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• WTFriday: GameStop's Guide to Women

  Note to readers: WTFriday is a weekly feature where I find something stupid about video games and get you to laugh until it goes away. Please try to forget this is what I normally do every day of the week. I don't shop at GameStop, mainly because of their policy of treating customer like pieces of human excrement who deserve to be murdered on the spot if they don't happen to want a magazine subscription. The last time I wandered into a GameStop was out of necessity; I wanted to pick up a Game Boy Player for my GameCube, and was promptly treated like the biggest asshole on the planet for assuming one existed in the store--even though one did. My constant mistreatment at the hands of people stuck in terrible retail jobs (I speak from past experience) has made me a devoted Amazon.com customer, but more importantly, it's also made me wonder how retail monoliths like GameStop treat their casual customers when they show such contempt for devoted nerds like you or I.  Thankfully, a GameStop training video recently leaked to the Internet may just provide an answer to this query. Behold, GameStop's "Understanding and Selling to Our Expanded Audience," or, "What to Do When There's a G-G-G-G-Girl in the Store." Like all employee training videos, it's extremely patronizing, both to the intended audience and the subject itself. Most of the advice is just common sense, though it all comes packaged in a glorious corporate creepiness that involves tapping into the deepest fears and insecurities of your customers. Let's watch. Video after the cut. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2009, 02:00 PM by Bob Mackey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: retail, youtube, video, bob mackey, wtfriday, gamestop

• GTA IV Badassery

  Grand Theft Auto IV's DLC, the Lost and the Damned, is currently out on XBox Live, but I'm afraid that I don't plan on downloading it anytime soon. You see, the inevitable tedium that was included with the last third-or-so of GTA IV kind of put me off from spending any more time in this current gen's version of Liberty City--but that doesn't mean I still don't find high-speed chases, car crashes, and cartoonish, over-the-top violence to be entertaining. I am human, after all. At one point I thought I was safe from these urges, but my own personal bloodlust for all things GTA-related was recently rekindled by the amazing Idle Thumbs Podcast with their brief promotion of a fan-made GTA IV video constructed using the editing tools of the PC version of the game. Titled "GTA IV Badassery," the compilation features a series of hilarious (and bloody) vignettes stitched together with some expert editing techniques pulled right from cinema itself. Watch it with someone you love. Video after the cut. Read More... Posted Feb 20 2009, 03:00 PM by Bob Mackey with | with no comments Filed under: Grand theft auto 4, grand theft auto, gta iv, youtube, bob mackey, idle thumbs

• Play Street Fighter in Youtube

  Can't wait for Street Fighter IV to drop? Why not pass the time by playing a clunky, but pretty claymation version within Youtube? This has got to be Youtube's killer app. Read More... Posted Jan 19 2009, 04:00 PM by Cole Stryker with | with no comments Filed under: street fighter, cole stryker, fighters, youtube, street figher iv

• Holy Diver Video Walkthrough Blowout

  So, I was making my way through my metal mp3 folder (I hate metal, I just feel I owe it some consideration and I've been listening exclusively to Portishead's new album for like, months) and came across Dio's Holy Diver, a landmark metal album from 1983. I have my mp3 player rigged to load a wikipedia page for the album, so I was reading up on the band, surprised to find that there was actually a crappy Japan-only Famicom Castlevania clone called, yep, Holy Diver, starring Ronnie James Dio. I was surprised that I had never heard of this, so I checked out Youtube and found dozens of fan-made walkthrough videos. These people are a new breed of super-nerd, let me tell you: And it's not just this guy! More insane videos, after the jump, seriously worth your time if you like poking fun at mouth breathers who make the Simpsons Comic Book Guy look like a GQ cover boy. Read More... Posted Dec 22 2008, 05:30 PM by Cole Stryker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: cole stryker, youtube, heavy metal, dio, walkthroughs

• Paper Covers Rockman

  Megaman 9 has clearly generated an amicable chunk of fan-love since its surprise announcement, wide digital release, and universally exceptionally positive reception. But it ain't a phenomenon until it's got a truly unique and beautiful fan video project on youtube, right? Well color Megaman 9 Forest Green Phenomenon because this video is 120% pure awesome... Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 05:00 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: derrick sanskrit, capcom, mega man 9, youtube, paper

• WTFriday: Frawless Victory

  Note to readers: WTFriday is a weekly feature where I find something stupid about video games and get you to laugh until it goes away. Please try to forget this is what I normally do every day of the week. God bless YouTube; if it didn't exist, we'd have to rely on mere text and still images whenever we wanted to feel deep shame over the past.  And since we're on the topic of shame, there's perhaps no better place to look than the early-90s promotional video, a popular product in the field of regret. Today's example, a Street Fighter II promo produced by Capcom USA, is a delightful mix of racism, baditude, and inexplicable motivations. For what better way is there to understand Street Fighter than to let the characters explain it to you themselves (Note: rhetorical question)? Because I have more of a job to do than just link to videos and wait for the mad paychecks to start rolling in, I'll offer up some commentary on each character featured above. Read More... Posted Sep 26 2008, 09:00 PM by Bob Mackey with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, bob mackey, wtfriday, street fighter 2

• WTFriday: The Adventures of Sonichu

  Note to readers: WTFriday is a weekly feature where I find something stupid about video games and get you to laugh until it goes away. Please try to forget this is what I normally do every day of the week. What is it about Sonic the Hedgehog that naturally includes him in all aberrant online behavior? This is the question we will try to answer today as we explore the mind of a manchild and try not to get lost or sign up for DeviantART accounts.  The manchild in question goes by the hacker alias of "Sonichu;" and for a brief biography, I'll turn to our friends at the Internet's bullying headquarters, Encyclopedia Dramatica: Chris-chan (AKA: Sonichu, CWC, Christian Weston Chandler) is a self-proclaimed 26-year-old "high-functioning autistic" virgin man-child, and creator of his own awesomely drawn series of comics starring his brilliant crossover of Sonic and Pikachu. He is also incredibly arrogant, sexist, homophobic and racist. Despite being a complete loser, his standards for a "potential Sweetheart" are laughably high and specified. He is known to stereotype women, often thinking that they are unable to notice him at the mall because they are "too busy shopping". In case you couldn't tell, the rabbit hole on this one is pretty goddamned deep.  But all you need to know is that some well-meaning fans have transformed his semi-autobiographical stories into a full-fledged multimedia experience, much like how Ken Burns combined banjo music and a few pictures of the civil war and ended up with PBS gold.  Here's the first episode: More unmedicated fun after the cut. Read More... Posted Sep 19 2008, 05:00 PM by Bob Mackey with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: sonic the hedgehog, youtube, comics, bob mackey, wtfriday, sonichu

• Yahtzee Wannabe Warns You About the GameStop Devil

  Maybe the word "ripoff" is a little harsh. "Zero Originality" acknowledges its roots through its name alone, but it really does try to be its own thing--and, surprisingly, it succeeds. The Internet has assured me of human beings' ability to parrot whatever's popular. Can we scream about the tragedy of bad retro games without adopting James Rolfe's endearing facial expressions? Check. Can we attempt to put down the fruits of developers' loins with adorable pictures and a smooth British accent that pleases the Queen like a new corgi puppy? Check-a-rooney, though the key word here is "attempt." Zero Originality embraces Yahtzee's fast-talking manner and his special breed of stick-people, but at the heart of the videos is not a game critic but rather a game retail critic who's done his share of monkeywork behind the counter of GameStop. This disgruntled gentleman serves our game-loving species by not only warning us away from the brick-and-mortar behemoth that feeds him (or fed him), but by giving us good reasons why we should stay the eff away. Read More... Posted Sep 08 2008, 06:31 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: yahtzee, retail, youtube, fan stuff, nadia oxford, eb games, zero originality, used games, gamestop

• Ulillillia is the Rain Man of Bubsy 3D

  YouTube has unleashed both good and evil into the world, but for every new form of BBW fetish that sprouts like a pimple on the back of the vlogosphere, a delightful new freak—who previously would have no outlet to non-basement social spheres—arises with an astounding new talent developed from a life of having nothing better to do aside from perfecting masturbation. Ulillillia is no stranger to the Internet, but the fact that he hasn’t been kidnapped by the government for use in some evil algebraic scheme boggles the mind. In the following video, our YouTube savior details nine secrets in the second level of Bubsy 3D, a task which he claims took over 500 hours of research. This is not something that you lie about. Read More... Posted Aug 18 2008, 10:00 AM by Bob Mackey with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: platforming, youtube, speed runs, autism, bubsy

• Shiny Entertainment Promo Video is Distilled 90s

  Check out how snarky they are! Making fun of John Denver? Can you smell that punk rock DIY attitude? A tough-looking asian wearing sunglasses indoors!  Drinking beer? AT WORK?! Ah the go-go 90s, when the ultimate expression of Gen-X rebellion was wearing black denim shorts to work, all video effects looked like a crappy Winamp visualization, and the fist-pumping "Sabatoge" provided the soundtrack to disaffected white twenty-somethings in cubicles across California. Despite all the slacker imagery, some cool stuff was going down at Shiny Studios back then. Read More... Posted Jul 14 2008, 06:00 PM by Cole Stryker with | with no comments Filed under: earthworm jim, doug tennapel, cole stryker, youtube, beastie boys

• Boner: The Man, The Legend

  The always interesting L.B. Jeffries over at Popmatters's Moving Pixels blog (Disclaimer: I also write for Popmatters, but we ain't get paid for pageviews so it's cool, guys) has posted an excellent interview with "Boner", a guy who's risen to microcelebrity by streaming his playthroughs of games on Youtube. The dude has over ten thousand subscribers! Read More... Posted Jul 09 2008, 01:00 PM by Cole Stryker with | with no comments Filed under: cole stryker, gamefaqs, youtube, bonersgames