Weekend slowdown: Rhode Island Tekken, SNK-style

It’s no secret that the gaming community has spawned a variety of subcultures, all that seem to slowly emerge in today’s society. Whether or not some people choose to accept it, the world is getting accustomed to the idea of game concepts becoming (alternate?) pop culture.

Enter mountyoum. He’s an avid contributor to DeviantArt and one amazing animation tweener. He has worked on Flash movies based off serious Japanese-style fighting games, and the word “awesome” doesn’t even seem to cover how great they are. In fact, some of his movies are incomplete, yet are already way up the scoreboards in overall impact and quality.

In the video below, he manages to tell a story about two campus colleagues in his school, University of Rhode Island and a fictional rivalry involving Tekken like-combat (without the 3D). They have both been his friends in younger years, and so you could see how much passion he has put into this five-month (yes, five) work spanning 170 MB long (not 56k friendly, sorry).

Although it sports some extremely violent content (although not particularly in the bloody side) plus some suggestive dialogue, it’s actually pretty tame. It’s a blast to watch over and over again, and we hope that’ll you enjoy while we try to get by in this weekend slowdown.

It’s no secret that the gaming community has spawned a variety of subcultures, all that seem to slowly emerge in today’s society. Whether or not some people choose to accept it, the world is getting accustomed to the idea of game concepts becoming (alternate?) pop culture.

Enter mountyoum. He’s an avid contributor to DeviantArt and one amazing animation tweener. He has worked on Flash movies based off serious Japanese-style fighting games, and the word “awesome” doesn’t even seem to cover how great they are. In fact, some of his movies are incomplete, yet are already way up the scoreboards in overall impact and quality.

In the video below, he manages to tell a story about two campus colleagues in his school, University of Rhode Island and a fictional rivalry involving Tekken like-combat (without the 3D). They have both been his friends in younger years, and so you could see how much passion he has put into this five-month (yes, five) work spanning 170 MB long (not 56k friendly, sorry).

Although it sports some extremely violent content (although not particularly in the bloody side) plus some suggestive dialogue, it’s actually pretty tame. It’s a blast to watch over and over again, and we hope that’ll you enjoy while we try to get by in this weekend slowdown.