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Monday, June 22, 2009

Edge Poster's Game And System Cameos Cataloged

The amount of video game characters and consoles appearing in Edge's recent subscriber gift poster, drawn by pixel artist Gary "Army of Trolls" Lucken, seemed too overwhelming to document without tremendous effort, but Just One More Game devised a simple way to tally all the cameos.

The gaming blog overlaid the poster with a grid, so that others could keep track of and record each video game appearance. So far, the site's "crowd-solving" experiment has found 71 games/systems in the artwork, finding characters such as Miner Willy (Z14), Grim Fandango's Manny (J03), and a Final Fantasy Moogle (I07). You can see the poster/grid and the full list of appearances on JOMG.

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Wow. Just wow.

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