Weekend Slowdown: best videogame pantomime ev4r?

This is not gaming news, but it is news about gamers. A nice slow break from the fallout of GDC 2007 news we’ve had to deal with. Anyways, Aaron Linde of Destructoid pointed out a troupe of geekish creatives who pays tribute to several classic and contemporary franchises with their amazing “1337 Pantomime” performance.

Several gaming traditions/norms/cliches are hilariously glorified by their creative performance. With the increasing presence of performances like these, and audience acceptance and recognition – just listen to the laughter and the roars when the Final Fantasy VII Battle Theme kicked in, or when the dude started blowing into the cartridge, or when the Zelda starts to roll – it only proves that gaming is starting to enter the social mainstream.

Yeah, money-wise it’s been mainstream for years now. But now when you do a pantomime that celebrates geek glory, people love you.

This is not gaming news, but it is news about gamers. A nice slow break from the fallout of GDC 2007 news we’ve had to deal with. Anyways, Aaron Linde of Destructoid pointed out a troupe of geekish creatives who pays tribute to several classic and contemporary franchises with their amazing “1337 Pantomime” performance.

Several gaming traditions/norms/cliches are hilariously glorified by their creative performance. With the increasing presence of performances like these, and audience acceptance and recognition – just listen to the laughter and the roars when the Final Fantasy VII Battle Theme kicked in, or when the dude started blowing into the cartridge, or when the Zelda starts to roll – it only proves that gaming is starting to enter the social mainstream.

Yeah, money-wise it’s been mainstream for years now. But now when you do a pantomime that celebrates geek glory, people love you.