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The Sega Channel Blew My Ten-Year-Old Mind
The announcement ofthe Xbox streaming service briefly took me back to the ‘90s and to the Sega Channel, an invention so great it basically erased most of my memory of 1994 as I entered a state of pure bliss closest to what David Foster Wallace described in Infinite Jest Crudely dispatch with any homework. Use…
By Matt Hardigree Published March 6, 2017 -
Chinese street racing is the closest you’ll get to a real-life video game
Street racers dart in-an-out of oncoming traffic at night, hitting triple digit speeds across multiple stages. This isn’t a video game. Or, well, it is a video game. But it’s also what these Chinese street racers did in this incredible video series. In posting this we must point out how despicable, awful, terrible, unconscionable, and…
By Matt Hardigree Published May 17, 2011 -
The Angry Birds car is the most addictive Chevy of all time
Spotted on an Ohio Freeway, this heavily customized Angry Birds-themed car is either a great meta-commentary on distracted driving or merely the most Internet relevant donk since the Facebook Caprice The attention to detail here is kind of wonderful, from the pause button on the front quarter panels to the opening screen mural on the…
By Matt Hardigree Published May 13, 2011