14.09.2006 - Magical Sound Shower
Today was a good day, I had a good meeting, the weather was nice and my kids, although mad as a bag of spiders were generally well behaved. So coming home I found the cleaning lady finishing off what looks to have been an all day job. She must have broken her back all day long and yet been paid less than a quarter of my salary. What injustice in this world. Although surely I would have to be willing to take her place if Im to complain about injustice. Although before now, my employment record has been dotted with some equally shite jobs. I used to clean the crap from under every seat in meadowhall's cinema at 6am in the morning. Who would have thought I would be here now eh? My advice to you readers: go to Asia and teach english!
Getting back to the point, the cleaning lady didnt see me when I came in, and loitering my room I got a real paranoid fear that because she hadnt seen me enter, or ever seen me before to know who I was, she would freak out completely if she saw me now. And to look at me, sweaty as hell from a days work, ruffled hair, unshaven for a day, I would think I was a burglar too if I saw me. Working myself up with this ridiculous thought, I figured I would head out for a bit until the coast was clear. I tiptoed out into the hall and closed the door quietly.
Long story short, I ended up getting some Heiniken green tea and heading for the arcade on the 17th floor of SOGO, a place I used to frequent almost every day until I got TNT on the PS2. I played some Tekken and couldnt for the life of me figure out how the button placement on the cabinet related to the playstation controller setup, hence Yoshimitsu was failing around like a drunken idiot for the best part of my game. What I did finally play however was Outrun 2.
I was lured in my the striking simplicity of this game. I had "Outrun" more than ten years ago on my very first PC and it was only after playing this strikingly faithful follow up that I remembered why I loved it in the first place. Firstly the music, it was so catchy and awesome that you had to keep going just to hear it longer. Two of the most memorable tracks have been recreated in the sequel along with a bunch of new ones. Secondly it was the entire nature of the game, pure escapism. The sequel captures the spirit of the orginal perfectly, in that you are just some eighties surfer dude, setting out to drive seemingly forever with no aim except to enjoy smooth grooves and watch the sunset change from blue to orange to pink with your girlfriend in tow. Yes, its worth checking out, im not sure if this came out for any consoles, but you could always just download the original from somewhere, tune the radio to magical sound shower and cruise off into the sunset. I know I will be.
Tell next time,
This has been MMI
Getting back to the point, the cleaning lady didnt see me when I came in, and loitering my room I got a real paranoid fear that because she hadnt seen me enter, or ever seen me before to know who I was, she would freak out completely if she saw me now. And to look at me, sweaty as hell from a days work, ruffled hair, unshaven for a day, I would think I was a burglar too if I saw me. Working myself up with this ridiculous thought, I figured I would head out for a bit until the coast was clear. I tiptoed out into the hall and closed the door quietly.
Long story short, I ended up getting some Heiniken green tea and heading for the arcade on the 17th floor of SOGO, a place I used to frequent almost every day until I got TNT on the PS2. I played some Tekken and couldnt for the life of me figure out how the button placement on the cabinet related to the playstation controller setup, hence Yoshimitsu was failing around like a drunken idiot for the best part of my game. What I did finally play however was Outrun 2.
I was lured in my the striking simplicity of this game. I had "Outrun" more than ten years ago on my very first PC and it was only after playing this strikingly faithful follow up that I remembered why I loved it in the first place. Firstly the music, it was so catchy and awesome that you had to keep going just to hear it longer. Two of the most memorable tracks have been recreated in the sequel along with a bunch of new ones. Secondly it was the entire nature of the game, pure escapism. The sequel captures the spirit of the orginal perfectly, in that you are just some eighties surfer dude, setting out to drive seemingly forever with no aim except to enjoy smooth grooves and watch the sunset change from blue to orange to pink with your girlfriend in tow. Yes, its worth checking out, im not sure if this came out for any consoles, but you could always just download the original from somewhere, tune the radio to magical sound shower and cruise off into the sunset. I know I will be.
Tell next time,
This has been MMI
posted by Aaron | 6:28 AM
2 Comments:
hey,are you Larry David?
Hey man, thanks for bringing Outrun back into my life. Its so true that its juts about the pleasure of driving. Its sort of what I used to do with the first GTA, just turn it on and drive around. I do it with the 3D ones too, but it never lasts as long as its too tempting to get out and shoot stuff.
I've been listening to some 80's gaming radio stations via Winamp, and there's some awesome tunes out there.
Take it easy buddy
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