Comments on: NYCC Revisited: Chiptunes Guy VS Magic Nerd (With Video!!!)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:00:51 +0000

tiesto: Hey there Luke! I had no idea you read my blog!

Anyway, its too bad you couldn’t make it to the con, it would have been nice to bump into you (since I know you won’t be able to make it to ICON this year). And aside from wanting to witness the fury of nullsleep first hang, it would have been nice to play Neo Wave and Steambot Chronicles, plus Rez on the big screen.

Also, was this your first time hearing chiptunes? Glad you enjoyed it; nullsleep is easily in the top two in the whole field (with Bit Shifter being the other… and I seriously am not saying that cuz I know them personally). Too bad the crowd wasn’t into it, but that’s not exactly a surprise either.

BTW, I recently discovered that amir0x is from NYC, and I know there’s a few others on the GAF as well. We should really try to do some sort of meet-up or something…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:59:24 +0000

The only way to play.

By: Slonie

Slonie — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:52:19 +0000

D&B: Daytona and Booze!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:20:01 +0000

Yeah, I heard about the D&B news. It’ll be interesting to see if it becomes hoodie-mack shoot-out central like the now closed Broadway Arcade was.

Oh, and because you asked for it:

By: J

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:39:03 +0000

aww man! i thought you’d post the GIF!?

oh well.

one more thing i forgot to ask you, did you know they were opening a Dave and Buster’s in Times square?

coming in April.

Right bewteen the easyInternetCafe, Applebee’s, and AMC Empire 25.

if you didnt know this already… take this news as you will.

By: raina

raina — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:10:08 +0000

http://www.opticalsloth.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=7&pid=839

By: tiesto

tiesto — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:03:55 +0000

Hey, how’s it going? I actually went to the GNG on Saturday with my friend, Dan – we found we couldn’t get into the actual comic con due to it being packed to capacity. Though to be honest we were mostly interested in the GNG, which was free to go to and not very crowded.

They had some nice games there – KOF NeoWave, Steambot Chronicles, Disgaea 2 (Japanese version), Digital Devil Saga 2, Guitar Hero, the newest DDR, and the one I was most enthused about: Shadow Hearts 3. They also had the DC version of Rez playable on a huge projection screen – sadly it was a little too bright in the room to make out the details but it was still awesome.

nullsleep was a lot of fun to see live, too… that was the first time I saw him play. Lots of energy, almost in the way a trance DJ works the crowd. Only a few people were all out bobbing their heads to it (mostly the NY-Tokyo people) but a lot of people I talked to at the show really liked what he was doing. He played a cover of “Blue Monday” that kicked ass.

Yeah, so I just found out about the whole GNG thing rather recently from one of amir0x’s posts… I think he said he was gonna be there on Sat, but I didn’t meet anyone from GAF. Did meet a guy from YTMND (wearing a YTMND shirt), which was funny… Dan played him a few times in KOF NeoWave. Was a great time, I talked to the lady who is the president of NY-Tokyo and signed up for the mailing list… gonna definitely go to their other events.