Ode to the High Score
By Ian Brooks
O Top Scorers, O High Scorers!
You brave space, time, and dimly lit bar
To space-spar with czars in ships near bizarre
Harken to you, Scorers of Up High!
The lights you illuminate as the numbers they correlate
The enemies you topple, their masters you throttle
O Master of the Score,
You do battle with the machine to free unknown damsels
The commands you demand with no intention of cancel
O High Scorer, our Pixel Explorer,
The mazes you navigate while hidden secrets you activate
String combos you calculate to rain on targets you assassinate
O Courageous Scorers, the buttons your mast, the winds your controller!
You fear no time limit, pitfall, nor border
The walls you ignore as your course bores you forward
O Top Scorers, with numbers that soar
There is no floating head too large, nor galaxy too far
The High Score you unlocked in my heart, the moment you first pressed Start.
I was just hoping this wasn’t going to bomb horribly. I thought it was a cool idea to showcase some pictures of peoples’ High Scores, but most of the pics I found on flickr and Google fuggin sucked. It occurred to me that taking a picture of a monitor wasn’t such a good idea for a post after all, but I managed to find a few decent ones, I think. All in all it took me about an hour and a half to put everything together for this post, including the verses. Just so you can get an idea of how much time I waste sometimes.
Urban Gaming Art
Photos by Ian Brooks
Urban exploration in an abandoned building in Whittier, Alaska.
A sample of a bunch of cool pics I took today. WHICH YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN’D ALREADY if you were following me on Instagram.
Look what the good chaps over at 72pins sent me today!
I can’t wait to play 8-bit Fight Club and put in the Konami cheat code to get more imaginary friends!
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Sonic Adventure 2 - “Escape From the City”
This wasnt the best Sonic game but this song instantly makes me think of the stellar first level. Plus it’s just a cool song.
God I miss playing this game. I need to go back and finish the last DLC.
(Source: courier7, via bluedogeyes)
Bethesda Announces Dawnguard, A New DLC for Skyrim
Looks like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be getting some new DLC. This teaser image was posted on Bethesda’s blog earlier today revealing the title. Dawnguard will be available this summer on the Xbox 360. More details will be revealed at E3.
Hmmm, so their teaser is basically the same image everyone’s familiar with, but now with random name! Now everyone can speculate for several months and come up with insane rumors while Bethesda probably hasnt even started this yet, they just had yelled at an Intern to think of a Skyrim-y title to buy them more time.
Well played, Bethesda.
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