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Japan Scares Me: Mario and The Western Show

Posted by John Constantine



Edge Online ran a small feature piece this past Monday on artist Antonin Fourneau’s new multimedia project called Oterp, which appears not on canvas or film but on Sony’s PSP hardware. Oterp creates different sounds and music depending on its audience’s physical location using a GPS to track them. Fourneau’s creation, as Edge points out, joins the ranks of i am 8-bit and Reformat the Planet as evidence of videogames’ growing influence on humanity’s creative endeavors. And that’s great. It’s wonderful to look at how the life-imitates-art-imitates-life cycle is incorporating a still-young medium. It’s inspiring to see games inspire. That is, unless you spend a lot of time on the internet. Then you see what videogames have done to people’s minds. Especially Japan’s mind.

Yesterday, I saw this:



What. The. Hell. I don’t know what’s going on in this sordid little drama or its visually unsavory take on the immortal love triangle between Mario Mario, King Bowser, and the Princess Toadstool Peach. All I know is that, by the time an unshaven man’s jaw can be seen inside of Bowser’s mouth, The Western Show officially terrified the living hell out of me.

Do you see what games have done to that country! Do you see what madness Mario has wrought!

More Japan Scares Me:

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Follow Up: To Love-Ru Makes Japan Even Scarier Than Previously Thought

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Comments

Roto13 said:

That's one of Hyadain's songs. :P He has some pretty cool remixes. I have a few mp3s of them. He does all of the voices, including Peach.

August 27, 2008 6:31 PM

Demaar said:

wtf, including peach you say roto? How the hell does he accomplish that (unless you're having us on)?

August 28, 2008 10:22 AM

John Constantine said:

Where do I find out more about this terror Hyadain, Roto? Also, is he involved with this Western Show thingamajig? My attempts at getting info on this video were met with unrelated pages and stuff in that wacky language made out of unfamiliar symbols. It's called Japanese or something, confused the hell out of me.

August 28, 2008 12:34 PM

Roto13 said:

Oh snaps. Sorry, I didn't check back here. Check Nadia's new article.

August 28, 2008 5:42 PM

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