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That’s the Spirit

That's the Spirit

Caine’s Arcade Is The Best Cardboard Arcade Ever To Be Run By A 9-Year-Old

by Eric Limer | 12:48 pm, April 10th

Kids are pretty uniquely talented when it comes to being able to get fired up about things. I, for instance, had grand plans to build a Commander Keen-style spacecraft out of my parents’ old car and some box fans. 9-year-old Caine Monroy from L.A. had plans to construct his own arcade out of cardboard, and operate it out of his dad’s used auto parts store. Unlike me, Caine stayed devoted to his goal and found insane success when his first customer Nirvan Mullick organized a flash-mob of other patrons and filmed a short documentary about it. Kind of makes you wonder if you pursued your childhood dreams hard enough, doesn’t it?

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That's the Spirit

Reddit Tries Crowdsourced Legislation With “Free Internet Act”

by Eric Limer | 11:45 am, January 31st

When it came to battling SOPA and PIPA, Reddit was on the front lines. Considering Reddit was the first to announce an anti-SOPA blackout and was responsible for calling attention to anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA petitions that the White House was ultimately forced to acknowledge, it’s no surprise that Redditors are itching not only to defend the Internet, but also for a new challenge. That’s why they’re trying their hands at something really ambitious: Crowdsourced legislation.

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That's the Spirit

Record for Lowest-Scoring, No Death Super Mario Bros. Playthrough

by James Plafke | 9:54 am, July 11th

Being bad at video games is the new being good. YouTube user NotEntirelySure shows us what it takes to be skillfully awful at Super Mario Bros. and set a new record for the lowest-scoring playthrough at a mere 600 points. No deaths. NotEntirelySure didn’t use any save states or slowdowns, but did use a few glitches and tricks to achieve the impressively terrible score:

In 4-2, I backwards jump into a few obstacles to scroll the screen without Mario to trick the pipe into taking me to the vine’s usual location. In 8-1, I have to perform a pretty precise jump off a goomba to avoid some coins. Also, getting under the first set of 2 coins towards the end of this level takes a very careful jump, and always makes me nervous. In 8-4, I scroll the screen to just the right position to allow me to use some blocks as platforms. No wall jumps are required in this run at all.

Like that episode of South Park, NotEntirelySure practiced being bad. Could the “lowest score run” replace the speedrun? Probably not, but it sure is a lot more interesting. One can only assume that, at some point, this kind of scoring system will become a future game’s actual scoring system. Wait. That’s kind of golf, right?

(via Joystiq)

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