And to all of you with out a lover but still want one…

The guys over at Gnome’s Lair checked out Kino One, and gave it a ‘thumbs up’.

“Kino One can be described, in a nutshell, as the illegitimate child of a classic single screen shoot-em-up arcade game with a late 90s bullet-hell Japanese shmup, conceived after a particularly wild night of sake drinking. This is of course a good thing. Or at least it should be considered one by most indie-minded retro gamers, that tend to appreciate both these sub-genres and the overall anime aesthetic of the game. Especially as some R-Type inspired mechanics have also been thrown into the mix.

After all, Kino One, knows and loves its audience, and doesn’t try to appeal to the casual gaming crowd. It features lovely cell-shaded graphics to appease the little Japanese loving nerd that lives inside you, excellent comic book styled cutscenes, great video game humour, an intricate scoring system, and a brilliant virtual arcade sporting some truly well remade versions of Pong, Pac-Man, Arkanoid and more…”

To read the full review go here: Gnome’s Lair: Kino One Review

Now you can buy Kino One on GamersGate, if you don’t already have a copy.

Hagoromo canned tuna (a.k.a. “sea chicken”) commercial, circa 1978.

source: pinktentacle.com

Stop Motion… There’s good stop motion and there’s bad stop motion. And then there’s this video. Well just watch it, really, it’s a cool video. It’s a cool, mesmerizing video.

““Bad Apple!!” is a magical piece of stop-motion animation made from 6,566 still photos of printed bitmaps.

The creator, Nico Nico Douga user *** says he made the video without using photo-editing software. The images were captured with a webcam, and the effects were achieved by changing the camera position and adjusting the focus, brightness, zoom, exposure and gain.

The original stills and music come from this video for the song “Bad Apple!!” (arranged by Masayoshi Minoshima, featuring vocals by nomico) from the Touhou Project game series.”

Source: pinktentacle.com

*** I edited the japanese characters out of this area and moved the link to the English name of the user.

I really don’t know what to say…