Casualty of the Okie

I am a MA candidate at SAIC for Art History. I hope to specialize in new media with an emphasize on videogame theory. Chicago lovin', gay.
~ Friday, April 13 ~
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Xenoblade

Should I buy it?

Is it just going to be a limited release?

Should I buy it TODAY?

Do you need anything else to play with it?

*I know I should not buy another game but if this is legit a limited release then I MUST OWN IT*

Tags: Xenoblade Video Games Wii TROUBLESZZZZ end of the semester...why am i thinking this
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~ Wednesday, April 4 ~
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Got this today.  Anna Anthropy came to our class today and she was AMAZING!  I am still in awe.  She signed my book and wrote “Ian, Let this be your invitation to actually make some games!”.   I am so inspired.  Look her up folks.   I feel like I really have a manifesto in my hands.  Can’t wait to read it.  

Got this today.  Anna Anthropy came to our class today and she was AMAZING!  I am still in awe.  She signed my book and wrote “Ian, Let this be your invitation to actually make some games!”.  

I am so inspired.  Look her up folks.  

I feel like I really have a manifesto in my hands.  Can’t wait to read it.  

Tags: Rise of the Video Game Zinesters Anna Anthropy Video Games Queer
~ Monday, February 13 ~
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picked this up. ran into professor saying that I have been doing well.  talk to prof about paper topics. new fun album and sleighbells leaked.  This is a great day. 

picked this up. ran into professor saying that I have been doing well.  talk to prof about paper topics. new fun album and sleighbells leaked.  This is a great day. 

Tags: video games fun. GPOY sleigh bells this album is so flipping fun
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~ Monday, January 23 ~
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Legend of Minecraft?

This makes me just nerd out completely.

Tags: legend of zelda minecraft video games nerd thesis
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~ Thursday, December 1 ~
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Galloping Ghost Arcade

I am going to this arcade tomorrow.  All you have to do is pay 15 dollars to get in and you play any game free of tokens for as long as you want.  They have 300 games up and running.  Here is the list:

Here is a list of games we currently have running:

1942
1943
Aero Fighters
Aero Fighters 2
After Burner II
Air Buster
Alcon
Aliens
Alien vs Predator
Altered Beast
Arkanoid
Arkanoid : The Revenge of Doh
Art of Fighting
Art of Fighting 2
Aft of Fighting 3
Asteroids
Astro Fighter (Cocktail Table)
Astro Fighter (Cocktail Table)
Atomic Punk 2
Bad Dudes
Batman
Battle Toads
Bermuda Triangle
Bionic Commando
Black Knight (Pinball)
Black Tiger
BlazBlue Continuum Shift (PS3)
Blood Brothers
Bomb Jack
Bosconian
Breakers Revenge
Bubble Bobble
Bump ’ N’ Jump
Burger Time
Cadash
Capcom vs SNK
Capcom vs SNK 2
Captain America and the Avengers
CarnEvil
Centipede
Centipede (Cocktail Table)
Championship Sprint
Choplifter
Cobra Command
Combatribes
Commando
Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi High Roller
Crime City
Crossed Swords
Cruis’n USA
Cyberball 2072
Dangar UFO Robo
Dead Or Alive ++
Defender
Devastators
Dig Dug
DJ Boy
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Double Dragon
Double Dragon II
Double Dragon 3
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon’s Lair (PS3 Arcade Cabinet)
Dragon’s Lair II : Time Warp (PS3 Arcade Cab)
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom
Elevator Action
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
ESWAT
Eyes (Cocktail Table)
Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury 2
Fatal Fury 3
Final Fight
Flash (Pinball)
Flicky
Food Fight
Forgotten Worlds
Frogger
Fun House (Pinball)
Galaga
Galaga ‘88
Galaxian
Garou Mark of the Wolves
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Ghosts & Goblins
Ghouls & Ghosts
Godzilla
Golden Axe
Golden Axe : Revenge of Death Adder
Gondomania
Gorf
Gorgar (Pinball)
Gravitar
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Gyruss
Halley’s Comet
Harley Davidson & the LA Riders
Haunted Castle
Heavy Barrel
Heavyweight Champ
House of the Dead
Ikari Warriors
Ikaruga
Ironman Ivan Stewart’s Super Off Road
Joust
Jr. Pac Man
Judge Dredd
Karate Champ
Karnov
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct II
King Of Fighters 1994
King Of Fighters 1995
King Of Fighters 1996
King Of Fighters 1997
King Of Fighters 1998
King Of Fighters 1999
King Of Fighters 2000
King Of Fighters 2001
King Of Fighters 2002
King Of Fighters 2003
King Of Fighters XI
King of Fighters XII (PS3 Arcade System)
King Of Fighters XIII
King of the Monsters
Kung Fu Master
Last Blade
Last Blade 2
Lethal Enforcers
Magical Drop II
Magician Lord
Mario Bros.
Marvel Super Heroes
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Marvel vs Capcom
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Mega Force
Mega Man  Power Battle
Metal Slug
Metal Slug X
Millionaire (Pinball)
Millipede
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 4
Mortal Kombat (2011)
Mortal Kombat (2011)
Mr. Do!
Ms. Pac Man (TURBO)
Ms. Pac Man (Cocktail Table)
Mutation Nation
NAM 1975
NARC
Nastar
NBA Jam
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Need For Speed Underground
NFL Blitz ‘99
Nibbler
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Warriors
Operation Thunderbolt
Operation Wolf
Outfoxies, The
Outrun
P-47 Phantom Fighter
Players Choice 10
Players Choice 10
P.O.W.
Pac Man
Pinbot (pinball)
Pit Fighter
Pole Position
Police Trainer
Popeye
Power Instinct
Primal Rage
Punch Out
Puzzle Bobble
Q*Bert
Raiden
Rally X
Rampage
Rampage World Tour
Rampart
Rastan
Rival Schools : United By Fate
Road Blasters
Robocop
Robotron 2084
R-Type
Rush N Attack
Rygar
S.T.U.N. Runner
Samurai Shodown
Samurai Shodown II
Samurai Shodown III
Samurai Shodown IV
Samurai Shodown V Special
Samurai Shodown VI Tenkanichi Kenkakuden
Samurai Shodown - Warriors Rage
Satan’s Hollow
Scramble
Sea Devil
Sengoku
Shadow Dancer
Shinobi
Silent Scope
Silent Scope II Dark Silhouette
Silk Worm
Simpsons
Sky Shark
Smash TV
Sol Divide
Soul Calibur III
Soul Edge
Space Invaders
Splatter House
Spiderman
Spy Hunter
Star Castle
Star Wars
Star Wars Trilogy
Street Fighter
Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Fighting
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
Strider
Strider II
Sunset Riders
Superman
Super Cobra
Super Contra
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Super Street Fighter II X Grand Master Challenge
Super Street Fighter IV AE (PS3 Arcade Cabinet)
Survival Arts
SVC Chaos - SNK vs Capcom
Tapper
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time
Tekken
Tekken 2
Tekken 3
Tekken 4
Tekken 6 (PS3 Cabinet)
Tekken Tag Tournament
Tempest
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
Terra Cresta
Tetris
Thunder Blade
Tiger Heli
Time Crisis
Time Pilot
Time Pilot ‘84
Time Soldiers
Tron
Truxton
Tutankham
Twilight Zone (Pinball)
Twin Cobra
Twin Eagle
Twin Eagle II
Ultimate Arctic Thunder
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (PS3 Arcade Cab)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 
U.N. Squadron
Vampire Savior
Vampire Savior 2
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Vulgus
VS Castlevania
VS ExciteBike
VS Super Mario
VS Top Gun
WAR Final Assault
Warlords
Winding Heat
Wind Jammers
Wizard of Wor
World Heroes
World Heroes 2
World Rally
Wrestle War
WWF Super Stars
WWF Wrestlefest
X-Men
X-Men Children of the Atom
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Xenophobe


Tags: I CANNNOT WAIIITT Arcades Video Games Galloping Ghost
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~ Saturday, September 10 ~
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“ Television and movies allow us to be voyeurs of national tragedy. They open windows to vivid spectacles. They re-tell stories. They are witnessed from a safe distance. Video games are a visit to a prepared place, like a painting that can be climbed into. The painting, like the video game (and unlike the photograph), is entirely composed of intentional effort. Its interpretations may be unintended, but every element of the work was put there by its creator(s). The video game, like the painting, is constructed, not captured. It is hand-detailed, not happenstance. It may, as most games do, proclaim nothing other than its existence, but that alone is a statement of human effort: the creators of this virtual place decided this building should be there, the sky should be that color …
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In a positively BRILLIANT article, Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo has managed to sum up exactly why video games are my favorite artistic medium in a single paragraph. 

In a game, every image you see and every sound you hear is an effort of human intention that has been carefully crafted for you to observe, absorb, consider, and enjoy.  No other art form on the planet can pair experience and interactivity with that same level of meaningful construction. 

(via mrgilder)

Tags: video games gaming video game theory quotes games as art
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~ Monday, September 5 ~
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10 Video Games that should be considered Modern Art

Like comics, video games are a bastard medium, perpetually trapped in the purgatory of “low art.” No matter how well-crafted or sweeping or gorgeous they are, they almost never get auctioned off to millionaires with paddles. But even comics have had some success: The graphic novel movement is giving them some art house cred, R. Crumb drew some parents boning their kids and got a freaking Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and I heard Jeff Koons grudgingly recognized them as a conceivable medium for the conveyance of art-like imagery.

Read more: 10 Video Games That Should Be Considered Modern Art | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/defending-the-habit-10-video-games-as-modern-art/#ixzz1X5Ne6kEr

Tags: Video Games Modern Art Take that Roger Ebert
~ Friday, July 8 ~
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“ Without action, games remain only in the pages of an abstract rule book. Without the active participation of players and machines, video games exist only as static computer code.
— Alexander Galloway on Algorithmic Culture
Tags: Video Games Algorithmic cultures Gaming Love this guy
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~ Friday, July 1 ~
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“ If photographs are images, and films are moving images, then VIDEO GAMES ARE ACTIONS
— Gaming - Alexander R. Galloway
Tags: Digital Culture Video Games Fine Art
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