Dominos Pizza Rabbit

Kalia: "What was that one video game with the rabbit and it had to get pizzas or something...was it dominos pizza rabbit or something?"

Answer: Yo! Noid for the NES



There's an interesting story about the Domino's Noid that I'm just going to steal from Wikipedia:

"In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill customer who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta, Georgia Domino's restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid surrendered to the police. Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity."

My favorite part about that story is how he forced the Domino's employees to make him a pizza. I wonder if he crushed it.

Neo Geo Sexy-time

Like video games? Well, get ready to like them even more. Or hate them. (Or become sexually aroused by them, your call.)

Warning: NSFWIYWAAP (not safe for work if you work at a preschool)



Via Tiny Cartridge, who put it best: "You can actually see his collection losing its value in real time with this video — I imagine the carts plummeted to some sort of negative worth around the 1:24 mark, when the Neo Geo fan pulls down his shorts to tease viewers with a glimpse of his ass."

Super-Busy Hospital 2

"I like video games, but they're very violent. I want to design a video game in which you have to take care of all the people who have been shot in the other games. 'Hey man, what are you playin'?' 'Super-Busy Hospital 2. Please leave me alone, I need to concentrate. I'm performing surgery on a man who was shot in the head fifty-seven times.'"
—Demetri Martin

Racketeering

"Dear EB, this is how a fucking store works. You go there and you buy the thing you want. No one gives you shit for not pre-ordering it. No one asks you to pre-order games you might want six months from now. They don't try and sell you a used copy. You just walk in and buy what you want."
—Mike Krahulik (Gabe) of Penny Arcade

I can't recall ever having an unpleasant experience at an EB or a Gamestop, but it always bothers me whenever I go in one of those stores how the salespeople persistently try to extort as much money out of me as possible. No, I don't want to preorder anything; no, I'm not a member of your rewards club; no, I don't want to subscribe to some shitty video game magazine. Video game disc insurance? Are you kidding me? Discs either go in the console or in their respective case, end of story. The used video game business as it is now is a goddamn racket.

(Whatever happened to YouTube's WhistleBlowerZero?)

Super Video Game Day

A good day for mail and a good day for video games.



Meat Bun's Nintendo riff on that trendy Beatles shirt by 2K x Experimental Jetset from a while back. I have a feeling I'm going to get really tired of explaining this. Meat Bun sold out their entire stock of shirts during their Labor Day sale: good for them, but not so much for people who want video game T-shirts that won't lead to getting beaten up.

(Speaking of meat buns, I thought it was hilarious when my friend Brett referred to a char siu bao as a "meat muffin," but it totally makes sense. My mom said she heard one of her students call them "saucy bones," which makes less sense. If you're going to take the time to come up with a nonsensical phonetic alternative, why not just learn the real name?)

Three zines from the newly opened Attract Mode shop: two issues of Fort90, and one of 1-UP. I'm surprised I hadn't heard about 1-UP sooner; lots of big indie (oxymoron?) comics/art names in that one. And until Attract Mode started selling cool video game stuff, I honestly had no idea that people were even making zines about video games. All of the Attract Mode goodies came in an awesome "Game Buddy" box. It reminds me of the cardboard Game Boys that my Aunt Judy used to make, which were as cool as - if not cooler than - the real things. I'm pretty sure this was at a time when my cousins actually owned real Game Boys, yet we still played with cardboard versions.

Also, a glare-coated copy of Scribblenauts. Much harder than I expected, but still a lot of fun.

HOW TO

...Make a delicious, crappy pizza even more delicious (and slightly less crappy):

Totino's Crisp Crust Party Pizza ("Supreme")
+Sliced Peppadews
+Halved grape tomatoes & sea salt
+Shaved Parmesan cheese

Free... food?

I just came across an internet ad for "Free beef: Celebrity-Style beef Free Delivery No Purchase Required."

Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. were celebrities, right? Then no thank you, I'll pass on your free beef.

I can't figure out how to blog from my iPhone. Where's the app for that, STEVE JOBS?

What an $11 beer tastes like

And when I say "$11" I mean $11 for a (as in one) 12 oz bottle. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA: the most expensive beer I will ever buy. Hopefully.

Very, very sweet, but pleasantly so. Noticeably alcoholic in taste and aroma. Minimally carbonated. Not nearly as hoppy and bitter as you would expect from the hoppiest beer ever made. A very smooth drink, eminently sippable. A deliciously, beautifully rich golden-brown when poured in a glass. The stuff is 18% ABV, so it's like drinking 3 or 4 beers, alcohol-wise, but even a small bottle like this is more than enough for sharing. Too much of a good thing, I guess.

After drinking this beer I realized I know close to nothing about beer. I mean, I sure do drink a lot of the stuff, but I've never really slowed down and actually tasted it. If beer can be this good, I must be missing out on something.

This beer was a treat, though. The label says it "ages well," so I think I might buy another bottle and keep it until I'm finally done with school and see how it tastes then. Let me know if you want to try some in three years.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

"Directed by the stunningly, almost viciously untalented Michael Bay."
—David Denby, The New Yorker, 6 July 2009