Kool-Aid, MAME & game mashups

Bonecollektor

Shared on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 21:10

First of all, let's lay my dirty laundry  right out where everyone can see it. I have a Kool-aid problem. It's almost as bad as my Strawberry Quik addiction but, I don't think anything will ever beat that. Anyway, I haven't touched Kool-aid since...2001. My wife bought some sugar free crap and when I drank it the shit made me sick. So naturally every time I smelled the horrible stuff it turned my stomach. Well recently my daughter grabbed some while my wife was taking her shopping. First of all, God bless my little girl. Second, damnit. As I swirled around a fresh pitcher of red nectar of the Gods I noticed the smell didn't seem to bother me any more. So I decided to give it a try. Now here I sit 24 hours later and about 2 GALLONS of Kool-aid gone. Don't judge me monkey.

 

So I've been digging around the MAME scene lately and decided to go ahead and download the emulator and run a couple games. OMG! The flashbacks were a-plenty! NARC, NBA JAM, 1943, TimeKillers....It was almost an 'awesome' overload. I'm glad Firefox blocks pop-ups because if i would have seen one small thing about Chuck Norris I would have exploded. But seriously, this small experience has left me wanting to build my own mame cabinet even more. If you haven't ever checked this sort of thing out give it a try. There's also a sweet new interface for MAME cabinets called "Hyperspin". Which basically is a sweet navigation tool for selecting the type of emulator that you want to use and then which game you want to play. It looks slick as hell. There's a nice video demonstrating it over at Hyperspins' website (google it).

 

Since current video games have been boring me to the point of tears lately, I've been surfing the net aimlessly looking for some sort of new interaction. You know, even the internet gets boring after a while until you run into little gems like these that were posted on YouTube. This guy has put together some great video game mashups. I've watched them over and over and laugh every time. Here's the links:

Mortal Kombat vs Donkey Kong

Contra vs Duck Hunt

Grand Theft Auto vs Frogger

Sonic vs Pacman

Mortal Kombat: Finish Him! LOL!!

 

Hopefully this weekend I'll get back to the AB cabinet and get some work done so i can post some more pics.

 

later!

 

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