1/11/2008 - More Mega Man Madness (2 videos)

I'm sure you've seen some kung-fu movies and thought, "Why can't all the bad guys just gang up on the hero at once?" Well, if that happened, that would probably be a very short movie. The same kind of logic can apply to video games. You go through the various levels and encounter some kind of boss character at the end of each level. It's a staple, in fact, for all the Mega Man games. In Mega Man games, however, you do encounter them all again right before Dr. Wily himself. But you still only face them one at a time. Certainly the NES couldn't handle all the boss characters on one screen, but no such limitations apply to a hacked ROM:



Then of course there's Met, sometimes called Hard Hat for a very obvious reason. He is perhaps the most annoying Mega Man enemy and has been part of the series since the first game. Met is only vulnerable when he peeks out of the hard hat, only at that time he fires a spread shot at you. If you don't time your shot right, he just goes back to hiding under the hard hat. Of all the boss weapons in the Mega Man games, what is most effective in dealing with Met? This video attempts to find out:

12/23/2008 - Tourettesguy Tank soundpack - L4D

With the huge price discrepancies between gaming consoles and gaming PC's, I've always wondered why anyone would pay north of $2000 for an overclocked PC to play games when a console at a fraction of the price would suffice. But then I remembered that you can't hack a console game as easily as you can a PC game. Even replacing the sound effects for a game can be a profound experience. I remember back in high school we played an unofficial Star Trek game called NetTrek, and we would replace the phaser and torpedo sounds with sounds from the Monty Python shows. Needless to say, the "SPAM" sound still is ingrained into my subconscious to this day.

While that was fun and sort of amateurish, this sound replacement pack for the new game Left 4 Dead really takes the cake. Apparently, you can play as a large monster called Tank and you can go and hunt the protagonists in the game in some sort of deathmatch mode. Someone had enough sense to dub in sounds from the Tourettes Guy videos for Tank and it seems pretty appropriate (language warning):