Pink Gorilla Presents Frobot at PGUD!
Pink Gorilla is proud to announce an exclusive demo event to celebrate the upcoming release of Frobot, a top-down perspective puzzle shooter that is set to release on PC, Mac, and WiiWare later this year by game company Fugazo. The event will feature WiiWare demo kiosks, PC demo stations and a multiplayer competition with prizes!
Play as Frobot and rescue your 5 robot girlfriends who have been mysteriously captured! Fight robots with a wide assortment of weapons such as ricocheting energy blasts, missiles, and mines. Solve physics puzzles using cranes, switches, teleporters, and boxes to rescue your girlfriends from certain doom!
The Story Mode features 25 Levels spread across multiple environments such as Frobot's Disco and the Microshaft Lab. In Battle Mode up to 4 people can play in this breakdown battle royale! Choose from an assortment of weapons such as energy blasts, missiles, and mines. Then pick from over 10 stages with different obstacles such as destructible walls, moving platforms, and teleporters!
Hit the jump for the full scoop on Frobot and the upcoming event at Pink Gorilla UD!
Pink Gorilla Appears in Hardcore Gamer Magazine!
We are very proud to announce that three of your favorite PG bloggers recently appeared as guest writers in the latest edition of Hardcore Gamer Magazine! Elders Goban, Kozo (and Taragan) contributed 8 pages to the latest digital issue of HGM including a small feature! The Elders thoughts are now committed to the pages of a real life video game magazine.
In the latest digital issue Elder Goban reviews Irozuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip for the DS, Elder Kozo contributed
a feature, Japan's Doujin Soft Keep 2D Games Alive, two soundtrack reviews; Katamari Damacy Tribute Soundtrack and the Afrika Soundtrack, and a review of Dux, a Dreamcast homebrew game.
Check out the latest issue on their nifty digital reader to read the Elders contribution to the latest issue of HGM!
Pinkapalooza 3 Wrap up: It's All For The Kids!
After a long night of rocking, drinking, donating and raffles Pinkapalooza 3 stumbled to a close as the event wound down. Lots of gamers came out and supported Child's Play by donating to Pink Gorilla's annual raffle of games, toys and plushies, and some even took home some of the years hottest games like Brutal Legend, Left 4 Dead 2 and Demon's Souls to name a few. Thanks to all the gamers who came out and supported the event by donating, rocking out on stage or by supporting the events musical acts.
The night began as the PG crew made its way to the Nectar Lounge in Fremont, hauling the plastic instruments just as they did in years past for Pinkapalooza 1 and 2. This year brought out all new musical acts along with old favorite Rock Band 2 and after a few mic problems were fixed the night went off with out a hitch.
After the dust settled, the bar closed and the last few straglers stumbled out, the tally was in; over $1000 was raised for Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity making the night a sucess. Thanks to all those who came out! Hit the jump for a full recap with pics from the nights events!
Pink Gorilla Presents Pinkapalooza 3!
PINK GORILLA LLC PRESENTS PINKAPALOOZA 3, AN OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED BENEFIT FOR THE PENNY ARCADE CHILD’S PLAY CHARITY
Seattle, December 12, 2009 – Been playing Rock Band at home, but have yet to experience the roar of the crowd, the throngs of fans, the ear-splitting cacophony of a live show that you can’t get from the three buddies on your couch? Pink Gorilla LLC is proud to present PINKAPALOOZA 3, a night of on-stage Rock Band insanity, with special guest appearances by Seattle’s own 8-bit music talent Kids Get Hit by Buses (http://www.crunchyco.com/music/kidsgethitbybuses.html) local Nerdcore artist Beefy (http://www.beefyness.com/) and powerpop band Robotronica (http://www.myspace.com/robotronicaband) to benefit Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity.
Get your band mates (or come solo) and head to Nectar Lounge in Seattle (www.nectarlounge.com) to rock the socks off on a live stage with an insane sound system, ten foot projector screen, and hordes of onlookers cheering you on. All will be welcome to play, but the night will close with the best of the best facing off for a chance to win some great game swag. Better than another night on the couch for sure!
Nectar on December 12th – doors open at 8 PM (21 and over only please). Nectar is located at 412 N 36th Street in Seattle – a suggested $10 donation gets you in the door. And if you’re too afraid to get on stage, there will be plenty of raffles all night long for great prizes. 100% of all proceeds will go directly to Child’s Play charity – to find out what Child’s Play is all about, visit their web site at www.childsplaycharity.com . Come on out and rock the house for a great cause!
Check out the recaps from Pinkapalooza and Pinkapalooza 2 !
DSi LL Announced!
As if Nintendo hadn't released enough versions of the DS, the recently announced DSi LL ( or "XL" in the US) is huge compared to the DS Lite. With two mammoth 4.3 inch screens, the DSi LL is a huge system to be messed with. With the DSi LL announcement, the NDS now has 4 different versions, the original DS, the DS Lite, the DSi and now the DSi LL!
Check out the first video of the DSi LL as seen on Japanese TV:
Stay tuned for more on the DSi LL ("XL") here on the PG Blog!
Too Hot for the USA? Devil World: An Inside Look, Part One
Devil World is simply a great game. Not only is it fun to play, but the gameplay is varied enough from other maze games (Pac man and KC Munchkin to name a few) that the game isn't repetitive. Even the music is catchy, composed by Koji Kondo, who also composed legendary game themes like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. The other creative forced behind the game; Shigeru Miyamoto, the celebrated Nintendo game designer behind titles like Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and the Legend of Zelda and you’ve got the potential for a hit. To top it all off, the game is almost entirely in English, making localization almost non existent, so why did the game never come over to the US?
Devil World for the Famicom (NES in the US) is the only game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto to never be released in the US. While most gamers know all of his other games, Devil World was just too controversial in the 1980’s to release in the US. Why? For starters, the gameplay revolves around a small green dragon named Tamagon attacking the Devil’s World by picking up crosses to gain the ability to breathe fire and then eat the dots in the maze. As if that wasn’t enough, after completing a maze, the stage reappears where Tamagon must collect four Bibles and place them in the center of the maze.
The overt religious icons in Devil World were strictly against Nintendo of America’s policy at the time and rightly so. Games like Custer’s Revenge caused huge controversy with women especially, which Nintendo of America wanted to avoid. In later years, games like Night Trap for the Sega CD would end up as front page news, even getting the US Senate involved in an effort to ban the game.
Hit the jump for an in depth look at Devil World’s gameplay, music and the politics behind why it has never been released stateside.
Pink Gorilla University District Construction Update #2
After a busy couple weeks, PG #2 or PGUD (Pink Gorilla University District) is finally ready for business. While the store is FAR from complete, the space has at least been decked out with pink and green, plus it even has a few hundred games hanging from the walls. With over 2000 sq. ft., the store is so huge the Elders decided to put in an arcade in the back of the store, starting off with eight classic games and two pinball machines. While there are only 7 arcade cabs in the picture to the side, more arcade machines will be in place very soon. So far the PGUD arcade has Baby Pac man (hybrid game with pinball down below and video up top) Ms. Pac man, Wizard of Wor, Robotron, Soul Edge, Gorf and Asteroids. The walls have plenty of NES, SNES, Famicom, Super Famicom, a few Genesis and Master System games, lots of Saturn and Dreamcast games, PC Engine/Turbografx 16 games and lots more. Hit the jump for an in depth look at the new space, with lots of pics of the new space!
SEEDLESS Minitrailer
Seedless, the foremost online comic book about alien grape warriors gets an official trailer. Funky, Pulse and Dash, the grape brothers, befriend humanoid hyper-fashionable girl Harmony Trebleclef. Together, they do battle against Crazy and his forces of evil! Story & Art by Corey Lewis, sponsored by Pink Gorilla!
Check out the official mintrailer!
Don't forget to check out SEEDLESS on the official site! Stay tuned for more on SEEDLESS, only here on the PG Blog!
Move over Powerfest '94, Nintendo Campus Challenge '91 is here!
With the economy still on a downturn, collectors everywhere are facing hard times. 2008 and 2009 have brought a whole slew of ultra rare US and Japanese games up for auction on the internet. Japanese auction sites saw not one but two super rare titles this year, Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match: Championship Commemorative Gold Edition and The Gentle Physics and Science of Hazardous Materials which went for $10,023 and $4,213 USD respectively.
In the US, eBay has seen 3 copies of the NES World Championship Cart, the Gold version of which sold for $17,500! Then throw in that Stadium Events for the NES still sold for a respectable $4,260 and you've got a firesale on retro video games going on! While the self proclaimed 'rarest game ever' PowerFest 1994 never sold after being posted twice with an asking price of $50,000, maybe the recently completed auction of a Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 cart will see the PowerFest 1994 cart return for a third time at a lower price.
The Nintendo Campus Challenge cart is probably just as rare as PowerFest 1994 as one of each has only ever been found. The Campus Challenge cart was found in 2006 and finally made its way to ebay eariler this year. The cart was part of a contest that Nintendo held in 1991 at college campuses across the US and sold for the staggering price of $20,100! Hit the jump for the full scoop on the Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 cart for the NES, pics included!
Pink Gorilla #2 Construction Update
With construction of Pink Gorilla #2 well under way, the Elders have decided to release a few details about what surprises the new store will feature. With over 2000 sq ft, the mammoth store has room for a lot of cool things that PG #1 just did not have space for. In Japan, famous game stores like Super Potato in Akihabara have countless items on display that aren’t for sale, featuring cool collectable gaming memorabilia for patrons to look at. With this idea in mind the Elders have compiled some very unique items from their personal collections to display at the official PG #2 Gamers Collectors Corner!
With the items on display to be kept secret until the store opens, who knows what rare and valuable items the Elders may put up for display? While this is just one of the surprises planned for PG #2, there are many more in the works to be announced later this week. Hit the jump for a look at PG #2 as construction continues!
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