Geek Soap Box

Wow, I completely missed this until alerted to it by Paul’s comment in the post below.  Did President Barack Hussein Obama really have the audacity to refer to limited-government, fiscally responsibly activists as “tea baggers” — a very real and grotesque sexual slur — and only a short while later lament the lack of civil [...]

It probably started off simply enough — after two relative disappointments in Donkey Kong 3 and Mario Bros., but with the quarter-sucking success of the original Donkey Kong merely a short memory away — Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto and his team got together to create a new game featuring the popular plumber from Brooklyn for [...]

It’s lazy Saturday here at Geek Soap Box World Headquarters after a trying week of work, so let’s all relax together with some funky recreations of classic 8-Bit NES games. How about Michael Jackson’s Punch-Out!! to whet your whistle in anticipation of this summer’s impending Wii release in the phenomenal boxing/puzzle franchise. If the traditional [...]

After a fantastic run in the 1980s and 1990s, Nintendo suffered through tough times for the better part of a decade.  It lost the system wars two generations in a row to the Sony PlayStation juggernaut, and had unfortunately cultivated a reputation where hardcore gamers and third-party developers were taught to stay away from the [...]

This meme is spreading like wildfire across Facebook. So, I’m copying and posting it over here as well. 1. I am utterly devoid of creativity – even as a kid, my stuffed animals had names like Pandy, Monkey, and Baby Bear. 2. The first time I didn’t get a 100% grade on an exam I [...]

Apparently, since 1972, 68 home console video game systems have been released in the United States. Here’s a quiz that gives you twelve minutes to enter them all. I got an astounding 43, as my mainstream video game geek-fu was strong, indeed. Heck, I even beat the Kotaku columnist and most of the commentators at [...]

***NOT SAFE FOR WORK CONTENT OR HUMAN CONSUMPTION WARNING! TURN AWAY NOW!!!*** Every day, the advertising and marketing communities are inundated with talk about user-generated content, and how the future of marketing and communications lies in the hands of the consumer. This passing of the messaging torch, so to speak, has given rise to countless [...]

…looks a little different that I might have expected. You know, cause it involves a World War I Flying Ace named Snoopy and all. Wow, that came out of nowhere and looks shockingly bad ass and awesome. I am strongly adding this to the “want” list. Of course, I am personally a bit biased. The [...]

One of the most anticipated games of the year was set to arrive next week: Sony’s innovative Little Big Planet. A cross between a traditional platformer and a fully customizable experience, Planet has already received rave reviews and accolades for not only its gameplay but for its revolutionary embrace of user-generated content. Unfortunately, the world [...]

What could possibly be better than the recent retro-style remakes such as Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Mega Man 9, and Gradius Rebirth? A real, honest-to-goodness, brand-new edition of Punch-Out!!!

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