Now here's a shoe-in for the list of the year's best gaming-related clothing: Adidas has brought back its ZX 500 running shoe, and, since it originally hails from the '80s, the gaming inspired design and coloring is a no-brainer ... right? The kicks may not be the coolest part of the deal, either; they come packaged with a combination bracelet/USB flashdrive containing ZX Runner, a PC game based on ... the shoe itself.
GameCulture writes that the game stars a character named "DJ Zed" who, according to Adidas, has five minutes to "run, moon-walk, climb walls, avoid some dodgy-looking thugs, collect power-ups, and pull off insane rooftop-to-rooftop stunts" in order to get on-stage before his set starts. It looks fittingly retro -- see for yourself in the video we've included after the breakdance.
yeah, i'm liking things like this, i think it's awesome that companies are packaging in digital content with your real life purchases. it's especially great when the kicks you're getting are awesome too.
First you got the Nike Classic BW's that have Nintendo DPAD logos and the Start button on them, now this. It's a RETROLUTION!!... eh... REVTROLUTION!... uh...
yeah, i'm liking this, i think it's awesome that companies are packaging in digital content with your real life purchases. it's even better when the kicks you're getting are awesome too.
If you took the two seconds to click the link in the post, you'd have been taken to the page for the ZX-500 on the Adidas website and been able to figure this out for yourself. Now you've wasted my time. In any event, they're $90. :P
I have to say I do like these. Takes me back to the days of either typing in several hundred lines of code out of a magazine to play some game or waiting around for 5-8 mins while it noisily loaded off a cassette tape. I had a ZX80, 81, Spectrum 48k, and the '+' model with hard keyboard.
$120 for these in the UK, I think I may have to get some.
