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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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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