I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “Atari” from The Cultural Gutter
Do You Want Fries With That?
Last year when I heard that Burger King was
planning to release a series of video games for the Xbox 360, I
thought the game industry was headed for a new low. To me, this went
way beyond the shameless hordes of promotional tie-ins to popular
movies and TV shows, and seemed more inappropriate than the
solicitation of virtual product placement within a video game. Here
was a giant fast food chain attempting to sell full-fledged console
games to the general public that were literally nothing more than
interactive advertisements. Who did they think they were kidding?
I
certainly didn't expect what happened next.
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Remembering the Teenage Sex Comedy
It's probably really tough for today's male youth to understand what the older generations had to go through in their youth to get some inspiration to burp the worm. Today you just turn on your computer, toss a DVD in the player, or watch pay TV and it's showtime. What about the young gents of the '50s, '60s, '70s or my wonder years, the '80s? It wasn't easy to get even a whiff of a nipple back then. If you grew pubic hair in the Reagan era, you had to either hope you were gonna find some musty stroke books in the woods or make do with something that wouldn't arouse your parents suspicions; like Teenage Sex Comedies.
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The Name Game
While
I wait in the lobby of one of the largest game studios in the world, I watch
someone go through to the inner sanctum. The shiny barrier, with transparent
doors that whir apart at the wave of a card-pass, looks familiar -- I think
I've seen the devices being used as turnstiles in a Tokyo subway.
Most places of work are satisfied with a locked door, but someone at Ubisoft Montreal decided they needed something with a little more panache. Something that made the employees feel important and impressed visitors. And something that said, "No, you won't just be waltzing in here and stealing our secrets."
I half-wonder if I'm being tested.
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Read Only Memories
I'm fairly suspicious of nostalgia, and I hate how advertisers leverage our emotions to sell us the same products twice. So while I'm happy that people are rediscovering videogames from their youth, and that the games and their blocky aesthetic are mushrooming up all over the culture, I wonder about the retro-gaming phenomenon.
Are these games really that good?
Continue reading...
Do You Want Fries With That?
Last year when I heard that Burger King was
planning to release a series of video games for the Xbox 360, I
thought the game industry was headed for a new low. To me, this went
way beyond the shameless hordes of promotional tie-ins to popular
movies and TV shows, and seemed more inappropriate than the
solicitation of virtual product placement within a video game. Here
was a giant fast food chain attempting to sell full-fledged console
games to the general public that were literally nothing more than
interactive advertisements. Who did they think they were kidding?I certainly didn't expect what happened next. Continue reading...
Remembering the Teenage Sex Comedy
It's probably really tough for today's male youth to understand what the older generations had to go through in their youth to get some inspiration to burp the worm. Today you just turn on your computer, toss a DVD in the player, or watch pay TV and it's showtime. What about the young gents of the '50s, '60s, '70s or my wonder years, the '80s? It wasn't easy to get even a whiff of a nipple back then. If you grew pubic hair in the Reagan era, you had to either hope you were gonna find some musty stroke books in the woods or make do with something that wouldn't arouse your parents suspicions; like Teenage Sex Comedies.
The Name Game
While
I wait in the lobby of one of the largest game studios in the world, I watch
someone go through to the inner sanctum. The shiny barrier, with transparent
doors that whir apart at the wave of a card-pass, looks familiar -- I think
I've seen the devices being used as turnstiles in a Tokyo subway.
Most places of work are satisfied with a locked door, but someone at Ubisoft Montreal decided they needed something with a little more panache. Something that made the employees feel important and impressed visitors. And something that said, "No, you won't just be waltzing in here and stealing our secrets."
I half-wonder if I'm being tested.
Read Only Memories
I'm fairly suspicious of nostalgia, and I hate how advertisers leverage our emotions to sell us the same products twice. So while I'm happy that people are rediscovering videogames from their youth, and that the games and their blocky aesthetic are mushrooming up all over the culture, I wonder about the retro-gaming phenomenon.
Are these games really that good?
