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Mega64 Launches The Funny

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dodge-incoming-funny-with-the-x-button dept.

GameSetWatch has a post up discussing the hilarious Mega64 group and their recent activities. Some previews for their second season were displayed during the Game Developer's Choice Awards, and they impressed a very cynical crowd with their nonsensical real-life interpretations of classic videogames. From the article: "Finally, on the newly released Mega64 front - Xbox 360 Live has these for download, but YouTube also has them - the Mega64 guys' Crosscom promotional trailers, in two parts, for Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. More great stuff, and as far as we're concerned, these people still need to be given a cable TV show, like, yesterday."

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  1. Re:Tetris by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sir, Mega64 is the group responsible for said Tetris video, their DVDs are in fact distributed by SomethingAwful. Just giving credit where it's due.

  2. tv shows by Jfarro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the suggestion of 'they deserve a cable tv show' misses the potential of these vidcast/iptv/webcast/vlog/etc type shows. If they're on cable, then I have to pay for cable. I dont get to pay per show, so I get a bunch of channels I really could care less about, plus commercials. And in exchange the show gets executives and loses creative focus, going for the LCD of the public, and eventually gets buried becomse some show with smaller budget and less creativity makes more money cause the LCD would rather live someone elses life than thier own miserable ones (See Firefly getting buried by Reality TV as exhibit one).

    These IPTV shows are great, I dont have to try to record them, worry about DRM, commercials, anything. Alot of them are done by guys who do it for the love of the entertainment, to learn about production, or to teach and share what they know. Or for the simple comedy of seeing what it'd be like if ghosts and goblins was legit. Sure, some IPTV has sponsers or is out to make a buck, but at least its an alternative entertainment channel, and I think we shoul grow that channel, not stifle it by trying to fit it into the cable existence we know.

    This coming from someone that spends a ton of time producing my own show. I don't want to be on Cable, I want distribution to get smarter so that my webshow can get to people that want it in the format they want to enjoy it in.

    Joe Farro
    Joe@downstairstheater@com
    http://www.downstairstheater.com/