5 comments

  • gorgoiler 27 minutes ago
    “Rainbow Tennis” was actually pretty good, if it’s a reference to International 3D Tennis! The games back then gave a frisson of the glamorous international world of the professional tour by changing the court ambience as follows:

    Solid lime green: Wimbledon!

    Hard brick red: Roland Garros!

    Deep blue: the hard court ones!

    Here’s an example of the, at the time in the mid 1980s, some pretty innovative 3D wire rendering in the game: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1JorNBSs4Q

  • adzm 19 minutes ago
    See also paperback paradise which did sci-fi book cover parodies https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/category/prints you can see the Instagram and x links at the bottom too
  • Triphibian 28 minutes ago
    This feels like stolen Worth1000 content.
  • sublinear 31 minutes ago
    For something from 2008, this holds up pretty well. The years blend together and I read them in my head in Mr. Plinkett's voice.
  • krapp 1 hour ago
    Oh shit, actual human talent!
    • raldi 57 minutes ago
      These are the original illustrations with just the text changed.
      • krapp 54 minutes ago
        Yes and nowadays no one would even bother put in that much effort. They would have an AI generate the box art and the jokes. The jokes wouldn't even be funny, but no one would care because "human jokes aren't usually funny."
        • Apocryphon 23 minutes ago
          tbh, there is some novelty when AI first imitates a distinct human style. And then it gets old immediately after not unlike when VC Twitter discovered AI could imitate Studio Ghibli art.