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    Image of onigedaki onigedaki
    08/06/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy

    Um why in the heck weren't these included?
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    08/06/09


    @onigedaki: Agreed! Gotta mention Pro-Keds when talking about gaming shoes. I was lucky enough to find the Asteroids and Pac-Man versions in my size. I wear them on special occasions. Like Tuesdays.
    [bunnyears.net]
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    Image of 492b2 3b5t5k4mk3 3ñx39 492b2 3b5t5k4mk3 3ñx39
    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy

    the Grim Fandango converse win
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    Image of Showmeyomoves! Showmeyomoves!
    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy

    Probably the most iconic set of sneakers.
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    Image of p.e.r.e.g.r.i.n.e. p.e.r.e.g.r.i.n.e.
    08/05/09

    @Showmeyomoves!: Okay... I was just about to post a huge rant about how I hate "gamer" clothes and how tacky it is when people try to show off the fact that they are a gamer.
    But man... If I could buy those shoes, I would wear them everyday...
    Color me bright hypocrite-blue but I absolutely would.
    Way to make me rethink my values man...
    THANKS!
    In case you can't tell that last line was sarcastic!
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    Image of Advent Chaos Loves You Advent Chaos Loves You
    08/05/09

    @Showmeyomoves!: OOOOH! What about those Soap shoes that Sonic wore in Sonic Adventure 2!? Those were rad!
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    Image of NeöStarr NeöStarr
    08/05/09

    @Showmeyomoves!: So good they even brought them back for Mirrors Edge.
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    08/06/09


    @NeoStarr HD: Red shoes make you go faster!
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    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy
    It's articles like these where you can always tell it's written by AJ
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    Image of (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD
    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy
    (Gaming) Papercraft, cakes, bentos, graffiti and now shoes. Kotaku has a rich history of the odd, but shoes?
    Awesome. I`d take me a pair of Peach shoes if I wasn`t a guy :P
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    Image of p.e.r.e.g.r.i.n.e. p.e.r.e.g.r.i.n.e.
    08/05/09

    @(Zombie) Goldwings: Pair them with a really butch parasol and tiara. You won't be able to swing that parasol without smacking a sexy bitch, or two!
    But make sure you wear the tiara backwards otherwise it means you're gay.
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    Image of DouglasJayFalcon DouglasJayFalcon
    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy
    I think this snake shoe should have been on that list...[brassmonki.wordpress.com]
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    Image of ShaSt One ShaSt One
    08/05/09

    @DouglasJayFalcon: Nice. That and the Princess Peaches are winners to me. If you're out there, Internet, know that you can sport visible video game themes and still look classy. I'm looking at you, Nike, or should I call you, "Let's find some $34.99 shoes in our clearance bins that have some red and gray on them and call them Nintendo Editions."

    Yep, I'd sport the Peaches and the Snakes, if I had them.
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    Image of pandafresh pandafresh
    08/05/09

    @DouglasJayFalcon: the design looks dope, but just seems to be a photoshop mock-up.
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    08/05/09

    @DouglasJayFalcon: that looks so shooped
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    Image of Char Aznable Char Aznable
    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy
    Thanks for this article, AJ. These look like shoes my sister would love. Now it's time to google the shoes Marty wears in Back to the Future 2.
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    Image of ParanoidCitizen ParanoidCitizen
    08/05/09

    @Char Aznable: Nike made them a year or two ago. They were in a super limited run though, 250 pairs i think, so they all went straight to ebay.
    [cgi.ebay.com]
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    Image of Char Aznable Char Aznable
    08/06/09

    @ParanoidCitizen: :(! Sad. I love those shoes.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    08/05/09

    In reply to Five Pairs Of Gamer Shoes I Want To Buy
    I like the Mrs. Pac-Man slippers. I just cant justify spending that much on a pair of sneakers though. Because lets be honest, anything good in this category is expensive as sin. The only pair I would ever consider buying were the Phoenix Wright ones. The thought of kicking someone in the face with a shoe that says OBJECTION! like that is a joy I wish to experience one day.

    Also, there are WAY more articles under the Shoe tag then I ever knew about.
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    Image of Billkwando Billkwando
    07/08/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    I see Gawker shat on itself & ate all the posts again.
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    Image of Spoony Bard Spoony Bard
    07/14/09

    @Billkwando bought his tickets for Hyde's US tour: Well, I think it's the whole "stars" thing.
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    Image of dancemonkey dancemonkey
    07/07/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    I grew up in Monterey and every weekend I would walk, WALK, to Cannery Row. There in the same building as the carousel (gone, sold) was a huge arcade. I would spend hours upon hours and quarters upon quarters in there. It's pretty much my only arcade experience, any game I want to play in an emulator I have to go in my Wayback Machine and try to remember yet another game I'd played at the Edgewater Packing Co. building.


    I need to get my 3-yr-old son down to Santa Cruz and show him the arcade, He played a crappy Spiderman game at our local mall recently and loved it. All he did was walk back and forth and jump over things, but he loved it.


    I won't bring video games into our home for him just yet (at least until he can read, add, write, whatever kids do in school these days), but trips to the arcade are definitely in order.

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    07/07/09

    @dancemonkey: That was it -- the place with the carousel! Do you remember what it was called?
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    07/07/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    Thank you Brian!
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    Image of saulpimpson, kicker of elves saulpimpson, kicker of elves
    07/07/09

    @saulpimpson: crap i mean AJ. my brain is fried from work.
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    Image of AJ Glasser AJ Glasser
    07/07/09

    @saulpimpson: I *do* have fabulous hair, though.
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    Image of LucasReis LucasReis
    07/07/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    God I miss the arcades. Arcades were places made of dreams... ok, maybe I´ve gone too far, but yeah, to me they were made of pure fucking awesomeness!
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    Image of bjarnia bjarnia
    07/07/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    Could the reason for all of the arcades dying be the ridiculous prices they charge these days?

    Some games are $1 a pop. I think not.
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    07/07/09

    @bjarnia: that and its hard to justify spending a dollar on something that either doesnt look as good as your games at home.. or just matches them.


    i dont know when 50 cents became a standard, but 50 cent games 25 years ago with inflation considered would amount to over a dollar today.


    i dont get why people cant accept that kind of stuff... minimum wage in 1985 was less than 4 bucks.. now (in a couple weeks) its over 7..


    not gripin at ya.. just sayin that 1.00 seems steep.. but i bet id have felt the same way in the 80s about 50 cents if i was in the same economic situation im in now. that argument and the $60 one both get to me.. because games cost MORE than that in the 90s.


    i think 2 things were the biggest blows to arcades (at least in the west).


    1) the transition to 3d.. basically the dreamcast. by the time graphics looked that good on a home console.. they stopped trying to 1up them in arcades.. so we ended up with arcade games that not only didnt outdo home ports, but in some cases were INFERIOR. whats the point in me spending 50 cents on soul calibur at the arcade when it looks like dog crap compared to the dreamcast version.


    2) the rise in popularity of western gaming. that sentence explains itself.. out of all the big name arcade houses in the day, midway is the only important western group that comes to mind. and they really didnt do anything to help arcades out over here in the last 10 years did they?

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    Image of UltimateRuiner UltimateRuiner
    07/07/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    Great article. I brings back so many memories, mostly of summers or the early 90's. Arcades were littered with Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, Magic Sword, Final Fight, TMNT...those were the days.
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    Image of High Speed Indeed High Speed Indeed
    07/07/09

    @UltimateRuiner: If only we could figure out time travel. In the meantime I have MAME and a Tankstick. Good enough.
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    Image of katsujinken katsujinken
    07/07/09

    @High Speed Indeed: That's not nearly good enough. Don't you miss the sight of all your contemporaries gathered together, the sounds of all the cabinets chiming and beeping at once to attract your attention, the experience from types of cabinets you just could never have in your home like After-Burner II or the feeling of being a pro when you beat some cocky stranger in front of a crowd breaking their ten match winning streak? No, the death of arcades is a paradise lost.
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    07/07/09

    @katsujinken: if you werent already hearted...
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    Image of snowlock snowlock
    07/07/09

    In reply to When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade
    when isn't it the best part?


    sure i'm in the minority, but i don't like heat.

    or sand.

    or disrobing in public.

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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    07/07/09

    @snowlock:


    or the sun


    or... humans


    *shudder*

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    Image of [ZTF]Auspiciously Liminal [ZTF]Auspiciously Liminal
    07/07/09

    @Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: I didn't know they had beaches in Russia. Just frozen deathscapes.
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    07/07/09

    @[ZTF]214A, 2A, 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 214B, 214D:


    Every day not in a siberian gulag is a day at the beach, comrade.


    You would do well to remember before speaking in such a way again.

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