Atariboy

Yeah, I'm talking about the physical release that got announced. It was part of the final big reveal of Vita releases during E3 for Limited Run Games and had a July release window. https://limitedrungames.com/blogs/news/lrg-e3-2019 So it's coming, but apparently has slipped a bit.

A lot more options have suddenly become available on current gen platforms, including the Playstation 4. Sadly some old choices seem to have been withdrawn, but while I've seen some mistaken people online that are assuming the removal of the 360 versions from sale on the Xbox 360 marketplace means that Doom Classic Complete must also have been delisted, that isn't the case at all. It still remains available for $15 on the Playstation Store for the Playstation 3 and remains the option with the most classic Doom content on modern consoles. And while I suspect changes are incoming to restore Doom and Doom 2 to the Xbox 360 marketplace and re-enable the ability to download the 360 versions to the Xbox One, workarounds still exist to gain access to the 360 iterations on both native hardware and the XB1 thanks to the physical Doom 3 BFG Edition disc. So it's not as bad as it could be had it been a digital exclusive. That disc can even still be found for sale new at many stores thanks to a reprinting a while back with dual Xbox 360/Xbox One branding to highlight its inclusion in the XB1 backwards compatibility program. I think I bought mine for $12 about a year ago at Wal-Mart and still see it here and there when browsing the electronics section at different retailers.

It's being removed, so don't let it stop you. Even in its current state, it doesn't sound as awful as has been portrayed at the places I've looked at. If I read Flojo's post right, it's just a one time thing and then can be played offline. But people are up in arms since I think they're under the impression you have to call home every single time you want to play the game. Considering you're online anyways just to download it, the only annoyance here amounts to having to make an account with Bethesda (Or if a fluke happens and Bethesda has server issues preventing authentication for your newly purchased game, which obviously would be pretty annoying). The complaining did the trick though even if it was blown way out of proportion, since they're backtracking and removing the silly requirement completely.

They're even gone on the 360 marketplace itself, although I assume I can redownload Doom from my download history like usual. Rather silly although I'm sure sales of Doom and Doom 2 to 360 owners were getting to be pretty infrequent.

Doom Classic Complete happily remains for sale on the PS3. Lousy move, but since things like the 360 disc for Doom 3 BFG Edition still unlocks them on the XB1, hopefully it's just a momentarily issue that needs to be rectified. I'm not sure they're out to force people to double dip when there are still ways to access them (And while I'm skeptical, I've also read that the new native versions of Doom 3 BFG Edition apparently still contain Doom 1 and 2 even though they're making them available as standalone downloads on the same platforms, which is an unusually generous move if true). Assuming it is a glitch rather than deliberate, more disappointing is the apparent always online mandate I'm reading about that they've tied into these. Especially stupid for the Nintendo Switch versions for obvious reasons if you actually can't play them offline in portable mode. In other Doom news, it appears Doom 64 is resurfacing.

Bet mine couldn't power it. I tried that with the Playstation Classic and it didn't work. Almost returned it thinking I had a dud until I plugged in a SNES Classic power supply. I can power an AtGames Blast system through it, but apparently it doesn't supply enough juice for something with higher power demands.

The SNES redesign does S-Video I believe. Pretty sure it's just RGB that it lacks, so this should work on it. Pretty unnecessary though when you already own a Super NT, but I do pointless stuff all the time in this hobby just for the heck of it. So I'd be curious about your findings if you buy it and try it on it. Same with the GameCube where it should also work. Haven't seen anyone report their results there with this.

Too bad the SD slot is gone. Going to be tough for me to personally justify buying any more of these with such a major downgrade. I do like the case though, so perhaps.

Or the Battle for Naboo. I probably wouldn't bite, but I'd at least consider that one to own all four Star Wars games on the system.

This thread started two years ago? Feels more like last winter to me. Glad to see my Everdrive N8 can play this now. Has there been any work on the SimCity prototype? Was said back two years ago that someone was working on fixing it up to, such as utilizing some features in the code that weren't activated and addressing some issues.

Not sure what the dotted lines are about, but I can't seem to eliminate them. Bringing our thread into its new AtariAge incarnation, I downloaded ACA: Ghost Pilots today on the Playstation 4. I hadn't played this much before this, with a brief fling on the AtGames Legends Flashback a few months ago constituting most of my experience. But I must say this has everything I like in a vertical shooter. Interesting landscapes, a challenging level of difficulty that at the same time doesn't feel unfair (This may change since I think it has a reputation for being a hard game), a choice at the start for what type of secondary ground weapon you want to equip, and some interesting powerups. And like usual, I like the fictionalized WWII theme like Capcom was famous for with their 194X franchise. And I love that the player's plane is a seaplane fighter. It wasn't a common type of fighter plane, but an interesting one none the less. I think the Japanese with a floatplane conversion of their famous Zero fighter for forward bases without prepared landing strips was the only power during WWII to deploy them in quantity.

Part 2 of the archive.

Another very relevant thread for AtariAge. This one is about the favorite genre for many a classic gaming fan. The vertical and horizontal arcade shooter. Click below to reveal the pre-AtariAge archive of this thread, reposted from the PSPMinis.com community forum. Part 2 of the archive will follow in the next post.

Another thread relevant to AtariAge. This one covered the range of golden age arcade classics that Sony released via the Playstation Minis lineup for the Playstation Portable and Playstation 3 (Many are also PSVita/PSTV compatible, with Vanguard a notable exception). Feel free to discuss these still available digital downloads, the various SNK compilations and digital release programs such as the ongoing ACA Neo Geo line of downloads or the recent SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, the Neo Geo Mini plug and play, etc. Click below to reveal the pre-AtariAge archive of this thread, reposted from the PSPMinis.com community forum.

I can look into doing that since it sounds like a good idea. But keep in mind that clubs surely acts as an extension of the regular forum and thus will behave similarly. So after 25 posts, I have no doubt we'll roll over to a new page (just as our forum software over at our site would roll over to a new page after every 30 posts). So in a few more posts, the music thread's current activity will be taking place on page 2. So the archive of its earlier pre-AtariAge history will be on a page that will only be occasionally visited, rather than something that has to be annoyingly scrolled through just to reach the latest posts. I like your idea though. It's there if anyone is curious, but a newcomer isn't automatically bombarded with dozens of old posts the moment they open page 1.

I think Sly Spy also made it out on Data East Arcade Classics for the Wii. Haven't fired that up in a few years, but I'm pretty sure it's there. I'm not familiar with Osman. I'll have to go look it up on YouTube and get an idea of what it's like.

Noticed any deals for Paper Mario?

Freelance Member Man all those games you mentioned sound great, especially the SHMUPs!! I never went to arcades when I was young so I dunno the games you mentioned, or what games I'd want to play on a console/handheld. There is one I know that hasn't though, and I'd like to play it, because of the theme: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Is that a fighter or a beat 'em up game? Not much of a fighting game fan but I enjoy a good game in the other genre. KLOV classifies it as a fighting game but then mentions how it's similar to Final Fight which would be classified as a scrolling fighter (Beat 'em up for most people) under their terminology. It wouldn't quite make the cut for my list since I'm just a casual fan of the genre and not particularly passionate about it, but I'd still love to see Golden Axe: Revenge of Dead Adder make it home. It's at or close to the top of many people's list for this topic question and very well was the last great 2D arcade game from Sega which is reason enough. With a good number of games in this genre being brought home in arcade form for the first time just in this current generation of consoles, this is one of the last big ones that remains arcade exclusive. I'd like to play that and Aliens vs. Predators from Capcom on a console. With Capcom's recent release of their two mid 90's beat 'em ups with the Dungeons & Dragons licensing, maybe there's a chance. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Freelance Member AvP is a beat'em up. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I'm definitely in agreement on H2Overdrive. Nothing else really comes to mind for me, though. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member CarnEvil Day one buy. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I'd like to see the Star Wars arcade game. It made it to early game systems, but nowhere near as good as the arcade. Then again, maybe it was the arcade controls that made it so great? POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member That one has been rereleased actually. Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike for the GameCube includes Atari's three classic Star Wars arcade games from the early to mid 1980's including the vector original that you're talking about. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I was going to ask if he had meant the Atari or Sega SW arcade games, but I guess "early game systems" would not include things from the 90s. I guess I'd like a home version of DariusBurst Another Chronicle EX, except a) that game is itself an expansion of a PSP game already, so it doesn't entirely count, and b) how would you faithfully port a game that used twin side-by-side widescreen monitors? The experience wouldn't be the same, like the home ports of the original Darius (which was 3 side-by-side 4:3 monitors in the arcade). POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member The black bar haters would hate it, but so many people have large HDTV's these days that at least a faithful port of those would practical since even a heavily letterboxed picture would still probably rival the arcade setup in screen size on things like 60" HDTV's. I never knew that about Darius until your post. Have you ever played the arcade release? The mirror setup it used to align each of the screens sounds neat. That's one of the big issues with triple screen PC setups as far as I'm concerned and it sounds like this eliminates that and merged each screen together. The monitor casings really don't help the illusion you're after with 3 screen PC setups for gaming. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member No, never seen it first-hand, either. It's a large and heavy cabinet, though. That was clearly a game created for a big sensory impact. In terms of gameplay, though, the original Darius is pretty straightforward, if also difficult. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member CarnEvil! CarnEvil! CarnEvil! CarnEvil! CarnEvil! Best rail gun shooting game ever. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member "Berzerk is likely the most popular arcade release from the late 70's and early 80's to not have a modern home conversion." I forgot all about Gorf from Bally Midway. A game that is apparently un-releasable these days due to including a Space Invaders (Taito) level and a Galaxian level (Namco) with those licensing fees makes it financially prohibitive. So I guess make Berzerk the second most popular arcade game from the late 70's and early 80's to still be absent. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I think only the Galaxian stage is problematic, and probably only because of the name, it's not that close to Galaxian. They could probably hack the name out. I mean, if that Jeff Minter guy can make all sorts of Tempest clones not using the name Tempest... POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I imagine that you're right (Although an overly paranoid legal department might not agree with us). But whatever the reason, there's definitely something there though since it was a popular game and ran on hardware that they've emulated for at least one other game (Wizard of Wor). Hopefully someday it's brought home in arcade perfect form or at least ported by a sane hobbyist programmer on a classic system. It made it to the Atari Jaguar but few own that console, even fewer own the CD attachment that was required, and the programmer was in competition for the top spot on the AtariAge top 10 idiot list before finally being banned and copies of it are very rare and expensive. I suppose that Nintendo's big three probably should be counted among some big absences. Donkey Kong (Recreated in nearly perform form as part of Donkey Kong 64 three console generations ago), Donkey Kong Junior, and Mario Brothers should be counted for major arcade games from around 1978-1984 that are still absent in their original form. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member It would never happen, but I'd love to see Crazy Kong. I always liked it more than the original Donkey Kong. And while it's probably forgotten, Crazy Climber POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member Crazy Climber has had home releases. Mostly only in Japan, though. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I have it on Nichibutsu Arcade Classics. I never knew about the Oretachi Geasen Zoku Sono lineup. I'm assuming since I always was looking for compilations that these slipped by me since apparently each is a standalone release. Looks like several are worth checking out. Just when I thought I had the PS2 pretty well covered for classic gaming releases. I see at least four of interest there that I don't own elsewhere (And several others I wouldn't mind getting like Time Pilot for TATE mode if I ever set something up for such games). POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member Never heard of this series, but that is a really strange transliteration of the Japanese title. First of all, "Geasen" is not standard romaji for what it is, which is properly transliterated as "Geesen" or "Geisen" (sounds like "gay sen"). And, neither rendering is a useful translation for what the word actually is: it's a Japanese-style abbreviation of the English words "game center" (the Japanese term for what we call an arcade). Furthermore, where is that "Sono" at the end even coming from? It's not in the Japanese title of the series! Best guess, it's "sono" as in "sono [number]," meaning "volume [number]" . . . except the actual game releases in the series are not numbered anyway. Nowhere on the cases is there a volume number, much less a "sono." How did that word end up in what I assume is the accepted English translation of the series' name? POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member What would you translate it to in English? I keep a database of my games and I'd just as assume list the four I'm planning to pick up with full English translations. And I've meant to look it up before and I'm sure the answer would be easy to locate, but I've never been sure which order to put my Taito Memories games for the PS2. There were two pairs of releases and each title ends in Gekan or Joukan. I don't think it would make my most wanted list, but Sega Choplifter is another arcade game I'd love to see. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member It seems it's usually translated as "Our Game Center Family" (curiously leaving out the "Sono" that got stuck into the transliteration), and that's a decent translation. Technically, there is no possessive particle in the Japanese title, so "We the Game Center Family" would work. Also, "Zoku" doesn't literally mean "family" as in mother-father-kids, but more like "tribe" and "clan." So, if you feel like totally trashing the existing translation, "We the Arcade Clan." Oh, and very informal Japanese can leave out the "to be" verb, so you could assume it's being implied here and stick it into the translation if you want: "We're the Arcade Clan." "Joukan" and "Gekan" use the same "kan" ("volume"; "sono" is a volume counter), and the "jou" and "ge" parts are the words "up" and "down" in Chinese/Japanese. It's easy to see if you look at the kanji themselves: - jou = 上 (up; when not part of a compound, this is pronounced "ue" in Japanese) - ge = 下 (down; when not part of a compound, this is pronounced "shita" in Japanese) In 2-volume sets, "up" (Joukan) means the first volume, and "down" (Gekan) means the second one. Sort of like "former" and "latter." The online dictionary I usually use says "first volume" and "last volume" for these words, but I've personally never seen the terms used for anything other than 2-volume sets. When there are more volumes, different terminology is used, as far as I've seen (usually, "Vol. 1" is numbered like in English, and the last volume is what you might translate as "Final Volume"). "What I've seen" = anime on DVD/BD, FYI. In terms of ordering your PS2 games, the kanji pointing upwards comes before the one pointing downwards. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Huicho Member I agree with Freelance. Haven't heard of that title in quite some time. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Pretty much any beat'em up not yet ported... TMNT on the go... I can dream!!! POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Someone should copy the wonderful idea of Capcom, just done better: sell old arcade games in packs. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Capcom priced themselves out of success, I'm afraid. Still hoping they toss it out on a retail disc someday though, ideally with some other XBLA/PSN exclusives that didn't make it to retail. POSTED 5 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Here's one that I'd love to see be released at home (In arcade perfect form). Surprised it slipped by me the first time around. POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member WILLOW!!!! Made by Capcom!!!! 😕 POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member That was based on a film, wasn't it? Hopefully they get it out there again, someday. POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member What's the point? The movie was a farce, none of it mattered, everyone got killed off screen. Except Willow & the baby, but still, real downer. POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # AXM Member NOW I remember what game Willow was. I kinda liked it, but I didn't know it was inspired by a movie, and a depressing one, too. POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member This was a much better movie (and maybe game), Krull POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Gottlieb? I thought he made nothing but Pinball tables/games. POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Nope, they made coinop videogames too. Q*bert is their most famous one. http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuf_detail.php?manuf_id=1412&orig_game_id=9182&sort=4 POSTED 4 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Blasteroids, the mid to late 80's Atari Games sequel to Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe, is getting its first home release on the 360/XB1/PS3/PS4/Wii U along with 22 other classics. Sadly, it's unlocked within Lego Dimensions and to get the starter pack and the Midway Arcade figurine pack, it would be over over $100. Thanks for nothing, Warner Brothers. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member From what little I remember of it, you aren't missing much. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Silent hill the arcade... POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Supposedly you can play it on PC via emulation, but I wasn't able to, despite me following the instructions (multiple times). And considering (#F**)Konami, they'll never port it anywhere. Like someone said, the Wii would have been the perfect console. If you can wait, I'm sure they'll halve the price in a few months (sale or not). We got Skylanders Trap Team (Starter Pack, of course) for twenty bucks around the time Superchargers came out. We didn't see another sale anywhere near close to that one, so be wary and quick. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Scratch Donkey Kong off the list. https://mynintendonews.com/2018/06/14/us-arcade-archives-donkey-kong-available-now-on-nintendo-switch/ Not sure if I ever posted this here, but I did just that last Black Friday. I believe I bought the Wii U starter pack for $20 and the Midway Arcade level pack for $15. And with a $5 or so used disc on both the PS3 and the PS4, I can use the same accessories on those systems to get these games elsewhere, since the Lego Dimensions portal was the same across all three of these systems (Unlike the system specific portals for the 360 and XB1). POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # The Space Ferret Member It's stupid the arcade version isn't available for everyone on 3DS. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member It works on the Vita with retroarch. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Would still kill for carnevil... POSTED 1 YEAR AGO #

Since it's AtariAge, I thought I'd bring over this thread from our old forum home. I thought this would be an interesting topic. Here are several favorites of mine that I wish had made their way home on today's era of consoles that are capable of perfectly replicating most any arcade release from past years. What would you select to bring home? 19XX; The only arcade entry in Capcom's 194X series not to have a home conversion. Viper Phase 1; An arcade game from the Raiden developers with similar gameplay that's set in space. Turbo Outrun & Outrunners; Two excellent arcade entries from the classic Sega series that have never been done justice at home. Turbo Outrun reached the 3DS since this thread was first created at PSPMinis.com, but was a Japanese exclusive on the region locked 3DS. Hopefully it's a future Sega Ages project for the region free Nintendo Switch. Gorf; An arcade classic from Bally that combines elements from several classic base shooters. Saw an unlicensed port in nearly perfect form on the Atari Jaguar CD, but there are more original Gorf cabinets in the hands of collectors than there are copies of Gorf CD. Pepper II; One of the greatest games on the Colecovision. Would be great to someday see where it originated from on modern consoles in arcade perfect form. Berzerk & Frenzy; Two classics from the Golden Age by Stern. Next to Gorf, Berzerk is likely the most popular arcade release from the late 70's and early 80's to not have a modern home conversion in arcade perfect form. Screenshots don't do these two justice. They must be played and heard to be appreciated. Jr. Pac-Man; An unauthorized arcade game from Namco's American licensee Midway. Unlike Ms. Pac-Man which was in a similar position, Jr. Pac-Man seems to not be recognized as "canon" by Namco and has been ignored in the compilation era. Best known for its scrolling mazes and the highest difficulty of the series. Turbo; Perhaps the one major unlicensed Sega arcade game from the Golden Age that hasn't been seen from the Sega Saturn onwards as Sega slowly released their library from this time. Solar Fox; The Atari 2600 home conversion was my first videogame. Always wanted to have this one brought to a modern console even though the 2600 game actually is the better of the two in my eyes. Domino Man; Bally Midway and from the team that created Tapper & Timber. Screenshot doesn't do it justice. I suspect that this one never snuck into a compilation because domino is copyrighted. Hydra; Essentially a speedboat take on Roadblasters. Strikers 1945 Part III; The only one of the four games in this series with no home conversion and the most modern of the bunch. There's now hope for this one on the Nintendo Switch, with the first three games having all appeared there (Part III is actually the 4th game). Daytona USA 2 Sega Super GT/Scud Race H2Overdrive; A modern spiritual sequel to Hydro Thunder. Honorable mention to Nintendo's early 80's arcade catalog that remains absent to this day except in the form of NES ports and such (Happily, this has since changed with the Arcade Archives line on the Nintendo Switch, although Popeye remains and likely is to remain absent). And I thought about including Indy Heat from the Super Off-Road guys, but a modern analog stick is no replacement for the arcade's free spinning wheel. So it's probably for the best that licensing is keeping this one in the vault.

onmode-ky Member Let's see if this works: "Kiseki no Umi," arranged for and played on piano by me (WMA file). "Kiseki no Umi" ("Sea of Miracles") is the opening title theme from The Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, a 1998 swords & sorcery anime TV series. Composed by Yoko Kanno, originally sung by Maaya Sakamoto; recorded via plain old Sound Recorder on my PC. Hmm. The link works from one of my browsers, but not another one. Working or not working for other people? - 2016/03/17 GMT POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Nope, doesn't work. I don't think most browsers support wma. Maybe upload it to youtube? Make a video out of it using the movie thingie that comes with windows. But I'm impressed you can play the piano and arrange. If I could play keyboards, I'd start a Flock of Seagulls cover band called Flock of Penguins. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member Actually, I wasn't talking about browser compatibility with the file, but rather with my Web host denying access to the file because it's a direct link. Anyway, I put up an HTML file that links to it now, so my browser that was giving me the fake "file not found" error now opens the file. And my browser that had no problem with the file before, it had no internal WMA support and just asked me if I wanted to open Windows Media Player. I have no YouTube account, incidentally. And I'm a bit surprised you're impressed. Maybe wait until you can actually hear the recording. - 2016/03/17 GMT POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Ah. now it works. I had to download it, though. I have no idea what it's supposed to sound like, so I can't judge your playing ability. Seems competent enough. Not Liberace, but who is? And I'm not surprised you don't have a youtube account. Silly to even think of it. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member Here is a YouTube clip of Record of Lodoss War TV's opening title sequence (which is basically what my "Kiseki no Umi" rendition is supposed to sound like). I re-recorded "Kiseki no Umi," adding some more of the decorative phrases parallel to the main melody. In some cases, it was a bit hard for me to execute the fake third hand, so I had to make about 10 attempts at the recording before I got a relatively clean run. I also recorded a piano arrangement/performance by me of "Moon," from Turn A Gundam, also by Yoko Kanno. I kind of botched the last half of the arrangement, with tempo control problems and some unclean passages. And, the ending is just thrown together based on the ending of the live performance by Origa and the Tokyo Philharmonic--it doesn't really sound good as a piano solo. But, well, I have other things I need to do right now. Both the new "Kiseki no Umi" recording and the "Moon" recording are on that Sounds Page at my website now. Enjoy, or not. - 2016/03/18 GMT POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Ever heard of them, Jeremy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcvU24hXAv0 I'm a fan of The King Family thanks to The King Cousins (One of which was on the cast of My Three Sons). They were a large family that was musically inclined that had their own tv show and did a lot of holiday tv specials that were a staple during Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving for quite a few years after they left the air. Sadly they've kind of fallen into obscurity a bit in recent years. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I don't think so. I was more of a Soul Train/Solid Gold sort of person, and I'm guessing they never appeared on there. My grandmother did watch Lawrence Welk and I seem to remember a Cissy King from that, but I guess she's not related. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member MGS 4. Snake vs ocelot medley http://youtu.be/TmHExzM_e-M POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I don't remember a Cissy, so I don't think so. I'm surprised that PBS still shows The Lawrence Welk Show. That was a old person show even when it was new in the early 1950's at the start of its 30+ year run (Unlike The King Family Show in the mid to late 1960's that had a lot of teen viewers). The only Cissy on tv that I remember is the oldest sibling on Family Affair. I don't think I've ever met one in real-life. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I only remember that because there was a joke about her and her dance partner, which I probably can't repeat these days without getting arrested. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Stand By Me, Ben E. King. Why? Here's why. Pretty good, both of these. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Stand By Me is a classic and one of my favorites. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I love the Noemi remix. I miss German hard trance POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Triumph seems to have been Canada's answer to Styx, but they some pretty good songs I wasn't aware of Never Say Never Sigh, why can't women look like that anymore? Spellbound Really, really sounds like Styx's Snowblind POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member I guess that cover is Square's plea to buy the game, since their reputation has been on the decline over the last decade or so. I prefer the original a great deal more, but it's a pretty good cover. But they better hope people stand by them, because Lord knows how much cash they've shat out to get XV made. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member You rarely see physiological thriller-esque hip-hop videos. [link] POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Seems like something from a Tarentino-esque crime movie POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member More MGS 4.... http://youtu.be/H2tSs0Y4F2s POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member When you say nothing at all, Ronan Keating. Ew, Dailymotion. What I am, Edie Brickel. Yay, Youtube. Both of these are used by a TV channel of ours (to signify "Now a 'Love movie' starts", for example). I approve. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Back in the day, you couldn't watch MTV for more than an hour without seeing that Edie Brickel song. I am not a big fan of southern rock in general, but Train, Train is a lost classic. Also interesting because it was written by the lead guitarist's grandfather (who also plays harmonica on it) POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member It happens a lot here. If a song is popular, you will find it on the radio every hour or so, on any radio station. It happened with Uptown Funk, Gangam Style, Summer Paradise, I Love It and so many South American songs like Danza Kuduro, Ai Se Eu Te Pego, Bailando (though he's Spanish, shh)... Yeah, it gets kinda annoying. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Here's an interesting 80s track - Question of Time by Bushido. Despite the name of the group, it's not particularly Japanese, more sort of dark synth pop POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Big in Japan, Alphaville. Der Kommissar, Falco. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I think Forever Young is Alphaville's best song. Although Sounds like a Melody is pretty good, too. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And speaking of Alphaville, this Italian eurodance group sampled it to be pretty good effect in U Got 2 Let the Music POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Forever Young sounds more like the title of a Neil Diamond song. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Was he ever young? He seems to be one of that eternally 50-ish people. Like say, Bob Newhart POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member Or Ric Flair. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP Isao Tomita, who was probably best known in the West for a song used as the theme to Star Hustler (a PBS show about astronomy) POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member To my surprise, I knew exactly what piece of music you were talking about, even though I'd forgotten the name of that show. Had never known who wrote that arrangement, though. -2016/05/10 GMT POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Jack Horkheimer was one of my heroes growing up. Wore a jacket just like his (Strangely, so was Ric Flair, though O is right, even when he was the "Nature Boy", he looked middle aged) POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member That's pretty much the same thing your avatar is wearing. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Every once in a while I pop Lumines: Electronic Symphony into my Vita. I absolutely suck at the game, but one of my favorite tracks from the game is The Future of the Future by Deep Dish. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member About the only reason I ever played Lumines is the music> I don't think the game itself is very fun. At least it feels more like work than fun. Deep Dish were huge about 20 years ago, when deep house/progressive house was the in thing. You might like their Global Underground mix cd POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Before Miami Vice, there was Schon & Hammer POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And before there was Van Hagar, there was Schon Hagar. Pretty good if you like classic rock (which I do) Neal Schon must have been the busiest musician in the '80s, between playing with Journey and all the side projects. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Don't You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds. How do I come up with these? By singing them randomly whenever I feel like it. It's become a meme at home. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member That one part of the song: "Would you recognise me? Call my name or walk on by" Always gets me. Here's a really good retrowave song by a band that apparently is popular (thanks to appearing on a movie soundtrack. Electric Youth POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member The Futurama episode which closes with "Don't You Forget About Me" is my favorite of that show. The song is from a memory of when Fry last interacted with his brother, and they were going to use The Breakfast Club's soundtrack for, uh, something. A surprisingly warm and touching episode at the end. I'd never have thought Futurama could make tears well up, but it did. - 2016/05/23 GMT POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member This singer (the man) looks like a European version of Prince. Sorta. Sigh, I miss campiness. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member DeepDiscount.com recommended something called "Babymetal" to me. I'd never heard of it, and it seemed odd that I'd get a recommendation for what sounded like it must be related to heavy metal music (when all their other recommendations were anime movies and shows), so I looked it up. This is Babymetal, care of Stephen Colbert. - 2016/05/29 GMT POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Yeah, I am aware of it. It just proves Alice Cooper right. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member 80's Action Movie Rock Never Retreat, Never Surrender - Directed by Corey Yuen, who has had a very interesting movie career (though he hasn't done anything lately) Bloodsport Friday the 13th Part iV Iron Eagle POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, Nik Kershaw Thank you, TrackID. Curse you, personal inability to understand lyrics. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Let's Groove, Earth, Wind & Fire Also known as the "It's alright, alright, aalllright" song. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member One of my disappointments about the future is that people don't dress like that every day. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Cultes des Goules POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KcK0J9qsY0 Country back when it was great. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Yeah, that era gave us Convoy POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member ^ I actually had that on 8-Track. Along with The Gambler. That was my only foray into country music On a completely different note, I was shocked to discover there was an alternate video for Thunderdome. Considering it's sorta X_rated, not surprising why I hadn't seen it on TV. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member http://www.dailynews.com/obituaries/20160229/charlie-tuna-longtime-la-disc-jockey-dies-at-age-71 POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member He was great in those Starkiss commercials POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member The only positive thing I took from The Phantom Pain, is this Midge Ure cover of The Man Who Sold the World I can't stop listening to. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Oooh, that is really good. I've heard (and liked) a number of Ultravox songs (the band he was in), but not his solo stuff. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Movies, Alien Ant Farm. I'm posting this for one simple reason: the video. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Labour of Love, Hue and Cry. Can't find the music video on YT, though I just saw the one on TV. POSTED 3 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I have had Love Will Keep Us Together stuck in my head since hearing it at a grocery store last week. And then last night, I dreamt that I went to a Captain and Tenile concert. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member While I don't listen to it all that often, I think This Mortal Coil's version of Song to the Siren is perhaps the best song ever. I remember hearing it on the radio back in the '80s and just being overwhelmed. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Nier nier nier nier nier NIER!!!!!! Song of ancients: fate Emil: Karma Suck it in and hit Niervana... POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Here's a really nice synthwave song Free download of it if you go to his soundcloud page. M4A though, which I had no idea even existed. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I think I may have posted it, but still, Why Can't They Leave Things Alone by Blancmange (which seems to be the English name for Jello) POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member At the end of August, the soundtrack for Thunderbolt Fantasy was released, both for download and on CD. My favorite track is "蔑、guy," the villain's theme (the title of the track is a word play on his name in Japanese, "Betsu Ten Gai"). The best part of it is right here, where the strings, winds, French horns, and chorus combine with war drums to declare, "Abandon all hope, and despair, for I am here to crush all you hold dear!" Be sure you have your volume and bass turned up if you listen to it! And try not to despair too much. The show's main intra-episode theme (i.e., not the opening title) is given a clearer vocal rendition in "Darkest," and surprisingly, it's in English (these are the lyrics). I couldn't tell from the standard version of the theme, except maybe for the "shadow of eagles across the moon" bit--but I couldn't be sure I wasn't just imagining hearing English. - 2016/09/15 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I dunno. Was anyone ever really intimidated by a french horn? Hell, even a flute, you could poke someone's eye out with. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member Heh, beginner French horn players are probably often intimidated by it. It's supposedly one of the more difficult instruments to learn. And foxes likely used to be afraid of it. If I remember right, it was invented as a horn used for hunting parties. But, the people most afraid of a French horn are those who live in the same household as a really bad French horn player. - 2016/09/16 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member It's been a long time since my band days (though not long enough), but don't French horn players stick their hand in the bell when playing? Seems like that would be difficult to do while riding a horse chasing a fox. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Up around the bend https://youtu.be/BnRsaHXHznQ POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Susie Q POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Anyway, since I am on a Star Trek kick at the moment, this is my favorite song that references Star Trek POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Last Surprise, Persona 5's battle theme. It's... Eh. I'm not saying it's terrible, I'm saying that Shoji Meguro has done much better. Just looks at every other Persona game, or Nocturne, or Digital Devil Saga, or Devil Summoner. It'll most certainly grow on me, like P4G's Time to Make History did, but still, I'm relatively disappointed. Still better than most RPGs out there, mind you. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Persona 4: the almighty https://youtu.be/jk1BOpAH4Vg Screw it for repeat or not. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Gilbert O'Sullivan Alone again https://youtu.be/D_P-v1BVQn8 POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I don't know anything about The Refreshments other than King of the Hill, but their name reminded me of The Rembrandts and the fact that every time I try to remember who made the theme to Friends, I come up with "Rugrats" before "Rembrandts." Here's something weird related to music. At this part of Episode 17 of Ghost Sweeper Mikami, for some reason, an obvious homage to/parody of Andrew Courage's Star Trek theme plays as the background music. Maybe it's supposed to refer to the "otherworldly" nature of the idea that a girl could possibly be interested in Yokoshima. At any rate, that piece of music does not appear in either of the two Mikami soundtrack albums I found on YouTube. Perhaps this is its sole use in the series. Anyone trying to play a French horn while riding a horse would probably not only break their front teeth but also get laughed at by the fox. - 2016/09/21 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I feel sorry for The Rembrandts (kind of), they actually had a fairly big hit before they did that theme, yet they probably will only be remembered for that theme. That was Paul Williams lament, that he would probably only be remembered for the Love Boat theme. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Only the Lonely, with apologies to Roy Orbison, I think the Motels version is better. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member This is pretty neat, a video for one of my favorite songs, For You by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Had all their stuff on cassette, but it was a pain finding their stuff on cd, pre-internet POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Keep on Chooglin' CCR was such a strange band. While clearly it was mostly John Fogarty, he never really did anything post CCR The other 3 guys might not have contributed much, but they were just magic together. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Centerfield was a pretty big hit for him, post CCR. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member One gimmicky song about baseball that only gets played on sports channels and ballparks. I mean, it's something, I guess, but not like CCR that had not one, but two greatest hits albums, of 20 songs each.. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I don't really disagree, but I do like Centerfield and it seemed to get a lot of air time when I was younger and still pops up from time to time on local radio stations when they're doing 80's music. So I imagine it qualifies as a hit after his glory days as the lead singer for CCR ended. Better than what usually happens when someone thinks they're being held back by the very thing that made them popular in the first place. You usually never hear from them again when they strike off on their own, like when the actor that played Colonel Blake decided to leave M*A*S*H, thinking that he had star potential. Except for the occasional episode of Match Game, he basically disappeared... POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Eh, maybe it's a regional thing, but I don't recall ever hearing it on the radio. Then again, I also watched Hello Larry, though not because of him. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Sam Spence - The lineman https://youtu.be/uLXyCF32CP0 POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Any idea of who the King Family are, Jeremy? Finally opened up my two DVD collections of some of their tv specials and have been enjoying them. Their holiday specials were still getting reran when I was little. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member You've mentioned them before, though I have no first hand recollection of them. I was more of a Solid Gold/Soul Train/Dance Fever sort of kid. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member After I posted that, I started thinking that I had asked that before. Anyone ever watch The Kidsongs television show back in the 80's? I remember enjoying it, but don't remember many details about it anymore. Mostly just remember the intro now with an abandoned tv station and transmitter, with the kids somehow taking over the place and reactivating it. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I remember the commercials for it, but when that came out, I was much too old for it (almost driving in fact) POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I figured you were a bit out of the age group. Being born in 1982, I was probably exactly the age they were aiming it at back around 1987. You're too old to probably have watched this, but I remember something else that I'd love to know what show it was. I think it was a guy playing kids music on a guitar and I think it was a show aired on Canadian television like Mr. Dressup. The introduction has him going through a forest and going through something like a big tree log where there's a clearing. And i think he did at least one tv special along with his tv series, since I remember being excited to see it. I wonder what it was. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member You might try https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I actually found it about 5 minutes afterwards, thanks to remembering how much of what I remember from tv back then was Canadian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eChI9zzt6Q4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Penner%27s_Place POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Yup, that's Canadian. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member It is, eh? - 2016/10/09 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Did you (AB, that is) ever listen to Dr. Demento? Not quite the same thing, but sort of aimed at kids One of the best songs on that was Existential Blues by Tom T-Bone Stankus. Almost more of a comedy routine than a song, but still POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Speaking of Dr. Demento and Canada, here's a Canadian song he used to play a lot, Take Off by Doug & Bob McKenzie with Geddy Lee POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And another Dr Demento favorite, Frozen Embryos It's amazing I can remember these. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member The Martian Boogie This was actually a hit in the '70s. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Bitchin' Camaro Now that's a classic, Dr. Demento or not POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Let's Blow up the Tow Truck And this has to be Troy McClure's favorite song POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Dr. Beat, by Gloria Estefan. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member They almost sound like Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3o3ir2_-4 Always loved that episode of The Flintstones. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I always liked that Jetsons song Which has also been covered a few times, most notably by the Violent Femmes (who I've never particularly liked) POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Ah crap, rip Pete Burns POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP Leonard Cohen, though I confess, while I've heard of him, I've never actually heard anything by him. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member Came to post some new Childish Gambino, and now I'm depressed. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Well, we still have Little Richard POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And just out of curiosity, do you like Sha Na Na, Atariboy? I'm watching Woodstock on TCM and they just performed... POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I'm a fan. My father actually met them at a pizza place years ago that they dropped into for dinner. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I unironically like Unknown From M.E. Screw the memes. Those cheesy rap and disco singers are amazing. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Sonic R is the best. It actually had real acid house as opposed to just video game music. Not that there is anything wrong with video game music, but rarely do you see any attempts to transcend the genre. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member That saddens me. No matter how good what you're listening to is, if it's video game music, you're a weirdo. Considering most people got exposed to nothing but yesteryear's beeps and boops and/or these days' orchestral noise - which is what most Western soundtracks amount to, sadly - they're right, in their own way. I don't care, anyway. Listening to Zuntata, or Ishiwatari or Meguro, or Okabe, or whoever scored SMTIV, relaxes me. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Have I ever mentioned that I love Connie Francis? POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I think you have . . . but the name is only ringing half a bell. My bells are probably just broken. - 2016/12/08 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member That I mentioned her name is only ringing half a bell, or her name in general? If she's still not at the top, I bet she remains in the top 3 list for female singers when it comes to number of hits, record sales, etc. One of the giants of this industry (And also one of the cutest). POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I always get her confused with Connie Stevens. What about June Christy? My father, who has similar tastes in music as you do, loves her. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Ah crap, Greg Lake died. Most notably of Emerson (also RIP this year), Lake and Palmer, but also part of King Crimson for their first (and IMHO best) album POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I don't recognize that name, but I'll check her out. I'm a Connie Stevens fan though. I fire up this video regularly and watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9QZBGyXjU&t=143s This silly song isn't much of one I suppose, but I love watching Connie Stevens fighting to not burst out in laughter throughout it as they both lip sync to their recording of it. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I meant that I couldn't be sure whether you had mentioned her before because I couldn't fully recognize whether I'd seen her name before. For example, maybe it was Connie Stevens whom I vaguely remember you mentioning. - 2016/12/09 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I like this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZS0IfGLji8 I'll have to see all the movies someday. Just have watched the 2nd one, which I liked quite a bit. I believe this song was featured in it. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP Alan Thicke, quite possibly the only singer more 80s campier than David Hasselhoff POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Argh. I've had the theme song to the Burt Reynolds Swamploitation movie Gator stuck in my head. It's like a country version of the Shaft theme song POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I think I have a worse problem than you: the music from Capcom's Commando is stuck in my head. 😧 - 2016/12/17 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I dunno. The lyrics for Gator don't even make sense. How can you pull back a hammer on a pump shotgun? You'd think a country singer would know that. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I'm now going to post Nier music because I want to. The Wretched Automatons Temple of the Drifting Sand The Dark Colossus Destroys All Shadowlord Song of the Ancients - Fate Kainé - Salvation If you don't want to listen to all of them... Listen to all of them. If you really don't want to listen to all of them... Listen to the first two and the last one. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Is that videogame music? POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I always liked music from Nair (won't let me post a link) Alas, I don't think anyone wears short shorts anymore POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Yes it is. Freaking amazing videogame music, might I add. Never heard of "Nair". Google tells me it's a hair removal brand, an ethnic group from the Indian state of Kerala, and a singer called Silvia Viscardini. Wonder what you meant by "Nair". POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member They used a really catchy song in their ads. The ads got parodied on The Simpsons, but probably haven't aired since the 1980s POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member This has to be the best forgotten Christmas carol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goPi1z4HzkM Next to Silver Bells and White Christmas, I think this is now my favorite non-religious Christmas song. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member How did you manage to get a full-formed YouTube link to post? That's been impossible for me for the past few days. JeremyR's talking about the hair removal Nair, whose commercials boasted, "We wear short shorts [because we used Nair to deforest netherland]!" - 2016/12/20 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member So you weren't talking about the singer. Oh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ I can do it, too. And it's not thanks to the "s" in https, unlike I thought. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I tell the forum every day that I like it, so it does me special favors like allowing me to post YouTube links without any hassles. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I'm going to post Locoroco music because I want to. Does anyone remember Locoroco? Ah, good old times. Eerily similar to Nier, thinking about it. Both soundtracks consist of weird music with made-up lyrics. Get ready for stupid titles such as... Dahdi Dado Da** Bu Bu Poruche** Uwauwau Aio Aio Panguraratta Moinoi Moinoi* Pupapu Poapoa** Merure Merure MuiMui* [The Menu Theme]** How many asterisks are next to each song equal to how much you need to listen to it. But, as always, you should listen to all of them. They'll make you very happy. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Always liked her. https://youtu.be/o9tEeKE-quQ?t=2m27s Edit: Still letting me post YouTube links. Only percentage signs seem to cause me issues. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I'm now going to post Shin Megami Tensei IV music because it's one of the best soundtracks of all time. If you're into 70's/80's synth, this is heaven. Well, besides the first five hours of the game. Anyway, there's so many gems in the OST, sorry if this post is overly long. Oh, and the songs' names are as straightforward as they get, so I'll "hide" them when they're spoiler-y. Imagine if Symphony of the Night had a track called "Inverted Castle". Main theme End Credits Tokyo Roppongi Area Aboveground Urban Area A Aboveground Urban Area C [Late-game dungeon] The Hunter Association Shinjuku Underground District Ikebukuro Underground District Shibuya Underground District [Late-game location] (warning: wub-wubs) Challenge Quest α Challenge Quest β Every battle theme The themes in italic have excessive amounts of synth in them. Yeah, so many of them. Give those a listen, even if you couldn't care less about videogame music. You do like synth, no? POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member As a classical pianist, it's difficult for me to say I like synths. I guess it depends on the synth. I haven't listened to any of those links yet. Maybe when I find time to read your FFXV logs. The link you posted was not of the "full-formed YouTube link" form that I was talking about, though. You used the youtu.be shorthand, which works for me, too. - 2016/12/24 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Atariboy and I did post a "full-formed Youtube link" four days ago. I really appreciate the effort, but you don't have to, you know. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Last Christmas, Wham! ...I guess. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member How the heck does that have 215 million views? Not that it's bad song (it's a good song actually), but damn, that's a lot for something that old. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member The best I've done is 1.13 million views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7pmwqDLxU0 POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I say without any sarcasm, that this is Canada's greatest contribution to Christmas POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Careless Whisper RIP George Michael. How many singers did we lose this year, again? POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I'd of loved to have been in this audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRwFoRiYG6A POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Little Lies, by Fleetwood Mac The official theme for the gaming industry in 2016. lol POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member A little late, but it wouldn't let me post earlier. Holly Jolly Christmas by the Jingle Cats POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And since it's working, here's an audience I would loved to have been in, Billy Squier circa 1981 Kinda forgotten now except for his somewhat gimmick song The Stroke, but huge back then. And strangely, his drummer, Bobby Chouinard, is one of the most sampled guys in hip-hop music. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Gilbert O'Sullivan Alone again, naturally https://youtu.be/w-Mjx4WY2xM POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member You know, I always thought that was a comedy song, based on the singer's gimmicky name POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Chains of Love, by Erasure Thank God for Jim. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Synthpop is the best pop. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And from his previous band (well, one of them) is a song that never really registered on me in the 80s, but I like a lot now - ]Yazoo - Situation (which it won't let me post a link to) I always want to think the chorus is "Moo cow" POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Will it work now? Moo cow POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Well, it's a bit late, but some of my neighbors still have their lights up. Here's an Italian synth Christmas song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeVPwpZ7Lyg POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I fire this one up every few years hoping I'll change my mind and like it, but it hasn't happened yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZrpEYhIf_k Not sure how one of my favorite singers could've butchered one of my favorite songs so badly. I wish she had sang it in her normal singing voice. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member For some reason, I had a stuffed animal pig named Petula as a kid. I'm not sure why, I didn't name it after your singer. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP John Wetton, most famously of ASIA but also King Crimson once Greg Lake (who died a few months ago) left. My favorite song of theirs was also their last, a new single from their Greatest Hits album that wasn't much of a hit, but got played a lot on Orlando's rock station WJRR back in the day Days Like These Which it won't let me link to. But it's a good song. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Hmmm, will it work now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSUrMLS6A4 Yes, it does. And here's a song that was seemingly made for OutRun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiSB2Fbw9gs The video has a bunch of old 80s car commercials and as a kid, I was absolutely in love with that model of the 280 ZX. Black Gold it was called. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member This is apparently the ending to one of the seasons of the JoJo anime, and something about a meme. All I know is that it's the bee's knees. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I have so much stuff to post here, yet I never find the time to do it. Or forget about it. Let's resume my posting with... Duran Duran! Of course. Everyone missed me linking to Duran Duran's songs. So, Paper Gods has been their latest album. I've been listening to it since... Let me check... February 14th, 2016. Took me quite a while. So, it's clearly not as good as Greatest Hits - but of course it isn't, it is called Greatest Hits - but it's ok, I guess. Paper Gods is really good. Are the lyrics pretentious? Maybe. But I like it. Then there's the cringy You kill me with silence, which is very cringy and not much else. IMO. Pressure off, I really really hate because a mobile operator used it for its commercials for half a year. Got really annoying. Danceophobia and Last night in the city are decent enough, too. They don't feel like Duran Duran songs at all, though. And that's sad. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I've always been a Duran Duran fan. While they never really regained their massive popularity of the '80s, they've managed to stay relevant POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Some yu yu hakusho: https://youtu.be/xOGhFHgwo3U POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Rurouni kenshin: hiten mitsurugi ryuu https://youtu.be/RwClEdyLoOw POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Going through stuff I used to listen to, for a brief time I was into nerdcore If I only had a brain Apparently it was a short lived fad, if I can believe Wikipedia, he now works at an IHOP POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Always liked this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xo_EKpyP0w They must be one-hit wonders, since I've never heard their name mentioned except in connection to this one. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Reminds me a bit of The Murmurs (about 30 years later) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I82AfD7QJ3U POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Here's a slightly depressing but I think appropriate song for Axel's 19th (I think) Birthday. 19 by Paul Hardcastle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LdMAqUMnM POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Can't listen to it right now, but I did look up the lyrics. It looks like anything but a song, haha. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member While I've been listening a lot to NewRetroWave (basically 80s sounding synth stuff0, apparently there is a rock band dedicated to making 80s style hard rock. I heard them in the trailer to the upcoming Friday the 13th Game (which I won't link 'because it's really violent) But it's not bad. I won't say it's good, 'because it's not. But it's not terrible. Crazy Lixx - XIII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw_9gOvZJg4 POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member The catchiest meme of all time. Warning: very strong language. Thank you oh so much. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Sunshine Reggae, by Laid Back. There's this 1983 Italian comedy, a movie we watched so many times I got sick of it - mostly thanks to my sister who, when she was a little child wanted to play it again and again and again despite it being almost exclusively about sex and sex jokes - that has a freaking amazing soundtrack. The best songs lf the early 80s, you can find them there. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member That sounds like the inspiration for the Don't Worry, Be Happy Song POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member I listened to the last A Tribe Called Quest album earlier today, and it has been on repeat all day. It's just so damn good. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP Chuck Berry. Besides inventing Rock Music, he also wrote a song with possibly the most double entendres ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMddte6yD2w POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Paris Latino, by Bandolero. A very weird song. Experimental, even. That movie, part two. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Sad to hear about Chuck Berry. Wondered if Sam Cooke was still alive after hearing about Chuck Berry's passing, and discovered he was shot to death in mysterious circumstances back in the mid 1960's. Never heard about that. Too bad, since I seem to love every song he ever recorded. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I really love Electric Youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3cfI9Kw04 POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member This is amazing, a cover of Space's Magic Fly by Cats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7UwSVsiwzI (Also funny because they look like my two cats) POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I've never seen the Flash Gordon movie, so I never recognized its incidental music's use in Vanguard. I also never realized that the opening title theme of The Big O was a direct homage to Queen's theme for that movie: https://youtu.be/XA7Xl5CtHRM And this YouTube video is the first time I'd ever heard the full version of the show's theme song. I have the soundtrack of the first season on CD, but that only contains the TV-size version of the theme song. Incidentally, this is the song that won't be on the upcoming US Blu-ray release. One other longtime favorite from The Big O's soundtrack is "Run Down," the brief but highly technical piano piece played by the android R. Dorothy to provoke Roger awake: https://youtu.be/eCpm2JL9OgI . Of course, something else that can wake someone up is the Big O's giant robot battles, accompanied by bombastic set piece music like "Stand a Chance" https://youtu.be/52BcC9Qzl-Q and "Sure Promise" https://youtu.be/7OlcJzin3LE Then there are the pieces that I've always thought sounded straight out of a 70s cop show, like "Freedom" https://youtu.be/A2wGumgVOG8 and "A Vision" https://youtu.be/hGkXtGXR43Y . Holy crap, Amazon.co.jp Marketplace sellers want 8700 yen and up for used copies of this CD. - 2017/04/07 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member It actually sounds like a mash-up of several Queen songs. Part of Bohemian Rhapsody and what sounds like Don't Stop Me Now But seriously, how could you not have seen Flash Gordon? I saw that like 6 times in the theater as a kid and had to import the DVD from Brazil, because at the time it wasn't released in the US And this is after importing the soundtrack cd from England, because for some reason Queen didn't have a US distributor for cds until the early 90s POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I don't think I ever even heard of Flash Gordon until at least ten years after the movie was released. - 2017/04/11 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member That's odd. While it was a flop at the box office because people couldn't understand its genius, it was pretty high profile. I think it was more popular overseas. The one actress is from Brazil and that Topol guy is a big European star (or was). And Brian Blessed is the most English actor ever to er, act. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP J.Geils. While mostly known for Centerfold, I think Love Stinks was his best song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyP-7ulafFQ POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I love this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqENDPYWYKo POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member She wrote some of the songs for the movie Fame (along with her brother who co-wrote all of them). POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Never cared for the radio version of this one, but this live performance is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCs7iZGvK4s She looks a little bit like Erin Walton. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member She has fascinating hair...it's curious that given the cyclical nature of fashion, that has never really come back. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member There's this Super Mario World hack called Call of Cthulhu. It's an insanely original and ingenious hack which everyone should play. Anyway, its soundtrack is mostly composed of other SNES and NES games' music (and Cave Story's), remixed with the SMW soundfont. There was this one track that really, really creeped me out, yet it fascinated me. Today I randomly found where it came from: an action RPG called Terranigma, and the theme is called "Underworld" (https://youtu.be/9NFmgQqLmSo). Do YOU like that one more, or the remixed version (https://youtu.be/3usw3wXhacs)? The latter's much creepier, IMO. Yes, I was forces to link them like that for the post to be sent. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I played Terranigma on an emulator years ago (since it was never released in NA). I am more used to the original. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member Makes sense. Even though I'm not really a fan of top-down real-time RPGs - which is why I've still yet to play Planescape: Tormentor Baldur's Gate or the Mana games - it seems to be really, really interesting. It looks amazing, even. On a completely unrelated note, A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do), by Ray Parker Jr. Kinda cheesy, but I'm still liking it a lot. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member That's not cheesy, that's smooth. You should grow a mustache like that. If you haven't got one already. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I think I'd look awful with one. Besides, it's not like they let me grow a beard longer than a week's worth of growth. I don't blame them: no one likes neckbeards. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Well, that's the thing with a mustache, you shave all of your face, including your neck, except your upper lip. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member They still count it as part of my beard, so I can't keep it. No goatee or sideburns, either. As I said, I still agree. I did try not shaving some parts of my face a few times, just out of curiosity, and I looked just as terrible as always. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Stellar Dreams - Infinity gQFIp1wXU0k (Won't let me link, but that's the address part after youtube) With New Retro Wave stuff I don't know if I should feel cool for listening to hip new music, or sad, because it's wallowing in nostalgia because it sounds like music from my youth, sorta, kinda, if you squint your ears POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Ever heard any of Patty Duke's songs, Jeremy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUd1DXaKji8 That one's probably my favorite. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Only in Valley of the Dolls. That's quite good. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member While Street Hawk might not have been able to turn into a motorcycle, he did have a pretty badass theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wu4agRHJUI POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member This is surprisingly slick, a New RetroWave song with an actual music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF8paxAqIRE POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member It sounds pretty rad, yeah. Who can it be now?, by Men at Work. I guess Is you is or is you ain't my baby (yeah, that's its name) also counts as a song. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Who Can it Be Now is one of my favorite songs. There's an even better remix with more saxophone which isn't on youtbue, sadly, or I'd link it.. This is the ultimate old cartoon song, for better or for worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRSfvpOz4A My mother hated it, would change the channel whenever it come on in the morning. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Even though I had much better things to do, I didn't feel like doing them and instead uploaded that version of Who Can It Be Now to Youtube https://youtu.be/JPvLIcelL5c Better is probably not the word. Longer, mostly. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Ah crap, Robert Miles died. Children was one of the biggest songs of the 1990s Fable was pretty big, too. One & One was another, though it features Maria Nayler whose voice I never really liked POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member ..... *sniffle https://youtu.be/KT4UobjmdhE POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And now it's Chris Cornell I wasn't a Sound Garden fan, but he was great with Temple of the Dog POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member I'm not familiar with Chris Cornell, but I know Robert Miles, for "Children." Musicians lately are dying, or killing themselves, awfully young. - 2017/05/19 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member I think Eddie Vedder is the only singer from that scene left alive. Well, King Buzzo, but that's not really grunge. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member It's funny, I don't think I had heard this song (Whisper to a Scream) in 30 years yet I immediately remembered the lyrics POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # onmode-ky Member Back in March, at the bottom of this post http://www.pspminis.com/forums/topic/for-people-that-need-to-be-off-topic/page/309#post-48576 , I mentioned how Psyvariar Reassemble, an iOS F2P online-only game that closed in January, was getting a soundtrack CD release in late April. We're beyond that date now, and I recently found that there are two samples of the soundtrack available at Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/success-corp-audio-unit/psyredemo - from Reassemble https://soundcloud.com/success-corp-audio-unit/psymu - from the Medium Unit version of the original game - 2017/05/23 GMT POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Always_Serpico Member A while ago Outkast's Big Boi released a song that sampled Hatsune Miku called Kill Jill. I kept forgetting to post about it. He released a video for it a few days ago. I don't much care for the song or the video. But I guess Hatsune Miku is about as global as you can get now. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member The Evil Within 2's CG trailer has a pretty decent cover of Duran Duran's "Ordinary World". Personally I dislike the second chorus - I hate how they changed some of the notes - but all in all, it's cool. Especially the verse in the middle. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member For some reason, that song reminded me more of Duran Duran's Save a Prayer than Ordinary World. And I have it stuck in my head. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I'll have to check this movie out. https://youtu.be/W5SEGxGt50I?t=8s Always liked them. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member That's really quite good. She's got a really amazing voice. Clearly she's carrying the other two. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # AXM Member I didn't think I'd post a random Italian song I heard on the radio a few weeks ago, but... (https://youtu.be/JkfJ7-GS9yk) Completamente, by TheGiornalisti. Mainstream synthwave in 2016? Woah. (https://youtu.be/SZmMD84XpCs) You're Not Here, sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. I like this song. But it has the same exact problems as almost every other song Akira Yamaoka has composed: not enough vocals. Halfway through it, she just... Stops singing, outside of some "ooooh" and "uh" and repeats of some short sentences from the chorus. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member This is an interesting song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqvV7L0RNmw It's a cover by Brian May (guitarist of Queen) and Eddie Van Halen of the theme to a Japanese TV show (X-Bomber) involving puppets that was dubbed and released in England under the name of Star Fleet POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Apparently there is not one, but two extra verses to Procul Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale. So like only half the song made it into the album versions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYBqv3NIqho I had thought the song was about the Canterbury Tales, but apparently it's about a ship? POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member That is my favorite ship song, this is my favorite train song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I could watch them sing all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-GF8WPTSXw&list=RDW5SEGxGt50I&index=2 Easily my favorite version of this song. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member Doh. Never mind POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member And this is my 2nd favorite song about a metaphorical fire (kinda NSFW) POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member Wish this one had video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42cbjuhspdY&list=RD42cbjuhspdY Priscilla Paris was a cutie. Too bad she's gone now. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Xillia 1 and 2 did this right.... So why not zestiria?! https://youtu.be/XUPCfgjFCG8 POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member She was gorgeous. Her sisters, though, woof woof. They couldn't sing either. It's funny how some families one person gets all the talent, while in others, it's more evenly distributed. Say what you want about the other Jacksons, but at least Tito could sing. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member The tall one, especially. Her name was Sherrill and she also seems to have been on the mean side, judging by this interview from the early 1990's. http://www.spectropop.com/ParisSisters/index.htm Priscilla was worried about giving her baby a good life, and this sister was just worried about how it would affect her and the group, and seemed to still be giving her a hard time about it all a quarter century after the fact. The short one, Albeth, is kind of cute in a more modest way, I think. She also seems to have been perhaps the most level headed one of the bunch, not getting into all the sibling arguments or holding it all against her mother that all this was sort of forced upon them. They don't seem to have had real childhoods or much of a say in it all, because their mother wanted to continue her show business career through her children. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member My father didn't have any life insurance (or money, for that matter), so I set up a GoFundMe account for his burial expenses. But damn, I feel terrible, begging my father's friends passive aggressively. And I will feel worse if no one donates. I mean, worse case scenario, he sits on a shelf (he's being cremated), but you have all these people saying how much he meant to him, only to have that disappear when he actually needs financial help. POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # JeremyR Member D'oh, that should have gone in Off Topic POSTED 2 YEARS AGO # Atariboy Member I ever posted this Phil Spector classic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92oVEsfihd0&index=19&list=RD42cbjuhspdY Too bad he was nuts, since he sure knew how to produce music. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member Yeah. He really changed the whole sound of music for the better. But honestly, you never, ever, want to read a biography of a band. They've all done awful things. Something about having lots of money and people willing to do anything you want (not out of money but adoration) can really bring out the worst in people. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member Time for some Connie Francis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcKN0t12q0c The only one of her hits that she wrote herself. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Sing.... https://youtu.be/-6QBMEYbGhc https://youtu.be/aDB9KwMize0 POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member Good version of It's My Party, sadder sounding than the famous Lesley Gore version that I love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVzNRAjyRvI And I went to a Beach Boys concert last night at the New York State Fair. They should warn you that you'll feel a lot of pressure on your chest when riding the Gravitron. I was worried my time was running short until I found out afterwards that it wasn't just me. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member This is like the first rock song I've liked in 20 years Pretty clearly they are trying to sound like early Zeppelin and they sorta succeed. The singer is dead on, the guitar and drummer and okay, nothing notable bass wise. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member I really disliked most of Tom Petty's stuff, but You Got Lucky is the one exception. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I only liked the stuff that included Roy Orbison when he was part of The Traveling Wilburys. I don't think I've gotten any Dusty Springfield into this thread before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLrSVD6380 Never heard her version of this classic until now. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member Yeah, they were good because there were 2 members in it that could actually sing. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # AXM Member TrackID, the app I use to find out about song names, finally closed. When I opened it, it suggested me to download Spotify. It's basically TrackID, but much better. Feels, by Calvin Harris ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, Big Sean Took me a few months to finally be able to use the app above. I love how "bouncy" it is. I like bouncy music. Morenito, by Stéphane Pompougnac ft. Clémentine I was listening to this while chilling in Gran Turismo Sport's beta/demo's main menu (more about the game later). Fell in love with it instantly. Even though I still don't understand anything they're saying. There's also another GTS song I want to post here, but first I'll have to actually come across it again. They're random, after all. And get rid of my TrackID "backlog" before deleting it. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # AXM Member I had to go through the entire tracklist to find it, but here it is. Soul Surfer, by Daiki Kasho It was a GT4 song, weirdly enough. I swear I heard it before. Here's two more. Forbidden Fruit, by Lenny Ibizarre All About the Girl, by Lenny Ibizarre The former's a quiet ambient track, the latter's more of a jazzy lounge song, both are great. There was a "History" section here. It's gone now. All I can do is delete the app and lose however many songs I wanted to post, sadly. Here's this one, I guess. Do that to me one more time, by Captain & Tennille Great sex music. But I wouldn't know. I do know that it retroactively reminded me of Locked Away, by R. City ft. Adam Levine Apparently it was intentional. I mean... POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member A month later, I still am impressed by Greta Van Fleet. It's the first rock album I've bought in 20s, though it's only EP. Somewhat maddeningly, because they have more than 4 good songs. Lover Leave Taker Believer is my favorite and better than the stuff on the EP (and I love those) Mountain of the Sun features a slide guitar. When was the last time you heard that? Jeff Healy, I guess. Edge of Darkness is solid, though not great And their encore is a bunch of blues sounding songs that sound great live but probably won't translate to the studio. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member Synthesized saxophones sound great POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Working for the weekend POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member For some reason Walmart's radio plays Car Wash. Not that I'm complaining because I love the song, but it seems like an odd choice given the lyrics You might not ever get rich But let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch Which is true, but perhaps too close to home. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I didn't know that Connie Stevens had Christmas music. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+connie+stevens+christmas&&view=detail&mid=683ABB0265C75D120F5B683ABB0265C75D120F5B&FORM=VRDGAR Time to go hunt more down. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member Darn, that's the only one she did from that era. Was on a record featuring 15 Christmas songs sung by various Warner Brothers television stars of the early 1960's. She and her two daughters recorded a Christmas album in the early 90's, but it has a more modern sound to it that I don't like as much. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member That's strange, Christmas albums were big in the 1960s. Even the Ventures did one. You ever listen to Jo Stafford? She had a big Christmas album then. She might be too jazzy for you though. Ugh, apparently Billy Idol did a Christmas album about 10 years ago. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I'm not sure, the name isn't ringing any bells. I'll have to look her up on YouTube. Another Connie Stevens favorite of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsUkF3baFLk I don't like her hairdo though. Makes her look like Jennifer on WKRP in Cincinnati. Amazing how bad music is these days. I don't think I've even liked a new song I've heard since 2000 or so, and that was a real rarity even at that point. I don't anticipate ever liking another new one in my life at this point. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member Maybe you just aren't looking hard enough? If people are making pseudo-80s music, then maybe people someplace are making pseudo-early 60s music? Still, thanks to youtube, even if not, you can find almost a lifetime of music. My father has something like 20,000 songs he pulled off of youtube POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I'm definitely not looking very hard. From the bits and pieces I hear, nothing encourages me to really dig much deeper. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member Finished Jo Stafford's Christmas album just now. Some sound familiar (Especially O Little Town of Bethlehem), but I can't swear to it. But I imagine the odds are good that somewhere or another, I've heard several of these. Either way, I liked it and am downloading it now. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member RIP Pat DiNizio, singer for The Smithereens, who were never as popular as they deserved to be. They did finally have one big hit, A Girl Like You, but had a lot of other good songs that went unheralded. Like Behind the Wall of Sleep POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member There was really too much good music in the 1980s, I missed out on so much. For instance, almost the entire New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Most of the bands had silly names, like this one, Wykked Vikkar, but the song is awesome POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I remember these boxsets from Germany a few years ago that were complete music cd collections for each featured artists. If there's ever a Connie Francis version of one of these, I want it. I'm still finding new Connie Francis songs that I love. She has a heck of a library. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member That was like almost all my father did his last 10 years of his life, trawl youtube for music by artists he loved and didn't have, Well, a few hours a day. But this is ad news, Deolores O'Riordan died. I had the biggest thing for her back in the early 90s. Her voice was really magical POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Florence + the machine: wish that you were here https://youtu.be/dsWDUvuF0Xc POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member I did not know this - Jon Pertwee, aka the best Doctor, released a single in 1972. Produced by Rupert Hine, who later would produce records for Rush POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # onmode-ky Member Given that he's my favorite Doctor, it seems like I should remember you mentioning that he was yours, too, but I don't remember that. Maybe my brain's just falling apart faster than I was aware. - 2018/04/02 GMT POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member I'm pretty sure I have. I thought your favorite was one of the new ones. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I love this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXQP-TBhFY&list=RDDiXQP-TBhFY POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member A Bing Crosby song just played on the local AM station. Outside of the month of December, I don't know when the last time was that I heard a Bing song on the radio. So that was neat. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Edge of seventeen https://youtu.be/Dn8-4tjPxD8 POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Rod Stewart young Turks https://youtu.be/zQ41hqlV0Kk POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member For some reason, Walmart decided that it was a good thing to show a commercials on their display TV that plays the chorus to "Ring My Bell" probably about 150 times an hour. It's supposed to be an ad for their online store, but the song is clearly about sex. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # JeremyR Member Growing up, I listened to a surprising amount of Donovan. But now thanks to a Rifftrax video, I have his Season of the Witch stuck in my head. POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member The San Juan sounds from ballad of gay Tony is pretty dope... I can’t go without wanting to groove to these: Suavemente: https://youtu.be/UicnGBFATWA Me estas tentando: https://youtu.be/BQshQrRIpl8 Guallando: https://youtu.be/XlL6oA5okWY El desprecio: https://youtu.be/5N-hpv-A9q0 POSTED 1 YEAR AGO # Atariboy Member I've mostly been listening to the hits from the 1940's lately. Lots of Bing. I sneak in some 60's girl groups from time to time though. POSTED 11 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member I've been listening to this song (Anomaly in Space), which I somehow missed back in the day (2002) and seems to be the soundtrack to a very odd episode of Dobie Gillis POSTED 11 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member Here's a barbershop version of the Ewok Celebration song POSTED 11 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member This snuck under the radar back in the day thanks to some Englishmen badly in need of haircuts that somehow hypnotized much of the world into thinking they sounded good, but I recently discovered it and have been listening to it frequently. Good song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxxCVCsXLWM&list=RDFxxCVCsXLWM&start_radio=1 POSTED 10 MONTHS AGO # onmode-ky Member It's a good thing you can't see my hair. I wish I knew . . . how you manage to post text that has equal signs in it. Double standard forum. - 2018/08/28 GMT POSTED 10 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member I hope you're not insulting Herman's Hermits POSTED 10 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Mama cass Elliot - make your own kind of music https://youtu.be/SbSM02_1k34 Shame she passed so young. POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member Jack Snow used to play for the Rams when they were in LA and was a broadcaster for them here in St. Louis, and he would tell a story about him watching the Tonight Show and seeing her on it and her mentioning she had a big crush on a Rams player...him. He freaked out, because she was not an attractive woman, however well she could sing. POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Billy Joel - uptown girl https://youtu.be/hCuMWrfXG4E POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member I always liked Uptown Girl. Had an 80's sound to it, but also a bit of a 60's sound to it at the same time. My mom has mentioned the music video for this a few times through the years. Nice to finally see it for myself (Although I'm sure I did back then on tv thanks to my mom being a fan of this song, I'd of been busying myself playing with toys instead). Sticking to this theme, here's the music video for Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time', set aboard the battleship USS Missouri just a few months before she went to war for the third and final time in Operation Desert Storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKbwR7WXN4 Navy brass wasn't pleased with her outfit, but the sailors seem to be enjoying themselves. POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # The Space Ferret Member I love Billy Joel mewmew!!! Here is my favourite BJ song mew: https://youtu.be/a_XgQhMPeEQ POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member Another good 80's song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGEyBeoBGM POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member One of the all-time greats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqNAEDzFqY4 POSTED 9 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Best of kenshin https://youtu.be/x5N_sS8bX50 POSTED 8 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member Night of the Living Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Bll0__MK8 POSTED 8 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member And something completely different, something that sounds like it could have come out of the 60s. Or be in the Blues Brothers....the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhicDUgXyNg Honestly, the organ is one of those things I miss the most in modern music. POSTED 8 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member Hey Atariboy, are you a fan of Billy Fury? He was a 50s era singer that kept releasing 50s era songs up until the 1980s (when he died). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_QW6XLBO88 Apparently he had as many hits in the UK as your not so favorite quartet. POSTED 8 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Beach boys - wouldn’t it be nice https://youtu.be/lD4sxxoJGkA POSTED 8 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Call to adventure!!! https://youtu.be/Mx3Fva8SZkA POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member I love Wouldn't it be Nice. I've never heard of Billy Fury, but I bet I've heard several of his songs. Who else did 'Forget Him', since I sure know this song but i don't think it's this particular version? POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member One of my favorite 80's songs. https://youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM?t=1m58s POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Sing sing sing Benny Goodman https://youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A Try to keep your legs still listening to this POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member Odd, I thought I had a link to start that song at the beginning that I posted yesterday. Good view at least a second or two afterwards. Here's the version of Forget Him that I'm familiar with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qaoCilYPc POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member This is an 80s song I missed, I guess because it was only a hit in the UK, from a former member of Thin Lizzy and a guest musician for Pink Floyd. Sounds like the latter crossed with Mark Knopfler. Snowy White - Bird of Paradise Grrr, not letting me include the link POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member One of my favorite Christmas songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDkWTpHnW0&start_radio=1&list=RDVVDkWTpHnW0 POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Hiroyuki sawano Exorcist https://youtu.be/MleTosrCNII POSTED 7 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member Didn't realize this song was as new as this. Written the year before and this was its first performance on television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuE_DXrt2Js&start_radio=1&list=RDXuE_DXrt2Js I'm quite confident that nobody has ever matched his performance here when performing this song. POSTED 6 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member Yeah, singing really doesn't get any better than that. POSTED 6 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member RIP to The Captain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o POSTED 6 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member Speaking of The Sonics (in the other thread), I really don't know why they weren't bigger. The Witch in particular is one of those songs that is almost completely unique POSTED 5 MONTHS AGO # Sniper D. Luffy Member Took me a bit of trial and error but... This is one of my new favorites Audio machine Legions of doom https://youtu.be/RmqKJfrgLkU POSTED 5 MONTHS AGO # JeremyR Member This is probably the best song inspired by an 80s movie written by a Monkee (the movie, that is) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDhPPcK6C4&start_radio=1&list=RDdhDhPPcK6C4 POSTED 4 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member Always loved this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKh6XxYbbIc In fact I kept a black & white episode of Disneyland (Later the Wonderful World of Color, then the Wonderful World of Disney, and then perhaps another name I've forgotten) I recorded off TCM on my DVR for about three years, just to play the opening theme that used several seconds of this song. Sad how far Disney has fallen. Hopefully if things go right in a few years when my time down here has concluded, I'll have access to the entire Disney archive of that era in pristine quality, since it sure isn't happening in this lifetime. And if I go the other way, I'll probably get to suffer through rap music and all the other things I can't stand to hear or watch, and 21st century Disney productions for all of eternity. POSTED 2 MONTHS AGO # Always_Serpico Member Shinichiro Watanabe directed Flying Lotus' latest video. POSTED 2 MONTHS AGO # Atariboy Member Been going through mp3's to clean and organize files that have built up the past few years, and came across one just called "I". I imagine I ripped it off a YouTube video and the title didn't catch. It's a good song, but not a well known one. I've tried typing in the lyrics and nothing useful pops up. I wonder how the heck I can identify this? POSTED 2 WEEKS AGO # Atariboy Member Should've thought to go through my links. In my laziness even though I had ripped this song, I still had the url. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5lStAKoCw Mystery solved. POSTED 2 WEEKS AGO # Atariboy Member The girl in that song above was pretty cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSb03jU6-Y Reminds me of Shelley Fabares. POSTED 1 WEEK AGO # JeremyR Member One of the thing about watching older videos, is that people were so much better dressed back then. And skinnier. And not covered in tattoos. Also, women tended to wear tighter tops. In a good way, not the sort today that makes them look pregnant. (That's a game I have at work, "Pregnant or fat?") POSTED 1 WEEK AGO # Atariboy Member One of my favorite country songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KcK0J9qsY0 POSTED 2 DAYS AGO #

Frima studio is back with the sequel to their summer puzzle space adventure game Widget’s Odyssey 2. For those of you who missed the first one, it was a puzzle/adventure game which although had a funny and attention grabbing story the game suffered from being way to short and just extremely easy. Instead of starting a completely new story or adventure Widget’s Odyssey 2 picks up from where the original had finished. After the crew (the same five robots from the original game) return to their home planet only to find it in complete ruin’s from the cosmic sneeze, they set out to find whether this was a natural phenomenon, only to find they are not the only remaining members of their kind, in fact there are three orphan’s who are being held captive by none other then the evil Yagor. The game plays much like the first where you get to play as each of the crew from the ship, each of which have there own set skills. What Frima studio have done differently is included more action and a lot more mini games through out the game which helps add some variety to the game. One of the mini games I did enjoy was the one where you have to dance while your band play to try to impress the hostess of the club, to do this you a required to push the face buttons (square, triangle, circle, X and directional buttons) on the PSP in time with the on screen commands. The game is also made a little more difficult giving you a little more of a challenge and a slightly longer life to the game. Unfortunately much like the first game there are only four levels and even though they have added more mini games and a little more action and made it a little harder you could probably still complete it within an hour maybe one and a half. The games graphics are well drawn and animated but also has much more detail in the background of the game then in the original and with a little more detail to each of the levels breaths that little bit of life into the game. The sound effects haven’t changed at all with each character making the same strange chirps and other robotic sounds and each level has the same music in the background as the first which is actually a little disappointing as there feels very little new that has been brought to the game in the sound effects side. But much like the first installment of Widget’s Odyssey 2 the greatest aspect of the game is the story. I enjoyed the fact the story picks up where it left off from the first game and helps give a more full explanation of actually what happened in Widget’s Odyssey. The cut scenes like before are wonderfully animated and I feel there is humor in there that is suited for almost any age. Overall Widget’s Odyssey is a good game with a few improvements from the first game but unfortunately not nearly enough to make it a great game but for the price of $1.99 you are getting what you pay for, if you owned the first game and enjoyed it then this game is worth getting but if you didn’t enjoy it well there is not to much different here. Overall 6.5/10 POSTED BY DAN ON MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010 AT 7:26 PM

We’ve all had part-time jobs like working at a diner or for a fast food chain, or walking dogs, in order to finance our survival in this cruel world. Playing video games is one of those things that keep us sane, a form of escape from the torment of real life. And yet we are now playing video games that greatly remind us of our current or former jobs—like wiping tables. Wipe is all about wiping tables, and nothing more. This title has all the depth of a platter, but it is entertaining to a certain degree. However, even though you purchase this game at full price, there are still levels that are locked, and half of the items are also “coming soon.” I don’t know why. The game itself is shallow, and yet content is still held back. Why? Furthermore, I really don’t understand how game developers can have a hard time putting up a good interactive tutorial. Wipe has none, though it does have an in-game text manual. However, even the game manual is finicky, because you can’t escape out of it directly. You have to swipe yourself back to the first page to access the “back” button. Also, this is becoming a trend in PS Mobile games, physical buttons not being implemented. The core gameplay is indeed veering towards touch controls, but is it difficult to program the use of Start in pausing? Gameplay is simple: you just wipe the dirty tables, lifting some plates if ever the dirt is placed under them. And that is it. There is a combo system, but nothing out of the ordinary. The cloth you are using gets dirty over time, and you have to rinse it, which takes some time. Time is important here because there is a time limit for every restaurant/level. Of course, you only have a few levels because, as mentioned, some are still in the pipeline. Before I forget, there are some decisions in game design that bug me out in Wipe. When choosing a table to wipe, you have to tap on the table and tap the “Wipe” button situated at the bottom left of the screen. How about simply double-tapping? I am not nitpicking, but it should be pretty much a given to have such a control option, right? I’ve played great Minis, despite that format being hampered by so many restrictions, from controls to file size limit, from connectivity to raw computing power. Freed from those limitations, there is no excuse for developers to slack off in the PS Mobile program. Back to Wipe, where my main problem is the locked content, or the unfinished state of the game. If this were a demo, a teaser of some sort, I wouldn’t whine like this. However, there are better Flash-based browser games out there. There are some iOS games that are free that are much better than this. Unless SYNC releases all of the content, I will not give a more thorough review than this. 3/10 POSTED BY JASPER NIKKI ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 AT 3:02 AM

It’s amazing how much a simple twist can add to a genre. Wizorb is either the fifth or sixth Breakout-style (or Arkanoid-style) game released in the Minis program so far (and the second from the publisher, Beatshapers, who also brought us BreakQuest), yet it seems to have generated a lot of buzz based on its premise of adding RPG elements. Alas, in practice, the RPG elements are fairly minor. Essentially, you can walk through a JRPG-style town and talk to people, who ask for money to help rebuild their town and, in exchange, give you a gameplay item. As you return to the town, you can see the buildings of the people you helped get rebuilt. So, Wizorb is primarily a Breakout/Arkanoid-style game. Atari’s Breakout was the first game in the genre, essentially being a single-player version of Pong. You control a paddle and bounce a ball towards layers of bricks, which disappear when they are hit by the ball, but not before bouncing the ball back towards you. It was a fairly simple, but fun, game. Later, Arkanoid from Taito greatly expanded the gameplay, adding power-ups and all sorts of unusual layouts, revitalizing and popularizing the gameplay for a new generation. In practice, Wizorb plays somewhere between the two. While it features some very elaborate layouts of bricks, it really lacks the many power-ups found in Arkanoid. There are some, but these are used on demand, rather than as random drops. The whole premise of Wizorb is that you are playing a wizard, and thus, the power-ups effects are now spells. To cast them, you simply press a button—X for black magic, Square for white magic (O is used to speed up the paddle). What exactly happens depends on whether or not the ball is on your paddle. If it’s not, X produces a fireball shooting up from your paddle to zap a block or monster, while if it is, it charges up the ball so it destroys any brick it touches, even bricks that normally take more than one hit to destroy. White magic with Square lets you control the ball for a brief moment. The catch is that you need to spend magic to use these abilities, the current amount of which is displayed by a meter at the right of the screen. You build up the meter by catching certain drops when bricks are destroyed. The most common drop, though, is gold; magical drops seem to be rather scarce. Sometimes other things drop: keys, which can be used to open doors. Doors occur on many levels, and when you move the ball through an unlocked door, it pauses the level and takes you to an item shop where you can use gold to buy things like more lives or magic potions, or sometimes an upgrade to your paddle. There are five different worlds, each with twelve levels plus a boss fight at the end. Every world shares the same graphic style and has the same sort of monsters, little critters that walk about the stage and which you need to kill by hitting them with the ball multiple times. On most levels, monsters are sort of a throw-in, but on a few, they are the primary objective. Two things really determine the quality of a game like this: level design and controls. The genre was originally meant for a paddle or dial controller, which lets you do fine or gross movements with ease. That’s not the case with a D-pad or a nub, but Wizorb controls as well as any game played with a D-pad. The paddle is not at all twitchy, but solid, and while a bit slow, you can speed it up temporarily with the O button, or by going into the controls menu and changing the default speed. The level design doesn’t quite match the excellent controls. While the variety is good, with lots of special blocks, the overall pace of some levels is slow, often requiring you to use indirect shots to hit one or two hard-to-reach blocks. In practice, that sort of thing is just monotonous, creating tedium, not difficulty. And while there are boss battles which are very well done and creative, they occur after twelve levels, which is a lot. Bear in mind, the original Breakout had only 2 levels, after which they apparently assumed you’d get tired of playing. The graphics remind me of the early 90s, when PCs had VGA cards and developers would sometimes opt to use the high resolution mode but with only 16 colors. There’s a lot of detail to the graphics, but it’s not that colorful; things look a bit flat, but not at all blocky, like in console games of that time. The music is absolutely charming, though, and if there is one aspect that is pure JRPG goodness, it’s the music. I did like the RPG veneer to the game, though it’s just begging to be developed further. The problem with Wizorb, however, is the level design—so many levels are apparently designed to be tricky, requiring indirect shots. I played nearly 15 minutes trying to get the last brick on one level. I ran into that a lot, though no others took quite that long. The size of each world was also too great—rather than having twelve stages, six would have been better. It just feels like it takes too long to get to the good stuff. Still, despite the monotony at times, Wizorb did keep me glued to the PSP. As far as Breakout/Arkanoid-type games go, I would say it’s not quite as good as BreakQuest or Bashi Blocks, but much better than the others. And its overall design is quite clever, even if the level design is not always so. 8/10 POSTED BY JEREMYR ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012 AT 8:58 AM

Quirkat is best known for their ultra-niche set of card games for the Minis program, the Basha card games which I extensively studied and learned how to play. They are good and interesting card games but definitely not for those who lack patience and perseverance. If you are not a manic-obsessive person, the Basha series is merely a clusterfrap disguised as a video game. Then there was their Mena Speed, a totally forgettable game. I shouldn’t have mentioned this, since you might get seriously curious and follow the link to the review. Stop. Continue reading this review, because Word Blocked is Quirkat’s and one of the PlayStation Mobile lineup’s best games yet. Word Blocked is a word game that is presented differently. Maybe there are other games that play like this, but I haven’t encountered one. It seems to be the Touchscreen-Era lovechild of Boggle and the Rubik’s Cube. The game presents a 3×3 golden neon cube with letters engraved on each square. You can easily manipulate the cube like a Rubik’s Cube. You can twist the rows and columns in four directions, mixing up the letters as you please. And then you can swipe the screen in four directions so that you can rotate the entire cube to search for new words. The Boggle part is where you string up words upon words by merely touching the letters, lighting them up. On the right side, you can see the letters you’ve highlighted to form a word, score, level and the submit button. There is no “cancel” button; you have to unlace the letters you’ve inputted by touching them in the reverse order. Anything can be strung up as long as they are adjacent, even if they don’t belong to the same “face” of the cube. Interestingly enough, you can string up letters and then rotate, twist and turn the cube to find more letters for your pending word. However, you cannot build up a combo with this method. You can only gain multipliers if you can correctly submit words in succession without twisting anything. The touchscreen controls are magnificent, probably the best among PlayStation Mobile games. Though the menus presented are small, they accurately responded with my desired outcomes, and the same goes for the gameplay proper. There are two modes, Relaxed and Time Limit. Sadly there are no online leaderboards just yet. Personally, I am hoping for Quirkat to update this game so that I can proceed to dominate the online leaderboards. The Relaxed Mode is true to its word, as you can go on and on pinning down words without much fuss and until your own limitations stop you from proceeding. For every 100 points you score, the level goes up and new letters are dealt. As you progress, fewer vowels are given, and finical consonants like Q and Z are handed out lavishly. In Time Limit Mode, you are given only two minutes to come up with the best score you can achieve. There are bombs and missiles to help you in changing words on the cube. Certainly, you won’t care about graphics with these types of games, but that doesn’t mean Word Blocked’s graphics are horrible; they are well above average. The presentation is also good, as well as the elevator music that accompanies the game. Word Blocked is Underline without the difficult touch controls, but with limited game modes. That doesn’t mean you can’t have fun, though, because there is plenty to be had with this one. 9.5/10 POSTED BY JASPER NIKKI ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 AT 9:17 PM