The Runaway 5 LP

In Earthbound, Ness saves the Runaway 5 from a life of music entertainment servitude in the town of Twoson by paying off their huge debt. If you need a refresher for the humour in the image below the video, here you go.



This LP mock-up for the Runaway 5 that the EB Saga crew put together is just totally awesome. Moonside Blues. Shiiiit.



- Kyle

Metroid Famicom Disk System Art

The Famicom Disk System’s main feature was the ability to rewrite disks and save games, which wasn’t available at the time on the current cartridges. Eventually the ability to save came to cartridges which quickly made the ridiculous Famicom Disk System obsolete.



My favorite part about the Disk System is it’s absolutely cute yellow disk dude logo. So superb! My second favorite part would be the absolutely awesome boxart some of the disk games had. The packaging is awesome too; from the translucent box to the engraved Nintendo in the plastic of the disk, it really just is too cool to not look at, or not want in your collection.

The art for Metroid is absolutely awesome, and it gets me stoked for Team Ninja’s new Metroid: Other M game. Even better, no other Metroid boxart features Samus leaping while firing her blaster at some unknown foe. Probably Ridley’s punk ass.



Like I said above, even the back of the box has awesome design.



Check out that engraved caps locked Nintendo logo! Don’t forget that cute yellow disk logo dude. So awesome.

- Images via this Hit Japan eBay auction.

- Kyle

Why cutting edge graphics are meaningless, Or at least, A Little Meaningless.

Take a moment, while reading this, and think of your favorite video game. More than likely it isn’t from this console generation which means that comparatively speaking, the graphics don’t look nearly as good as today’s games. Of course, that’s subjective as my favorite game, Mother 3 has fantastic graphics with colorful sprites and excellent design. However, it’s not 3D and I think a lot of people and gamers may not give it a chance because of their shallow desposition.

So, are you still thinking about your favorite game? Was the graphics one of the things you thought about when imagining it? Futhermore, even if the graphics were one of the things you enjoyed about the game, it isn’t really relevant anymore, is it?

I remember when my parents surprised me with a copy of Halo 2. I was über stoked along with probably everyone else who picked up a copy that day. The graphics at the time to me were absolutely amazing and so was the experience. However, I beat the game, never played it again, and now looking back, I could never play the game again nor tell you anything of worth, nor any reason as to why you should play it.

Halo 2 had cutting-edge graphics and in the end, even huge Halo fans don’t care, they just ended up playing Halo 3, and now they play Halo 3 multiplayer. It’s sad how it turns out that way, but perhaps that’s just proof that cutting-edge graphics in games are just fleeting bits of instant gratification and that a real game’s value lies at it’s core within gameplay and design.

Of course, this school of thought is obviously rare, as the video game sales charts tell us a different story. People love the cutting-edge technology and the graphics, not interesting gameplay, and story.

Well I mean, most people care about the gameplay and story, they just care about the other things first.

- Kyle

Wu-Tang Controller

The above Wucontroller came out for the PS1 at the same time as Wu-Tang’s terrible video game, Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style. It was bundled in a special edition of the game.

The controller is extremely rare as an eBay search yielded no results. Anyone know where I can find this?