Joust Costumes: 2 Can Play at Once

Technabob — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:33:41 +0000

I love Halloween. While I haven’t gone trick-or-treating in like a million years, just getting to see the creative costumes that geeks come up with every year makes me grin from ear-to-ear.

As you can see from the picture above, a couple of guys decided to go to their Halloween party dressed as the knights from Williams’ arcade classic, Joust. I can honestly say it’s the first time I’ve ever seen Joust cosplay, even though the game came out nearly 30 years ago. Here’s a screen grab for comparison.

They just needed a couple of guys dressed up as green eggs, and a floor covered with molten lava to complete the look, don’t you think? Maybe next year.

[via Reddit]

Classic Midway Arcade Games Playable Online

Technabob — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:08:38 +0000

The folks over at Midway have been so kind as to convert a number of old arcade classics into Macromedia Shockwave versions. (I do wish they were in Flash, but they’re worth the extra download of the Shockwave Player)

The games are available for free play on Midway’s website and are very good emulations of the originals.

Bubbles
Defender (1 & 2)
Joust
Rampage (my favorite)
Robotron 2084
Satan’s Hollow
Sinistar
Spyhunter
Tapper

[via Destructoid via Kotaku ]

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Joust Costumes: 2 Can Play at Once

Classic Midway Arcade Games Playable Online