Exposing my socks to the world

ASCII Art is the art of taking text and making it appear to be pictures. It can range from really small and simple to really big and simple to big and detailed



There are some people (shockingly enough) that have made some Nintendo-themed ASCII art. As you might expect, the art ranges from okay to pretty good.

Game Girl Advance has an interesting and well written article on genderplay in video games.



It’s definitely worth a read,



From the article:“The late Dr. Anita Borg taught that technology isn’t neutral; tools are shaped by the values and desires of the creators. Often the creators tend to be clueless to the values encoded in their tools, because to them, the tools are transparent – they reflect pure utilitarianism. But to those who are excluded, the tools are highly charged.
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Sometimes sites scare me. Take for instance The Church of Burger Time. It comes complete with The Three Tenets of Burger Time!



Words escape me.

This page has a version of X-Men vs. Street Fighter that you can play in your web browser.



You can only pick 6 characters, but it’s pretty faithful to the arcade version, which is amazing since it is a Flash movie.



Oh, and Cyclops is still Supercheap(tm),

Who, after playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, didn’t want their own ocarina?



This site has them for sale and they’ll teach you how to play the songs from the game.

What do you get when you mix Castlevania 3 and AOL?



You get this.

I just got my copy of The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker, but I just bought Pokémon Sapphire last week and with the copious amount of homework I have, I don’t think I’ll be able to play it for about a month.

Well, at least the case is nice to look at.

Here is a version of Pong that does away with those pesky ‘graphics’.

Who would have ever thought that Coca-Cola would ever advertise for this site?

One of my all time favorite games for the TI-99/4A was Parsec. Never mind the fact that we only had three games for the system total (Parsec, Radar Rat Race, and Hustle).



This site has a review up.