“Secret Flirts? More like Secret Farts!”

That’s what I said out loud in a room empty but for myself when I came across this game’s boxart last night. I then spent the next ten minutes photoshopping the image — time that I should’ve devoted to my move today (I bought a house yesterday!). The small edit changes your entire intepretation of the cover scene!

I mentioned to JC that the smirking geek looming in the background looked suspicious, suggesting that he could be the mastermind behind everything, or possibly a partner in crime to the winking foreground lass.

“The two of them share a secret,” JC speculated. “And that secret is Wolf Brand Chili.”

tags / secret flirts / secret farts / amirite / nobilis / import / immature / boxart / wolf brand chili / ec

Oh, look, it’s more Monster Hunter 3 junk. There’s something kind of dignified — and yet simultaneously hella tacky — about this Wii stand that I enjoy.

The Wiimote sticker is part of a set that also includes a sticker for the console. The other stickers aren’t this cute, though. And the shirt makes me think less of Monster Hunter and more of Bonk’s Adventure. Or barbecue.

tags / monster hunter / monster hunter 3 / capcom / jc

Custom White Game Boys with gray buttons and green painted designs (including the Purple Tentacle!).

The rubbery looking buttons and shiny plastic make this mod appear more toylike than Nonfinite’s duotone system, which is like a golden calf for worshippers of handheld systems and electronics junk. The immaculate white shells really make those green elements pop, though.

I love the black and green cases! Were there stylish cases or other system accessories for handhelds back in the day? Or did everything look like the Game Boy Booster?

See also: Custom Game Boy painted by The Popo, Original Game Boy (White)

[Via Pimp My Gameboy]

tags / game boy / mods / day of the tentacles / accessories / ec

Link’s Awakening running in TI-Boy SE, a Game Boy emulator for TI-83/84 calculators. The emulation isn’t perfect, and it currently only runs a few games, but, well, it’s a calculator. Running Game Boy games.

[Via technabob]

tags / game boy / calculator / ti-boy se / jc

Game Center CX Virtual Console special on Volfied, a Taito game that looks like a shmup, but is actually a Qix sequel. Arino’s challenge is to enclose 99.9% of a level — something that is made challenging not only by the enemies, but by the fact that a score of 75% or more automatically ends the level.

At one point, Arino employs a strategy that I’d never thought of for Qix (I don’t mind revealing the secret that I’m terrible at Qix): building a tower in the middle of the screen. In part 2 (below), that strategy is expanded into a specific maneuver designed to trap the boss in the smallest possible area.

[Via Nintendaan]

tags / game center cx / jc / taito / volfied

“Heart Fighter” by Trevor Dunaway, today’s Woot Shirt. I fully intend to waffle on this purchase until it’s out of stock, at which point I will kick myself. If you’ve got more conviction than I do, it’s available today, while supplies last, for ten bucks.

tags / heart fighter / shirts / woot / shirt.woot / jc