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Games on the whole are all pretty weird but we, as gamers, just take
this on board without really questioning them. We never wonder where
Sonic puts all those rings when he’s quite clearly naked (possibly in
his oversized socks?) or indeed why he’s even naked at all!! Nope it’s
Sonic, he must have a reason and just hasn’t felt the need to explain
himself! The following 5 games will make you think though, as they are
just TOO bizarre to sit comfortably with our sense of what’s
acceptable, observe:

5. Monster Party (NES)

The weirdness kicks in right from the off in Monster Party, the game
starts with a cut scene of the main character, Mark, walking home from
a baseball match with his bat over his shoulder. A gargoyle named Bert
(as all the famous gargoyles are) spots him and whisks him away to his
home planet charging him with killing all the invading monsters with
his trusty bat.

It’s the bosses that really steal the show here with one being a
giant spider lying on the floor, you enter the room and he shouts
“Sorry I’m already dead” and that’s it, you win!! Result!! Others
include 2 zombies who dance for 30 seconds then collapse and die, a
bouncing shrimp and a huge cat that throws small kittens at you.

4. Chou Aniki (PC Engine)

Described as the most homoerotic game ever, Chou Aniki, meaning
“Super Big Brother”, could be described as a one on one beat ‘em up
although all the characters float. The series is hugely popular in
Japan and the highlights include musclebound men in Speedos firing
white liquid from holes in their head, lesbians, a boss fight against a
naked man in a bathtub and the temple of Gay Pleasure!

There really is no other way to describe it than 100% gay. Amazingly
enough while the original never made it out of its home country it has
recently been released on the Virtual Console, just don’t let anybody
catch you playing it.

3. Sexy Paridous (PSOne)

Another sexually explicit game though this ones a bit more for the
straight people out there, Sexy Paridous features bunny sisters Hikaru
and Akane and is full to the brim of Japanese Hentai nudity.

The game plays pretty much the same as any other Paridous bar the
inclusion of huge naked Lady’s as bosses! Nice!! This, the 4th game in
the series, is my favourite but that’s probably because I’m a bit of a
pervert and you’ll find it on the recently released PSP title Paridous
Portable. Like Chou Aniki you would have a bit of explaining to do if
you were found playing this alone.

2. Bible Adventures (NES)

It’s my opinion that there just isn’t enough games based on the good
book and developer The Wisdom Tree must have felt the same when they
decided to make this.Part of a series that included must have titles
such as Super 3D Noahs Ark, Sunday Funday and the King of Kings.

Bible Adventures saw you take part in various biblical stories such
as loading the animals onto the ark, battling against Goliath and
transporting the baby Moses down the Nile. Possibly the best part was
the ability to throw Moses in the river and watch him slowly drown.

1. Takeshi’s Challenge (Famicom)

No doubt I’ll get a few comments along the lines of “This game
should have been in it etc.” but there can be no debate that this truly
is the weirdest game of all time. Developed by Japanese film director
Beat Takeshi the title screen proudly displays the words “This game was
made by a man who hates video games”! He obviously hates the people
that play them as well as not only is it the weirdest it quite possibly
the hardest!

Different parts of the game require you to sing into the built in
microphone in the Famicom’s controller, another tells you to do nothing
for 60 minutes and another to avoid getting divorced. All this leads to
a boss that needs to be hit twenty thousand times to die which takes
roughly three hours. Truly, truly bizarre.

Digg: The mass of nameless faces in high school that never quite managed to make it into any particular group.

Reddit: The Audio Visual Club

Facebook: The Jocks and Prom Queens

MySpace: The Stoners and Emo Kids

Twitter: The Gossip Girls and Social Butterflies

StumbleUpon: The Student Council

Slashdot: Band Camp

4Chan: The High School Drop Outs

YouTube: The Drama Club

**Update: I’ve been informed that I’ve left some people out. Here you go

Holypal: The Abstinence Club

Nexopia: Track and Field Team

It’s finally here! Dark Alex and the rest of Team M33 have been popping in and out lately with their messages about creating a new custom firmware. While their previous release had CFW 3.90, the release of the official 4.01 FW prompted them to follow suit with one of their very own.

In comes CFW 4.10 M33 with the following changes:

• Bug
  fix: vshmenu didn’t let change camera mode due to camera_plugin using
  select button. Fixed, now vsh menu will not be loaded when using the
  camera.
• Recovery can now be translated, See how below. Translation to spanish is autoincluded.
• Updated the M33 SDK with a new function and sample, and released the psp-packer tool to compress prx’s and PBP’s in the ~PSP format.
• The folder of 4.01 and highre homebrew will be GAME4XX so it won’t need change on update.

Make sure you take a look at the readme for installation procedures and other notes form Dark AleX and Team M33.
The team also notes that the 1.50 kernel add-on will be released in a
few hours, so make sure you check back on that. In the mean time,
update your CFW!

Download

Here are five popular ways to capture desktop screencast for Linux

1) Istanbul: Istanbul is one of the more widely used desktop recording software out there. You can download Istanbul from here.
Debian and Fedora users should be able to install it from the repo.
Istanbul has a very simple interface (or lack of). When you first start
up Istanbul, you will see a small red button on your desktop panel.

Right click on the button and it will give you options and ways to
record you desktop by window you choose or desktop area you select by
mouse.

You can stop recording you session by left clicking on the record button, and it will prompt you save the screencast:

By default, Istanbul saves your video in Ogg format.

2) Wink: Wink gives you more control over you
Screencast than any Linux screencast software I have tried, and the
fact that it doesn’t actually takes videos in the conventional sense of
taking videos of your desktop screen, it gives you more control over
your video. Wink takes video by taking screenshots of your desktop in
frames per second. If you set your Wink to take 20 frames per second
and take one minute worth of screencast with wink, it will have roughly
1200 screenshots of your desktop in one minute, which you can edit one
screenshot at a time giving you more control over the video. Wink saves
the video in shockwave format which you can later convert into whatever
format you wish to.

You can download wink from it’ website here.

Wink will not work with newer distros of Ubuntu 8.04, or any Linux
distros with libexpat.so.1 file located in /usr/lib/. A temporary
solution that worked for me was to simply rename the file to
libexpat.so.0, even thoughI didn’t have any problem with my system
after doing this and everything worked ok, it is not highly recommended
as it might effect other program using this file. You can rename it
back to it’s original format when you are done. A permanent solution
would be to recompile the program and link it to the new libraries; or
wait for it to be officially updated by the author.

To start doing screencast with Wink, start a new project with File
–> New, and select the screen size you would like to record.

(click for larger view)

You will see that by default it capture 50 frames/second in Time capture Mode.

After selecting OK a window will pop up giving your shortcuts for video capture.

Select “Minimize To Tray”. From the desktop panel right click on the
icon and select “Start Timed Capture”, to start capturing your desktop.

You can select “Stop Timed Capture” whenever you think you are done
with your work. It will tell you how many frames have been captured.

To get your video you have to render all the image files into a video file. And now you have a video of your desktop.

Render Images:

Save file options:

3) Xvidcap: This is a nice little video capturing
app that does the job, however for me it was a little too buggy for my
liking. You can download xvidcap from here.
When you start xvidcap, it will give you red square to work with, which
represents the space that will be captured, you can drag the square to
your liking, depending on how much you want to capture. To start
capturing just click onthe red button. Other options including the
ability to choose a screen area to capture and detach the frame area
from the video capture selection. However if you select the whole
desktop screen or large portion of the desktop screen, this will slow
down your computer to a crawl.

4) vnc2swf: Another popular, but inconvenient, way
to screencast desktop is to use vnc2swf to record desktop sessions.
vnc2swf works by connecting to vncserver and recording sessions. Debian
users can use this program by installing sudo apt-get install pyvnc2swf. Others can download from it’s website: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/

To start recording, assuming you have vnc server installed, just type this command in the terminal vnc2swf -o test.swf -N -S localhost:0 and it should pop up a simple window for recording purpose.

For more options check out the official documentation.

5) Recordmydesktop: Another fairly widely used
desktop recording application which runs in command and has a graphical
frontend, debian user can install both with apt-get, sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop, others can download from their project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/recordmydesktop.
Recordmydesktop works the same way as Istanbul and has almost the same
look and feel down to the desktop panel shortcut. But RMD has more
advanced options that are missing in Istanbul. the options are
self-explanatory and should be fairly easy to configure.