Geek on Stun

We Respect The Early Video Games

We've said it before: American made video game t-shirts are awful. Yes, the one you have. Yes, that Gameskins one, too. And that Penny Arcade tee isn't "funny" in the slightest. Sorry, your Legend of Zelda windbreaker from Hot Topic gets filed under A (for awful!) as well.

Okay. We have one exception to the rule. But that's it!

We've touched on the mind-blowingly good design that comes from shops like Mars16, The King of Games and Syuriken, but we've got more design envy in store. This time, it's from Raid=Gig and Namco. The two have teamed up to produce a new line of fine wearables dubbed NG and the first entry is, unsuprisingly, a Pac-Man tee.

That lovely wearable is the graphic offspring of one Mr. Tsuyoshi Hirooka. Hirooka has had his design validated by labels such as 2K and the uber-excellent Beams T. The latter used the traditional Mario cartoon design, transforming it into something actually wearable.

Mario is playing basketball! Mario is riding a go-kart! Mario is subtle!

We'll keep our eyes peeled for more of the Raid=Gig NG line and let you know if we can get our hands on some.

Hello Xbox

Xbox owners, your collective masculinity is at stake. Hello Kitty Mission Rescue is coming. We suggest you compensate with a few more copies of Halo or Dead to Rights or some such nonsense.

Nu metal custom soundtracks can't save you now.

Oh, come now! Don't fret about the new femme direction the Xbox has taken. You can always play as Bad Batz Maru!

Do The Right Thing

Hey, kids. We've been really busy writing out big checks to the IRS, sorting out our E3 arrangements, and playing God of War and Lumines, so we apologize that you've been looking at those awful Pac-Man hats for so long. There've been so many things we wanted to tell you about, but important stuff like refreshing the Gaming-Age forum kept getting in the way. You understand.

But we did see a few newsworthy items that got us excited. We love it when people make smart choices.

ITEM! Did you know you can play one of our arcade favorites Warriors of Fate (Dynasty Wars II) on your mobile phone?! It's true!

We launch satellites into outer space so salary men can eat historically accurate meat buns on their phones! We're jealous.

ITEM! While we're on the subject of what we did in college in lieu of hard work, we were thrilled to see Namco X Capcom include our favorite Captain Commando character, Baby Head.

Fucking move out of the way, Guy, you're blocking Baby Head!

ITEM! We've been kind of bummed about the whole existence of a Katamari Damacy sequel, in that we love creative games and fresh intellectual property, and KD2 looks like more of the same. Namco's new screenshots did highlight one nifty addition, two-player co-op mode!

Let's hope it comes packaged with a friend. *sob*

ITEM! Finally, we're really really excited about Okami, the Clover Studio wolf game. We almost want to shed girly tears of joy when we see screenshots this beautiful.

Again... *sob*

Hey, we'll be back shortly with a major goods blowout! Have a good one.

More Rubbish For Your Head

Look, we're pretty big nerds. We play Game Boy games in front of girls and influential businessmen. We have a Wonder Woman action figure in plain site. We have conversations with our co-workers about how "cool" we think it would be if we could use our PSP to connect to our corporate wireless network and do our income taxes online.

But we just can't get behind certain things. There are levels of pure geekdom that we won't approach.

This isn't Geek On Kill. We don't touch Terry Brooks novels, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball or anything else that we consider vaguely homoerotic/just-fucking-awful fantasy entertainment.

Oh. And we don't wear stupid shit on our heads like Space Invaders "VR" helmets or Pac-Man hats. That's our new policy. No Pac-Man hats.

When we saw these at the AOU show a few months back, we thought "That's clever!". Then we calmed down, thought about it for a minute, realized what an abomination these things were and vowed never to purchase one.

Still, if you're so desperately inclined, NCS is taking pre-orders.

EP DS

We're in love with our PSP. That whole Nintendo DS thing was just a fling. Since the PSP came into our lives, the poor little DS has a new function: paperweight. It's great. We think it will serve our paper stabilizing needs pretty well. It's also fairly adept at collecting bits of dust, so it's not worthless.

We figure we'll wipe the grime off our DS when some interesting software starts showing up again (meaning summer). Meteos, Band Brothers and Electroplankton are a long way off, kids, and we just don't know if we have the intestinal fortitude to ask the local EB virgin for a copy of Kirby's Canvas Curse.

Hey speaking of Electroplankton, did you see this sweet customized Nintendo DS from Toshio Iwai's Rockin' Electroplankton Party?

Should've been the Mr. Driller special edition DS, AM I RIGHT?!?!! HAHAHAHLOL!

What? You don't know what Electroplankton is? Silly man, read this review. We'll be back later with some more goods.

Props

Yeah, so, we discussed the Mars 16 design group previously (they made the beautiful Nuts & Milk, Ninja Warriors, Space Invaders and Bomberman t-shirts we've been coveting) but we checked in with them recently and seen that they've released another gem-mint ten of a t-shirt.

This time, it's an homage to ASCII's shitty NES title "Bokosuka Wars" and was designed in collaboration with the Syuriken group. Let's take a look at this beauty.

AMAZING.

Can we just take a moment to say something here? And allow us to put some emphasis on this, because we really feel this is true.

Syuriken makes the best fucking t-shirts in the universe.

We don't say that lightly. We are very harsh t-shirt critics, folks. We promised ourselves that we'd wear nothing but the finest short sleeve shirts a long time ago and we've kept that promise. But, even we, clothing elitists that we are, have very few pieces that compare to the high quality Syuriken stuff.

Do yourself a favor and check out their online store, as it features mind-scrambling designs like the Statue of Liberty with a katana and origami throwing star instructions and an awesome bitmapped skull and the Terminator endoskeleton and... and... (we're crying tears of joy now) and so much more. Just go see it for yourself!