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We are still in the process of normalizing our Metacritic score, but so far it’s lookin’ good!
Sexy Videogameland “Love-love-love it. Anyway, if you’d like to represent while still being subtle, here’s your solution.”
The BBPS “By far my favorite is the Judas Priest/Ikaruga mashup, but they’d all look good on my torso…. which trust me is a credit to the shirt and not my torso.”
TINY cartridge “This time, the shirts all actually feature Meat Bun identification, making it feel a lot more like a clothing line than just a series of nice video game shirts.”
nerve “And when 100% cotton gets that high concept, that can only mean one thing: the 2009 Meat Bun T-Shirt collection is here.”
boingboing offworld “it’s hard to choose a favorite. I think it’s the ever-so-vaguely-Misfits-esque glow in the dark design they debuted at their Street Fighter IV launch party, but it might also be the much-more-blatantly Screaming For Vengeance inspired Ikaruga X Judas Priest design on banana yellow.”
Wonderland “Although good in the ultra-hipster sense of you have to be supra hardcore to get the references. Or just pretend. That’s what I do. No wait, I take it back, I know that one! Good on ya, Mike n’ Scott. We like!”
ALRIGHTOK “Besides the clever twists on classic games what I dig about them is that if someone doesn’t know the game reference their designs don’t end up looking like geeky gamer tees which allows their product to work on multiple fronts.”
joystiq XBOX 360 FANBOY “Ahem, yow.”
gaygamer “smokin’ hot metrosexual, Mike McWhertor has started up a great new little business called Meat Bun that brings artsy type game shirts to the masses. Cheeky, fun and fashionable, Meat Bun’s shirts have just enough gamer geek to be appreciated by the hardcores but are vague enough to not seem like you’re wearing a game shirt. Everyone wins!”
Tcritic “If anyone comes up to you when you’re wearing one of these and actually comments on it you know you have found someone especially nerdy to hang with. Great shirts from Meatbun.”
WIRED “The brand’s latest design, “Bombshell,” is the sort of dream team-up that only game lovers could come up with: Cammy posing as a WW2 Vargas-like pin-up, paying homage to Capcom’s classic shooter 1942.”
SILICONERA “The goal of Meat Bun is to make nods at their favorite games, but without resorting to things “done to death” like 1up mushrooms. Right now the store has shirts inspired by Street Fighter II, Spy Hunter and the cult hit Typing of the Dead. I admire how they are not afraid to take risks with lesser known titles.”
boingboing “I can’t recall many videogame tees that walk the knife between nostalgic and hip like these.”
IGN “We’re big fans of shirts for geeks that don’t necessarily look like shirts for geeks, and Meat Bun seems to be exploring this theme quite well.”
WIRED “Clive Thompson and I tag-teamed an extensive interview with Nintendo’s game design genius Shigeru Miyamoto earlier this morning. Clive got to play Wii Fit for the first time, I showed off my new Meatbun shirt, and an enlightening time was had by all.”
TINY cartridge “Exclusive t-shirt design made by Meat Bun for the Street Fighter Club event in Brooklyn. I love that they made a shirt based on an instantly recognizable aspect of Street Fighter II that hasn’t been done to death.”
The BBPS “now not only can I get the Fab Four shirt but there’s quite a few others that have me interested… not the least of which is the excellent Spy Hunter one. That, my friends, is about as understated a reference you’ll ever see on a shirt. Do society a solid and buy one of the shirts”
Topless Robot “Michael McWhertor is one of the awesome writers at the always awesome Kotaku, so I don’t think it’s fair for him to be able to open a similarly awesome video gaming clothes shop. But he did, called Meat Bun, and his shirts are pure gaming nerd joy.”
And our #1 review: top spot in UGO’s Top 50 Videogame Tees “What can we say about this incredible T-shirt, designed and printed by the masters at Meatbun? In case you’re blind, it’s an old-school boxing poster, promoting an event at the Block Head Pub in “Metro City,” and the combatants are, of course, from the legendary Street Fighter series of games. What’s awesome about this baby is that it looks completely authentic – the fighters spotlighted aren’t the big guns of the games, the typography is pitch-perfect, and only a true gamer will get it.”
