50 Robots
Web Surfing | at 01:59 AM
Wired magazine online has an interesting and amusing feature article entitled "The 50 Best Robots Ever", in which they do exactly what they announced, drawing a list of what they think are the best 50 robots ever, from fiction to reality.
There are some nice picks, my personal favorite being obviously R.O.B. for the Nintendo NES at number 45. It was a daring move to put Osamu Tezuka's Astroboy number 2, but it is great to see such an influential character ranking so high. Their number 1 unfortunately is not a very pertinent choice... a car ! Boohoo.
Among the cool winners, it's worth mentioning: Optimus Prime (from Transformers fame), HAL 9000 (the memorable voice of 2001, A Space Odyssey), the killer robots from the film Runaway (what about another Michael Crichton film, Mondwest ? With Yul Brunner as a robot), the Iron Giant (very good animated film by Brad Bird, who directed The Incredibles if I'm not mistaken), the Tin Woodman (a very strange choice... but a nice character !), the Terminator (28th!? that surely is too low), False Maria, the robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (and why not Tima from Rin Taro's excellent Metropolis ?), Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still (a cult film I have sadly never seen), Lego's Mindstorms (as a matter of fact I was playing with some Lego today), R2D2 (screw C3PO, we know it was a guy in a suit), the Japanese Wabot (I remember seeing that pic in magazines when I was a kid and it stuck in my mind) and of course Robby (from the old classic, the Forbidden Planet) !
Today's retro game: Super Mario Bros. 2 (2 years od 1UP...)
Today's recent game: Hello Kitty Roller Rescue (I want that game)
There are some nice picks, my personal favorite being obviously R.O.B. for the Nintendo NES at number 45. It was a daring move to put Osamu Tezuka's Astroboy number 2, but it is great to see such an influential character ranking so high. Their number 1 unfortunately is not a very pertinent choice... a car ! Boohoo.
Among the cool winners, it's worth mentioning: Optimus Prime (from Transformers fame), HAL 9000 (the memorable voice of 2001, A Space Odyssey), the killer robots from the film Runaway (what about another Michael Crichton film, Mondwest ? With Yul Brunner as a robot), the Iron Giant (very good animated film by Brad Bird, who directed The Incredibles if I'm not mistaken), the Tin Woodman (a very strange choice... but a nice character !), the Terminator (28th!? that surely is too low), False Maria, the robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (and why not Tima from Rin Taro's excellent Metropolis ?), Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still (a cult film I have sadly never seen), Lego's Mindstorms (as a matter of fact I was playing with some Lego today), R2D2 (screw C3PO, we know it was a guy in a suit), the Japanese Wabot (I remember seeing that pic in magazines when I was a kid and it stuck in my mind) and of course Robby (from the old classic, the Forbidden Planet) !
Today's retro game: Super Mario Bros. 2 (2 years od 1UP...)
Today's recent game: Hello Kitty Roller Rescue (I want that game)
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