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Life & Death, Diskun Love and Piles of Stuff – Culture Collection #13
Let’s open this new-style Culture Collection with some great fan-made stuff – although admittedly, Itumo Sobani‘s MOTHER-themed works could easily pass for official merchandise. A whole host of design items and accessories have been created by the self-described coterie, which you can … Continue reading
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More than 30 years late to the party, an untouched Famicom gets its chance to shine
Our second treasure trove of the day, and this time one that’s been doing the rounds, is courtesy of Nintendo themselves (and spotted over on Attract Mode). A recent series on Nintendo’s Japanese website celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Legend … Continue reading
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Tagged Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Games Culture, Japan, Nintendo, The Legend of Zelda
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When Yakuza met Sylvanian Families – Culture Collection #12
What happens when you cross the gentle country lifestyle championed by Sylvanian Families, the internationally popular line of anthropomorphic animal mini-figures, with the hard-boiled, gripping criminal underworld that plays host to SEGA’s Yakuza series of crime games? Twitter user @momomousoumomo calls it ‘Yakuzania’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Culture Collection, Fan Works, Features, Games Culture, Japan, Sega, Toys, Yakuza
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Experience an overlooked adventure with English-dubbed Satellaview Zelda
The Satellaview has become something of a curio amongst Nintendo fans, both due to a diverse library of interesting titles and content, as well as a somewhat peculiar distribution method that has resulted in a fair amount of said content … Continue reading
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Tagged Fan Works, Games Culture, Nintendo, Satellaview, SNES, Super Famicom, The Legend of Zelda
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Get fighting fit with Street Fighter V Strength Training Gear
It goes without saying that characters of the Street Fighter V are pretty buff – on occasions, arguably too buff. To undertake such superhuman feats as conjuring balls of energy from thin air, performing hundreds of kicks per second and pulling off physics-defying haircuts clearly requires … Continue reading
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Tagged Capcom, Fitness, Games Culture, Import, Japan, Merchandise, Street Fighter
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Summer re-prints from THE KING OF GAMES
Fans of tasteful gaming apparel will be pleased to know that THE KING OF GAMES have re-printed some of their most popular designs, for sale this month on the EDITMODE online store. This is the second wave of re-prints in 2016 (some designs from … Continue reading
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Tagged EDITMODE, Fashion, Games Culture, Japan, THE KING OF GAMES
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Space Harrier model kits let you enter the Fantasy Zone, store your stationary
It’s a known fact that the only way to truly keep your desk tidy is by storing your pens and pencils inside the hollowed out head of an Ida, the imposing stone head enemies from Sega’s surreal sci-fi rail shooter … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcade, Games Culture, Import, Japan, Merchandise, Sega, Space Harrier, Toys
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A ridiculously stylish R-Type animation made mostly by one person
Irem‘s side scrolling shoot-em-up classic R-Type, known for its grotesque alien bosses and intense difficulty amongst other things, has been remarkably captured in this unique animated short that tells the story of a young man trapped inside what has been labelled as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Anime, Arcade, Fan Works, Games Culture, Irem, R-Type, Shoot 'em up
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Highlights from the 2016 My Famicase Exhibition
METEOR‘s yearly ‘My Famicase Exhibition’ cartridge design show is finally open for 2016! Just like last year, a wide selection of different artists from around the world have contributed their own unique designs for fictional Famicom cartridge labels that take advantage … Continue reading
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Get a video tour of 2016’s My Famicase Exhibition
The ‘My Famicase Exhibition‘, a yearly art exhibition held at the METEOR design store in Tokyo at which artists display their label designs for fictional Famicom games of their creation, has just opened for 2016, bringing with it a whole host of … Continue reading
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