"Gamer shirts" tend to be a crappy proposition. A gigantic oversize Unreal Tournament T-shirt or one of those baby doll tees featuring a 1UP mushroom might be a good way to be sure that your fellow gamers can easily pick you out in a crowd -- but it isn't exactly a way to look hot.Fortunately, my friend (and cohort during my time at Kotaku) Mike McWhertor and his partner Scott have created game-inspired shirts that actually look good even to nongamers. If you haven't yet heard of their company, Meat Bun, you should definitely check it out. It's like, game clothes for fashionable grownups.
Yes, I look like a giant child flaunting this particular design, which might be my favorite for reasons clear to anyone who reads my work, but other people will probably look fashionable. I think this Ikaruga/Screaming For Vengeance crossover is actually the coolest. I also own this 1942 shirt with Cammy doing pinup duty on it. Love-love-love it.
Anyway, if you'd like to represent while still being subtle, here's your solution. I pride SVGL on having a readership that wants to elevate discourse around games, so you guys prolly want to elevate fashion around games, too. YEAH!
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Perhaps a 3rd site, Sexy Meatbunland, featuring some of the more fashionable gamers out there is in order?
Sexy indeed.
Is the new haircut a part of the fashion elevation tactic ;p
You look better like this btw.
But yeah, I need some sexy game shirts.
I think I'll actually pick up the Fight Night tee.
Also, damn you for getting the MGS3 theme stuck in my head.
Thank you! All the gaming shirts I currently own stand out far too much, so I've been looking for a more subtle look.
Hurray for SVGL.
Yeah that SH3 shirt is pretty awesome, but what if people think I'm a goth?!
Or an emo???
@bruno -- naw, straight hair is just how I get by in the cold winter
@christopher -- it's still in my head :P
@toups -- it says "meat bun" around the rim. but if you are worried about being considered An Emo, there are other fine selections
That picture of you with the shirt on = priceless. I wonder how many marriage proposals you have gotten since the straight hair?
http://www.threadless.com/submission/103968/the_MADNESS_of_MISSION_6
my favourite game shirt!
That is awesome. And they ship internationally too! Fantastic! I want, like, all of them...
SO long as we're gushing about hair, I've got to voice the apparent minority opinion: I'm pro-curly. Love it on my wife, love it on Leigh, love it on pretty much everyone.
Anyway, I particularly love Meatbun's Street Fighter shirt with Balrog and Vega ("Claw") on it... especially because I'm one of the only people who always fights with Vega. (Note: this might be part of why I always lose.)
If we are to really elevate fashion, we won't wear tshirts at all. But if we must, Meat Bun shirts are pretty stylish!
Also, your fan club in #ffxi likes your curly hair :(
Thanks for sharing this site Leigh. I'll have to take a look through since, like you, I've never been one to wear most "normal" gaming shirts.
Curly hair for the win.
My only gaming related T is last year's IFComp shirt, which is so obscure that probably only other people who own it would recognize it. I can't even find a picture of it on the web anymore. Looks nice though.
I might have bought one if they weren't $10 more than I'm willing to pay for something hardly more than a novelty shirt.
I'll keep watching for something good though. They've got some pretty nice prints.
@ bepporama: I don't mind curly, but I always thought that Leigh's hair was a bit too curly for my tastes.
In any case, your new straight hair looks great. Heck, both pics of you look gorgeous.
in any case, subtle video game references always rock. I have to admit that I'm interested mainly on the halo one, and I don't really like halo either. Most of the other ones are kind of too cluttered.
Somewhere, in the deepest darkest recesses of my closet, I still have a Gauntlet T-Shirt. Someone bought it for me once, I used to shoot the food a lot.
I'm guessing that one doesn't fit into the fashionable category.
This guy has some great gamer shirts as well. I particularly like the plant with all the controllers coming out of it.
I got their Shadow of the Colossus shirt on Black Friday...looks like I lucked out since they don't seem to sell 'em anymore.
Did I just say 'closet'? Obviously I meant wardrobe, I just slipped into Americanese for a second.
I feel dirty.
Chesh -- I have a fan club? :\
Have you considered modelling, Leigh?
@ Leigh: Yeah. That's bound to happen, though. Weren't you prepared at some point in time?
There's also other stuff to pick up if you know where to look, such as this Galaga / Crane mash-up, featuring arcade-style lettering on the back -- http://www.karmaloop.com/kazbah-products.asp?ProductID=40875&VendorCode=IMPKB
Should arrive in time for Christmas.
I'm tired of seeing 1up Mushrooms and Mario on shirts, though. There ARE OTHER GAMES out there you DangerField purchasing sluts. Grrrrr.
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