Are games art?
By Rodentia
If you are British, you should now be playing the theme from the Take Hart gallery in your mind. If you are American, or otherwise Colonial - I don't know. Some of these have got big old watermarks on them and all are in low-res... and that's because we've got something bloody exciting planned for, umm, later. Just watch this space okay? Good. Look and enjoy!
KidCasio
Look again. We asked our readers to interpret videogames finest hours in the style of some of the great artists. Well, we didn’t really. We actually asked for something else, but it mutated into this.
Smaggers
Kicking things off in fine, if low-culture, style there. Talking of which, here’s Mario.
No Name
Disturbing. And brilliant. One for the wankbank next…
Bloid
But enough of the fanboy fantasy, this is what it’s all about...
Smaggers
Oh, alright then, maybe just a bit of fanboy fantasy… Don’t ask what happened to Venus, you may not like the answer. It was at this point that Smaggers was struck by some serious inspiration.
Smaggers
Who the fuck is that? I have no idea, but it still works…
Smaggers
Genius. One for Ely there.
Smaggers
Who’s the hero now?
Smaggers
Isn’t it about time that Nintendo experimented with a few different styles?
Smaggers
Sonic Street?
No Name
Monumental.
Smaggers
Van Gogh didn’t talk much either.
No Name
Just when you think that Smaggers is having all the fun here.
Smaggers
Smaggers and No Name clearly drawing on the same inspiration here.
Ashcroft
Bonus points for including a scene from WWE 1066 in there…
Smaggers
Q*bist.
Smaggers
Smaggers extends his range. At this rate, he’ll be outside nailing bits of shed together next.
Smaggers
Oof. She is going to be in for a nasty surprise in a minute.
Koworld
Whooooooo.
Smaggers
Just beautiful.
Smaggers
Yeah, we know that Snappy Snaps do the same thing with pictures of children. This is better.
Bloid
Gordon obviously doesn’t laugh.
MadHippo
MadHippo reminds us that art can also be badly animated dayglo.
Smaggers
One more for the wan… Oh, hang on.
Jon Egg
Jon butts in late with this masterpiece. Bonus points for the first person to, Banksy-style, break into the Tate and do this for real.
Smaggers
And, to finish off, Smaggers delivers this killing blow. If you don’t want this on your wall, then I'm not entirely sure you belong here…
December 2005
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