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I Would Drink Syke

Posted by Bob Mackey

Paul Robertson is awesome. And Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006--which needs to be a real video game SO FRICKING BAD--should be all the proof you need. Christ, if I had made that, I'd sit back and let the accolades roll in as I began my new life of complete motionlessness.  But Paul isn't content with just being an amazing artist, animator, and crafter of the most amazing sprite art this side of the 16-bit era; to this day, he continues to make amazing videos, if only to make the rest of us look inferior. His newest, a fake commercial for an equally fake energy drink known as Syke, is a hyper-cute, hyper-kinetic fruit salad of platformers past; if you dug the art of Pirate Baby's but not the ultra gross-out content, Paul's latest work will have you grinning from ear to ear. Check it out:



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John Constantine said:

Why hasn't someone hired Paul Robertson to handle the art for a platformer yet?

January 8, 2009 12:49 PM

Bob Mackey said:

I was doing some digging and I couldn't figure out if he worked anywhere. He HAS to work somewhere.

January 8, 2009 2:28 PM

Demaar said:

lol, that's pretty damn awesome. I've heard of Pirate Baby Cabana Battle etc. before, but never checked it out. I guess because names that sound random for the sake of being random kinda turn me off. But this was pretty great, so I'll have to check it out now I suppose.

January 8, 2009 9:45 PM

Derrick Sanskrit said:

He also had "King Of Power 4 Billion %" come out last year, which is more epic yet somehow less awesome than "Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006"

Also, he totally has done game work, all you have to check out is this entry in his livejournal: probertson.livejournal.com/26366.html

He worked on "Contra 4" and 5th Cell's "Drawn To Life" and "Lock's Quest" (his influence on "Lock's Quest" is rather noticable). I hope he's also involved in the upcoming "Scribblenauts"!!!

January 9, 2009 8:04 AM

About Bob Mackey

For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's The Jambar, Kent State University's The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on Something Awful. I've also blogged for Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM, 1UP, GameSpite and Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.

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John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself.

Derrick Sanskrit is a self-professed geek in a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books, music and cartoons. As a professional hipster graphic designer, his recent clients have included Hooksexup, Pitchfork and MoCCA, among others.

Amber Ahlborn - artist, writer, gamer and DigiPen survivor, she maintains a day job as a graphic artist. By night Amber moonlights as a professional Metroid Fanatic and keeps a metal suit in the closet just in case. Has lived in the state of Washington and insists that it really doesn't rain as much as everyone says it does.

Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines. Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.

Bob Mackey is a grad student, writer, and cyborg, who uses the powerful girl-repelling nanomachines mad science grafted onto his body to allocate time towards interests of the nerd persuasion. He believes that complaining about things on the Internet is akin to the fine art of wine tasting, but with more spitting into buckets.

Joe Keiser has a programming degree from Johns Hopkins University, a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, and a fake toy guitar built in the hollowed-out shell of a real guitar. He writes about games and technology for a variety of outlets. One day he will stop doing this. The day after that, police will find his body under a collapsed pile of (formerly neatly alphabetized) collector's edition tchotchkes.

Cole Stryker is an American freelance writer living in York, England, where he resides with his archeologist wife. He writes for a travel company by day and argues about pop culture on the internet by night. Find him writing regularly here and here.

Peter Smith is like the lead character of Irwin Shaw's The 80-Yard Run, except less athletic. He considers himself very lucky to have this job. But it's a little premature to take "jack-off of all trades" off his resume. Besides writing, travelling, and painting houses, Pete plays guitar in a rock trio called The Aye-Ayes. He calls them a 'power pop' band, but they generally sound more like Motorhead on a drinking binge.


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