Mario Paaaiinnnt is Awesome

Holy Crap!!

Upon reading my RSS feeds today I came across this post from joystiq.

Basically some guy has re-created some memorable video game themes using Mario Paint on his SNES. Now, I've never played Mario Paint (mainly because it's not a game as more of a creativity application), but I always thought that you only used it to paint pictures, hence the name Mario Paint. But it seems you can actually create simple musical pieces using the SNES hardware.

You can check out his youtube profile here, and his video submissions here.

And here's an example of his work, using the Tetris theme:


Thanks to joystiq for the linkage and TomBobBlender for the awesomeness. And Russell Peters for the laughs(see below).

For the paaainnint reference, see here:

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Wii is Exercise

If you've played a Wii (especially Wii Sports), you'll know what I'm talking about. Somehow playing Wii sports makes people act like total retards (I wish I had that photo of George bowling in the office).
Most notably Tennis and Boxing will tire the f*ck out of you. That is why The British Osteopathic Association is suggesting that you warm up and warm down after a hard Wii session. Because even though its a video game, the movements are actually a form of exercise. So as with all exercise, you must warm up and warm down.

Read the story here

seXbox 360 Mods

Ahhh, free online picture account thingys. Flickr is one of them. And someone on Flickr posted a wealth of pictures of Xbox 360 case mods.

Sadly he's only got the good ones. Not the "Worst Xbox 360 Halo 3 Mod Ever" (its backwards and on the bottom of the case BTW).

A History of Video Game Console in Pictures

Well finally, something fun to post (thank god for the Digg front page).

Here's a cool article that show the evolution of video game consoles, through pictures. It's not all chronologically accurate, and I'm sure they may have missed a few console, but still its pretty interesting considering the first console (the Magnavox Odyssey) was first commerically released in 1972. So there's 35 years of history!!!.

Read/View the Video Games Console Evolution.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii........

So I haven't posted in a week, so here's what's been goin' down.

Monday 4th December:
6PM: Email from game saying the payment for my Wii was declined!!! Panic sets in....

Tuesday 5th December:
10AM(ish): Phoned game to re-order my order. They asked if I had enough funds in my accout, but I was using a credit card so I wouldn't need to have the funds right? Gave them my debit card details (good idea seeing as I only had £80 in my account).
4PM: Confirmation email from Game saying that my order was processed!!!

Wednesday 6th December:
4PM: Purchased tickets online for +44 for 03/02/2007 at the Brixton Academy. Paid with my credit card though, might have been a bad idea.

Thursday 7th December:
7AM: Email from Game confirming my Wii order has been dispatched.
Day off Work. Was going to clean my room, but somehow didn't!!

Friday 8th December:
OMG its Wii delivery day!!!
8AM: Forced myself to be half awake in-case the delivery came.
9AM: Waiting for Parcel Force to arrive.
10AM: Waiting...
11AM: Still waiting, its almost lunch time...
11:30AM: Yee calls me, says he's just unboxing his Wii....bastard. Give me some hope that mine will arrive soon, he lives in Hammersmith so mine should be delivered soon right?.....
12?M: Thinking about lunch
1PM: Nothing yet, finger crossed....
2PM: Cleaning my room in boredom. Fuck Parcel Force.
3PM: Called Parcel Force. Apparently the delivery is guaranteed today, anytime until 6PM!!! WTF!!!!
4PM: Finished cleaning room, playing guitar.
5PM: Getting ready to go out for the Moneycorp CFX Christmas (Boat) Party. Had to help my housemate with some photography crap.
5:15PM: There's a knock on the door!!! Who could it be?....OMG ITS PARCEL FORCE!!!!
5:30PM: Ran out the house to get to the party on time.
7PM: At the boat, free drinks all night (until the tab ran out), some hot girls. What could go wrong?
12PM(ish): Stagger off the boat, waiting to people to go to Abacus bar. Too cold to wait so try to find the nearest tube, bottle of San Miguel in hand. Reach a District Line Tube (Monument I think or somewhere around there), there's a train on the platform!!! I can't run in case I fall over due to the excess drink. The doors close...OH NO its a freakin' Wimbledon train, the guard says it was the last one!!! How the fuck am I getting home now?

Saturday 9th December:
Early Hours of the Morning: Walking....Its cold....windy....no hat.....spilled beer in my sleeve (don't ask).....walked past "John Carpenter Street".....new plan: Go to Waterloo, get an awesome burger from the Igloo, get a cab.
At the Igloo getting a burger mmmmmmmmmmm.....
Walk round the corner to get a cab, shame they're all taken. Buy 5 wings from the Chicken Cottage and walk to the taxi rank at Waterloo station. There are like 40 people waiting for cab, of which there are exactly 0.
Decided to walk to Shaftbury Ave to get a bus....omg....its too long to walk in the cold.
3 or 4AM: At home, unboxed my Wii...smells good....sleep.
The rest of Saturday: Everyone in my room playing Wii all day.

Sunday 10th December:
Sore from the excess Wii playing....So went skating to make it all better.

Check later for pictures.

Monday 11th December:
Day off work to heal my wounds and play Zelda, YAY!!!

Wii Spoofs PS3 - Kicks Sony's Ass

So some dude has made a advert for the Wii. Actually he created it for a contest to win an Wii. It basically spoofs those PS3 adverts, with the PS3 in a white room like this one:


This Wii advert takes a black Wii and sticks it in a white room (just like the above advert). Needless to say, I think this spoof rocks. The only problem.....no voice-over by James Remar (its not Michael Ironside, as many people believe). Check it out: