Kotaku: valentine

The Atari VDay Class Assignment

Brian Crecente — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:00:22 MST

Ian Bogost is teaching a graduate class on critiquing and programming the Atari VCS and today he showed his class how to create valentines using the VCS' playfield drawing techniques.

Yes, essentially he drew Atari graphics Valentine's Day cards for a bunch of grad students. Hit the site, after you download Atari emulator Stella, to view them. Or just go out and buy your own damn Valentine's Day cards. Brian Crecente

Atari VCS Valentines [Water Cooler Games]

Pickup Lines of Tamriel

Mike Fahey — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:20:39 MST

For those single kotakuites out there, you have a little less than two days to either find a valentine or pick up a copy of Chulip and a box of tissues (for tears!) to spend the lovers' holiday with. In order to help you in your hunt for somebody to love, Busy Gamer News has compiled a reference video of pickup lines from Oblivion's land of Tamriel.

If I were you I'd avoid using the "I am your emperor line." Hasn't worked for me yet. Using "I've heard you know how to move in light armor", however, is your surefire ticket to hot ren faire lovin. Michael Fahey

A BGN Original - Ye Olde Pickup Lines of Oblivion [Busy Gamer News]

Nintendo Valentines

Mike Fahey — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:40:54 MST

Nothing says I love you like a rectangular printed sheet of inkjet paper containing romantic message from a random Nintendo character. The folks at Play-Nintendo have realized this, and in honor of Valentine's Day they are creating new special printable cards every day until the 14th, each containing a different Nintendo game personality. So far they've featured Samus, Tingle, Tom Nook, Link, and my personal favorite so far, Navi, seen left.

The cards range from eh to pretty amusing, and are probably the best way to tell a gaming friend that they are worth 1/6 of a piece of paper and some ink. I really wouldn't recommend giving one of these to your significant other, as Play-Nintendo suggests, unless you are 8 years old or in a special ed program, which oddly enough covers a large portion of our readership. Not you, of course. Michael Fahey

Nintendo Valentines [Play-Nintendo]