Joyswag: Be clever, win Odama

by Christopher Grant on Apr 25th 2006 11:59AM

Alright, smart guy (or girl)! Think you're so smart? Show us your smarts by transforming this boring screenshot of the Gamecube's latest feudal Japan-themed pinball/real-time strategy/voice command blockbuster, Odama, into something...well, something else. We'll leave that part up to you.

Add voice bubbles, photoshop skillz, UFOs, whatever; just do it better than the next guy. Subtlety works, but so do Japanese tentacle monster or Mecha-Streisand invasions. Please use the enlarged version linked to the post image above and mail all completed entries in .JPG format to joystiq.applications[AT]gmail[DOT]com. Please include your address should you be chosen as super ultimate winner number one!

Deadline is 11:59PM (ET) tonight, so get 'em done!

Tags: Caption contest, CaptionContest, GameCube, Odama

Reader Comments (52)

Hmm, isnt that from the movie 'The Last Samurai'?

Yep starring Tom Cruise. The three Japanese Odama tv adverts would be far funnier to get screenshots from to caption.

I had an excellent idea (imho), but could never get it finished by tonight. It was going to involve some CG animation. Would have taken me a good 4 - 6 hours. I'm not going to have that much free time on my hands, today. But, anyway, it was funny.

Why am I revealing this? Because it's lunch, I'm trying to diet (gotta fit into that Joystiq T I ordered this morning), and typing takes my mind off of food. At least it DID, until I started typing about food. Now all I can think about is that Chinese take-out restaurant beckoning me from across the street. Stupid take-out. D'oh!

Awww. Why not moving Gif Format. There goes all my good ideas.

what is ET in GMT?

It's GMT-4 in the Daylight Savings Time (summer).

Mike: animated GIFs are cool... knock yourself (and us) out.

Damn ... I shoulda did a gif !

My entry:
http://home.comcast.net/~glitchcog/Joystiq_Odama_contest_gc.jpg

GlitchCog: kudos to you. That was excellent.

I really am wondering what Joystiq is talking about here. How is this possibly a screenshot from Odama? Why is "screenshot" italicized? Is this a big ol *wink wink* from the Joystiq folks?

That was prety cool GlitchCog, I like the shadowing.

Here's my entry:
http://s91776754.onlinehome.us/new/temp/link.jpg

I sent my entry in. ^_^

heres my crude entry

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6904/cruisejoystiq7qb.jpg

I sent my piece of shi...I mean, submission in.

~HotShotX

"I really am wondering what Joystiq is talking about here. How is this possibly a screenshot from Odama? Why is "screenshot" italicized? Is this a big ol *wink wink* from the Joystiq folks?"

Yeah. This is totally lost on me as well.

NO IT IS DEFINITELY A REAL SCREENSHOT AND NOT AN IMAGE FROM A REALLY POPULAR MOVIE STARRING TOM CRUISE THIS IS FROM ODAMA RUN ON SENTENCES ARE TEH BEST GAMECUBE IS NUMBER ONE ROFLCOPTER!

Ahem... sorry about that. This is quite obviously not a *screenshot* from Odama. The italics was indeed a wink to all you guys... so if that was a wink, consider this a clubbing.

I'm assuming we can send in more than one entry?

Can't you guys do more non-Photoshop contest? Some of us don't have "mad Photoshop skillz."

Chris, i read post number 14 and almost had a brain aneurysm until i realized it was you. Oh and my eyes can't process italics until about 1pm in the afternoon, hence my earlier post.

My entry...

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5825/2785/1600/tomkatie.jpg

Damnit RS

If I had seen your entry before I submitted mine I wouldn't have bothered.
No way I'm gona win now. I smiled at my own but laughed out loud at yours!

Kyefeelinginadequate*sniff*
:(

Here's my entry, entitled
"OMG THERE'S LIKE THIS HUGE CHINESE FOOTBALL BALL GOING RIGHT ONTO US"

http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=footballsamurai3we.jpg

So Odama is the prize? how about a DS Lite??? or a Revolution controller?

always an optimist...

So far, inlogic wins.

Sended my pic 5 mins ago... but now that I see those pics of you guys, I feel full of shame and begin to hate myself for working 5 hours on my crappy (but bloody!!!) pic.
Oh if I had just played Tetris... :-(

[while looking at SuperUser]
*coughcopycatcough*

lol

Great job guy!

I'll show you mine later!

Good luck to everyone!

@ 25
Hey man, what?
I started right after I saw that there's a contest. I think there wasn't even any posts at this time... :-p

@ 25
To make you feel better:
I really like the pic with the football - it's really cool!
Would like to know how the goal was composed in to the pic.

here we go!

http://img200.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fatality7mg.gif

nice one RS.

I looked at RS's entry and I love it!

Here Is My entry Be Nice!
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=joystiqodamacontestlg8oh.jpg

This is mine:

[URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2346/joystiqodamacontestlgtl5nf.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Yeah, I know that I'm not the first who used a Zelda/Link-Image.
Hope you people can enjoy the picture anyway.

-Tom