By John Walker on July 1st, 2009 at 8:00 am.
A very tenuous post, since it’s not quite related to PC games. But it’s games before there even were PCs, and that counts. Shut up. Also it’s got Lego in it, and there are Lego games for the PC. Look, leave me alone, it’s a really damned good video and deserves a watch. It’s classic arcade games recreated in stop-motion Lego! See!
By Michael Hickox, who has quite a splendid array of other Lego stop motion videos to watch here.
See.
01/07/2009 at 08:07 Bret says:
Nifty keen.
On the other hand, the player of this lego arcade booth kinda sucks. I mean, he can’t beat level one of frogger?
01/07/2009 at 08:42 Owen says:
Brilliant. Aww the asteroids one really brings back some happy memories. I think when I have kids I’ll start them on the old classics like that actually. Give ‘em a good foundation in gaming and create the Ultimate Gaming Champion.
01/07/2009 at 08:42 jon_hill987 says:
He got asteroids wrong, IIRC the ship has no reverse thruster to slow you down, you have to turn 180 and thrust again.
Good job on the rest though, if you squint they look like the real thing nearly.
01/07/2009 at 08:44 pepper says:
Indeed, the player sucks, the animation is kickass! I think he did a fantastic job on getting it right!
01/07/2009 at 08:46 Saul says:
I’ve played some of those games on my PC. It totally counts. Great video. Some people have a lot of patience.
01/07/2009 at 08:50 Saul says:
This a great version of Asteroids for PC, by the way: http://takegame.com/shooter/htm/astrofire.htm
I played it to death when it came out. Can’t believe it’s itself 15 years old now.
01/07/2009 at 09:03 Lack_26 says:
These games were basically my childhood when it came to gaming, yet I’m only 18. What’s going on there then?
Yeah, I had a BBC Micro as a kid, didn’t us a PC till I was 8. Also, went to a museum, in the 60s toy section, I realised that those toys were pretty much all I played with when I was younger and I had about 90% of the ones on display. So yeah, wasn’t exposed to my generations childhood culture.
01/07/2009 at 09:09 Rob says:
Loved the Tron one especially, nice piece of work all in all.
01/07/2009 at 11:24 Rei Onryou says:
Awesome. Meta gaming the Lego. Because all kids who now play with Lego actually want to be playing PC games. ;)
01/07/2009 at 11:29 Rane2k says:
Nice! :-)
For the Asteroids fans out there, here is a really cool modern version of it:
01/07/2009 at 11:29 Rane2k says:
Hm.. link didnt work, here it is:
http://www.binaryzoo.com/games/echoes/index.htm
01/07/2009 at 12:43 Bob Bobson says:
Very fine vid, thanks for sharing. Don’t let stick-in-the-muds try to hamper your style by whining about what is and isn’t PC gaming – it’s lego, it’s ace, it’s win. See.
01/07/2009 at 13:24 Igor Hardy says:
Man, I always got killed in those and ultimately run off to play some adventure games. Still, some Arkanoid clones were really addictive. As was Lego of course.
01/07/2009 at 13:43 cHeal says:
That is fantastic, cheered me right up :P
01/07/2009 at 15:11 Supraliminal says:
Splendid.
(posting only one word. Kinda Spam)
01/07/2009 at 15:11 Psychopomp says:
That made me smile something fierce.
01/07/2009 at 16:31 sockpuppetclock says:
Brick by brick! Tock by tick! No matter how thin, no matter how thick. Papa told Laura, and Laura told Nick. You can move a mountain if you do it BRICK BY BRICK!
01/07/2009 at 18:55 Polysynchronicity says:
Best lego game ever: LEGO Rock Raiders, a RTS for the PC. Hell yes.
02/07/2009 at 02:47 Vinraith says:
Superb, thanks for bringing it to my attention. :)
07/07/2009 at 11:04 somnolentsurfer says:
I’m calling foul on the Pac Man one. There’s post production there, making his mouth open and close.
Cool though.
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