14.2.08

What R-Type of Manly-Man are You?

A scan from the R-Type Gameboy manual
In ripping off H.R Giger's art style, does R-Type end up depicting a Freudian nightmare of homophobia and misogyny? Game Cabaret argue that yes, yes it does.

3 comments:

gnome said...

Aaaah, thank you for noticing our dirty little secret. Really appreciate you sharing it too.

And don't think I'm not preparing stuff for you know what... Already drew a sketch and bought a new scanner. Should be mailing you soon!

Tinker said...

actually, I don't think I'm much of a manly man at all...

@_@

Geosomin said...

I think that men are finally getting a bit of what women have had tossed at us in gaming graphics/film/ads/oh...anything really...for ages. Sadly, we have it lucky. Apparently it's OK for us to appreciate other girls...and we don't really care if we really *do* or not.

I've given up on figuring it out.
I have a short enough attention span as it is without bringing this into it...