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My Famicase Exhibition 2013 entries

Meteor, our favorite video game shop in Tokyo, began hosting its annual Famicase gallery last week, displaying nearly 90 Famicom cartridges for fake games dreamt up by artists. It looks like more Western artists than usual participated this year, and judging by the messages we received, a lot of our readers heard about the show from our posts and participated! Congratulations! You might remember that we had our own piece featured by Famicase not too long ago.

I’ve picked out my favorites from 2013’s submissions for the images above. Yuko Yano’s Cat Takes The Breakfast sounds like a game idea JC and I kicked around back in the day — the goal in Yano’s imaginary game is to wake up your master to serve you breakfast. ExedStarSoldius曼蛇Xevi ForceZone 頭脳BeeType is also neat, mashing together of a dozen shmups.

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My Famicase Exhibition is back — and of course, we’ve picked our favorite pieces from the gallery of fake Famicom cartridge art. How can you not want to play Motmot’s rhythm game about petting chubby cats?

Tiny Cartridge fans might remember that we had our own rad cartridge (illustrated by Ashley Davis) at Famicase last year. Unfortunately, our busy schedules prevented us from participating this year, but don’t let that stop you from checking out the 80 awesome entries for this year’s show.

Those of you in Japan, make sure to see them in person at Tokyo’s awesome Meteor shop in Kichijoji, where the carts will be on display until the end of the month.

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See also: Previous My Famicase Exhibition designs
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Our Famicase 2011 favorites

We’ve already featured our own contribution, with art by Ashley Davis, to this year’s My Famicase Exhibition, Meteor’s annual art show highlighting game cartridge designs invented by artists worldwide.

Having gotten that out of the way (okay, one more time: check out our design, Meteor Night!), Eric and I picked some of our favorite cartridges from the exhibit. See them, and why we liked them, after the break — then look at the full exhibit and tell us your favorites!

Tiny Cartridge x Ashley Davis in Famicase 2011 exhibit»

You might have already noticed if you looked at the gallery for this year’s My Famicase Exhibition, the annual display of fake Famicom boxarts held at Tokyo’s Meteor store, but we were lucky enough to get to participate this year!

We worked with the wonderful Ashley Davis (Once Upon A Pixel) to create the above boxart, for a hypothetical Famicom game called “Meteor Night.” Here’s the description we submitted for this game idea:

“Designed to be played with friends or a date, Meteor Night shows a peaceful sky full of 8-bit stars. Sometimes a meteor will fly across the sky. Turn down the lights, bring a blanket and snacks, and enjoy Meteor Night together.”

I cannot tell you guys how thrilled I am to get to share this with you. This is something we’ve been hoping to do even before I wandered into Meteor in Tokyo last year and met proprietor Satoshi Sakagami.

I’m super excited to have our site be part of this awesome exhibit, and I know I speak for Eric when I say I’m really glad to have found an excuse to work with Ashley, whose input (and, you know, actual drawing) turned our original idea into something really endearing. We might be the only Americans in this year’s lineup, which is pretty cool.

Thanks so much to Meteor for allowing us to join in! And now to browse the rest of the gallery!

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My Famicase Tease: wall of custom Famicom carts on display at Japanese video game culture shop Meteor.

My Famicase Exhibition, the annual show featuring cartridge designs for game concepts created by artists around the world, opened in Tokyo today. The pieces aren’t available to admire online yet, but folks who have visited the gallery are posting photos from the exhibit.

If you look closely at the shot above, you can sort of see a tiny design for a cartridge sent in by a very special blog. Here’s the list of this year’s contributors, by the way.

[Image via @kmpt]

Indie games inspired by Famicase carts!

Am I dreaming? How is this possible? A group of indie gamers at TIGSource have conspired to produce downloadable and browser-based games inspired by the insanely awesome “My Famicase” artworks — Famicom cart designs created for made-up, fantastic titles.

Surely something as wonderful as this isn’t meant for our ungrateful waking world? Look at the image above — someone has recreated a mini-game (one of two!) based on Neco Touch. It is exactly how a Neco Touch game would play, if Neco Touch existed in our realm.

As the planets align tonight, the Perseides will send hundreds of its meteors across the evening sky while the Moon cowers in fear, unable to face the terrible wishes men will fling up by the thousands at the lines of streaking light. Are these games an early gift from the heavens?

New Fami-fantasies from Famicase 2010

Japanese retro game culture shop Meteor has posted the latest creations for its My Famicase Exhibition, a collection of Famicom cartridges featuring concepts and artwork for imagined 8-bit games.

The above Star Cats IV mock-up by Sebastià López (Daruma Studio), for example, is an “8-bit shooter where you control a spaceship through 8 levels full of enemies, explosions and tuna fish” as you try to save the Feline Galaxy from the Evil Mice Empire.

As we did for the 2009 and 2008 Famicase shows, JC and I picked out our favorite pieces from the 75+ cart collection to share them with you below:

My Famicase Exhibition 2009 carts»

Organizers for My Famicase Exhibition, the Japanese art show featuring Famicom carts with artwork advertising fake games, put up photos of this year’s lineup, so JC and I picked our favorites from the 55+ pieces to share with you.

Thumb Fight: Dream Ten-Finger Tag Match:

Sample 1200 Series Vol. 1: The Cube (a spoof of D3 Publisher’s budget Simple series in Japan!):

Loveletter:

Uwaaa, So Nostalgic:

[Via Offworld]

My Famicase Exhibition returning»

My Famicase Exhibition, an art show featuring Famicom carts with new labels designed by local illustrators for fake games, will return to Japan’s retro/game culture shop Meteor, running from May 2nd to the 31st.

You can see previous Famicases at last year’s exhibition site, and a couple of my personal favorites below:

[Via Offworld]