We're coming up on the 2nd anniversary of this blog, and I've changed it a lot in that time. I thought it would be fun to look at the logos I've designed since things started (now with free bonus theme music!)
Theme song: Sega Mega CD System - We always played this music at EGM, reminds me of working there.
This is the first logo I designed when the blog started. I remember I was sitting there with a bloody nose and drainage tubes sticking out of my nostrils from my surgery. I was bored and had been thinking of re-starting my website for a while. So I logged into Blogger and got to work. This logo of course is based on the Electronic Gaming Monthly logo of the 90's using Adobe's AntiqueOlive Nord Italic font. Simple and easy.
Theme song: Metal Gear Solid Main Theme - One of the greatest pieces of music of all time, I played this while designing this logo.
No matter how good I think my work is I eventually get tired of it. I got to work on a new logo, and I had been playing a lot of Metal Gear Solid, so I came up with this one. If you look hard enough you can find a font that looks like every logo in the world. I used the most powerful tool in the world, it's called Google. I typed "Metal Gear Solid font", and had a new logo 30 minutes later. This logo is based on the special edition of MGS2, called Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance.
Theme song: The Hampsterdance Song - No comment.
This one... Will take some explaining. See, sometimes I'm just bat-shit crazy. This happens a lot around the first of April. Every April 1st a band of rogue hamsters take over the blog and vandalize it. I've been unable to prevent this the past two years, maybe it'll be different next year. Anyway this logo seems to be based on the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater logo, but made by hamsters. This led to the creation of...
Theme Song: Snake Eater - The James Bond inspired opening track to Metal Gear Solid 3.
...a proper Metal Gear Solid 3 logo, based on the special edition of Metal Gear Solid 3, Subsistence.
Theme song: Transformers The Movie Theme - 80's cheese inspired this logo.
One of my favorites, this one took some time to get just right. Made to look like the cardboard flap on the top of every Transformers toy box. Made it easy to tell when I was getting Transformers as birthday and Christmas gifts, because you could always feel that flap inside the wrapping paper.
Theme song: Pac-Man Championship Edition - The thumping backbeat to the speedy sequel to Pac-Man.
And this brings us to the current incarnation, the Pac-Man logo. One of my favorite games ever, Pac-Man just celebrated his 30th anniversary, and stands the test of time. So what better way for me to pay tribute than to rip off his font. For the first time I also used a matching background image for the site. Around Halloween time the site became haunted by ghosts, and I thought a matching logo would look cool, so I hung on to it.
There was also a failed Super Mario Bros logo, but I didn't like the way it came out so I never used it and must've deleted it. Maybe someday I'll bring it back around. So um, there you go.
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