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If you’re an old school gamer and you wonder how the graphics worked to look like they did, this in-depth video will inform and enlighten you.
It’s for the 8-bit geeks out there and explains 8-bit hardware color palettes on 1980s computers and game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Commodore 64.
The Zelda series goes all spaghetti western (including an Ennio Morricone-inspired Ocarina theme) in this great re-imagining.
It sees gunslingers Link and Zelda take on outlaw Ganondorf in a great parody of the classic Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda, by Beat Down Boogie.
The Joker and Batman battle it out, or at least their toy versions do, in this fantastic stop motion from YouTuber Counter656.
And the odds are in Batman’s favour before the Joker pulls out his trump card, some mecha robots, but then Batman calls on some backup himself. Epic stuff with some epic VFX too.
Who even knew there was a Steampunk World’s Fair, but there is and it took place in New Jersey, USA earlier this year.
It was home to some very inventive and creative outfits, along with a steam-powered giraffe because, why not?
AsapScience takes a look at why we’re all so obsessed with bacon and why the smell of it is so goddamn irresistible.
But as well as providing insight into why we love it so, it also looks at how bacon is made around the world, with different places using different parts of the pig. Oink. Nom.
Mars has been the planet hogging the news lately, but what about our other neighbour?
Although the surface temperature is an insane 450 degrees Celsius, this video presents a way that we might be able to colonize it.
After his daughter complained that her Power Wheels Mini was way slower than her sister’s quad, this dad decided to do something.
So he upgraded the Fisher Price toy car with a brushless electric motor, meaning it now it leaves the quad eating dust while it tears off into the distance.
Before you ask no ‘The Moon Terminator Illusion’ hasn’t nothing to do with cyborgs and the singularity.
Instead a terminator is used to describe the line that separates the illuminated and dark side of an object, and here Vsauce shows why it is we see the moon that way.
