Ever since I started writing for this site, I have seem many (and have posted many) poster art posts and I think this may be one of my favorites since gaming is my second love (food being my first). Anyway, the Brians over at IGN has come up with some poster art for video games. The posters are basically retro advertisements but instead of regular products, these poster are advertising power up’s as products.

From Super Mario Bros. to Legend of Zelda, there are 12 posters and I wonder how many of ya’ll will be able to recognize all of them. The Bubble Bobble one is may favorite as well as the Metal Gear one. Click after the jump to check out the posters and tell us which one you like. (more…)

As we get older (and grumpier), it seems that game characters usually just stay the same and look better as technology gets better. What if these characters actually showed their age as the years go by. Well, Dorkly got a set of pictures of known video game characters in their aged form and what they would be doing in the real world. No, not the MTV show but our world. Check after the jump to see how these game characters are deal with life in their old age and see if Slippy finally gets the respect he deserve. (more…)

Super Mario Bros. Crossover has became a big hit on the interwebs when it was released. If ya somehow haven’t heard about the flash game, it gives gamers the chance to play Super Mario Bros. with other famous 8-bit video game characters such as Megaman and Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu. While the game updates with new characters, there are some characters that just won’t work and this video is proof. The video shows why 5 characters will end up being leftovers for this awesome crossover. From Rampages’ Lizzie to Dragon Lair’s Dirk the Daring, 8-bit gamers will enjoy the faults these characters have.

Source: Kotaku

While we may have seen quite the amount of alphabet’s here on NerdBastards, this one puts nothing but a huge smile on my face. Francis Acupan drew some memorable icons that any gamer will recognize. Of course, from this picture, we can see which of the three console company he is a fan of but at least he gave some love to the other two. Check after the jump for a bigger image to see exactly what icon is what since he wrote descriptions of them on the image.
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It seems that everyone’s favorite insatiable yellow guy is getting a new TV show, produced by Marvel movie producing big-wig, Avi Arad.

The show, which will be in 3D, was introduced at the recently completed Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3) with a trailer which can be found below the jump. The trailer was shown in 3D, but recorded on a 2D camera and posted on Gametrailers.com, so the picture is quite blurry.

The basic premise of the Pac-Man TV show is the same as the game – the yellow hero eats ghosts, as well as everything else. However, in order to make the show, the creators needed to craft a story that could support flushed out characters. While the story is explained in the trailer, it’s your standard show where ghosts are trying to take over “Pac World” and only one thing can stop them: Pac-Man (but trust me, he’s no man in the trailer, its Pac-Boy if anything).

And yes, he does eat them.

Not that I would ever watch the show, but I think this is just exploiting a much beloved video game character to re-boot a franchise and cause kids to spend money on it. And 3D, really?

What do you think?

A few weeks ago was the anniversary of Pac-Man and Google did its part to celebrate it. Then a week later, we got news on how Google Pac-Man cost $120,484,800 in productivity, proving that no matter how old Pac-Man is, people will play it if given the chance. Well, almost everyone that is since College Humor has this audio clip of an older lady who didn’t want to do anything with Pac-Man and wanted it gone. I’m sure checking out the clip will bring back memories for some of us who had to help someone with their computer problems.

Last Friday/Saturday was the celebration of Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversary (His Japanese debut) and Google celebrated in a most awesome way.  In what most figure would waste a lot of people’s time, well, it most certainly did. According to Rescue Time, it recorded that because of the playable Pac-Man logo, people wasted 4,819,352 hours on it. Now to translate that into money that was lost productivity wise, well, it will be $120, 484,800 (that is only assuming each person playing had a $25/hour wage).

One flaw I see in this is that more likely, probably a third or so people that played the Pac-Man game were people without a job. Also, I would like to know who is getting paid $25 an hour because I wasted time on the game and I’m just poor department manager that gets paid $8 an hour. Either way, this shows the power of the internet and that people does like to waste time on it, they just found another thing to blame stuff on for a while. Hell, once I live a full life, I may have wasted that many hours in all the nerdy stuff I would have done. That is of course, not adding all the porn I may have watch…which would probably be a scary number of hours.

Source: BBC News, Rescue Time Blog

Star Wars isn’t the only one celebrating a birthday today as it is also the 30th birthday for Pac-Man. Although the yellow round eater was released in May 22nd, 1980 in Japan, Google decided that since it’s already the 22nd in Japan, they wanted to celebrate the best way they could and that is with their logo. As shown on the image above, just head over to google.com and play a game of Pac-Man going around the words Google. I don’t know about you but this is awesome and I’m glad to see a gaming classic gets the respect it deserve so head on over to Google now to get your game on. We all can say thanks to Google for people not getting their work done today because of this.

Source: Destructoid

Pac-Man. A classic arcade character that looks like a cheese pizza with a slice missing, who floats around eating pellets and avoids ghosts. Of course such a thing makes for a marvelous and addicting game but movie? Well, if there was any doubt of the potential in such in idea the naysayers can all just take it up the pooper.

Director Patrick Brady and Allyson Schettino, along with the rest of the Therefore You production took the Pac-Man premise and gave it a twist. In their fan-made, two minute trailer of the proposed PACMAN: The Movie they give our yellow friend the “Saw” treatment. In their version of Pacman a “Pharmaceutical CEO is forced to take his own dangerous medications in order to survive a maze designed by a sadistic patient out for revenge“. The two minute trailer is as creepy/haunting as it is well done. The concept is clever and totally takes Pac-Man to a new level of awesome. Though, the crew only intended to satire Hollywood’s love for taking video games with barely any plot and turning them into bad feature films they’ve accidentally made one of the greatest fan films ever. (that is arguable but still, it’s pretty fucking good).

PACMAN: THE MOVIE TRAILER from Therefore Productions on Vimeo.

Note: the faux movie release date at the end of the trailer implies that this video might be a few years old but as far as we now it’s not. This was uploaded today on Thereforeproduction site.

source: geekologie

Nerds may be known for wearing lots of logo shirts (they’re free afterall), high waters, pocket protectors and generally UN-stylish wardrobes. But I’m sorry, there has been an evolution, no, Revolution in nerd style. A whole lot of bad-ass artisans have been busy in their workshops cranking out some pretty cool accessories for nerds. Here’s a few favorite picks for the Gamers in the crowd. (Pictured Above: Mario Brothers Cuff Links)

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