Doctor Who RPG

Time travel!

Showcase: Joey Spiotto's Hitchcock NES Games

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"North By Northwest"

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"Psycho"

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"The Birds"

[Joey Spiotto's Tribute To Hitchcock]

Triptych: Guardians of Sunshine

"Glob of Thrones" by Dan Hipp

"Adventure Time #4 Alternate Cover" by Scott Campbell

"Guardians of Sunshine" by Caddywompus

Showcase: Paxton Holley's Custom Atari 2600 Cartridges

"Global Thermonuclear War" from WarGames, "Falken's Maze" from WarGames
"Joshua's Tic-Tac-Toe" from WarGames, "WarGames: NORAD" from WarGames

"Starfighter" from The Last Starfighter, "The Last Starfighter" from The Last Starfighter

"Cloak & Dagger" from Cloak & Dagger, "Space Paranoids" from TRON

"Star Fire" from Midnight Madness, "Starcade" from Starcade


These custom Atari 2600 cartridges, from video games that only existed in movies, calls to mind one of the first entries that I ever wrote for this blog, on Videogame Cinema - and indeed, there's a fair amount of cross-over. I've long wanted to do a follow-up entry on videogames that were invented purely for a TV show or film (and maybe for comics and books, while I'm at it?) and which exist only within that fictional universe. Until I get around to that, this post will have to suffice.

[10 Custom Atari 2600
Cartridges Based On
Movie Video Games]

Triptych: Faux Games

"8-Bit Ghostbusters" by Joel Winters

"Cloverfield Atari" by Sean Hartter

"PixelThing" by BazNet

The Breaking Bad RPG

You guys should know how much I love Breaking Bad. Reimagined as a Super Nintendo-era RPG? SOLD.

Triptych: Games of Ice and Fire

"Game of Thrones" (t-shirt) by Drew Wise

"Super Frodo Bros." (t-shirt) by Pauline Acalin

"At The Mountains of Madness" (iPhone case) by Josh Legendre

Triptych: Damn Fine Coffee!

"Black Lodge" by Ashley Anderson

"Black Lodge Coffee Co." (t-shirt) by Mephias

"Black Lodge 2600" (download the full game here!) by Jak Locke

Triptych: I Wish These Were Real Games

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"Game Design" by Andre Asai

"Fishing Ogre" by Army of Trolls

"Playing God" (t-shirt) by Aaron Hogg

Imaginary Games: NES Box Cover Art

"Super Doctor Hazmat" (t-shirt) by Doctor Hazmat

I don't know what Doctor Hazmat is (a webcomic? a themed store?) but I dig the idea of a science-themed Nintendo game. Doctor Hazmat's GIR-like robot M.A.C. is also pretty rad.

"Mass Effect NES Box" by The Arcade Artist

Alongside retro 8-bit NES box art, the Arcade Artist does very cool 8-bit sprite magnets, available for sale on her website.

"A-B-Up-Down-Left-Right-Select-Start" (prints and posters) by Adam Campbell

I feel like I've posted this before, but it's worth a repost. I particularly like the faux-box-damage.

"Calvin and Hobbes Nintendo Video Game" by Jeff Wysaski

Check out Jeff's entry for his imaginary Calvin and Hobbes game here. He's not only mocked up the above box cover but also actual in-game screenshots. Worth checking out.

"DuckTales #1" (variant cover) from Boom! Studios (art by Matt Needham)

This variant cover for Boom! Studios' first issue of DuckTales was sold exclusively at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con. Interestingly, it was written by long-time Disney fan Warren Spector, the man responsible for Epic Mickey, Thief, and the first two Deus Ex games.

"Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth" by SharkBomb

It's Deadpool in a videogame. 'Nuff said.

Triptych: Dark Passenger

"Dexter x Dexter" by Moulin Bleu

"Dexter: Miami Nights" (t-shirt) by T-Shirt Laundry

"Dextoon" (t-shirt) by Geek Kong

Triptych: Retro Box Covers as Series Art

"The Venture Brothers, Season Three" (Blu-Ray\DVD cover)

"The Guild, Season Five" (promotional poster design)

"The Mercury Men" (promotional fake game box art)

All three of the above deserve your time and attention, but I'd like to draw your attention to The Mercury Men in particular today. A webseries produced by Syfy, The Mercury Men is inspired by 1940s-era serials and is altogether one of the best-acted, best-produced webseries out there right now. What pushes it over the top for me, though, is the extensive and clever array of "digital props" they've come up with to promote the series - including but not limited to action figures, retro trading cards, a breakfast cereal (complete with cutout masks), and both a fake Atari game and a fake Nintendo game. THIS is how you promote a series, people.

Triptych: Games That Never Were

"The Last Starfighter" by Phantom City Collective

"The Wrestler" by Isomotion

"Tron" by Mark Welser