Brandon Boyer

Wicked wearables: high-concept Pac-Man/Tetris shirts

Geekologie is apparently having a hell of a time tracking down the original creator of this pair of very smart wares, and even a TinEye search didn't help. If you or someone you know can track down the designer, please let us know, as we'd like to help hook them up with a manufacturer toot sweet. [via GamOvr]

Brandon Boyer

Wolf parade: Kyozo Kicks' custom Okami sneakers

New master of games-related custom shoes Kyozo Kicks returns with his latest Okami-la-den (get it?) sneaks, quite possibly the finest he's turned out to date. Purchase them, or any other in-stock sets here. [via SuperPunch]

Mike Nowak

T-Shirt: Split Reason's Ghost Busting Advantage

Remember that scene in Ghostbusters 2 where they spray the Statue of Liberty with slime and then control the animated statue using nothing more than a simple two button NES Advantage arcade stick? Did you ever wonder what the control scheme for that would be? There's a shirt for that.

Busters Advantage T-Shirt [Split Reason]

Lisa Katayama

Mario and Luigi tattooed on someone's feet

I guess her left and right foot will always have a little bit of sibling rivalry.

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Brandon Boyer

Undead chic: PopCap unleashes official Plants Vs. Zombies T-shirts

Just launched via PopCap's online store -- where I had no idea you could also buy limited edition Franklin Mint-ish Peggle Master medallions (!) -- two new Plants Vs. Zombies T-shirts, including the Moustache Mode design above, and a separate, more groan-worthily punny "Your Grass is Mine" design.

Brandon Boyer

One shot: a Mushroom Kingdom hit and run

Speed kills, red Koopa shells kill with impunity: a Threadless T-shirt (available in very low stock) by Brock Davis, whose work I'd coincidentally just found via this fantastic glow-in-the-dark gag shirt a few days before.

Brandon Boyer

Screenburn: LowRez's glitched-out arcade boot-screen T-shirts

For the person that finds ErrorWear's Pac-Man killscreen shirt just a bit too, like, obvious: LowRez is offering a series of shirts featuring the glitch-out bootup screens of various arcade games, named only by their year of release.

Above: Booting1982a, Booting1982b, and Booting1980. Tons more pixel, vector, and retro designs are also available at their web shop. [Well spotted as usual, GSW]

Brandon Boyer

Icy cool: Gama-Go's Yeti Kong T-shirt

The Mother Boing's own David Pescovitz notes a.) the latest 8-bit homage tee starring Gama-Go's signature mascot Yeti, and b.) that shipping is free if you order the shirt alongside one of Gama-Go's own Boing Boing themed shirts.

Brandon Boyer

Threepwood Coiture: LucasArts' official Monkey Island T-shirts

Just added to LucasArts' official web-store for pre-orders: these two T-shirts -- Evolution of Guybrush and Guybrush and LeChuck Fight -- alongside this button set.

As Joystiq notes, the glaring omission? A Treasure of Mêlée Island tee that apparently Lucas was handing out at this year's E3, as submitted by one of their readers. We hope, as Joystiq does, that the company will see the light and offer it to the public in the future, especially because our only alternatives are artless Cafe Press and Zazzle clones.

Brandon Boyer

T-shirt: Junior Massive's Not-Necessarily-the-Tetris

Possibly the most legitimately fashion-conscious T-shirts (as opposed to, you know, like, the usual nerd shirts) featured here since Imperial Junkies' back in January, Australia's upstart Junior Massive label offers this Tetris tee for both men and women.

You can tell it's more about The Look than The Game, because of all the infuriating one/two/three/five block shapes, which I'm sure has more than a few of you squirming in your seats. [via Cool Hunting, via Gus]

Brandon Boyer

Uni-cool: on Brian Alfred and Namco/Uniqlo's Pac-Man T-shirt lineup

Apparently in the rush to cover Uniqlo's larger games T-shirt initiative, I completely neglected to mention one subset of their crossover wares: a line of Pac-Man shirts released in partnership with Namco to promote the game's 30th anniversary.

Normally I might not go back in time to retroactively cover something that'll be harder to track down now than it would have been then, though I'm going to go ahead and use it as a good excuse to focus on the design at top left: the cityscape shirt created by Offworld favorite studio artist Brian 'Paintchanger' Alfred.

It was actually via Alfred that I re-discovered the line-up, who posted that the shirt was not only still available at Uniqlo's SoHo store, but is also currently importable (and affordable) from Malaysia, here.

Alfred's design is right in-line with the signature style that's brought him acclaim for the past several years: mural sized 'photo-real' landscapes reduced to superflat vectors, as seen in the video above.

As also seen in the video above -- which features an E*vax, Lullatone, Jon Sheffield, and I am Robot and Proud score -- he's traditionally partnered with a number of fantastic music names for accompanying (and now exceedingly rare) compilation/gallery catalog CDs, including the above, alongside Pulseprogramming, Loscil, and Nobukazu Takemura (who you might know from his wicked/epic/utterly unrecognizable Yo La Tengo remix).

You can see all of the participating artists in the Pac-Man line up (including Kentaro Kobuke and Carlos 'Dzine' Rolon's designs, pictured at top) via Uniqlo, see larger shots of all the shirts at the company's store, and see more examples of Brian Alfred's work via his Paintchanger site and this bonus YouTube preview.

Brandon Boyer

T-shirt: Split Reason's Ahab vs. Dick

There are no 'friendships' in this 'mortal' struggle. [via infinitelives]