Appearing intermittently on 1up.com through 2011, this parody series took a selection of gaming’s triple-A blockbusters and re-imagined them as Lucasarts-style adventure games*.

The resulting mini-games received praise from representatives of such notable developers as Irrational Games (“Bioshock”) and Bethesda Softworks (“Elder Scrolls” series), and were lauded by the gaming audiences that played them**.

Presented below are a few notable selections from the series.

*if they were done entirely by one guy who only had two weeks to put each one together.

**well, 98% lauded, anyway, which is still pretty good.

“ARRRRRGMENTED”

Parody of “Deus Ex: Human Revolution.”

Controls:

Move character: W,A,S,D

Click and drag inventory objects

“A Halo a Thing”

Parody of “Halo.”

Controls:

Move character: arrow keys

Click and drag inventory objects

Note: no sound

“Bit O’ Hazard”

Parody of “Resident Evil 2.”

Controls:

Move character: arrow keys

Click and drag inventory objects

“Last Dance in Cyrodiil”

Parody of “Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.”

Controls:

Move character: W,A,S,D

Click and drag inventory objects

“Prairie Dogging”

Parody of “Bioshock.”

Controls:

Move character: arrow keys

Click and drag inventory objects

Note: no sound

Over time, the basic game engine saw a few tweaks, resulting in later entries being slightly more-sophisticated than earlier ones. I mention this mainly to explain the minor control differences between episodes, as well as the reason two of the episodes below have no sound. Note also that the “Bioshock” parody functioned as the pilot, and as such features significantly-different formatting than the rest of the series (which were designed to fit within a 600-pixel-wide blog frame, per 1up’s guidelines. It’s worth mentioning that I much preferred the original dimensions).