Showing posts with label Space Invaders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Invaders. Show all posts

8-Bit Graveyard


The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand games
And grizzy video ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom

(Augie Pagan for for Gallery 1988's Old School Video Game Art Show)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Koopa, It's What's For Dinner
Sesame Street Anatomy Lesson
Super Mario Anatomy


The Tragic Tale Of A Space Invader










I had no idea how complex of a life space invaders lived. Almost makes me feel bad about how many I've killed... Almost. (Ehud Lavski via Geek-Art)

Previously on Popped Culture...

Space Invader Autopsy
A Fistful of Points
Space Invaders Make Good Eatin'



Geek Food Combo


Junk food and video games — a perfect combo. Illustrator Juan Solon did this for the Italian edition of Wired and I get all the references but one: What are the fries supposed to be? Anyone? (Edit: Oh, I think they are lightsabers.)

Previously on Popped Culture...

The Many Faces Of A Space Invader


Space Invaders are are not the monolithic, bent-on-destroying-the-earth alien menace they are made out to be. See illustrator Logan Walter's The Many Faces of a Space Invader for proof.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Space Invaders Make Good Eatin'
Space Invader Autopsy
Star Wars Invaders

Pixels Take Manhattan


Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris and the link weren't video games. They were cautionary tales and training manuals of how to fight off the coming invasion. Patrick Jean's Pixels shows us how it's all going to end if we don't pay attention. (Link via Ampersand Arcade)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Let Your Video Game Freak Flag Fly
Space Invaders Are Real!
Rubik's Cube Last Supper

Star Wars Invaders


Use the force, Luke! You can tell that the licensing arm of LucasArts wasn't in full swing in 1978 or I'm sure this game would have existed.  (Tom Clancy via RedBubble)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Space Invader Autopsy
Space Invaders Are Real!
Space Invaders Make Good Eatin'

Space Invader Autopsy

And here I thought they were ships. My bad. Alien Autopsy, from Threadless designer Chris Rowson.

So what's with all the Space Invader (and Pac-Man and Super Mario for that matter) references lately? Is my generation really getting that nostalgic? I suppose I shouldn't ask that without a solid look back at my postings.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Single Female Lawyer Arriving Soon At Omicron Persei 8
Checkmate In Four Moves, Predator
My Little Pony Madness

Space Invaders Are Real!

...and they are spectacular! Ok, that might be overstating it a bit, but I can't say the first part without the follow through. Damn you, Seinfeld! They're Real, from Jean Salamin at Threadless.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Space Invaders Make Good Eatin'
Space Defenders
Invaders! Possibly From Space!

Space Invaders Make Good Eatin'

Go get 'em boy! Life sure was easier in the good ol' days, as shown in this Life photo shoot by Ryan Snieder. (Link via Accordion Guy)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Space Defenders
What Would Pac-Man Eat?
Invaders! Possibly From Space!

Space Defenders

So does that mean the aliens from Space Invaders were actually retaking their home planet? That we were the invaders? This t-shirt just blew my mind. From the incomparable Glennz.

Speaking of Space Invaders, game designer Shinobi is reworking the game using a scene from Raiders of the Lost Arcade, part of Futurama's Anthology of Interest II episode, including Rush's Tom Sawyer as the soundtrack, of course.


And speaking of Futurama, it has been confirmed that FOX is reviving the series with an order of 26 episodes for 2010! Good news indeed.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Sweet Zombie Jesus, Futurama Lives!
Watcharama: Who watches the Futuramen?
Obsoletely Fabulous

What Would Pac-Man Eat?

The day job is depressing me. The world economy is continuing its death spiral, a a dead man's past is being attacked and idiots are leaving their toodlers in cars to go gamble. But these video-game cupcakes are making me happy and hungry.




(Link via Toxel's 21 Unusual and Creative Cupcake Designs)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Lost Cake Flashes Before Your Eyes
Invaders! Possibly From Space!

Invaders! Possibly From Space!

I suppose everyone needs to learn somewhere. From Threadles: A Simple Plan by Neil Gregory.

Which gives me warm and fuzzy memories of the Raiders of the Lost Arcade segment from Futurama's Anthology if Interest II.
Lrrr: People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Nintendu 64. Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ships.
Fry: Alright, its Saturday night. I have no date, a two litre bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mix tape! Let's rock!
Nd-Nd: We're losing ships, sir. What are your orders?
Lrrr: Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!
Oddly enough I can't find that short clip (or at least not anywhere but Hulu) though I did find the whole segment. Weird.


Actually, now that I think about it, there was a Rush/video game connection on an episode of Chuck. In Chuck vs. Tom Sawyer (I don't know if that link will work), Chuck must play a game of Missile Command all the way to the kill screen to get to a set of satellite codes. He realizes the rhythm of the game matches Rush's Tom Sawyer and defeats the game.

So what is it about Rush and video games, or was this just a nod to Futurama?

Previously on Popped Culture...

Watcharama: Who watches the Futuramen?
Obsoletely Fabulous
Popaganda: The Pop Culture Revolution

I Wish Life Were More Like a Video Game

Hey there Popped Culture fans. If you've landed here you clearly aren't averse to taking a little time out to indulge yourself in some rejuvenating nostalgia. Some would call it time wasting — those people are philistines.

Anyway... I was reading Layercake (as you should too) and came across a fabulous collection of game widgets from LabPixies. Space Invaders, memory games, crosswords, music stuff and all sorts of whatnot that you can play on the page and add to you own blog. I could resist, I mean come on, Space Invaders on my own site with no need for quarters? It's all so Futurama:
ND-ND: We're losing ships sir. What are your orders?
LRRR: Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!


In other news, I wrote my first post for the Torontoist. Fun! Thanks to David Topping for the invite to join his merry crew. Cool city, cool blog, cool beans.
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