Archive for April, 2007

Videogame:The Movie:The Game:The Album

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VG:TM:TG is a concept album built around the idea of a movie made in the 1980′s starring Jonathan Brandis, which has it’s plot hastily changed to relate to videogames and then made into a tenuously related game of it’s own for NES. The game itself is put together from bits and pieces of other games and…well…it’s really convulted, and right up my alleyl. There are MP3s of the music from the game and modern remixes of that music. A great read and a great album.

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SEGA’s Exciting New Raccoon

Mystery Raccoon

Just in case Sonic, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Mighty, Ray, Charmy, Vector, Espio, Heavy, Bomb, Bean, Bark, Big, Blaze, Nack, Cream, E-102, E-123, Emerl, Jet, Rogue, Shadow, Storm, Wave, Silver, and Eggman really weren’t enough playable characters for you, SEGA has unleashed an exciting new raccoon on the world for Sonic Rush Adventure. In order to beat the rush of inevitable fanfiction and pornography, I have decided to name the thing before SEGA can. Here are ten:

1. Zesty the Raccoon

2. Finally Another Love Interest For Tails the Groundhog

3. Stripes the Possum

4. Baiting the Furry

5. Disturb-O the Mammal

6. Garbage the Eater

7. Sonic Universe Character #3448B

8. Sly Cooper

9. Enigma the Pointless

10. No Seriously We Can Just Keep Cranking These Piece Of Shit Characters Out And They Keep Buying Them And In Fact The Sonic Series Now Is Nothing But A Grand Experiment To See If We Can Remain Profitable And Make The Least Appealing Game Possible the Ocelot

The Steven Quincy Urkel Murder Report

Steven Q. Urkel

1. Judith Winslow, 23 September 1989. Successful. Before Steve Urkel’s massive decade long experiment to marry Laura Winslow went into effect, the elaborate plans were found by Judy Winslow. Not wanting her sister to marry a “mouse eater”, Judy confronted Steve with the files only to be stabbed in the chest 98 times. Steve, seeing an opportunity, hired a desperate orphan from Chicago’s southside to pose as Judy and gather information on the Winslow family. Using a favor owed to him by goverment contacts, Urkel arranged for anyone who had a relationship with Judy to have their memories reprogrammed and any evidence of the real Judy to be destroyed. The replacement Judy was inserted into the Winslow household and Urkel’s plan continued.

2. Rodney Beckett, 1 December 1990. Successful. While going through his short lived radical black empowerment phase, Steve Urkel began to hate the few obnoxious white people who the Winslows interacted with. One of these was Eddie’s best friend Rodney. Tired of Rodney’s obession with whitebread suburban capers and jealous of the attention the Winslow family gave him, Urkel abducted Rodney and burned him alive with his Urk-Crisp Flamethower. Urkel never attempted to cover up Rodney’s death and he was presumed to be a runaway.

3. Lieutenant Murtaugh, 24 October 1992. Failed. Following an anonymous tip into the disappearance of Rodney Beckett, Murtaugh stumbled across a series of clues that, through a series of hillarious hijinks, led him to the basement of Steve Urkel. Urkel knew Murtaugh was coming thanks to his patented Urk-Alert Security system. The two had an awkward scuffle involving a labored and predictable pie fight, but before Urkel could throw acid-laced coconut cream at the officer, Murtaugh accidentally stepped onto a prototype version of the Urk-Pad time machine and was transported to the 24th century. After a short period of acclamation and a name change, he became a decorated Admiral in Starfleet command.

4. Judith Winslow, 27 February 1993. Successful. Despite being comfortable in the Winslow household, the sleeper Judy began to feel guiltier and guiltier about her role in the replacement of the Winslows’ daughter and her monthly reports to Urkel. One night, in a fit of desperation, she took her father’s gun, snuck out of her bedroom window, and went to end Urkel’s reign of terror. As soon as she set foot on Urkel’s property, she was beaten to death by the Urkel-Bot who had been lurking in the shadows. Urkel took her body to the hiding spot of the previous Judy grave and lay their corpses together. Using the only shot ever fired from his Urkel Elimination Ray, he blasted the girls’ carcasses from existance, removing them from the space-time continuum, and retroactively negating the existance of any Judy Winslow from history.

6. Harriette Winslow, 6 December 1997. Failed. One night, as Urkel’s plan to marry Laura was heading towards it’s conclusion, he was accosted in his “war room” by Harriet Winslow. Urkel immediately attempted to suck Harriet into nothingness using a deadly new adjustment to his Urk-Vac, but she was protected by an impenetrable forcefield. He then attempted to take a drink of his gene altering “Bruce Juice” and defeat her with poorly choreographed martial arts, but Harriet destroyed the vial, before Urkel could take a swig. Harriet Winslow was a 12th level intellect and had spent the past decade building her barrier shield. She had initially feared taking on Urkel, so she played along while working on her project. She knew of all of Urkel’s crimes, and was in fact the anonymous tipster who led Lt. Murtaugh to Rodney Beckett. She threatened to reveal Urkel’s deeds to the authorities unless he did her a favor. She was tired of her bland suburban lifestyle and having to repeatedly teach Carl not to be sexist. She requested that she be replaced as the first Judy was and sent to NASA where her talents could be put to good use. Urkel constructed a new non-sassy, obedient Harriet for Carl and used his government contracts to get Harriet the job under a new alias.

Songs I Made in MTV Music Generator as a Promising Youth

The first MTV Music Generator by Codemasters was a licensed copy of a European program call Music 2000. Mainly focusing on house music, the program was a really fun to use sequencer (albiet with tinny sound and semi-wonky samples). I wasted tons of time with it back in the day. Here are some of my old beats.

Rockin’ Intro

“Rockin’ Intro” was originally made as music for the opening sequence for a video game I was working on. But of course, being lazy and easily distracted, I never brought it into fruition. I still think it’s a pretty cool little theme song, though.


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Well, Jonny

I called this song “Well, Jonny” in reference to Dr. Benton Quest’s great setup line before he goes into a detailed scientific explanation of Ghost Pirates or Shooting Pteradactyls with Bazookas. It’s a cover of the awesome Jonny Quest theme song by Hoyt Curtin. I made it mostly from memory as opposed to actually listening to the song so it combines the opening and ending themes into one big mess.


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Sonic

“Spring Yard Zone Remix” was something that I was working on as a submision to OCremix several years ago. I’d sweetened the audio, added a rap track, and made a nice intro and outro. It got a good initial response on the message boards, but when I went to go to work on it again, my ZIP disk that I kept my work on had crashed. All I was left with was the original MTV Music Generator file. I gave up after that. This is the original base for it without any extra icing. I kind of hate Sonic now.


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Twigger’s Holiday is Really Good

Somewhere between South Park, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job lies the world of Twigger’s Holiday, a semi-epic series of shorts created by all around awesome guy Rob Schrab for Channel 101. Twigger is colorful, insanely creative, profane, and full of ridiculously catchy songs. In a just world this would be an ongoing TV series.