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Apr. 26th, 2009 06:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMom has been sick for the past few days, but she had been well enough to drive me to a doctor's appointment.
Last night, as we were finishing dinner, Mom noticed a rather familiar song playing on our XM radio. This song is probably her favorite from The Muppet Show ever since we were little kids, but when I checked, it's called "Hawaiian War Chant", by Tommy Dorsey. I later found it on YouTube, and showed Mom and Dad before they went to bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTU7nahUw20
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Anyway, it's been less than a week since the Angry Video Game Nerd posted his video for the Magnavox Odyssey, and I feel there's something about it worth noting.
Namely, the end of the video, where he presents this light-gun called the Shooting Gallery. (Check the 10:00 mark if you're impatient.) You just gotta love how that jingle plays as he opens the box and takes the pieces of styrofoam off each end. The effect is priceless!
(Yes, I do remember. This gimmick also popped up in part 3 of his CD-i trilogy, when he presented Zelda's Adventure (6:26). The jingle used in that moment was from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and plays whenever you open up a big treasure chest. The Nerd doesn't usually apply music from Nintendo 64 games in his videos, but using this jingle was only appropriate, since he was reviewing a Zelda game.)
Okay, back to the Nerd presenting the Shooting Gallery. In case anyone reading this isn't familiar with video games (or at least the one that this jingle is from), it's from Donkey Kong Country 2 for the Super NES, and it plays right when you turn the game on.
So, why am I bringing this up? Well, first of all, I've been looking back to the handful of times when I was in 4th and 5th grades, when me and Brian either rented DKC2 from Blockbuster or borrowed the game from his then-friend Craig. That was such a great game back then, and I've been thinking I might just download it one of these days to play it again.
The other reason? Well, it's amazing that I bought Makeruna! Makendou Z for the PC-FX, the PC-FX itself, Getter Love!! for the Nintendo 64, and watched the Makeruna! Makendou OAV, all in less than a year! Too bad we've never used our video camera since I was in 5th grade, (except to tape a school play that Marie participated in,) but I am glad I at least had Mom, Dad, and Brian to share the moment with when I opened up the package containing the PC-FX. Let me tell you, receiving a game or console had never been so epic since me and Brian got the Nintendo 64 on August 7, 1998. If that moment had been recorded, and I were gonna host it anywhere, I would have gladly applied some kind of jingle to it to show just how significant it had been.
Having people to share moments like that with... It makes me realize that I really wouldn't want to live a life of total solitude, even after I get my own house.
Last night, as we were finishing dinner, Mom noticed a rather familiar song playing on our XM radio. This song is probably her favorite from The Muppet Show ever since we were little kids, but when I checked, it's called "Hawaiian War Chant", by Tommy Dorsey. I later found it on YouTube, and showed Mom and Dad before they went to bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTU7nahUw20
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Anyway, it's been less than a week since the Angry Video Game Nerd posted his video for the Magnavox Odyssey, and I feel there's something about it worth noting.
Namely, the end of the video, where he presents this light-gun called the Shooting Gallery. (Check the 10:00 mark if you're impatient.) You just gotta love how that jingle plays as he opens the box and takes the pieces of styrofoam off each end. The effect is priceless!
(Yes, I do remember. This gimmick also popped up in part 3 of his CD-i trilogy, when he presented Zelda's Adventure (6:26). The jingle used in that moment was from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and plays whenever you open up a big treasure chest. The Nerd doesn't usually apply music from Nintendo 64 games in his videos, but using this jingle was only appropriate, since he was reviewing a Zelda game.)
Okay, back to the Nerd presenting the Shooting Gallery. In case anyone reading this isn't familiar with video games (or at least the one that this jingle is from), it's from Donkey Kong Country 2 for the Super NES, and it plays right when you turn the game on.
So, why am I bringing this up? Well, first of all, I've been looking back to the handful of times when I was in 4th and 5th grades, when me and Brian either rented DKC2 from Blockbuster or borrowed the game from his then-friend Craig. That was such a great game back then, and I've been thinking I might just download it one of these days to play it again.
The other reason? Well, it's amazing that I bought Makeruna! Makendou Z for the PC-FX, the PC-FX itself, Getter Love!! for the Nintendo 64, and watched the Makeruna! Makendou OAV, all in less than a year! Too bad we've never used our video camera since I was in 5th grade, (except to tape a school play that Marie participated in,) but I am glad I at least had Mom, Dad, and Brian to share the moment with when I opened up the package containing the PC-FX. Let me tell you, receiving a game or console had never been so epic since me and Brian got the Nintendo 64 on August 7, 1998. If that moment had been recorded, and I were gonna host it anywhere, I would have gladly applied some kind of jingle to it to show just how significant it had been.
Having people to share moments like that with... It makes me realize that I really wouldn't want to live a life of total solitude, even after I get my own house.