It’s May, which means it’s time for the annual Famicase exhibition, a showcase put on by Japanese game store Meteor that asks artists from around the world to design beautiful cartridges for fake video games. Which end up looking good enough for us to want them to be real video games.
It’s May, which means it’s time for Japanese game store Meteor to hold its annual Famicase exhibition, an event where artists from all over the world come together to design fake Nintendo games.
Famicom case design by Natalie Hanke for this year's My Famicase Exhibition. See the NSFW flyer for the exhibition below.
It's my favourite time of the year. The time when, like clockwork, Japanese indie gaming store Meteor holds its annual Famicase exhibition, which brings together artists from all over the world and asks them to design fake Nintendo games.
A Game By Its Cover is one of the coolest independent game jams going around. It tasks entrants with picking an existing piece of fake video game art - often a cartridge from Meteor's awesome Famicase exhibition - and making an actual game out of it.
Can you believe it's Famicase time already? That time of the year when indie Japanese store Meteor holds an exhibition showcasing a bunch of incredible, one-of-a-kind fake video game cartridges.
Can it be that time of year again? So soon? Yes, it seems it is. Time for Japanese game store Meteor to hold their annual "Famicase" exhibition, featuring imaginary Nintendo game cartridges.
Is it that time of year already? Time flies when you're waiting for the latest instalment of Famicase (fake-Famicom-cartridges-as-art), an annual treat hosted by Japanese game store Meteor. Here are the pick of 2010's crop.
We are, unreservedly, big fans of hipster Japanese game store Meteor and its Famicase art exhibition. So please, join us as we peruse the entire history of the show.
