Mailbag: Giant Bomb Mailbag: El Jugador Edition

Luchadeer heads to Tijuana for some NES ripoff magic!!

Man, I almost missed this as it appeared in the middle of the stories instead of the top!

So great.

Man this is awesome

OH NO NOT THE GADGET GANGSTER!
 
Also, I love this thing. They should upload their "Starcraft Beta Footage" where they just play El Jugador.

The power of Home Brew Games.

Almost 10 minutes of mailbaggery... Howdya like that?
 
Just fine, thank you.

I SEE AN ASTRO MIXAMP
 
HELL YEAH, MOTHER EFFERS

Diggin Ryan's sweet New Balance's

so awesome

we need an El Jugador page. I wish I could make a "new platform"

I like Lock'n Chase. It has a beat and you can dance to it. 

Those music files are awesome. The C-64 had the most catchy and memorable game music EVER!
 
Long live Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel.

Dude what is this I don't even

It looks like this is an Arduino. That is an awesome use for it.

jeff knows what the fuck is up with some spy vs spy music

This is pretty awesome

Ryan's got some pretty sweet shoes.

" I like Lock'n Chase. It has a beat and you can dance to it.  "

Ay caramba!!!

that thing rules

Who can name all those tunes?  That second one - "AREED" - sounded so familiar, but I can't quite place it.

Drew is a winner for his Kill Screen comment. 

saw this being played LIVE before the StarCraft II beat live stream :)

Wow, what a piece of crap. XD

I rofl at the killscreen joke.

Eff yeah, Lock & Chase. I used to play that all the time as a kid.

That thing is rad. I think I'm gonna dig out my soldering iron and build one the next time have too much time on my hands.

This is crap, but in a good and awesome way ^^ Clearly the year 2010 is the year to bootleg old games from the 80's! I bet it would work better on an old SD-television though.

You guys...

Hell to the Yeah. As someone who is really really fond on the Sinclair ZX, Commodore 64 and of course the Amiga I love Public Domain (now referred to as homebrew) games. I'll play any game that someone belived in enough to put the hours into on thier bedroom pc. Honestly the amount of Xbox indie/community games I have bought is ridiculous.

Fun stuff.

I lost it when Drew called the kill screen. 

Lmao great machine!

Drew pulling that reference has made my day.

Damn, that's awesome.

I think ball buster might be a contender for GoTY.

I want one

lmao at Vinny and Drew being stoked about Dodgy Kong.

Commando theme on the C64 was so awesome! It makes me want to dig up my old C64 and play that game again.

Neato

I can't wait till the future when we're playing games like Bioshock and Mass Effect on tiny ass circuit boards. Heh heh heh.

Holdin out for Dodgy Kong Country. 

That awesome, so nostalgic. 

nice, ryan has an astro a40 mixamp, so do I B)

I love that name, Dodgy Kong. This system however doesn't look like its worth it. At that point, since I'm already using illegal NES controllers to play clones of licensed games, I might as well just bring up emulators on my computer and play with one of those weird USB NES dongle thingys.