My 25th T-shirt of the year has been donated from a little closer to home. Matt from Insert Coin Clothing based in Essex has sent me this fantastic example from their range of videogame inspired apparel.
My Russian isn’t what it used to be, but I think the wording in the logo printed on today's T-shirt loosely translates as "Zakhaev International Airport". This airport is located in two key places in the world: once in the actual setting of the Moscow Oblast (though under its real name) and once in the digital setting of shoot'em'up favourite Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It transpires that the latter hosts the opening ceremony to World War III and not, as you may imagine, because someone failed to stow their 150ml bottle of hair-removal cream in their hold luggage. No, World War III actually kicks off when some terrorists rock up to the car park and are outraged at the price of parking. It's already taken them 20 minutes to get into the damn place because tailbacks were huge due the poor weather and Vladimir has been complaining the whole way because he left his lucky balaclava at home.
Needless to say a lot of death ensues and many flights are delayed.
The Insert Coin Clothing website has plenty of other gaming gems immortalised on T-shirts from a wide variety of games and consoles.
See more from Insert Coin Clothing via their Twitter account.
On the subject of gaming design, take a look at a strip from my guest comic slot on The Escapist from a few years back.
