As an ’80s boomer, I missed out on the Pokémon craze, although I am tangentially aware of it, and like most normie folk, I can name at least a dozen or so pocket-monsters from the primary series. I don’t really know how to pronounce the word “Pokémon.” I say “pokey,” like an American philistine. Jigglypuff […]
Archive of posts tagged Nintendo
A Tetris
In the late ’80s, the Soviet mind game Tetris invaded American shores. I was busy ducking under a desk for weekly air-raid drills in the basement of my elementary school. You see in those days, it was the right-wing conservatives who were hyping the Soviet threat. Now everything’s flip-flopped and it’s the libs who see […]
Game Boy
Birds and videogames. That’s what we’re all about these days. I don’t play videogames anymore, and birds are kinda annoying, but I still like them both for some reason. With all of the Nintendo shilling on this blog, the humble grey E-brick known as Game Boy has never been mentioned once, and that’s got to […]
Jupiter Melody
I often think about this melody from Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity by Holst. Drag over the black stemmed noteheads below. This is the G Suspended Seventh chord in melodic form. It goes up in fourths because that’s what Suspended 7th chords do. It’s what I do too. Jupiter, the Jolly One is part of […]
Final Fantasy Fourths
The “Opening Theme” from Final Fantasy III (USA) is a series of ascending 4ths, a quartal harmonic structure, that eventually kicks in with a loud F Half-Diminshed Seventh chord, followed by an F Minor Diminished Seventh chord. Click on either measure to play/stop from that point. On guitar: 000011. Final Fantasy III is widely known […]
Elec Man, Faithfully
In our last post, we explored the melody of Mega Man’s cooler older brother Proto Man. Today, we’ll look at one of the original Robot Masters: Elec Man. Elec Man was designed to oversee atomic energy power plants. Like Godzilla, he is a Japanese metaphor for The Bomb. Like other ego-magnetic electro-maniacs, he wears a […]
Proto Man Melody
Proto Man is the cowboy-samurai with a whistle of pure gold. A robo-desperado with the byte motif. He’s also Mega Man’s cooler older brother as is evident by his supercool scarf, sunglasses and shield. First appearing in Mega Man 3, Proto Man has been the long-time crush of gamer girls and gaymers. He can jump […]
