If you’re a DJ, wannabe beat-making producer or other brand of untalented hipster not erudite enough to play a real instrument like banjo or spoons, the Kaossilator is for you. But what if you’re a snobby, woodshedding talent freak, learned musician or Worthless-Music-Degree-holding alumnus? Fear not, purveyor of the Phrygian scale! The Kaossilator is also for thee...
Space Invaders was so popular in Japan that it caused a yen shortage and more coins had to be minted. Many regular produce and goods stores in Japan removed their products and converted into Space Invaders parlors overnight, complete with giant speakers broadcasting the ’thump-thump-thump’ of the marching invaders. A true classic in every sense of the word.
Take control of a hapless research subject in a monochromatic laboratory filled with spikes and blocky architecture. Your goal in most levels is to untangle the landscape into a coherent pathway and escape through the inconveniently-placed door.
When I came for my pre-festival “week in the country” relaxation time, I developed a condition knowns as RITSS. It led to withdrawal symptoms such as lapsing into L33t speak and the urge to make LOLcat pictures. It also led to finding creative solutions to rural technological limitations.
Q*bert’s name originated by the combination of ’Cube’ and ’Hubert’, but the ’Cube-Bert’ was changed to ’Q-bert’ to make it more unique. The concept game was called ’Snots and Boogers’ and then ’@!#?@!’ (which many of the programmers and Gottlieb VPs said would be impossible to get anyone to say) before the final version was called just ’Q*bert’.
Tim’s not in but you still feel like chatting ? Rideout’s artificially intelligent stunt double, The Mystical Artificial Intelligence Droid will provide a reasonable facsimile of scintillating conversation in his stead.
Any free MP3s you don’t want or like, just send them back.
