#September2013
Press Start: It’s Tough Being A Kid
It probably goes without saying (but I will anyway) that most of our formative experiences with video games stem from childhood. Whether it was skipping school to hike to the nearest Street Fighter II cabinet, or locking yourself in your room to explore the vast kingdom of Hyrule, most of us will have some key memory that comes to define what games are to us and they would have been formed at a pretty young age. For me, they were worlds of wonder; simple though they may have been, they unlocked my imagination more than any teacher-fed book could ever hope to do. And though I find myself fawning over the ability to now play as a fully fledged criminal in the online space, I still think the contemporary world of video games is incredibly limited, at least for children.
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Press Start: Kevin kills kittens for kicks
Sometimes it’s quite difficult to come up with amusing and witty quips for these intros. Well, it is if you’re me, anyway. So, in the absence of comedy and wit, here are some suggestions for amusing accents that you can use whilst you read this week’s Press Start in your head:
-Stoic Japanese Samurai
-Hollering Redneck
-Swedish Chef
– Disgruntled Pierce Brosnan
– Aroused Patrick Stewart
Now, on with the video games.
CLOUD CITY Landing Platform Goes LEGO Microscale. Word.
Hell yeah! Rod Gillies has whipped up a gorgeous LEGO microscale of the Cloud City landing platform from Empire. Ah, that fucking platform. So much Boba Fett, so many blaster bolts wasted upon it.
‘2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY’ LEGO Sets Are Monolithically Dope. PUNS.
Jason Allemann has created a collection of goddamn glorious LEGO sets based on 2001: A Space Odyssey. The pinnacle is a 3,800+ piece rendition of Discovery One.
Hit the jump to behold.
‘Blade Runner’ Goes LEGO. The Whole (Cyberpunk) World Wins
The LEGO wizard known fittingly as Legohaulic has gone ahead and created a most righteous of mash-ups. The Blade Runner LEGO collection. It takes my childhood love and mixes its shiny soul with the dark, dank adult love for cyberpunk hopelessness. Outstanding.
Hit the jump to check it out.
BioShock’s Rapture Made Out of Legos. Excellent.
Imagine Rigney is a Lego sculptor. Who has taken BioShock’s Rapture and recreated it with plastic brick and much love.
Hit the jump to check it out.
