Back when I had a regular work-a-day job, back when dalek's floated up basement stairs and dinosaurs roamed Saturday morning TV, there were no blogs to fill the long, lonely paycheck days.

Instead we had to amuse ourselves in more creative ways, like with office pranks, rubberband wars and of course the faithful sticky note.

Jacob Karsemeyer of Pushing Play sent this along. He and classmate Sam Klass filmed it in a college multimedia course. "Turns out stop motion is one of the most painstakingly laborious mediums to work with," he writes, "but the end result was worth the hours we spent taking thousands of images and stitching them together."

We've mentioned Jacob's work before — for his undergraduate thesis, he and another classmate created a Half Life mod that demonstrated video game physics, called Half-Life: Havoc

Stop Fighter 2 [Pushing Play]

Funny, I don't remember guys with swords in Super Mario Bros. or Pong for that matter. Brian Ashcraft

Super Mario Stop Motion Legos [Aeropause]

Candle plus Pac-Man = Unfrigginbelievable. Brian Crecente

Game Over [PES]

Stop-motion animation series Gameover by NOTsoNOISY delivers some pretty cool video game interpretations created with stop animation and a bunch of people sitting in seats. Sure, they can do retro gaming, but I want to see some NOTsoNOISY GTA, then I'd be impressed.

Hit the jump to watch low-res human Pong. Brian Crecente

Human Pong [GameVideos, thanks Luke]

Stop-motion impressario PES lets loose with food and Frogger in this classic-gaming stop-motion carnival of deeeeelight.

I'm video-whoring today because I'm exhausted from driving to Utah and back this weekend. I was trying to intercept Crecente before he got out of the country, and I knew he had a layover in Salt Lake City. I found him in one of the sleazy airport bars, swilling watery Utah beer and trying to pick up a stewardess who'd been finely aged in recycled cabin air, like fancy cheese in a French cave.

'What is it, Gauger?" he snarled as he caught sight of me. "I'm on vacation, you little twerp."

I told him to untwist his official Day of the Tentacle boxer-briefs and settle down, I wasn't there to steal his frag. "You forgot something," I said, slipping the seemingly empty phials under the lip of the bar to his sweating hand. "You forgot your mission."

He should be well on his way by now. Just between you and me, faithful readers, I'd stock up on surgical masks, Spaghettios and bottled water while there's still time. Eliza Gauger

We sure hope we haven't posted this before, because it's adorable. A stop-motion Prince rolls his Katamari boll through a doll house. Very cute, but we'd never quite realized that the Prince was actually the gaming equivalent of a dung beetle before. FLORIAN ECKHARDT

Stop motion genius Ray Harryhausen is developing a new line of features, tv movies and, yes, video games. The man who brought us Clash of the Titans, the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and Argonauts told The Hollywood Reporter that he will be working with Mindfire Entertainment using the label Ray Harryhausen Presents and that he's already looking at scripts that involve Greek Mythology and alien invasions. Hopefully, it's the same script. I want a stop motion game starring Hercules in a desperate battle to save New Jersey from an army of Vagina-mouthed, tentacle-headed Spartan warriors set on world domination through the spread of avian flu. —Brian Crecente

Ray Harryhausen Eyeing Games [1Up]