Technabob » tablecloth http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:31:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Tablecloth Hour: Weird Japanese Game Du Jour http://technabob.com/blog/2010/08/15/the-tablecloth-hour-weird-japanese-game/ http://technabob.com/blog/2010/08/15/the-tablecloth-hour-weird-japanese-game/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:38:36 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/?p=37778 Space Invaders have been testing a new arcade game that involves yanking a tablecloth off a virtual table without knocking over all the stuff on the table. Weird, huh? Would you expect anything less in a Japanese arcade? The Tablecloth Hour… features a red]]> Taito, the creators of the original Space Invaders have been testing a new arcade game that involves yanking a tablecloth off a virtual table without knocking over all the stuff on the table. Weird, huh? Would you expect anything less in a Japanese arcade?

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The Tablecloth Hour features a red “tablecloth” controller which players (or red bears wearing red fezzes) yank from the front of the machine as you watch various tabletop items wobble on the screen above.

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I like how the controller has a button on it labeled “POSH” – I’m assuming that’s Engrish for “PUSH”, but maybe it’s just a very swanky game.

[Source Room Aries (JP) via Arcade Heroes via Tiny Cartridge]

]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2010/08/15/the-tablecloth-hour-weird-japanese-game/feed/ 1 Plastic Tablecloths + Brilliance = Pac-Man: the Movie http://technabob.com/blog/2008/09/11/plastic-tableclothsbrilliance-pac-man-movie/ http://technabob.com/blog/2008/09/11/plastic-tableclothsbrilliance-pac-man-movie/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:48:58 +0000 Karen M. http://technabob.com/blog/?p=4162 Stanley Wong and Tyler Russel have made a Pac-Man movie from the ghosts’ perspective that is quite a hilarious piece of filmmaking. If you are (or ever have been) a retro gaming geek, then you’ll probably want to spend the 5 minutes it takes to watch this.

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The premise is simple: this is the Pac-Man story from the rarely imagined viewpoints of those pesky ghosts, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. To achieve this cinematically, the filmmakers have asked grown adult actors to don plastic tablecloths and deliver their lines with absolutely no sense of irony. Check out the video here:

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Interesting how your perspective can change. Don’t you kind of think Pac-Man is a bastard now?

Someone get these guys a contract with Miramax, stat!

[via shape+colour]

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