heart, if we are willing.