Whoa, my fourth post in a row, highlighting the very best in game related vids that you may have missed out on? Indeed it is, though my original plan of doing this up until this Thursday at the very least, since that’s when New York Comic Con kicks off, is not going to happen.
For starters, I’ve actually run out of stuff to post! Well, there were more, but I ended up weeding them out. Also, NYCC this year starts extra early! As in last night; New York Super Week kicked off this past weekend, and my first taste being The First (and Probably Last) Annual New York Feline Film & Video Festival for Humans.
Which I will talk about tomorrow, alongside The History of Music Video, Part One (the Dawn of Time until 1993), which is later tonight. But first…
- What happens when you combine Mortal Kombat with… Michael Keaton? Why, MICHAEL KOMBAT!!!!!!
- When one thinks of “longplays”, which are videos of people playing a game, from start to finish (with zero narration or commentary, hence why there should not be confused with “lets’ plays”, which not only presents gameplay in a shorter/edited format, but often includes moronic jokes the entire time), one naturally assumes that it’s one of the many by products of YouTube. Turns out, they’ve been around much longer than that; here we have footage from a longplay laserdisc highlighting Solvalou, the 3D polygonal offshoot of Xevious…
- And here we have some Japanese dude proudly showing of a Xevious shirt that he recently acquired. Best part is the 1:03 mark, when he recalls what a profound impression the game had on him as a child. And I can relate! It’s the first video game I truly became obsessed with, the reason why I asked for an Atari 7800 instead of a NES as my first system (cuz at the time, the Famicom/NES port had yet to arrive in America)…
- Back on the subject of shmups is yet another clip from Retro Core, this one examining one of very first Dreamcast games ever announced for the console, one that never ended up coming out, Geist Force. Many years later an ex-Sega employee revealed that he had the last work in progress build, and a bunch of folks online gathered their resources to produce a fairly professionally looking physically copy…
- Sticking with Sega, who out there is familiar with the Magic 2 and the Scorpion XVI? They’re European Mega Drive/Genesis clones from the early 90s that largely had the same exact components as the real thing. Here’s a close up look at one of them…
… Time for a bonus video! Hope going one extra my max number of eight doesn’t break my website; here’s a clip from that Euro gaming show mentioned above, Bad Influence, featuring a look at the Scorpion XVI from back in the day…
- One more shump related clip; here’s a catchy remix from Gradius 3 via the KORG DSN-12 by USK! Or at least I think that’s him? Not 100% sure…
- And sticking with subject of music this time is something that Brandon Sheffield posted on Twitter ages ago (like I said on Friday, my backlong of vids to share was indeed backed up), of Motohiro Kawashima from last year’s Post-TGS Indie Games Creator’s Live Music Showcase Party…
- Finally, here we have a commercial by Atari from the early 80s for, not a 2600 game, but an arcade attraction. Not only that, but it’s over two minutes long, meaning it wasn’t intended for the small screen but the big one. And the game being pushed? Dig Dug, which I guess they banked on being the next big thing…
… The YouTube description states that it was Atari’s very first nationwide ad campaign. As for the song that’s heard, it was originally supposed to Chubby Checker, but it ended up being someone else. No one seems to know why, but if you want to hear the original, head on over to Kotaku.
K, guess that’s it’s it for now? Anyhow, gotta head out and see if tonight’s speaker is a Matt Mahurin fan.
