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Mega64 Launches The Funny
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."
...would link to the group's website.
http://www.mega64.com/
Nothing they do will ever top their Tetris video. Imagine a guy dressed up like the "L" block, running around, finding the perfect spot next to a mailbox, and falling into place. Meanwhile, people wandering around the street wondering what the hell this guy dressed up as a block with a cameraman is doing. All set to a techno rendition of the Tetris theme. Good times, good times.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
I had a brief run-in with Mega64 in San Jose last week.
This was my second year I worked the GDC as a Conference Associate (CA). When not seeking out parties, many of the CAs will just hang around the "CA Lounge" and play games like "Witch Hunt" (aka: "Mafia") or "Spoons". A few of us were about to kick off a game when we see these 4 or 5 guys just hanging out in the hallway between the conference center and Mariott Hotel. I go over to them and invite them to play a game. The whole time one of these guys has a mini-DV recorder and is shooting everything around him. A bit odd, but hey... I'm the same way sometimes with taking photos on my Canon A80.
After some brief introductions, they tell me they are part of a group "Mega64" and that they are showing their videos the next night at the awards show. I had seen one or two of there sketches, but didn't realize how big they were in the game scene until we had started playing spoons and another CA walks by, looks confused and says, "What are you guys doing playing spoons with Mega64?"
Throughout the conference I ran into them one or two other times. Their videos were successful, as the shorts were the highlight for many (me included) during the awards show Wednesday night.
I hope they are hired again next year.