Well, just something totally random. I’ve watched Pokemon, played the game and squeezed pikachu. Meet the voice of Pikachu…
It never fails to amaze me how a grown adult goes all cutesy in front of a microphone. I’ve tagged this under talent. Talent or not - you decide.
Cho Seung Hui (ì¡°ì?¹í¬), the troubled young man whose nightmarish assault on his fellow students will most likely be studied for years to come, doesn’t seem to have been someone who had any involvement with video games in his recent history.
The claim of video games causing Cho to commit this massacre is thereby inaccurate. Everytime such thing happens, someone would just blame computer games. I always thought that it’s something that the big media companies thought up since they are not producing or publishing any games.
Cho killed 33 students in Virginia Tech, including himself. Most of the people I know can’t pronounce ‘virginia’ correctly and it sounded like some other word in the dictionary.
Engadget notes that Xbox 360 is getting a new peripheral - a QWERTY keyboard no less.
It doesn’t really look too comfortable but it’s perhaps something new. It’s now got a keyboard and it’s somewhat like a computer now. It just needs a web browser, probably not Mozilla Firefox. How about Xbox 360 Internet Explorer? (Please give me some money if you use this name, thank you.)
I was just thinking last week actually - one day gaming consoles and PCs would become some sort of a combine console. And the company that’s likely to make it happen is probably Microsoft. Apple is going a slightly different directly by introducing the Apple TV thing. It’s cool but honestly, I don’t think it would sell that well.
Sony has a great contender in Playstation 3 but the Playstation 3 console pricing is just not as consumer-friendly. But whether Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii win is really not much of my concern; in the end, they just come and go but the overall technological benefit they bring to the living room - well, those are here to stay.
The whole living room technology is going to be really exciting coming decade, so watch out for it. 
[By the way, I'm currently drooling over Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Any kind (and wealthy) soul wish to buy it for me? Hehee...] 
If you have watched Japanese talkshows before, it’ll realize it’s just an hour of nonsense. The most fulfilling thing is to look at your Mai Kuraki and Ami Suzuki or whoever do silly things and gets embarassed.
Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (Episode 1)
The creative people from Mediocre Films did the above video with Engrish, fluffy clothes, pink color, nonsensical music and tiring kawaii moments.
Known as “Go Go Mario”, the Super Mario Bros. theme was given Japanese lyrics. Check out the video for a performance of the song and the English translation of the lyrics. The video clip was taken from the “Mario and Zelda Big Band live” concert that was held on September 14th, 2003 at the Nihon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The clip was part of a mini-DVD that came with a UK Gamecube magazine.
Well… The Mario song is great but… I think we all should all be thankful that we only get to hear the instrumental version. Scroll to the bottom to see the English translation. (more…)
The hero of a gritty, car-racing videogame has a change of heart after drinking a Coke.
This Coca Cola advertisement kinda reminds me of Grand Theft Auto. Probably a parody.
Just something really old. Atari has this really old game called Pole Position, one that you probably wouldn’t want to even touch today. Here’s the really old commercial for it.
*Atari’s Pole Position game*
Back in my archives, there’s Atari Breakout commercial.