Finally, I have become Video Games

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Martin. He/him. Norwegian. I talk & write about video games. Even wrote a book. Now touring schools. Make music as Nachtleben - check out my Heartslow EP: My Norwegian alt: @krushdbug.bsky.social

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Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jun 15

Grew up & stopped playing discopunk in European clubs, but here we go again. This is Barcelona.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jun 7

Fatboy Slim’s first hit being a Christian acappella bop will never cease to amuse me. Picked this up at Big Dipper in Oslo yesterday

Caravan of Love 7" playing on a record player

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jun 5

Spending an hour on How We Know We're Alive was worth it. Well done to @augusthakansson.bsky.social for making me nostalgic for a gas station.

The protagonist of the game in front of a Statoil

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· May 10

Made a 9:16 version for people who don’t click YouTube links. Well, ok, for TikTok, but posting here too.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· May 10

I recently wrapped my school tour, with over 70 performances + workshops. I performed a live video essay about expressing yourself through video games, but the best part was meeting & making Twine games with over 2000 students aged 14-19. Kids are wildly creative if you just give them the tools.

Me, talking about technology + art via the Lascaux cave paintings

Me talking over an approximate illustration of how Colossal Cave Adventure was originally played. Moving thematically from cave paintings to Colossal Cave Adventure? Yes, I am smooth like that

Me talking about the reading of games, via Mario repeatedly stomping on a goomba

My creative partner Christoffer taking suggestions from the students. We onboard them into Twine by starting an interactive story together, before they're let loose to write their own (often amazing) Twine games.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Apr 26

Some brutal Steam reviews for this random physics-inspired shooter

Steam review for Bohrdom, saying «Tyler Robinson ran so Cole Allen cloud walk»

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Mar 7

A beautiful attempt at Harlan Ellison Youraislopbores.me

I ask the faux AI: Please find a simpler way to say this sentence: «My face has no front hole, yet I must loudly utter extreme anguish».

The response is that «my face lacks a hole, yet you’re screaming»

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Feb 20

A good selection of Horses in the Steam Horse Fest, but I do feel there is one game about Horses that seems to have slipped their minds when they were putting together this otherwise excellent lineup of discounted Horses-based video gaming.

A bunch of horse games on sale in the Steam horse festival. Somehow, this feels deliberate.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Feb 9

My solution to this problem involves quantum entaglement theory. I exist in two places at once, and am able to bypass both the Everton supporters and the adjacent MTG cluster.

My two accounts on the Bsky map, located in video games industry and the Norwegian progressive intellectuals clusters

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 17

Alright, firing the first shot. Just reply with a pic & a comment that could be interpreted either as a compliment or a devastating diss & we're golden.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

Some final snaps from the trip. Lots more to see at the museum, well worth a visit if you’re in Berlin

A Brown Box replica built by Baer himself

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

They have some IKEA style old school gaming spaces as well. Very nice.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

I thought they had the Soviet gaming exhibition going, but that turned out to be at a collab they did at a different museum. Bummer. But they did have this old GDR arcade machine. I tried this racing game + Hase und Hare, which was a pretty sad Pac-Man clone

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

A lot of consoles on display, but also the first Voodoo graphics card. I remember everyone getting really, really excited for Voodoo 2 because it could do COLORED LIGHTING

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

Fun to see some System Shock in the wild. The museum shop sells 3 euro fridge magnets from the game

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

….but the N-Gage money also built a lot of the Finnish gaming industry. And then there was this guy from Romania, who runs an N-Gage community online. He had cancer when he was young, and the device (which also had radio + internet) was his lifeline in the hospital.

An audio testimony by a man named Razvan

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

Pandemonium was such an also-ran among the 2.5D platformers

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

Behold, the worst Snake game ever created. Wildly sluggish controls. Considering the fact that Snake was THE killer app on 90s Nokia phones, this is just sad.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

Played a show in Berlin on Saturday & was somehow still in shape for going to the Computerspielmuseum on Sunday powered by 2.5 hours of sleep & an espresso. They had an N-Gage exhibition themed around failure.

A sign saying later versions of the console did not require… removing the battery to switch games? Oh wow

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jan 13

What level of slop even is this?

A Facebook post stating that the online mode of GTA 6 will require internet, as if it is news

Post text that includes the line «no surprises here»

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Oct 24

Oh hey I wrote a song about a dog haunted by the Google Street View car, just in time for Halloween Yes it's a niche haunting but please go listen, my daughter is doing the backing vocals (also doing ghost moves) linktr.ee/nachtleben

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Oct 21

The entire release strategy for my upcoming single is exploiting this tiny dog for views until people love me.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Oct 16

Fingers crossed we get an update to this all-timer

A Larson strip of a child playing video games while his hopeful parents look at him, imagining job offers for Nintendo experts who know how to save the princess

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Oct 16

Lo Fidelity Allstars! Dancepunkey genre-mashup ahead of its time. Happy I bought it on vinyl back then, because it has the original version of «Battle Flag» from before they removed the Prince interpolation and messed up the ending. «Kasparov's Revenge» is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4d...

The cover art for Lo Fidelity Allstars - How to operate with a blown mind

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Oct 9

45 minutes with the demo & I'm now pretty confident that Skate Story by @bysameng.com is gonna fill the Sayonara Wild Hearts sized hole in my life

A glass skater in Skate Story studying a description of various hells

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Sep 24

Alright, my favorite insect cutie is now the hummingbird moth that’s started hanging out in our flowerbed. A very chunky boy!

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Aug 15

This flush button held a lot more narrative promise before they corrected it

A flush button for a toilet on a ferry I’m currently taking. The text above it reads «hold the button in 3 seconds» with «in» crossed out and «for» written above it in sharpie

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Aug 8

Immaculate Alan Wake 2 vibes at the Charli XCX gig last night

Charli XCX performing in Oslo. The red lights are very red.

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jul 10

Sorry you feel that way. It was edited as a mood piece for my music, but here, the musicless version:

Finally, I have become Video Games@videogames· Jul 10

Found a police training video about satanism & it’s the most amazing thing. Here’s an edit. Music is my track ‘Heartslow’, which just so happens to be out tomorrow.