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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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 […]
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 […]
