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From Russia with pixels; the coolest picture you'll see today photo

The above picture is a tiny cropped segment of the masterpiece that you can find attached to the bottom of this post. It's so monumentally huge (and stuffed full of so many clever details), that I couldn't bring myself to tarnish it with the usual cropping/captioning hackery that I'm known for.

Unfortunately, since the whole thing is in Russian, and all of my Cold War-era bids to defect to the Red side of the curtain were met with denial, denial and mysterious radiation poisoning, respectively, I have almost no idea what the purpose of this picture is. Is it an ad? Is it one fan's unrequited love letter to a cold, unfeeling industry? Or is it something far more sinister?

Much like how many licks it takes to get to the center of Lenin's tomb, the world may never know ...

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tudy's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2007 17:35
tudy
>i think the guy running away from megaman and friends is labeled wrong ("caleb/blood"). kinda looks like an infected terran, but not.

I think is a solo from S.T.A.L.K.E.R, they need the bolts you know...
breGus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/28/2007 06:58
breGus
He he, that's a poster from Russian game magazine - Game Navigator. Direct translation is - Navigator of Gaming World. PC Only and Forewer is somekind of devise. What else? I may check the name of author, he is working now in some game development company. And yes, he is a fan of games. =)
UglyDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/28/2007 08:21
UglyDuck
The John Romero Head! Wow, that is so obscure and so clever, you had to noclip into the head of the devil in order to see that! Creatures? I didn't know anyone else played that game... The Might and Magic Adventurers, the Syberia Mammoths, BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL! It's just too much!
Mike Seth's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/28/2007 18:44
Mike Seth
Yo!

Let me chip in some:

* Jade's sign says "All men are pigs"
* Sam and Max do a russian joke that I can not fathom explaining to people who didnt grow up there
* Comrade Ivan is saying "god damn capitalists"
* Abe (though I am for some reason sure it's Invader Zim) says "follow me", in a deliberate russian transliteration of English, poking fun at overuse of the phrase in games
* Cthulhu is not related to games. It's an ongoing joke in russian internet subculture. Ctulhu comes and eats you. The sign on his wall says "Yo we're looking for talent"
* The indicator above the clone soldier says "Clone/Not clone"
* The sign next to the Syndicate character says "Will work for implants"
* The signs on the vault door say "Authorized personnel only", "No donations" and "bail" (as in GTFO).
* Nova is carrying a paper saying "Expelled", and the arrow above her head says "Exit"
* Raziel says to Malak, "No, /I/ shall show you the dark side of the force"
* The Daikatana crew holds a sign that says, I shit you not, "Will ruin reputation of a cult game developer. Expensive."
* The flying skull next to Othello is a reference to an old DOS 286 game whose name I can't recall - had something to do with thunderbolt or gods or something. It was a platform adventure where you had to manipulate traps. The skull is very distinctively styled.
* The crab sign refers to a game called "Vangers". The sign itself says "Escave", which is some sort of territory in the game. I'm being told Stalker is heavily influenced by concepts of Vangers. I never played it, so I dont know.




Xat13's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/29/2007 08:32
Xat13
Okay, a few words about the artisit. His name is Daniil Kuzmichev, and he can be found here - www.dahr.ru.
He's been working for about a decade in game journalism as an illustrator and a comic book artist and writer. Currently he is affiliated with the magazine "Game World Navigator", and he himself can be seen on the poster in the upper left corner on a bench (the one with the blue skin) with the editor of said magazine, Konstantin Podstreshniy. By the way, the purple lady next to Larry is Sex from his comic book project "Sex, Violence and Rock'n'Roll".
http://dahr.ru/06navi.htm - examples of his work for the magazine.The posters themselves are drawn for the annual issues, if I am not mistaken.
And another poster - http://dahr.ru/n_75.htm
Newberry's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/29/2007 11:10
Newberry
- Sam&Max are not Sam&Max really. They are Petka & Vassily Ivanovich costumed as Sam&Max. Petka and Vassily Ivanovich are popular russian folklore characters and heroes of many jokes. Also they are the heroes of some russian comic adveture games. BTW, historically they are Vassily Ivanovich Chapaev, legendary Red Army commander, and his assistant Petr Isaev. They became famous after the historic novel 'Chapaev' by D.Furmanov.

- Running dude with whole lot of bolts and nuts is Marked One from 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'.

- Girl with clockwork mammoth (upper right corner) is Kate Walker from Benoit Sokal's 'Syberia'.
Dante88's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/29/2007 11:20
Dante88
Im not shure if someone notice: women with broken arm and all is from "SilentHill 4". The one that riding the mammoth in the middle bottom, is from "Etherlords". And the one in the middle up, that dances, is from "Pirates!" where was too much dancing... The little round guy near commander Zod's head? is SPUTNIK from Scrapland. And under the Q2 berserker is the Panzerklein from Operation Silent Storm. The one with "No more winds" poster related to TES3 Morrowind. The purple girl near Larry is from author's original comix, and a little skull with bandana near the Scorpion's head, too.
nademagnet's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/29/2007 15:31
nademagnet
This needs to be on my wall.
MidwayMark's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/30/2007 10:48
MidwayMark
Oh wow! He has a reference to Malcom from Legend of Kyrandia...what an amazing game!
Gor's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/30/2007 12:01
Gor
Hello there!

Just registered to answer this :)

This picture looks like poster of Russian game magazine "Navigator Igrovogo Mira" (transliterated).
If translate its name in english it would be "Navigator of Game World".
And author of this picture is comics artist Danya Kuzmichev if I recognized him right. His authoportrait is in upper-left corner.
His website is http://dahr.ru

For any questions about russian stuff email me : fucking()russian.ru
General Blu-ray's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/30/2007 23:37
General Blu-ray
Hawt
Demios's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2007 23:05
Demios
So many classic 90'a game reference's...Blood! Discworld!

Ok whos going to buy the guy who painted this a drink and a blowjob?!?!?!?!?
bigfatton's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2007 15:21
bigfatton
This is just avatar material waiting to be cut out, solid gold
ZombieLifeTaker's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2007 19:53
ZombieLifeTaker
wow i made alot of mistakes >.< i thought the detective guy was the guy from the "deja vu" games
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/28/2007 09:29
Holyetheline
Pyramid head is so kind to pass out the Pacman like that.
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