Today on Offworld

Our day on Offworld started out deep inside gaming's roots, with a look back at a text-only MUD version of Pac-Man, and then, even more gloriously, got news of Champion of Guitars, a brilliant working text adventure version of Guitar Hero, after the parody mock-up we featured earlier in the month.

We also had a whack at Hack-Boy, a single serve site that helps you hack Fallout 3's computers, saw that Metal Gear strategy card-game spinoff Ac!d was coming to mobile phones, browsed through the finalists of the Independent Games Festival's 2009 Mobile competition, and heard news that a downloadable version of Tetris Attack was coming to DS.

Finally, we heard one -- very likely drunk -- Japanese man give us a hilarious play-by-play of Game Boy's Super Mario Land, got sucked into repeatedly watching hypnotic homebrew VJ kits produced for the PS2 and Game Boy Advance, and, best of all, played Legend of Princess (see above), a souped-up raucous sidescrolling arcade version of Legend of Zelda by Noitu Love creator Konjak.