Category Archives: Metal Jesus Likes

How cars went from boxy to curvy

In the decades since, cars have just gotten curvier and curvier. The big shift from boxy cars in the ’80s to curvy cars in the ’90s, explained.

It turns out it was largely due to three interrelated factors: European style trends, a government-mandated push for fuel economy, and new technologies that allowed manufacturers to more easily design and create curved shapes.

It all started with European luxury designs… watch to learn more!

The Making of Full Throttle Remastered

Legendary adventure game designer Tim Schafer explains the origins of the heavy metal biker adventure and how they’re bringing it back in 2017.

The Making of Full Throttle Remastered

Full Throttle is a 1995 graphic adventure game developed by LucasArts and designed by Tim Schafer. It was Schafer’s first game as project lead and head writer and designer, after having worked on other LucasArts titles including The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (1991), and Day of the Tentacle (1993). Set in the near future, the game’s story follows Ben, the leader of a biker gang, who is framed for the murder of a beloved motorcycle manufacturing mogul and seeks to clear his and his gang’s names.

How Fallout and Baldur’s Gate Changed RPGs Forever – IGN Game Changers

The key minds behind Fallout and Baldur’s Gate give an inside look into the earliest days of of the RPG revolution.

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is an open world role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Entertainment in 1997.
Baldur’s Gate is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published in 1998.

Goofy Foot Controller – Kickstarter

An alternative grip design of the classic NES controller, the Goofy Foot is designed to give the right thumb some D-Pad action.

Designed to set the standards of Goofy Foot game play, quality and feel are our main focus. We want it to feel like a classic design, using quality plastics and rubber pads. A standard cord length of over 7.5′ with an NES 7 pin plug, the Goofy Foot Controller is compatible with the Nintendo Entertainment System, the AVS from retroUSB, Hyperkin’s Retron line, and other NES clones.

Ben Heck’s Nintendo PlayStation Update at Portland Retro Gaming Expo

Join Ben as he leaves the workshop behind and goes on a journey to Portland’s Retro Gaming Expo! There’s little Ben loves more, and this time he’s on the hunt for a copy of Road Rash for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive! Though with some happy distractions, Ben gets another chance at the Nintendo Playstation console and discusses the Commodore 64, Nintendo 64 disk drive and the collecting of retro hardware and games with fellow Youtubers. Will Ben manage to repair the Nintendo Playstation and play Super Boss Gaiden? Does he manage to find a copy of Road Rash? You’ll have to watch and find out! What’s your favorite retro gaming console, or game? Let Ben and the team know on the element14 Community!

Retro Gaming Expo, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based non-profit cooperative organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for classic video and arcade games through the presentation of events and conventions that celebrate the historic contribution video games have made and continue to make in popular culture.

RARE! Nintendo Dolphin NPDP Reader / GameCube Development – H4G

After years of searching, Hard4Games has found the rare NPDP Reader! Used for Gamecube development (Project Dolphin) as a way to test games on actual hardware via NPDP cartridges/hard drives.

The GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ) is a home video game console released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001; in North America on November 18, 2001; in Europe on May 3, 2002; and in Australia on May 17, 2002. The sixth-generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s Xbox.