Monthly Archives: March 2011

How to Play Classic DOS Games on Your Mac

by Robin Parrish
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How to Play Classic DOS Games on Your Mac

As a kid, I played plenty of old DOS games. Deus Ex. Duke Nukem. Commander Keen. Remember those? (You should — two of them are getting next-gen updates this year.) But as an adult, who’s converted to a far more useful and modern Mac, I assumed that those great old games were in my past, never to be recovered. And boy, was I wrong. A must-have new Mac OS X app called Boxer emulates a DOS PC on your Mac, so you can pop those old CD-ROMs in and play them like new. (You can also download DOS games from sites like this one or this one.) And unlike other Read more »

New Voltron Cats Are Ready to Kick Some Butt

by Noemi Twigg
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New Voltron Cats Are Ready to Kick Some Butt

Those of you who were kids (or semi-kids, if there is such a thing) in the 80s will know all about Voltron. Robin gave us a taste of Voltron recently and wrote about Voltron Force on Nicktoons and the game. If you were one of those who got all excited about that news, here is some eye candy that will make your day. To be honest, I was not that big of a Voltron fan. For one thing, our parents didn’t believe in the crap that was shown on TV. Whatever TV I got was from my cousins, who watched Voltes V instead of Voltron. (Now Voltes V is a Read more »

What if Super Mario Bros. Was an FPS?

by Robin Parrish
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What if Super Mario Bros. Was an FPS?

The most blissful minute-and-a-half you’ll experience all day is just ahead. It sets a new standard in awesome. Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be Mario in Super Mario Bros.? To run through his side-scrolling world from a first-person perspective, jumping over the pipes and bricks, and living inside Mario’s hyper-realistic, brightly-colored life? Brandon Laatsch, of the podcast Face Rocker, is the talented animator who created — from scratch — this amazing look inside the classic Nintendo game. He used rendering and animation software including 3dsMax, FumeFX, and After Effects to bring it to life. It reportedly took more than sixty hours across three weeks to Read more »

New Wonder Woman Costume = Halloween Hooker

by Robin Parrish
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New Wonder Woman Costume = Halloween Hooker

Maybe it’s the lighting? Whatever we geeks were expecting from the costume for NBC’s new Wonder Woman — from TV producer extraordinaire David E. Kelley — it wasn’t a hooker in a cheap, store-bought Halloween outfit. This is supposed to be a “more realistic” take on the DC Comics character? There’s nothing real about this costume. Take a good, long look. There’s just so much wrong. Let’s start with the overall look. I don’t mind so much that they updated the costume to reflect Wonder Woman’s recent comic book overhaul, putting her in pants instead of star spangled panties. Less can be more. But why does every single piece of this Read more »

10 Vehicles That Are Alive

by Robin Parrish
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10 Vehicles That Are Alive

All the talk lately about Cars 2 made me wonder how many other cars, planes, and trains — and all other types of vehicles — there have been in TV and film that could be considered alive. Anthropomorphic characters are common in modern entertainment (how many kids’ shows feature talking animals?), but how many anthropomorphized vehicles can you think of? Here are ten memorable vehicles that were as alive as the people who rode them. (The list doesn’t include predominantly “kids entertainment” focused characters such as Thomas the Tank Engine or the construction equipment on Bob the Builder. I also left out the characters in the Cars movies, since finding their Read more »

When the Art Masters Meet The Simpsons

by Noemi Twigg
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When the Art Masters Meet The Simpsons

What if art masters like Van Gogh decided to use subjects other than the “normal” people that they used? What if they had known the Simpsons? I am not much of a Simpsons fan, but that cartoon has an undeniable attraction for people of all ages. Admittedly, after seeing the movie when it came out, I found myself singing Spider Pig in my head for a while. So anyway, I just discovered the identity of an artist whom I have been looking for for a while. It all started with this image, which I found somewhere on the Internet months ago. Isn’t that just brilliant? I remember posting it on Read more »

Nuclear Boy Teaches Japanese Kids

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Nuclear Boy Teaches Japanese Kids

With all of the recent talk of nuclear disasters resulting from a reactor meltdown and how much or how little radiation has been released by Japanese nuclear power plants, and if that amount is deadly, it’s hard enough for us regular folk to grasp the situation. Now imagine if you were a child living in Japan with no knowledge of how nuclear reactors or power plants work. You would see adults panicking (maybe) and hear constant comments about something very bad happening. Naturally, you would want to know what is going on. In order to ease children’s minds, a media artist, Kazuhiko Hachiya, has created a short animated video explaining Read more »