Somehow the folks at Harmonix are brilliant enough to put a Harvey Danger song up as a downloadable track for Rock Band. The song is “Cream and Bastards Rise”, which is off of HD’s last album Little By Little. It’s a good song.
It comes out this week. That’s pretty awesome.
Also coming out: The Screaming Trees “Nearly Lost You.”
Awesomeness.
Well, there goes my life …
EA calls it! Virginia Tech to win the NCAA Title during March Madness. Go Hokies!
Today is a good day. Tecmo Bowl was released on the Wii Virtual Console. Seriously. It’s awesome. Most of the player names were removed, but it’s the same game as I played 1000 hours of as a kid. I’d forgotten how simple and addictive the game was. So awesome. So, so awesome.
Speaking of the Wii, thanks to a couple of cool tools called Mii Transfer and the Mii Editor, I was able to transfer my Mii character to my computer and output a couple of decent images. Hopefully, that’ll let me eventually finish the overhaul of my main page that I’m working on. Maybe this weekend, if I get some time.
If I’m not playing Tecmo Bowl. Lawrence Taylor is a beast.
So, back before Christmas, Brett had been singing the praises of this little Nintendo DS game called Elite Beat Agents. He described the game exactly as it was: “you tap the screen to the beat of songs and you help these guys like cheer on people to solve ridiculous problems.” To which I replied (paraphrased): “Ummm, no thanks. You smell like fish.”
Then I tried the game.
And the little light bulb went off in my head. I got it. It all made perfect sense.
Elite Beat Agents is the most fun game I’ve played in, I don’t know, forever. Basically, it’s Guitar Hero for the Nintendo DS. The game sets up these little scenarios, like say, two “socialites” getting stranded on a deserted island. Then the “Material Girl” by Madonna starts playing, and you tap along to the beat, hitting these little circles in order, occasionally dragging a circle back and forth over a path. If you tap along in time, you win. If you don’t, you lose.
You hear someone describe it, you think it sounds ridiculous. You see someone play it, you get a little intrigued. You play it, you’re hooked.
It’s one of those games where you get frustrated because you can’t get by a song (let’s say, “Canned Heat” by Jamiroquai, since that’s the one that kicks my arse), but you keep trying, since you get a little further each time. On your 5th try, you finally pick up the beat and you breeze through.
Everything about the game is silly. The song selection (“Sk8er Boi”, “YMCA”, “Material Girl”, “You’re the Inspiration”). The scenarios are silly, except one about a girl who’s dad DIED and his ghost brings her a teddy bear, which is sooooo out of place in the game that it’s awesome.
I can’t do it justice. This game is astounding. A Technorati search turned up 4000+ mentions of the game.
You won’t understand it until you try it, but to get an idea, check out this YouTube video of the “September” level.
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