Scenes From Game Night 4

Last night, we co-hosted Game Night 4: The Revenge of Xmas with Attract Mode and Giant Robot at GR2, a party with candy canes, Christmas lights, hot cocoa, holiday chiptunes and the festive new George and Jonathan album, “The Best Christmas,” as well as Christmas-themed video games. Some of them were exclusive to Game Night 4, featuring special versions of Super Crate Box and 8BITar Hero.

And Daze Before Christmas, Sunsoft’s 16-bit Santa Claus game. Leave it to Carlos and the guys from Angry Bananas to have a copy of this lying around.

Here’s Arthur Lee, creator of 8BITar Hero, setting up. He’d picked a long list of snowy, icy levels from NES games like Contra, Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many more to play along with.

While we were setting up, we checked out the Meat Bun stuff over at the original Giant Robot store. If you’re looking for an out of print Miserable Little Pile of Secrets, you’ll have to go here.

Look! It’s Adam Robezzoli of Attract Mode fame playing some Super Street Fighter IV.

Super Crate Box was a huge hit, even if no one could manage to collect more than 17 crates in a row all night. Vlambeer created a special Xmas version of the game, complete with snow and Santa hats. So good!

Here’s Mike, Mike Z and Daniel playing/admiring a little 8BITar Hero.

People really got into playing classic Tetris themes with Rock Band instruments.

If you find yourself on Sawtelle Ave and find yourself hungry, try the sushi burrito. Or don’t, because it sounds incredibly vile to eat sushi that’s been packed into a flour tortilla.

The “tornado potato,” on the other hand, is Mike Z approved. It’s a fried potato coiled around a savory sausage — a natural disaster of flavor, from what we hear.