Day of the Tentacle Bead Art for Sale

Took me a long time to finish this but I complete the cast of Day of the Tentacle out of Perler Beads. I am selling the set which features Bernard, Hoagie, Laverne and Purple Tentacle.

Bernard is 14 inches tall and 5 inches at his widest point.
Purple Tentacle is 8.5 inches tall and 7 inches at his widest point
Laverne is 14 inches tall and 6 inches at her widest point
Hoagie is 12.5 inches tall and 8 inches at his widest point.

The set is going for $100 plus shipping on my Etsy store. Right now I only have US and Canadian shipping cost but I can ship Internationally if you contact me.

Epic 8-Bit Art: Purple Tentacle Plushie

If I could decorate my room in game gear I totally would and I would start with this Purple Tentacle plushie from Obesolete's store on Etsy.

This little evil mastermind is 9 inches and constructed from soft & fuzzy vellux. You can pick this amazing guy up for $20.00US plus shipping.

Obesolete is another Canadian craftster from the lovely city of Toronto and has a huge selection of fuzzy gamer plushies in store. Check out all the cool picks from Dragon Quest Slimes to Metroid plushies. 

Kicking Day of the Tentacle Shoes

Big fan of the Lucas Arts adventures games from back in the day, so these shoes are making me happy right now.

Created by the Maya Plisetskaya, the same artist that created the Monkey Island shoes, these converse shoes are handed painted with scenes from Day of the Tentacle. They sold on eBay for 250.00EUR.

More Yummy Videogame Food

My favorite thing videogame related besides crafts is food and the best site for videogame food is Snack or Die. The owner, Jocelyn has been very busy making yummy creations for us in her kitchen and I just wanted to show off a few of my favorite recipes.

For the Rapture fans, there's Big Daddy Cupcakes from BioShock. These yummy treats are made with licorice, M&Ms, and lots of chocolate icing.

For the Sony Fanboys, there's Sackboy Cupcakes from LittleBigPlanet. So cute you want to gobble them up. These cupcakes are made with dobs of chocolate icing and M&Ms.

For the Lucas Arts fans, there's Purple and Green Tentacle Cookies from Day of the Tentacle. These are sugar cookies made with royal icing and apple jacks.

These are just a few of my favorite new recipes from Snack or Die, check out the whole site for a ton of great recipes to serve at your next LAN party.

Epic 8-Bit Art: Meet Purple Tentacle!

Today St.Catharines and most of Southern Ontario is getting hit with the nasty snow storm, so I spent the day working on some of my Etsy store orders and this guy - the Purple Tentacle from Day of the Tentacle.

I plan to make the Green Tentacle too and maybe Bernard and the gang, but they may be kind of big to make. The Purple Tentacle is about a foot high to begin with.

Sooner or later I plan to take all my Lucas Arts creations and frame them to hang up.

Gamer Rant - Lucas Arts Adventure Games

Remember the golden age of point and click adventure games, when Lucas Arts reined supreme and it wasn’t because of all their millions of Star Wars titles. An era when adventure games didn’t suck and the plots actually made you want to play the game. Ah, the good ol’ days. But if these were the golden days of point and click, then when exactly is Lucas Arts going to get off their butts and start making these kinds of game again?

I grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and PC gaming, when every gamer was playing titles like King’s Quest and The Secret of Monkey Island. Out of all of these games, the gems that stood out the most for me were the Lucas Arts titles which were able to stand out from the crowd due to their extremely fun plots and wicked humor. Cartoon graphics, slap-stick comedy and goofy characters with quick wits made these games instant classics.

Even now I find myself wishing that Lucas Arts would re-release some of the old titles so that we could play them on updated systems, but I would probably be better off to download cracked versions of the games, and play them on the computer with the help of SCUMM software, because I don’t see the company re-releasing any of these games any time before Hell freezes over. Worst of all, Lucas won’t release the copyright on these games, so you can’t even find them on Abandon ware sites for download. Fine, hold the copyrights all you want, but do something with the games!

As for new titles, Lucas Arts has been claiming for years now that they were going to make a new Sam and Max title, but still nothing has even been started. They did release a new Monkey Island title back in 2001, but it was 3D and really wasn’t that great. I’m still yet to finish the bugger. I mean does the company not realize that there is still a market for their adventure games, and not just in the old titles, but in new games with the old characters. I would kill to play Day of the Tentacle again or even the first Monkey Island.

George Lucas, if you’re reading this (there’s a slim chance, but what the hell…), then listen up: it’s time to release the old Lucas Arts adventure games for a new generation and for the old fans of the games. I expect to see Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Grim Fandango, the Indiana Jones Series, the Monkey Island series, and any other Lucas Arts adventure titles you wanna throw in for the hell of it on selves within the next two years. I also want to see some new titles in these series within the next 5 years. We, your undying fans, demand new titles to play, and none of this 3D crap; only side scrolling point and click games will do. If Sid Meiser’s Pirates make a comeback as a remake, then certainly these games can do it too. Don’t let such great games continue to rot in your archives, when there are probably thousands upon thousands of gamers wanting to play these classics.

For a trip down memory lane, visit The LucasArts Museum site.

If anyone else agrees with me, please feel free to comment on this post. I wanna know that I’m not alone in my love for these classic games.