World’s Strangest

The game Record Tripping uses only your mouse, and mostly just the scroll wheel. Figure out your goal as you go along, which gets more difficult in the upper levels. The graphics are nice, but you might want to turn the sound down if you find it as distracting as I did. Link -via b3ta

(Slate V Link) Super Bowl Sunday is nearing fast. Who’s it gonna be, Colts or Saints? Either way, you have to love what Slate V cooked up here; a great imagining of what the game might look like if it were directed by Quinten Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, or Werner Herzog. Happy game [...]

The Winter Olympics are still a week and a half away, but it’s never too early to start getting warmed up. Let’s take a look at the origins of some of the events you’ll be enjoying from Vancouver. 1. Figure Skating Skating has been around for centuries, but figure skating’s expressive movements are actually somewhat more recent [...]

I don’t have an iPhone. But my brother does. He is so into his iPhone, not only does he play games on his iPhone, he designs games as well. His first project is a free game app called Food Fight, in which you, the chef, must defend yourself against a crowd of mutant vegetables using [...]

Most of us never had a chance of playing in the NFL, but that didn’t stop us from dreaming on a smaller scale by playing football games in our basements. Here are four fun ways generations of fans have played football using little more than their imaginations. 1. Electric Football How electric football became popular is a [...]

It’s not uncommon for sports stars to get hurt in the line of duty, obviously (Colt McCoy, anyone?). It’s a little more unusual when a spectator gets taken out – I had a friend who got pelted in the elbow with a line drive at a minor league baseball game. Here are some innocent and [...]

In First Person Tetris, when you rotate a block, you rotate the entire game! By the time you think you’ve figured it out, the dizziness begins to set in. It’s quite addicting. Link -via Boing Boing

Whoa, I turn around and it’s already time for our weekly collaboration with the always excellent What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange tool above is for? Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you’d [...]

Lopsided games, games that went downhill for the strangest of reasons, and stupid mistakes that led to failure, all are profiled in these losses in a variety of sports. Take, for example, the 1940 championship game between the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins. The Bears won, 73-0! The coaches George Halas and George Preston Marshall [...]

In honor of tonight’s BCS National Championship game, tonight’s Late Movies take a look at some memorable college football plays. In this year’s Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, undefeated Boise State met undefeated TCU. Late in a tie ballgame, Boise elected to go with a fake punt, which eventually set up the winning score (skip to the 0:53 [...]