Link Drawer Pt. 9
Sep. 21st, 2011 08:23 pmI was offered Lost Voices, the YA tale of a girl who surrenders to despair in the icy waters of the Alaskan wilderness and instead of dying becomes a mermaid, through Amazon Vine but didn't pull the trigger. The cover is haunting, the story sweet wish-fulfillment, and the material pertinent to my interest in mermaids, but the whole bit about the heroine "hav[ing] a shot at being their queen" regarding her new mermaid friends tipped me that it was going a little too far in the wish-fulfillment direction.
And now I see it's part of a trilogy. Of course it's part of a trilogy. What isn't these days.
Synapsis 2 is billed a Manhole-meets-Silent Hill-esque abstract adventure game, but I can't get it to run on my comp and therefore can't vouch for its quality. I can, however, vouch for Tanooky Tracks, a puzzle-come-adventure game with charming art that's just the right length and difficulty for a respectable time-waster.
A collection of fan-made game covers based on the Criterion Collection style. A lot of chaff, but there are a few memorable ones that smartly reflect their games' inspiration - the cover for Outrun, the visual pun in beige for Bioshock, the clever workaround for the completely-text Zork, the second one for Mirror's Edge (to which this Frogger cover is kin - and, BTW, I love that that frog's up to skimming Harriers now). Those two photo ones for the first Zelda are almost there. Final Fantasy (you'll know which when you see it), Atari's Tennis, Braid, Silent Hill, Super Metroid...ahhh, there's enough good stuff there. I still haven't looked through them all.
A must-see piece of fanart for Clock Tower fans. And Lotte! No one does fanart of Lotte, and she rocks. It's a shame.
Interesting if it works: boost your router signal strength using only a beer (or soft drink) can.
Meat Shield is a bit newspaper-strippy for my tastes, but something about the sweetly dumb titular protagonist makes me think twice about chopping the link.
I've always found this set of Star Trek IV icons by
_running_alone_ hilarious.
Looking at the bright anime visuals of the Mega-CD Arcus 1-2-3 makes me wonder why it never caught the eye of Working Designs or another localizer to come to U.S. shores. Reading this review, I'm still perplexed. (Dungeon crawlers not in vogue, perhaps?)
Also, I know last time I said the Kunio-kun gamebook cannot be topped, but here we go: a Knight Rider gamebook. Also, one for the original Final Fantasy. And Final Fantasy II, with the scariest cover ever.
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And now I see it's part of a trilogy. Of course it's part of a trilogy. What isn't these days.
Synapsis 2 is billed a Manhole-meets-Silent Hill-esque abstract adventure game, but I can't get it to run on my comp and therefore can't vouch for its quality. I can, however, vouch for Tanooky Tracks, a puzzle-come-adventure game with charming art that's just the right length and difficulty for a respectable time-waster.
A collection of fan-made game covers based on the Criterion Collection style. A lot of chaff, but there are a few memorable ones that smartly reflect their games' inspiration - the cover for Outrun, the visual pun in beige for Bioshock, the clever workaround for the completely-text Zork, the second one for Mirror's Edge (to which this Frogger cover is kin - and, BTW, I love that that frog's up to skimming Harriers now). Those two photo ones for the first Zelda are almost there. Final Fantasy (you'll know which when you see it), Atari's Tennis, Braid, Silent Hill, Super Metroid...ahhh, there's enough good stuff there. I still haven't looked through them all.
A must-see piece of fanart for Clock Tower fans. And Lotte! No one does fanart of Lotte, and she rocks. It's a shame.
Interesting if it works: boost your router signal strength using only a beer (or soft drink) can.
Meat Shield is a bit newspaper-strippy for my tastes, but something about the sweetly dumb titular protagonist makes me think twice about chopping the link.
I've always found this set of Star Trek IV icons by
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Looking at the bright anime visuals of the Mega-CD Arcus 1-2-3 makes me wonder why it never caught the eye of Working Designs or another localizer to come to U.S. shores. Reading this review, I'm still perplexed. (Dungeon crawlers not in vogue, perhaps?)
Also, I know last time I said the Kunio-kun gamebook cannot be topped, but here we go: a Knight Rider gamebook. Also, one for the original Final Fantasy. And Final Fantasy II, with the scariest cover ever.
.