GAME OVER is a brilliant video performance project created by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond, using stop-motion (pixelation) technique to visually reproduce classic arcade games, pixel by pixel.

It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each "pixel" has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live".

The project started with video performance of Pong. The second video was Space Invaders on June 24th 2006, followed by Pole Position on February 11th 2007, and Tetris on November 24th 2007. The videos demanded a lot of time to be shoted, planned, and the result is great. However, two more reasons to watch them: the special effects and the soundtrack all made with voices only. Watch Tetris bellow.

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Posted by Bibi on January 23, 2008 09:15 PM in Animation, Fun, Fun, Games, Video ||

The pretty humorous cards above are part of the deck of the French card game "La Grivoise" (The Spicy). That page contains all 32 cards and the box of the game released by Grimaud in the 1960's. According to the box, it's a funny game, for laugh and amuse yourself, with 16 blue cards for women, with answers, and 16 red cards for men, with questions. (via PCL)

Posted by Bibi on January 23, 2008 12:45 PM in Games, Illustration, Vintage ||

I'm old enough to remember the glorious days of arcade games like Frogger. But I noticed I did't have experience enough with "Fliperamas", the Portuguese word for arcade games, informally called "fliper". The only arcade game I remember playing was the classic Pinball. I'm saying this because the images displayed on The Control Panel Overlay Museum are totally unknown to me.

At least I know some of the games listed on the page by name, based on my brief experience playing video games: Asteroids, Elevator Action, Frogger, Ms. Pac Man, Pac Man, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong. Well, it's too late to complain now. (Thanks Bertrand!)

More arcade nostalgia: The Video Game Revolution and 1980 games.

Posted by Bibi on September 14, 2007 09:22 PM in Design, Games, Vintage ||

I would like to have played more videogame in my childhood. Just a vaguely thought, based on my knowledge of the games of this set of Atari Game Manuals, with 103 images. I know several by the name, just by the name. I remember to play Astroblast, Asteroids, Pitfall!, Space Invaders and Pac-Man. That's all. The Atari wasn't mine and I wasn't able to finish any of those - I was a bad player. BTW, the worst Atari game ever is on too.

Related posts: Pac Man: The Insatiable Hunger, Frogger, 1980 games, The Video Game Revolution, The Legend of Zelda Live action version, Wintergreen - "When I Wake Up" and 20 Years of The Legend of Zelda.

Posted by Bibi on July 25, 2007 03:53 AM in Games, Geek, Vintage ||

Videogame Theater presents Pac Man - The Insatiable Hunger. A funny video using puppetry and animation, with Pac-Man as a junkie and wife-beater. Poor Ms Pac-Man. (I know this isn't new, but I found it now).

More Pac-Man: Frogger, 1980 games, The Video Game Revolution and Pacman live-action video

Posted by Bibi on June 22, 2006 03:15 PM in Fun, Fun, Games, Video ||

I don't know why I post about things, but here it is Frogger in Flash. I didn't play Frogger when I was a little girl. I played Pac-Man, Mario Bros, Elevator Action and other games, always with my amazing technique that made me giving up of them The only game that I'm good playing is Tetris.

Some weeks ago I discovered that I'm a so good Frogger player as a Pac-man player. And that's the reason why I don't know why am I posting about this Frogger version in Flash. Anyway, the site Neave Games has more Flash versions of those 80's arcade and video games classics. There is Simon - I know how to play that, and I'm not so bad playing it -, Asteroids, Space Invaders and few others. (via digg)

Posted by Bibi on May 26, 2006 08:07 PM in Fun, Fun, Games, Video ||

1980 games - Old online video and arcade games for free. Play Donkeykong Junior, Space Invaders, Ms Pacman, Elevator Action and many other video games from the 80's without spend any coin. I verified that I'm still playing those games as good as before, that's why Tetris still my favourite. The arcade games work with an emulator and they require Java.

Related post: The Video Game Revolution.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 01:37 AM in Games, Vintage ||

The Video Game Revolution is a fascinating PBS site. The Video Game Revolution examines the evolution and history of the video game industry, from the 1950s through today, the impact of video games on society and culture, and the future of electronic gaming. The four areas - History of Gaming, Inside the Games, Impact of Games and The Arcade - tells the history of how they began, the first games, the best and the worst, how a game is made, it shows the classic games cheats and, through essays, it also shows how the games changed the habits of our society. In the end the quizzes test your memory and a flash version similar of Galaga. Don't miss the timeline.

Posted by Bibi on March 11, 2006 03:34 PM in Culture, Games, History ||

Last month The Legend of Zelda celebrated its 20 Years. Two years ago a group of fans were already celebrating their love for the game doing a parody live action version of it. If the video isn't a masterpiece, at least it has some funny moments. I would like to see a Mario Bros live action version now. (via Backwards City)

Related posts: Pacman live-action video and Tetris live-action.

Posted by Bibi on March 10, 2006 10:54 PM in Fun, Fun, Games, Video, Weird, Weird ||

I can't resist to silly flash games, it's stronger than me. When I see, I'm already playing them. But don't ask me why I have few posts about them here, even in the games category. Today I'm making one more addition to that poor list with Chuck Norris in Attack of the Massacre Ninjas. The graphics and the complexity aren't the best features of this game, however, it hs Chuck Norris and nijas, what else do you want? More Chuck Norris at Chuck Norris - Facts. (via The Crime in your Coffee)

BTW, if you are searching for on-line games visit NicoSite, I'm always there playing the newest suggestions.

Posted by Bibi on March 9, 2006 03:44 PM in Animation, Fun, Fun, Games ||

The Legend of Zelda is celebrating 20 years. 1UP made a great special called Two Decades of Zelda - 20 years, 20 reasons Link still rocks.

Twenty years ago this week -- February 21, 1986 -- thousands of Japanese gamers played The Legend of Zelda for the first time, and their perspective on gaming was forever changed. Here was a huge world, a massive quest, an open-ended odyssey that demanded exploration. When we Americans first placed that golden cartridge in our Nintendo Entertainment Systems a few months later, we learned what our friends overseas had already discovered: Zelda was addictive. It was adventurous. It was ambitious. It was amazing.

I played it many years ago, more than a decade and I remember that I was very bad playing it - as usual - precisely so it was amusing. 4 color rebellion made a post about it, Happy 20th B-Day Link! with the line of the evolution of Link, while the official site, Zelda Universe, stay quiet about it. But I think that the best way to celebrate is playing it, no? (via /.)

Posted by Bibi on February 21, 2006 04:37 PM in Games ||

Worlds Largest Dice Collection: the story of Kevin Cook, that started to collect dices in 1977 and keep this obsession until now. In 2004 he receive the certificate of Guinness Record for the largest collection of dices: 11,097. Dices of plastic, amber, foam, glass, metal, paper, stone, wood, celluloid, bone, candy... with 4, 6, 8, 12, 20, 30... and 100 sides.

Search by theme, material or brandy, or look at How The Collection is Housed to see the boxes: the result and pretty and colourful. Imagine any kind of dice and this guy has. Maybe to all; he has naughty dices but doesn't have the two models below, not in a Portuguese version. (via Quiddity's)

Posted by Bibi on January 21, 2006 09:15 PM in Games, Geek ||

Tetris is so damn cool that even with this 80's commercial it still a huge success. I'm happy that never had seen this video before started to play Tetris, but I'm trying to clean my mind of those bizarre associations. The video can be downloaded here. (via kottke)

Still talking about Tetris, did you see those Feltris Blocks = Plush Tetris Blocks? Aww too geek! The blocks are squishily made of simple felt and stuffing and are available for purchase, but I would love to see them as pillows. (via Boing Boing)

Related posts: Tetris Tower, Tetris Shelves and Tetris live-action.

Posted by Bibi on January 18, 2006 10:26 PM in Design, Games, Geek, Video ||

And here is the second part of Christmas Linkdump:

Games

Christmas Greetings 2005: Brat Invasion. The brats are set to pilfer the presents from under the Christmas tree. You need to stop them! An adorable and instructive game, if you don't like kids.

Frosty Flips Game: Help Snowboarding Santa stock up on goodies for Christmas!

Holiday Express: a kind of Tetris with presents boxes as the pieces. (via NicoSite)

Jinx Episode 2: Miracle in the 34th Dimension, with an evil Santa. (via NicoSite)

Grow Ornament is one more "evil" Eyezmaze game that you have to discover the right sequence to finish the game, but this one is much easier. (via NicoSite, le meilleur du web pour vous...)

Lustiges Weihnachtskugeln: Santa is balancing on a snowball while he needs to jump the logs and throw down the snow men.

Santa Artois: Keep Santa on the straight and narrow by your mouse left and right as he drops presents down the chimney.

Santa's Ride: the same as the flying penguin and the other games; you have some energy and need to spend it to make Santa and his sled flying.

How To

All the wrappings: We've outlined some steps to help you wrap beautiful gifts in all shapes and sizes. (via Lifehacker)

Christmas Firefox Theme: all the instructions to make it, with two themes.

How to make a snowman ornament from a light bulb When your light bulbs die, don't throw them out. Make them into really cute ornaments. (via Make)

Mr. Tubbs, the Snowman - Crochet Snowman Pattern. 4 adorable holiday themed patterns (via Make)

Winamp skin for Holidays: Modern Holiday. Looks like a Christmas tree, maybe that's why I like it.

Paper Craft

A+ Snowflake: Paper Snowflakes, Free Snowflake Pattern Instructions for making Paper Snow Crystal Patterns. Many models to you have fun.

Activités de Noël pour les enfants sur Tomlitoo: Christmas paper models. (via Agence eureka)

Canon's Paper craft models: Christmas Card, Santa Hat, Wreath, Tree, Northern Santa Claus and Northern version 2.

Christmas Tree: scroll down to find an adorable tree to download and fold.

Flying Pig Christmas Paper Animations. Free models and links to more paper craft.

Flying Santa / Babbo Natale Volante by PaperPino. (via Paper Forest)

Merry Christmas! from The Toy Maker, with PDF models of boxes, cars, balls, calendar bag and Dodechahedron of Little Snow Guys with beautiful illustrations.

Paper Forest: Holiday Paper Forest. A collection of links to paper trees, origami, kirigami and paper sculptures, for the holidays.

PDF paper model of Christmas Tree, decoration and cards.

Peace in Paper Downloads: some models of Christmas and New Year's paper craft to you download and fold.

Sanwa Supply has adorable models for Christmas: cards, trees, ornaments, boxes and even a house.

SF Gate:Chronicle Holiday Cards to print.

Yamaha's Paper Craft model of a sled with two reindeers, a a Christmas tree card.

Videos

A Christmas Gory: "A Christmas Story" as horror film. (via Boing Boing)

Bizarre Christmas Musicians: a man playing a Christmas song in a keyboard with bouncing balls.

Chris Christmas Rodriguez: vote for him to replace Santa this Christmas. (via wmmna)

DirecTV Tv commercial for Christmas.

Gunther's Christmas Song (Ding Dong) and the pay uncensored version. So good as his other videos. (via Pez)

L'arrestation du Père Noël: the policemen stop Santa for routine check.

Le Père Noel dans un Sex Shop (Santa Claus in the Sex Shop)

Parkour Santa: Short video of Santa freerunning like a Saint.

Santa Claus' Punch and Judy from 1948, at Internet Archive. (via Bedazzled!)

Sarah Silverman "Give The Jew Girl Toys" (via Cynical-C)

Syncronized Christmas Lights Display 2005 video 1 and video 2. And please, don't do that on your home!

The Junky’s Christmas, a film by Nick Donkin, presented and narrated By W.S. Burroughs.

ZombieClaus is In a nutshell, we’ll be combining two powerful memes that have been running through the underground for some time now: Santarchy and Zombie Mobs. Don't forget to see the videos! (via MetaFilter)

Vintage

Acclaim Images Posters and Art Prints: Vintage Christmas posters and cards, circa 1890 - 1919.

Christmas Past: Christmas Image Gallery and Vintage Christmas e-cards.

Mazaika's Vintage Santa Xmas postcard gallery. More than 700 of my favourite Old Russian Soviet New Year greeting cards. (via The Cartoonist)

Russian and Soviet Christmas and New Year and Christmas e-cards.

Scared of Santa Gallery:Tis the season to be scared witless. I knew this, but it's always good to take a second a look at those images. (via Martin Klasch)

Shiloh Postcards: vintage Christmas postcards from the beginning of the XX century.

The Antique Christmas Lights: A look into America's Christmas lighting history from its commercial inception in 1900 through about 1950.

The Beatles Christmas Album: memorabilia of Beatles and Christmas. (via Quiddity)

The NYPL collection of greetings cards fof Christmas, Valentine's Day, Birthday and New Year, and Christmas Menus.

Vintage Christmas Flickr community. Here is a place for you to post all things vintage - and retro - that are Christmas-related. Time Period 1940-1975

Other stuff

Christmas Abstract: as Chris said, Deconstructing Christmas Songs. (via Cynical-C)

Festivus Poles for your Festivus. (via MetaFilter)

Fuck Christmas Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit? (via Kottke)

He believed in Santa. Guardian article about Andy Warhol: We think of Warhol as too cool for Christmas. But how could he not adore this celebration of the kitsch and the spiritual, asks Jonathan Jones.

Krampus is a shaggy monster with horns, covered with bells and dragging chains. In Bavaria, St. Nikolaus is followed by a similar horned creature, called Klaubauf; in Styria this attendant is named Bartel (via The Groovy Age of Horror)

Letters To Santa: tons of Christmas stuff - counter, backgrounds, Carols, traditions, history, sheet music, recipes, tales, Christmas greetings, ecards, etc.

From the Official Google Blog: how to track Santa with Google Earth.

Quiddity: A Space Age Christmas. Links about Christmas and Daleks and sci-fi Christmas.

Ugly Christmas Lights We will show the garish, the ugly, the weird.

Posted by Bibi on December 26, 2005 03:48 AM in Craft, Culture, Events, Fun, Fun, Games, Video, Vintage ||

Internet tips for beginners and experts:

- 55 Ways To Have Fun With Google. It's a plan for a book that will be written by Philipp Lenssen with suggestions of the Google Blogoscoped. The post contains some of those ideas.

- Blummy - The bookmarklet management bookmarklet. (via Micro Persuasion)

- How To: Getting Started with RSS at PaulStamatiou.com. (via Lifehacker)

- Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground - PC Magazine rates sharing and tagging services. (via Lifehacker)

- Special: Geek to Live from Lifehacker: Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets.

Make your own iPod: links of paper craft to make an iPod. I should have posted this on a link about art or cool things, but it's funnier here.

- Paper Mac's Origami "Make your own Mac" The Apple Collection. Many models of Macs: mini, Shuffle, Mac mini, eMac, iMacs, Macintosh Classic II, iBook, Cube, G5 and others, in many colours to fold and have fun.

- My iPod: a lovely white PDF iPod model to download and fold here and a bit bigger model (104%) here.

- Shin Tanaka offers a Shuffle model. If you don't have iPod shuffle, don't worry! You can build up this, and feel you have an iPod shuffle. Hum... that's for me!

Neat internet tips for bloggers: wise words by Steve Rubel, from Micro Persuasion.

- Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have

- Ten Blogging Hacks

- Micro Persuasion: Ten RSS Hacks

- Ten Technorati Hacks

The last news from Google, just in case you don't know yet:

- Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. (via Official Google Blog)

- Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors. Looks great no? The tools are very good, you can almost know what colours of shirt your visitors was using, but it's not working as programmed for many people. The updates are very slow and I had to wait just 26 hours to get my first results. Let's cross the fingers and hope that the things get back to normal very soon. (via Official Google Blog)

Plus:

- Greatest Internet Moments:a visual travel through Internet history. Pick an image and discover the story behind it.

- Sudoku: play Sudoku with Flickr images. Choose a picture tag and have fun. BTW, the default tag is hamster. (via Lifehacker)

Posted by Bibi on November 17, 2005 01:00 AM in Blogging, Craft, Flickr, Folksonomy, Games, Google, Internet ||

What Shall I Be? is a game from 1966 with the subtitle The Exciting Game of Career Girls. Oh yes, very exciting, but I'm still searching for a lawyer, a filmmaker, a pilotor or an engineer, because there are only teacher, actress, model, nurse, ballet dancer and airline hostess as careers. It's curious and totally outdated and I hope that you think the same. (via Cynical-C)

Posted by Bibi on August 21, 2005 04:20 AM in Curious things, Games ||

Something for you to waste some time in the end of this Sunday:

And you can make your own puzzle here. (via Nothing Important)

Posted by Bibi on August 14, 2005 06:28 PM in Fun, Fun, Games ||

Sorry for doing this, but I have to share it: Nude Video From World of Warcraft. Bizarre! It's compilation of videos of The World of Warcraft characters with nude patch dancing the hit Ding Dong Song, aka Oh, You Touch My Tra La La, by Günther and The Sunshine Girls. If you don't know this video you have to watch it; it's the best video you ever seen in your whole life. (via Eye of the Goof)

Posted by Bibi on August 9, 2005 03:39 PM in Fun, Fun, Games, Music, Video ||

Crates and Barrels - a collection of screenshots of crates and barrels in videogames. If you can, go find some crates or barrels in a game yourself and upload your own screenshots. I will try to find some barrels on American McGee's Alice, the last of those games that I bought some years ago (I'm too bad playing them).

Posted by Bibi on August 9, 2005 02:54 PM in Games ||

The Asylum ...psychiatry for abused cuddlytoys is a awesome Flash game with super cute animations. On this amusing game you have to use different therapy techniques to treat the four patients, it's lovely and a great way for you spend time. (via apophenia)

PS.: Who had the idea of selling those super cute characters? Now I want them!

Posted by Bibi on July 29, 2005 09:57 PM in Animation, Fun, Fun, Games ||