Our tribute to the healing and magical nutritional power of bananas in video games since the dawn of time.
2BOP Strapline: 2BOP/ Video game apparel for corner shop laanies who skiet games whole day
BANANAS!!!
And If you don’t know now you know…♪
What more can we say. watch the video after the jump if you still don’t know. And yes there is a Street Fighter connection.
Bomb Jack
No not Bomber Man, Bomb Jack. Some people see the E Honda stage from Street Fighter II in this (you know who you are Hayden) and we thought we were obsessed with Street Fighter
Winter 09: Monochrome Ascii
I remember getting excited about playing games on an my dads office PC back in the day. Somebody had hooked him up with some games. When you loaded them they were horrible bootlegs of pacman or space invaders done entirely in ASCII. Pacman was a smiley face is all that I can remember. The horror. Click the image for more detail
The Story
2Bop started in 2004 as a way to turn a passion for classic video games into a form of expression.
2Bop draws inspiration primarily from games that were popular in South Africa at corner shops and arcades in the1980’s and early 1990’s when gameplay was key and graphics if they were good were an added bonus. Disadvantaged areas during apartheid South Africa had little to offer in terms of exposure to cutting edge international design or computer technology but the bootleg arcade games that used twenty cent pieces (a 2Bop) to play at the corner shop were a window into what was happening in the outside world. These games granted access to excellent electronic entertainment and exposed the 2Bop crew to intuitive and engaging interface design, game design, graphic and sound design primarily from Japan and North America. And so began a long fascination with the medium that shows no signs of stopping.