Monday Meme: Family Portrait

If it's Monday, it must be another video game retromeme:

Source: Ry-Spirit via Reddit

Video Games as Penguin Book Covers

This tickles me. It's a gallery that presents some popular video games and re-imagines them as book covers in the style of Penguin classics.   They have the wonderfully abstract yet impactful feeling of the 60's.  Here's a taste, see if you can guess the classic third-person shooter it represents:

Imgur gallery of covers:

Insert Coin. a Dazzling Animation Done Entirely With Coins

Talk about putting in your two cents!  Out of Sweden comes Insert Coin, a 4:27 minute short stop-motion video of coins being moved around to create retro-game images.  It is done by the A/V performance team Rymdreglage aka Ninja Moped, comprised of Daniel Larsson and Tomas Redigh.

The short is startlingly good, with a nifty chiptunes soundtrack.  Their YouTube channel has over a couple hundred other uploaded videos to enjoy as well.

1983 - E.T.'s Final Home Recreated

ET Box Cover

Perfectly captured in forlorn sepia tones is the fate of the E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial game by Atari, infamous for helping sink the company and its flagship console the 2600, and thus the rest of the U.S. video game industry in 1983 - 1984.  Created by artist Pauline Acalin, these 6x6 digital prints feature the rejected 8-bit fugitive wandering a landfill, while the ghosts of slightly more popular electronic aliens look on mourning his fate.  The work is simply titled "1983".

The hand-signed prints can be purchased at the Yetee Gallery space on Storenvy, for $20.  For more information on the E.T. game and the great video game crash, consult your local Dot Eaters entry.

via Kotaku