Hilarious, subversive classic arcade-game remixes

Retrosabotage makes subversive and hilarious remixes of classic video-games, including little mockumentaries explaining their backstories. Alice from Wonderland explains, "In the amusing mockumentary piece, pac-man is an anti-recession prototype designed to encourage Japanese teens to consume more. Later, where a pac-man version is a game designed by a north Korean dictator, suddenly pac-man plays itself, you have no control at all." Link (via Wonderland)

[#1 posted by gerryblog , March 23, 2008 10:30 AM]

That's a great site, but the description of North Korean Pac-Man is a little off. You actually control the ghosts -- the goal is to pin Pac-Man between the two ghosts, thereby killing the imperialist.

[#2 posted by micknye , March 23, 2008 12:26 PM]

It would take more than two ghosts to kill an imperialist (that is unless one of them is a female)

[#3 posted by Amplifier , March 23, 2008 4:37 PM]

Yes that site is very funny. However that Mockumentary one is just painful. Who reads that slowly? I found myself with time to grab a drink from the kitchen between paragraphs.

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[#5 posted by FreakCitySF , March 23, 2008 8:39 PM]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140218234419&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=004

Because I know weekends are slow for new posts, but nothing since 2am sunday morning?

[#6 posted by thinmac , March 24, 2008 1:05 AM]

These are certainly fun, but how is this subversive?

[#7 posted by Vanessavya , March 24, 2008 1:41 PM]

Wow, cool stuff. But the double Tetris is evil!