“Elfarty” counts down the ten weirdest NES Famicom (Japanese) commercials of all-time. Which one is your favorite? Video after the jump.
Interesting to see Commedian Tokoro George in Japan-Only Disk System ads. (He’s the guy in the Zelda ad with glasses. Side note: He voiced ALF in its Japanese dub.)
[via Kotaku]
Here are four ways on “how not to cook breakfast”, using gadgets. Which one is your favorite?
Ok, you’ve seen some funny spoofs, but now check out the “Get a Mac” ads from a PC perspective. Video after the jump.
But now it’s time for the PC to counterattack, with the help of director Laurie McGuinness, who created four small hilarious clips, with the same character personalities (the PC being older, “boring”, and the Mac being younger and cooler), but this time the Mac doesn’t get the spotlight
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Who knew you could actually play games on the world’s smallest TV? Find that and more in this strange list. Which ones are your favorites?
The Sega Saturn “was supported in North America and Europe until late 1998, and in Japan until the end of 2000. The last official game for the system, Yukyu Gensokyoku Perpetual Collection, was released by Mediaworks in December of that year.” Commercial after the jump.
The Saturn was a powerful machine for the time, but its design, with two CPUs and 6 other processors, made harnessing its power extremely difficult. Rumours suggest that the original design called for a single central processor (making for an excellent 2D gaming experience but with very limited 3D capability), but a second processor was added late in development to increase 3D performance
A group of Michigan Technological University students built an impressive sound system using 9 Behringer EP2500’s, 1 Crown XLS602, and lots of snow. More pictures after the jump.
..which to us normal, snowman-making guys is over 20,000 watts in amplification. But yeah, that low-wattage Bose system you just bought is still really nice
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At $12,000, this “ChronArte Canna Water Clock” basically “consists of a dozen glass tubes with 5.25 gallons of water, filling up as time passes and marked at 10-minute increments.” No word yet on availability.
At 12 o’clock noon and midnight, all the water drains down to the bottom, starting the process all over again
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This strange gadget “simulates an electric table saw with your CD.” Unfortunately, no release date has yet been set.
If you’re still not quite enamored with online music stores like iTunes and prefer to get your music in hard copy format, here’s a ridiculous CD player design. They come with two other wooden walnut speakers, and have only three buttons for playback control
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File this under: ” Real-Life Gaming Spoofs” If they made another Street Fighter movie, we could only hope it’s as interesting as this clip. Watch after the jump.
Who wants an ultrathin laptop, powered by blue methyl alcohol fuel? Find that and more in this strange list of laptops you don’t see everyday. Which ones are your favorites?