Another in a continuing effort to find different ways to play game music: The Tetris theme on bottles.

Force Dynamics takes a motion simulation rig normally used with realistic driving sims and customizes it for Mario Kart.

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi proves he's not just some geeky programmer by driving the Nissan GT-R around the Nurburgring -- wet, no less -- at 193 miles an hour. Yamauchi actually helped design the information screens in the GT-R, and Nissan gave him one of his own for his efforts.

The cliche is that there's a legion of basement-dwelling American dorks who make it their life's goal to move to Glorious Nippon where women will love and accept them for being gamers instead of being repulsed because they don't shower. Judging by the crowd reactions in this video, maybe they should be setting their sights on Korea, instead. As long as they know how to use a PSI Storm.

If you can overlook the goofy presentation, this episode of Famicom Dojo has some interesting information about NES hardware, including a demonstration showing that many NES carts consisted of nothing more than the Famicom version of the game attached to an adapter.

I'll end this post with something I can't embed here, so a link will have to do: Full episodes of Starcade, "TV's first video arcade game show" from the early '80s. It's a fairly straightforward contest for the highest score (as high a score as you can manage in a piddling 40 seconds, anyway), with occasional trivia questions to determine who gets to pick the game. Given how simple and oftentimes derivative arcade games were back then, you have to feel bad for the guys tasked with creating commentary for each game featured on the show. All this time I thought Xevious involved shooting at little flipping squares, when apparently you actually "encounter forces beyond your imagination, like the deadly Bacula resistor shields! A flotilla of floating mirrors!"