Points of Interest – 7/17/07
- To celebrate the release of Paper Mario to the Wii Virtual Console, here’s a reposting of Paper Mario: The Hat of Fire.
- And to celebrate the recent trailer for the Get Smart movie, here are some classic scenes from the TV show:
Engrish goes back to the 60′s as Maxwell Smart faces The Craw!
Max meets his match within KAOS as he encounters Siegfried the Great for the first time.
And finally, no talk of Get Smart is complete without The Cone of Silence.
- Yesterday, Burger King launched a new website to help promote the soon-coming The Simpsons Movie in the form of SimpsonizeMe.com.
Previously, only celebrity guests appearing on The Simpsons television series could be Simpsonized. Now, anyone can get a yellow makeover. After uploading a photo and going yellow, website guests can personalize their look even more by choosing from hundreds of hairstyles, body types, outfits and accessories – from Marge’s wacky blue hair and Homer’s five o’clock shadow to Lisa’s pearl necklace. When finished, visitors can create screensavers and wallpaper designs with their new look or email it to a friend. Simpsonizeme.com also features THE SIMPSONS MOVIE trailers, a BURGER KING? restaurant locator, ads and an online store where visitors can apply their Simpsonized photos to t-shirts, mugs, hats, aprons and photo sculptures.
Burger King Corp. will also sponsor a traveling Simpsonizer throughout July and August, giving consumers a chance to step inside a photo booth and instantly become Simpsonized. Participants will have the option to immediately print their transformed photo, send it as an e-card or send it to a mobile phone.
Not bad. My beard isn’t really that full, but a decent representation. Just had to adjust Dante there in Photoshop a few tweaks, and it’s all good to go.
All in all, pretty wicked stuff. With this and the Kwik-E-Marts, they aren’t fooling around with this one, are they?
And don’t even ask about Homer’s “Ultimate Whopper.” You probably can’t take it.
And in case you haven’t seen any footage yet, IGN has scored some exclusive clips to whet your appetite.
…I think this is going to be good.
- When you hear of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse “Unchosen Paths,” you might be thinking of some sort of beta stages that were cut from the game, that you’d love to test your mettle against.
While unfortunate that this isn’t the case, what Unchosen Paths actually is holds a certain coolness of its own, as it is a guitar-driven tribute to the series, primarily the third installment.
- On a related note, affiliate orchNEStra has updated with new soundtracks, and word of a Game Boy version of the site to come.
- “What was the best game of E3?” one might ask.
Toastyfrog isn’t the person to answer that question, it seems. Not that there isn’t stuff he appreciated, quite the opposite, but the new format pretty much relegated his opinions to what he was assigned to.
- E3; No one ever said the food was any good.
- E3; No one ever said the event was any good.
Ok, so there are some that liked it, but overall, it gave off a very tepid sort of vibe compared to past years.
- This still blows me away.
- Ever wonder about how Nintendo of Canada influences things?
Well, we’re telling you anyway. onNintendo has the questions, and NoC Marketing Manager Farjad Iravani has the answers.
Pity they missed the “when are we going to start paying the REAL prices for this stuff?” part.
- Game|Life gets down and dirty with the bad boys of BioWare, and brings us the skinny on the Blue Blur’s RPG renaissance in the upcoming Sonic RPG.
…doesn’t really say much, does it? From that, I guess we can ascertain that the game should be “good” and “fast.” Good to know. I was worried they’d tell us it would be “awful” and “slow” and leave us to wonder what they meant for months on end.
- A little more interesting is the interview with members of the team working on Sonic Rush Adventure.
- A snippet of a Q&A between IGN and Square-Enix regarding the Wii Board and Final Fantasy.
I don’t know what’s more cracked, the question, or the answer.
- So, wondering if the graphical difference between Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl is very significant?
Maybe this comparison can help you judge.
- An awkward conversation that never happened. Probably for the best.
- Eiji Aonuma, aka “Miyamoto 2.0,” has been interviewed over at Game|Life regarding his work in Zelda, chiefly the new Phantom Hourglass.
Since I won’t be here this week, let it be known that Game|Life will have more on the way.
- E3 swag.
Gamecock lollipops.
Would you suck on something that came from a company called—
You know what? Let’s just move on.
- o/~ …Glove Slap! Baby, Glove Slap! Glove Slap, I don’t take crap! o/~
- Now THIS is the kind of schwag I can get into…
You know, if I was into Mass Effect. Still, a novel? Cool deal.
- The Wii Zapper, up close and personal, and how it all comes together.
Oh yes, you naughty, naughty peripheral… you know just how to pwn some n00bs, don’cha?
(I’m still of the opinion that it looks like Zero would tote around. Look for it soon in a cosplay near you.)
- The Super Mario Bros. mushroom bank.
For some reason, the thought of putting coins into a mushroom just strikes me as… odd. And yet, not unlike something you might be expected to do in a game.
I wonder if these come in purple…
- In case you missed them the first time, here’s the whole lot of Kotaku’s “talku” with Shigeru Miyamoto.
There are also numerous segments with Peter Moore, Jack Tretton, and developers being forced to defend their games.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”