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No one wants to play Nintendo or Sega with Harrison Ford
The above oil painting is titled "No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford". Painter Brandon Bird has a wonderful sense of the absurdity of celebrity, as you can see by perusing his artwork. However, he clearly doesn't know his videogame systems. As he notes on his site:I made this for the 2006 I am 8-Bit show. We didn't have Nintendo, so I had to go with what I knew.
Perhaps if Mr. Ford were to actually show up with a Sega, he might be more popular. As near as I can tell, he's toting some sort of unholy Colecovision/NES hybrid that no one ever made games for.
Still, what a great bit of work. It's the theme of emotional isolation you get in Edward Hopper's paintings, but for a generation raised on Atari 2600s and Raiders of the Lost Ark! Also awesome is Bird's vision of the sorts of arcade machines Konami should have been making back in the day.
(Thanks Boing Boing!)
UPDATE: As per the comments, I'm apparently too cool to know what a Sega Master System is. No wonder the Genesis was such an awesome system. Sega had been practicing!
By Gendal at 6:50 AM ON 04/06/09
Wha? Looks a lot more like a Sega Master System to me than my old Colecovision. Or am I missing something?
By Brad Grenz at 7:11 AM ON 04/06/09
Yeah, definitely looks like a Sega Master System, the 8 bit competitor to the NES almost no one bought. I did have a neighbor with Double Dragon for it, though. Played the hell out of that.
*Tom loses 5 points of geek cred
By Chijts at 8:19 AM ON 04/06/09
Well I know what a Master System is, but I have no idea what the Genesis looks like.
By Balance of Power at 10:07 AM ON 04/06/09
*stares at Mr. Chick, arms crossed* I'm afraid you'll have to turn in your Official Gamer Card now Mr. Chick... ;)
By wildpokerman at 2:19 AM ON 04/07/09
I can't decide if that belongs in the museum of bad art or not. It's so bad it's good!
By nilus at 9:13 AM ON 04/07/09
A lot of times I read these articles by Tom Chick and shake my head. But this is just bad. What game commentator/reviewer doesn't know that. It wasn't that obscure of a system. Kids these days
By Marty B. at 10:28 AM ON 04/07/09
I dunno, Harrison Ford's got grit. My guess is, while it looks like a Sega Master System, it's actually some sort of homebrew console. It could port over any cartridge from its day, but Ford's more into coding his own stuff.
Marty B.:
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