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Know the old saying, “Time is money”? And how they say, “Time flies when you are having fun”? Well, put two and two together and money sure as hell flies when you’re having fun. And there’s no greater sink for your money than a classic arcade machine sitting right in your living room, complete with all the classics you grew up with. And if that doesn’t convey how filthy rich you are, there’s nothing like rubbing everyone’s faces into the fact that your arcade machine is plated in 24-Karat Gold.
That’s right. The Official Game Haven presents to you the Crystalcade - the “most versatile, advanced and exciting fantasy-fun-center on the planet” that comes complete with a translucent polymer chassis and a spectacular light show on the inside, a 5.1 350W Dolby THX surround sound system with an 8″ subwoofer, a 160GB hard drive with Jukebox software and a ton of retro games, a 21″ flat screen monitor and the best damn arcade controllers we’ve ever seen in our lifetime. And yeah, that gold/chrome/platinum plating thing too.
Now we don’t know how much this thing costs (make that we don’t want to know), but if you know someone who has this baby, just drop us a note with their address and we’ll take care of the rest.
The Crystalcade [via GameoftheBlog]
Retro Rockstars Jeremy Parish and Mike Nelson decide to form up and use the Force. That is to say, so that they may get down and dirty with a franchise we all know too well, that’s been milked left and right to the gaming masses like nobody’s business. From appearances on the Atari all the way up to your favorite current-gen consoles (They still sell the PS2, right?), the boys got their bases covered in this ultimate 1up article on the Good, the Bad and the Jar-Jar Binx of Star Wars games. Fanboys need not apply.
Source: 1up.com
I know this one has been around on the internet for a LONG time! But it’s just so amazing that I consider it an HONOR to have this video tagged to www.theangrypixel.com. Someone please tell Jack Thompson and his bitches that when people enact video games - it’s seriously funny!
As a kid, my brother and I would do this kind of stuff simply because our parents couldn’t afford the NES and we didn’t get pocket money to blow up in video game parlors. (I tried doing that once. ONCE.) So I can totally dig this and relate to it. Gosh! It was unbelievable when we “played” Contra or Spartan or even Double Dragon! Watch this and laugh your ass off. I know I did!
Who says classic gaming is dead? Proving yet again that the older consoles can still stand their ground in the face of giants such as the Xbox 360, the Wii and the PS3, Akibablog unearthed this store that was running a demo of… Last Hope, on the Dreamcast. Why? In case you didn’t already know, Play-Asia is now shipping Limited Edition copies of Last Hope, which includes the Original Soundtrack to the game as well.
If you didn’t know already, Last Hope is a sidescroller along the lines of R-Type and Gradius and was originally released for the NeoGeo. That is, until redspotgames re-released the game for the Sega Dreamcast in January this year. If you weren’t fast enough to grab your copies of the game then, Play-Asia has 500 (yes, ONLY 500!) copies of the game that go on sale on their website on April 16, 2007. Get yours now, if you are not already too late…
Damn! Get to a certain age and all you hear about from your parents are about you getting hitched. What’s worse is that everytime someone you know gets married, the pressure mounts on you to go and walk down the Green Mile with your happily-ever-after (bah!) partner. What makes the whole thing worse for a hardcore gamer is that destiny always plays an unfair hand by throwing you in with someone who has absolutely no respect for your gaming habits and would rather complain about how childish you are while she plonks her ass down on the couch to watch cooking shows and brain-deadening soap operas that would make any grown man try to kill himself in the first 5 minutes.
While most of us try to convince our girlfriends and future wives about how we love games just as much as they love shoe shopping, some of us stash our favorite games in secret nooks that she would never find. Heck, her finding the secret games stash would bring more raining death-fire on our heads than her finding our extensive porno stash and sex toy collection. And then there are the wusses, the ones who are completely willing to sell out, quite literally, by putting years and years of gaming history for sale on eBay for a ridiculously low amount of dough.
Take a look at this guy. He’s selling almost every game console and videogame that’s been released for the last 20 years on eBay just because he’s going to marry some girl! Jeez, man, you’d give away classics that you don’t have a whelk’s chance in a supernova of getting back just for a girl. Just take a look at his collection, he’s got systems like the Atari 2600, ColecoVision and the NeoGeo and practically every top rated game ever made in the history of gaming and he’s practically signing his soul over to the devil. Face it, dude, you’re gonna get a LOT more love from Shining Force than you’ll ever get from her. I hate to think what’s gonna happen to this guy if she decides to dump his ass some day and walk out on him. Did I mention he’s got the original box packaging for almost everything he owns? Yeah. this guy deserves to wear the ball and chain, and I most certainly don’t mean the proverbial one.
Wanna own gaming history?
Head on over to the gaming pariah’s eBay listing >>