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Nintendo-themed Goldberg contraption
A college kid created this animation for a class project and submitted it to Professor Joystiq. We give the young man a gentleman's C for incomplete physics modeling, but an A for conceptual development. Very clever opening and closing sounds, especially. First response to list all of the games in this video wins glory for the duration of this post's existence on the internet. (While we're on the subject of Goldbergian machinima, be sure to check out this oldie but goodie.)
On eBay: the first game mag, Sega Genesis guitar
GameSetWatch has discovered a couple of interesting video game related items on eBay including a magazine from 1970 with the cover-text "Game Computer" (the first magazine to put "computer" and "game" onto the front cover?) and an electric guitar made out of a Sega Genesis. There's not much else to say about the magazine: it either is or isn't the first magazine to mention computer games. Unfortunately we have no idea how to verify this. The Sega Genesis guitar is a little more straightforward. The modder has merely replaced the body of the guitar with a Sega Genesis and called it good. And yes, the guitar does work, although the same can't be said for the Genesis. Now all we need to see is a guitarist using the guitar to play some Michael Jackson riffs as a tribute to Sonic 3!
Spoiler City: gallery of game endings
Game Revolution has an awesome gallery of classic 8-bit and 16-bit game endings. Don't remember how Sonic the Hedgehog ends? Never did finish Strider? There are a couple dozen videos on the site, all playable in flash. The majority of the games are all AAA classics like Super Metroid and The Revenge of Shinobi, with the obligatory Zero Wing entry, and the occasional Kid Chameleon. Where's the Final Fantasy endings?If you don't mind the absence of video, the Video Game Museum has a huge library of stills from tons o' games.
