Jo Luijten

Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten (Roermond, April 24, 1978) is a Dutch comedy video artist & video game developer who works with Kinna McInroe as narrator under the pseudonym of Squirrel-Monkey.

Jo Luijten
Luijten performing at the Ha Ha Cafe Comedy Club in North Hollywood
Born
Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten

April 24, 1978
Roermond, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUtrecht University
OccupationVideo artist
Years active2012-present
Websitewww.joluijten.com

Videos

Most of the Squirrel-Monkey videos show what social networking sites and video games might have looked like if created on the computers of the 1980s or 1990s. Since their introduction in March 2012,[1] the videos have received positive press from a number of news and technology websites, including Mashable,[2] Wired,[3] The Huffington Post,[4] CNET[5] and Gizmodo.[6]

The Nighthawk Cinema in New York City in collaboration with Daily Motion selected his Squirrel-Monkey video If Angry Birds were invented in the ’80s for the Cinema Selects cinema screening.[7] The Hungarian online magazine Urbnplyr considered the video If Instagram were invented in the '80s... as one of the best videos of 2014.[8]

Luijten also works outside of the Squirrel-Monkey productions. In 2013, as part of the YouTube Comedy Week, Warwick Davis presented Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments, which included a video made by Luijten.[9]

Games

In 2016 Luijten developed two election-inspired online games, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as their main characters.[10] The object of the game is to win the United States presidential election.[11][12]

References
  1. Squirrel-Monkey (2012-03-18). If Facebook were invented in the '90s... (YouTube). Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  2. Wasserman, Todd (April 3, 2012). "What If 'The Facebook' Was Invented in the '90s?". Mashable. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  3. Watercutter, Angela (February 4, 2014). "If Instagram Was Around in the '80s, This Would Be Its Launch Video". Wired. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  4. Brooks, Katherine (February 25, 2013). "The Joy Of ASCII: Bob Ross Video Just Might Be The Strangest Painting How-To We've Ever Seen (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  5. Moyer, Andres (April 5, 2012). "Twitter, Facebook go retro like Google Maps". CNET. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  6. Liszewski, Andrew (February 4, 2014). "Instagram Would Have Been Even Awesomer In the 80s". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  7. , Nitehawk Hatched, April 30, 2012.
  8. , LISTAPORNÓ 2014: az év legjobb videói , December 25, 2014.
  9. Davis, Warwick (May 24, 2013). "Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments". The Multiverse. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  10. Fashingbauer Cooper, Fashingbauer Cooper (June 8, 2016). "Trump and Clinton star in retro video games you can really play". CNET. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  11. Blevins, Blevins (June 3, 2016). "Presidential Blitz turns the blighted 2016 election into a fun, retro game". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  12. Sabris, Sabris (June 7, 2016). "Presidential Blitz turns 2016 election into retro game". CNET. Retrieved April 16, 2017.


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