Pong wasn’t the first video game, but it was one of the first with sound effects. In the movie biz, they say the final product is 51% music, 49% picture. The sound informs the visual, as the soul possess a body. If you take the music away from E.T., it’s as awkward as family dinner. […]
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PICO-8 Music
Born in the golden age of ’80s gaming, it was always my dream to become a real-life video-game composer. Now nearly one hundred years later, I’ve made that dream a reality with the help of PICO-8. PICO-8 is a virtual console and game-making machine. The music editor looks like pic below. Instead of being read […]
Jigglypuff Melody
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 […]
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 […]
An Hadouken
An hadouken is the classic fireball from Street Fighter II: Double Turbo Champion Hyper Alpha Little Fiery Celebrity Home Edition. Now that was a good game. At my local comic store L & S, there was a line stretching out the door to play the arcade coin-op of SF2. I used to grab a slice […]
Tiger Third
Sagat from Street Fighter II is known for his tiger fireballs and tiger uppercuts. The “tiger” in question is a Minor Third interval from the E-flat down to the C.
