Now rappers talking about video games is nothing new. Whether it be Biggie Smalls talking about how he could never dream about having a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, The Wu-Tang Clan having their own fighting game and of course those fantastic 50 Cent games. Starting a while back Lil Flip sampled Pac-Man and other Namco sounds then we received the fantastic U-N-I sampling Castlevania and rapping about games, that lead to the 5 track album released for Street Fighter II HD Remix featuring Redman and others. So it was interesting to see Ludacris get in on this action with the release of his new album “Theater of the Mind” and the track “Press the Start Button”. The track is nothing spectacular but still interesting to hear all the game references. I’ve also included the U-N-I video as well in hopes that some of you suckas will pick up their album “Fried Chicken and Watermelon”

Ludacris

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U-N-I

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Amazing what one can do with a gourd.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

PAC-MAN

MARIO

MARIO / BOWSER

LINK

CASTLEVANIA

8-BIT MEGA MAN

and last but not least, 8-BIT MARIO!

Here is the trailer for Castlevania: Judgement, the new Castlevania fighting game from Konami. Max saw it while waiting in line at Six Flags.

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Once again, Nintendo dissapoints this week by not giving up Mega Man.  Instead we get Break In (a billiards game), Star Parodier (old school shooter) and Strong Bad Episode 1 on the Wiiware.  So instead of going into detail on these “great” games we got, I’m just going to list the games that I think you should download instead.  There are also plenty of other good games that are not listed below, I just think you will enjoy the below better than what Nintendo has been giving us lately.  Ohh and don’t forget about Madden launching tonight at midnite.

1. Kid Icarus

2. Gunstar Heroes.

3. The Legend of Zelda

4. Tecmo Bowl

5. Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link

6. Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (Extremely difficult)

7. River City Ransom

8. Super Metroid

9. Super R-Type

10. Streets of Rage 2

11. Baseball Stars 2

12. Super Castlevania IV

13. Star Fox 64

14. City Connection

15. Blades of Steel.