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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The God of High Score Legacies

Like a gluttonous dragon consumed with adding treasure to its hoard, the god of high score legacies anxiously eyes every gleaming item that passes his way, and demands a steady stream of gems from his worshippers.

"He gives strength and honor to the denizens of the video arcade, who have inscribed their three letter alias into the pixels of posterity," describes Matt Reynolds, who shot and edited the above video. "He is a greedy god, and is easily distracted by luster and wealth. But his powers in the realm of the two-dimensional make him a trusted ally, and a fearsome foe."

Reynolds says this is part of what he hopes will become a series of videos depicting imagined paper deities. I hope they are all as creepy as our patron arcade god!

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