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Games that pushed the limits, parts 2 and 3
Racketboy has returned, as promised, with the second and third installments of his look at games that pushed the limits. We're not talking about games that pushed the limits of decency, like Sega's Night Trap, or the limits of human patience, like any version of last year's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but pushed the technical limits of their respective platforms.The platforms in part two are (arguably) the redheaded stepchildren of console gaming. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're not considered to be successes. Atari's Jaguar (and the super-popular Jaguar CD add-on), the ill-fated 3DO, Sega's x-citing 32X add-on, and Sega's "sneak-attack" Saturn. Part three includes big boys like Sony's party-crashing PlayStation, the cartridge'd Nintendo 64, and the Dreamcast, the console that history has--and will--remember kindly.Part four will cover portable gaming and--based on the release schedule of the earlier installments--should be up any day now.
Body ports: Nintendo controller port tattoos
Go Nintendo reader Olivier sent them pictures of his tattoos, an armband featuring controller ports from Nintendo's various consoles: NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and GameCube. There's something very eXistenZ about having gaming ports on your body; admittedly, they're not on his lower spine... though that would be a cool tattoo.
Exploded N64 controller; a study in reverse-engineering
Cmr8286, aka Cole Ranze, has posted some images at deviantART of an exploded Nintendo64 controller, part of a reverse-engineering project. Cole says: "This was done for an [materials & processes] class I took last semester. The project was to reverse engineer a product and examine with what and by what means it was made. Instead of pasting the parts up on a board and labeling them, I thought this was a better way to present this particular product. It also has a nice sculptural appeal, I feel."Beautiful.[Via 4cr]
