You want pictures? I've got your fucking pictures right here.

Remember these? My great idea of machine translation of two years worth of Famicase art? What the hell happened?

Regardless, I still think it's a great idea. I really feel that, broken and imperfect as they are, even rudimentary, fragmented translations give a non-Japanese speaking audience a much greater insight into the individual concepts that went into these odd, alternate universe Famicom cartridges exhibited annually in a Tokyo shop called Meteor. The first and second batch can be reviewed, or to get further information. I'm not sure why both previous galleries were appended to podcasts; but I was struck by what an excellent job I did on those podcast feature pages. I should try to get back to that level of polish with them in the near future, if possible.

And one last thing; we're still just aproaching the half-way point of this thing. I think I estimated 7 batches total. And, unless I missed something, there have been no comments or search engine directed visitors for this topic. Ever. So clearly I'm tapped into something huge.

Famicase 08
Games 17-24


"He BRESSE"
Tokyo pistol (彅Yohei Utikawa Taku and grass +) / editor + designer
"Friend was devoted to the wind out of the window to say, or" "local friends FUKIKAKERURASHII HAHIFUHEHOKARE breath and say," "broken KAKETARA solid fart" (from the net excerpt). Action and blow your breath on cassette FUッeveryone was doing. It was just a game! !吹KIKAKENAI the title screen and can not breathe properly is normal. What game is a breath spray to the computer, and he manipulated her BRESSE BRESSE. Up to the level of vital capacity, organization of evil "bugs" and fight. The DVD is recommended that non-modern or even a breath spray.


"Blades of Sushi"
Yokoo Akiko / illustrator
Ninja of the isolated "GUNKAN" Satan the devil living in the castle "OOTORO" Shooting barrage challenge the action. But "Lady gizzard shad," I can save? NES software created at the end of the minor manufacturers in North America. Popular lovers set in a dense part of the vampire motif and a mistaken view that Japan surreal world.


"Fear! Brunt of the quasi-child porn"
PRESIDENT RAISIN / PRESIDENTS
2XXX. Harm the human race "quasi-child porn" Suddenly, I hit the stark shapes! SABUMASHINGAN out of the impending evil to mankind, "quasi-child porn" must fight off! Looming, "the animation in the picture painted dots = quasi-child porn", I like to keep our hand in the shooter's weapon to kill.
※ The game includes a representation of a grotesque and violent scenes. Please note.


"BARETTOSHIGARETTO"
YOSHIOKAMIKUBO / office worker
The policy of the overthrow of the enemy fire before the smoke disappears HITMAN is to carry out the mission, HADOBOIRUDOAKUSHONSHUTINGUGEMU.討TE a woman SARATTA our gang! Hit! ! Fire! ! ! Shinjuku立CHI上GARE to protect women and night惚RETA! Paradise is waiting to break it!


"Oh!! Tamanegiyarou chindouchu!"
Kuni Yasushi Mori / illustrator
Are developing software in a strange way chinmyou! Received from the new, otogi jumped out of China, and Fabulous tamanegiyarou three large active muscular action RPG. Action tamanegi irritating to the eyes.


"BEKUTAPURANETTO"
Sasuda Minoru (Technologies Oriental) / Designer
"BEKUTAPURANETTO" The announcement was made in 1983 but released at the end of the year, did not release its GCE (after FGM) is a software visionary NES. The original work of FGM, was created specifically cartridges were found from the source. Tried to express a combination of sprite images BEKUTASUKYANMONITA the company's core technology, and strong work very experimental side, one vector is the wrong group of high technology engineers work. The company later, FC have withdrawn from the software.


"Rainbow"
haya @ TECS / Manufacturing
Game is stretched to the sky a rainbow. Choose a qualified目指SOU root stratosphere while avoiding the sun and rain clouds and planes. Bonus space in the stage, BONASUGETTO flowers flatten and stretch the rainbow! ! 2008 indie-released software, the back door, talking about the movie much like a part of the transitional stage PAWAZUOBUTEN bonus song and a certain flow to the game! ?


"FAMIRIJENERETA"
Aka HYAKUHACHI JAMITARAO / voice system (→ Rookie HIYOKKO bad)
Virtual Console and DS to come along and feel free to play with FC are now in the classic era, full of data that LV99 is not only ... want to play on the ROM pad at the actual machine from the remote control battery is out too long ago ... It will be ... there's a FAMIRIJENERETA. Turn left just six hours, the storage unit. The battery as a built-in software to make蘇RA入替ERE time! The data遊BIMASHOU nostalgia! (We have 8 to 30 percent in the ignition is not chasing a batting average of any liability) (the specification, but when exposed to electric shock and short circuit software basically)

Famicase 09
Games 17-24


"COSME MUSIC MAKER"
Hitoshi Matida Osamu (SPACE PICNIC) / multitalent MEIKUAPPUATISUTO
Hokkaido in 2000 (JAPAN) was established in number of people who LIVE with CHOP FROG hand, "to make every day a girl, feel free to create software in spare time and stylish music" was developed as a At this point, MUSIC MAKER "COSME". Trace of the brush and the makeup of the board dedicated to the music like a magic chain. Backup, save it with!


"DOKI! DOKI! Urban life for the first time."
Tokyo Bitch (AYAKO HISHINUMA + BIKINILINE) / FIMERUPUREIYA group member
Goodbye fight! Si staple of the college girl sunny Tokyo. I want to enjoy campus life, to love and like TORENDIDORAMA! Living alone for the first time, but full of anxiety. Looking for an apartment or choose interior is on the spot. However I also入RANAKU Circle, the first night full of temptation?出会ITAI na Carre also a wonderful course.生っbusy with college! Cotton system can really enjoy the urban life is this? The simulation was overwhelming support to the teen dream of city life!


"Character manufacturers Student"
Die / KetchupArts Hondalady
That the boom in process, momentum余っraid in the game industry! What is adventure game-style financial management techniques, and subtle things like the package is too loyal to melt, the game was supposed to be disappointing at first sight ... .... But! Gay ex-student in-game character's makeup, so I have made most troubled. The thrill of carrying out or how to dissolve the caramel & pleasure, I took the graphics processing逆手"melting only six" expressions, many addicts remain in Japan and hear music! It's a vision made him the status of the software sold in the game! (Commentary: DJ Miyamoto / Famitsu DS + Wii)


"LOVELETTER"
KIMA / artist figure, or
Thought to con him.
A character letter, I wrote a love letter in the form of a password.
Write Once saved,忍BASEYOU to her shoe cupboard.
The courage you have in hand do not care.
Good BADDOENDO end or whether it is in your drinking.
(The software can save this one, only once)


"Moero!'09 Japan-Korea WBC baseball edition"
Tokyo pistol (NAGI Yohei Utikawa Taku and grass +) / editor + designer
Touched all over Japan in 2009 Japan-Korea WBC game in the "pro burn" has been reproduced in full. IDZIRO ahead of run-scoring hit in the final, you can freely reproduce the miraculous catch of UCHIKAMA. Or the bird in the net and win the South, watch out because bamboo is a flag on the mound! Of course, "pro burn" if you will, also pose a bunt home run! ?


"KILLER CANDY / Candy Killer"
I expected SHIMAWA / video director
World's largest candy maker "fred candy" Candy is a prototype of the brain suddenly began to hit mankind! To grow bigger, manipulate at will to all that fond of "Candy Killer" and stand up against the ESUPACHIRUDOREN from around the world!


"Pix'n Love"
Flo / magazine editor in chief of Games
KYARAPOKO MUNII and suddenly I read gaming magazines, he was sucked into the book! And lots of old, they are attacked by a big pixels! Those pixels of the 3D technology, gamers forget they're angry! Now, I can escape from the hands and arms to kill the pixels and the KYARAPOKO MUNII? ! ? Or, side by side with them in 3D or rebound? Love Action Pix'n Love is the best game of the century!


"JANKEN"
TAMURAKAYO / illustrator
And the rock-scissors-paper,負KETARA stay behind.
Just repeat it,
Biological TOJAN huge right at the end.
Games would be MAKETARA eat.



Tiny Vices. Assorted shots from the last "Various" collection. I've been sitting on this one for a while as well. And there are a ton of galleries over there I should get around to recommending. Tiny Vices is too huge. It's completely overwhelming. Here's the first time I did this with material from them. And each image is named with the photographer's name. I haven't tried searching for any yet, but I see no reason not to, if you really like something.



















Isolated, unrelated fragment: my review of the freeware indie game Judith. Why? Honestly, it just happens to reside in the same text file as my 9000 stuff. So here it is.

Finally finished Judith. Now I can say, tentatively, that I liked it. Perhaps even quite a bit. It had a nice tone, decent scoring and sound effects (where present), nice pixel art, a nuanced palette. The writing was, perhaps, serviceable, without being beautiful. I feel much the same way about it that I do about Gravity Bone. Each are kind of teeth-knashingly contested. "This is not a game!" Maybe. What it seems to be, to me, is an evolution of interactive fiction; Interactive Fiction melded with a first person perspective. A type of pseudo-cinema; pre-scripted machinima. I was watching Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 not long ago; these games are not dissimilar to the type of "interactive" television envisioned in that film, in that they provide a cunning façade of interactivity. None of which is to say they're bad. They're many things: creative, personal, expressive, well crafted. Perhaps best thought of as the independent set's response toward gaming's implacable march toward ever more complex and completely unsatisfactory emphasis on narrative, as penned by fucking morons. No, that's not quite right. But certainly a group of people (publishers and mainstream developers) who decided that their audience really doesn't care about a quality narrative. In fact, market wise, it may actually end up being a detriment.

Unfortunately, I played this over the summer, at work, spread out across two lunch breaks. Meaning I sort of rushed. If you feel inclined to try it (it's probably not longer than a half-hour), try not to play it while having to check the clock every few minutes.



And finally (this became a much, much larger undertaking than I'd originally expected), 9000.

9000 is the name of an artist. In Bogotá, Colombia. He has a Flickr page. It's astoundingly good work. This is just a small sample. I'll have to come back to him again later.

He's also got some writing up accompanying select images. For whatever reason I feel more guilty running Spanish through a machine translator (perhaps since I know actual Spanish readers and speakers who would cringe at such a thing), but damn it... clearly this guy's tapped into something. (And I'll give the original Spanish as well, in case you can avail yourself of it.)

Did I mention this took forever? I did? Well, it did.




















En el nombre de Dios.

Condenado hoy a muerte, pido a Dios que si todavía, no me exime de llegar a ese trance, me conserve hasta el fin la decorosa conformidad con que lo preveo y, al juzgar mi alma, no le aplique la medida de mis merecimientos, sino la de su infinita misericordia.

Ad portas de mi inminente muerte, la espero sin jactancia, porque nunca es alegre morir a mi edad, pero sin protesta alguna como estoicamente me enseñaron mis creadores. Acéptela Dios Nuestro Señor en lo que tenga de sacrificio para compensar en parte lo que ha habido de egoísta y frívolo en mucho de mi vida. Perdono con toda el alma a cuantos me hayan podido dañar u ofender, sin ninguna excepción, y ruego que me perdonen todos aquellos a quienes deba la reparación de algún agravio grande o chico.

Sea notorio que yo: 9000, natural de esta comunidad viral y condenado a muerte por todos los pecados cometidos contra sus semejantes y por considerársele una mala imitación de ser humano, he dispuesto ordenar este mi testamento, creyendo ante todas las cosas como firmemente creo en el alto misterio de la Santísima Trinidad, Padre Hijo y Espíritu Santo, tres personas distintas y un solo Dios verdadero, y en todos los demás misterios y sacramentos que tiene, cree y enseña nuestra Santa madre Iglesia Católica Apostólica Romana, bajo cuya verdadera fe y creencia he vivido y protesto vivir y morir como católico y fiel cristiano que soy, tomando por mi intercesora y abogada a la Serenísima Reina de los Ángeles María Santísima, madre de Dios y Señora nuestra y devoción y demás de la corte celestial, bajo de cuya protección y divino auxilio otorgo mi testamento en la forma siguiente:

Primera. Primeramente encomiendo mi alma a Dios Nuestro Señor, que la crió de la nada, y el cuerpo mando a la tierra de que fue formado, y cuando su Divina majestad se digne llevar mi alma de la presente vida a la eterna, ordeno que dicho mi cuerpo, amortajado con el hábito de mi patriarca Charles Baudelaire, sea sepultado en cualquier callejón detrás de cualquier bar, dejando la forma del entierro, sufragios y demás funerales a disposición de los perros callejeros.

Segunda. Instituyo único heredero a la señorita “MCV”, natural de otra comunidad orgánica y ser humano de intachable moral, como única heredera de todos mis bienes tridimensionales. Disponga como plazca de lo que acumulado he, por tantos años de sufrimiento. Preferiblemente al fuego si así ella lo dispusiera.

Tercera. Que soy de estado soltero, y que no tengo ascendente ni descendiente. Nunca fue mi intención dejar legado congénito, solo fue menester de mi disipación practicar rigurosamente el acto de concepción como divertimento. Por eso ruego perdón, si cause en persona alguna cierto agravio.

Por el presente revoco y anulo todos los demás testamentos, codicilos, poderes para testar, memorias, u otra cualesquiera otra disposición testamentaria que antes de ésta haya hecho u otorgado por escrito de palabra, o en otra forma para que nada valga, ni haga fe en juicio, ni fuera de él excepto este testamento en que declaro ser en todo cumplida mi última voluntad en la vía y forma que más haya lugar en Dro. En cuyo testimonio lo otorgo así ante el infrascrito escribano público del número de esta ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad, ciudad de Venice California, a diez y ocho de marzo de dos mil ocho a las diez y quince de la mañana. Y el otorgante a quien yo dho. En otras tres hojas además de ésta, todas foliadas, fechadas y firmadas al margen.

1000 0000 8000=9000



In the name of God.

Sentenced to death today, I pray to God that if still no excuse I get to that performance, I kept to the end under the decorous so provides, and to judge my soul, not to apply to the extent of my merits, but in his infinite mercy.

Verge of my imminent death, I hope not boast, it is never happy to die at my age, but without any protest stoically as I taught my creators. Accept it as the Lord God of sacrifice that has to compensate in part for what has been selfish and frivolous much of my life. Perdono with all your soul to me how many have been hurt or offend, without exception, and I pray that I forgive all those who should repair any injury or big kid.

I is clear: 9000, this community of natural viral and sentenced to death for all sins committed against their peers and regarded as a poor imitation of a human being, I ready to order that my will, to believe all the things I believe as strongly in the high mystery of the Holy Trinity, Father Son and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons and only one true God, and all other mysteries and sacraments that has cree and our Holy Mother Church teaches Roman Catholic, whose faith and true I have lived and belief protest live and die as a Catholic and faithful Christian, I take my lawyer and advocate for the Serenissima, Queen of the Angels Holy Mary, Mother of God and our Lord and devotion and the other heavenly court, under whose divine protection and help give my will as follows:

First. First I commit my soul to God our Lord, that grew up from nothing, and body control to land that was formed, and when his Divine Majesty Digne take my soul from this life to the eternal order that my body shrouds with my habit of patriarch Charles Baudelaire, is buried in any alley behind any bar, leaving the shape of the burial, funeral and other votes at the disposal of stray dogs.

Second. Institutions only heir to the lady "MCV" natural organic community and other people of impeccable moral character, as the sole heir of all my goods dimensional. Available beyond that as what I have accumulated for so many years of suffering. Preferably the fire if it is available.

Third. State that I am unmarried and have no ascending or descending. It was never my intention to leave a legacy congenital alone was necessary for my practice dissipation strictly the act of conception and amusement. And I ask forgiveness, because if one person in a grievance.

I hereby cancel and revoke all other wills, codicils, testamentary powers, memories, or any other testamentary disposition by which it has given written or verbal, or otherwise so nothing worth, nor do faith at trial, nor was it other than declare that this will be accomplished throughout my last will and way on the path that has more in Dro. Whose testimony is provided in well before the undersigned Notary Public in the number of this city of the Holy Trinity, California city of Venice, in eighteen of March, two thousand eight at quarter past ten. And the grantor whom I Dho. In addition to three other leaves it all foliated, dated and signed on the sidelines.

1000 +0000 +8000 = 9000

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It will not be a stylish marriage, I can not afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.