What Spaceship Captains Do In Their Downtime

Hollis Brown Thornton

Came across this guy's artwork today, and thought I'd share with my fellow aging nerds:

The Legend of Zelda

Atari and Flower Wallpaper

Clouds In the Sky At Sunset

Closing Credits At The End Of The Movie

AT-AT Driver

Chunk

You can find more of Hollis' work here: www.hollisbrownthornton.com/

CSI: The Island

More Minimalism

This time it's chestplates:

Courtesy of Justin Page: www.behance.net/Gallery/Video-Game-Posters/455829

Ahhh....youth

The $10,000 Box. Wait, What?!?

Yep, someone paid about $10k for A BOX.

"John Park says: "Some woman had an old Nintendo and a few random games for sale. Turns out one of them was a super rare collectors dream game, so it went for around $13,000!"

Up for auction is an original Nintendo NES gaming system with 1 hand control. There are 5 games with it. They are, Family & Fitness Stadium Events in the original box with the dust jacket inside of the box, Major League Baseball in the original box with the dust jacket inside of the box, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 the arcade game in the original box with the dust jacket inside of the box,Super Mario 3 in the original box with the dust jacket inside of the box and the original game, Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. I have had this stored in the closet for years for my kids to play but the way that electronics come & go and change from one year to the next they wanted all of the new hot items of their own now and now it's time to get rid of things that are no longer being used or wanted. This system worked perfect when i stored it but somehow over the years, we have managed to misplace the AC cord & the television hook up. I am listing this and selling without hook up but it I find them, i'll send them along with the rest at no additional charges to you. Please keep in mind though that any ac cord will work with this and the hook up from a VCR would hook it up just as well as the original cords!

Old Nintendo NES system and five games sell for $13,105 on eBay"

link: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/10/old-nintendo-nes-sys.html

Dante's Inferno Swag

Slow day at work and Kotaku is filling the void today. Came across a pretty effin sweet promo campaign for Dante's Inferno. They are embedding text art into the source code of various website's home pages. Here's the list so far:

www.kotaku.com

www.digg.com

www.dailymotion.com

www.wwe.com

www.gamespot.com

www.gamesradar.com

So load up those pages, view the source code, and look for the clues!

link to article: http://kotaku.com/5463668/latest-dante-stunt-buries-ascii-art-in-our-source-code/gallery/

Whoa! This Is MAJOR

Now, I never owned an original Xbox, but my upstairs neighbors took part in the first Xbox Live beta testing way back in 2003-04, and I got a chance to play around on that. It was mind blowing being able to play a console online and have your little mic with the baby voice turned on talking smack to Canadian pre-teens. So even I was a little sad when I came across this today (from Kotaku):

Microsoft's decision tonight to end online play for all original Xbox consoles and games marks the end of an era in console gaming. Let's take a minute to remember those titles who tonight gave their lives.

Being the first successful platform for online console gaming (sorry, Dreamcast), the Xbox was home to many good games that were made better by online multiplayer, and some great games that were made classics.

Games like these, for which the looming disconnect brings an end to their multiplayer lives (not to mention the life of any digital content purchased for them), and for whom we'll now observe a minute's silence.

Halo 2
Counter-Strike
Burnout 3
Burnout Revenge
Ghost Recon
Call of Duty 2
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Doom 3
Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Battlefield 2
Forza
Rainbow Six 3
Call of Duty 3
Mechassault 2
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Crimson Skies

Age shall not weary them. Now, back to Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3, eh?

link to article: http://kotaku.com/5464855/we-shall-mourn-the-following-xbox-live-originals