Good Tune Get!

Anamanguchi are the fore-bringers of contemporary and assessable chip-tune music. Thus far in my listening of the chip genre, the dudes of Anamanguchi have been the only ones to really thrust it as far mainstream as possible, and they’ve done a damn fine job.

Helix Nebula from their debut album, Power Supply has to be one of my favorite tracks of theirs. The magic for me begins around the one minute mark.

Anamanguchi - Helix Nebula
right click, save as, and download.

- Kyle

Good Game Get! Critter Crunch

I don’t have an iPhone, and I had a BlackBerry Storm, but the data plan was getting too expensive to justify always looking and checking my phone for email that I really didn’t give a shit about, so now I have a Nokia Twist, and it’s pretty awesome, and doesn’t have a data plan which is nice, and now I can use that extra thirty a month to save and to buy awesome seven dollar games like Critter Crunch.

Now, let me clarify, if I did have an iPhone, I might justify the data plan, just to play the wonderful critter crunch on the go. Actually nah, it does look better on our TV than a fucking telephone.

So Critter Crunch is the puzzle game you wish you would’ve came up with back in 2008 when you had decided that developing an iPhone app could be insanely profitable, but ending up giving up because you had decided that all good puzzle ideas had been taken.

Wrong. Critter Crunch is incredibly unique and like most falling block games, a line of block-esque creatures are falling and you have to destroy them. The catch is that you must use an idea of a food chain to swap critters inside of your mouth and into the mouths of the critters that want to eat the particular saliva drenched monster that was just inside of your mouth.

You even have a rainbow barf meter that you fill up and then feed your son with.

He burps afterwards. It’s cute.

Overall it’s a wonderful game, it’s one of the prettiest games on the PSN, and the multiplayer critter crunchin’ is joy. Even the ambient jungle music is great.

I give it two rainbow barfs up.

- Kyle

First Trailer for Dragon Quest VI

Just when I purchased my copy of Dragon Quest V off of eBay, Square-Enix releases this rad 3D spinning, monster battle, dramatic music trailer of Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie.

I gotta say, I dig the word music between Realms and Reverie. Good title.

- Kyle

via Silconera

Club Nintendo

So after I received my DSi, I decided to register it with Nintendo at Club Nintendo. I then realized that I hadn’t done any of the surveys for games I had registered with Nintendo before Club Nintendo accounts were made, so I linked my accounts together and proceeded to take surveys for coin, which would eventually nail me this awesome Mario hat game end.

Talk about snazzy, I’m so stoked!

I do hope that perhaps I’ll score more coins if Nintendo likes my delightful answers.

- Kyle

09.09.99 - 09.09.09 Ten Years! Happy Birthday Dreamcast!

You are the only system that I’ve ever got on launch day and never wanted to sell. You rock, and I’m sorry you died so soon.



Here is to a lifetime of returning to you and playing your wonderful games.

Cheers.

- Kyle

Tectoy releases Sega Mega Drive 4 with 87 Built-in Games Including a Guitar music game called Guitar Idol

This isn’t one of those clone machines, this is the real deal! The TecToy Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) 4 is coming bundled with a real 2D Guitar game and is exclusively for the Brazilian market. Some of the included bands are Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Ramones. Of course that isn’t all you get because 86 Genesis games are bundled with the system too, such as Sonic, Altered Beast, and Golden Axe.

The above screen shot is from Guitar Idol. How incredibly awesome that this is being done. I really want to see some videos of this thing.

You even get two colorful and awesome Genesis pads! I seriously wouldn’t mind importing something this awesome to get all the goodness for most likely a very reasonable price.

- Kyle

via - gamesetwatch

Good Book Get! Asterios Polyp

Asterios Polyp is the first original graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli and it has quickly became one of my favorite graphic novels. First, just look at the above cover. The graphic design for the book is absolutely perfect, and I have nothing to critique.

The novel itself is short of perfect, but I assure you that through weird, but intelligent existentialism, heartfelt illustration and one of the best color pallets I’ve seen in a book, Mazzucchelli manages to craft quite the graphic novel.

The book follows a retired, divorced fifty-year old architect named Asterios Polyp, whose apartment burns down during a thunder storm. As his home is burning, Asterios grabs a few precious possessions, pockets them, and heads to the nearest train station.



Polyp embarks on a journey and grows more than he ever thought possible in a short time, with a family he would’ve never been caught associating with during his pretentious past.

He ventures forth, thinking of his past, his mistakes, and his lover, whom he lost, and dearly misses.

Mazzucchelli does things with frames, lines, and color that communicate feeling, and thought, so incredibly that I haven’t seen some of it in the comic medium before. Some pages in the book are incredibly ground-breaking.

I highly recommend checking the novel out, it’s well worth the money, and I’m certain it will enjoy a spot on your shelf for years to come.

- Kyle

Do fat music producers in sweat pants talking about themselves make you want to buy video games?

I’m really tired of mainstream video game media, and if you’re here, and if you read GGG! often, you probably are too. Websites like Joystiq* tend to just copy and paste press releases instead of doing any sort of investigative work or even adding any sort of professional opinion on them.

Take the new Timbaland/Rock Star Games collaboration for example. Before even talking about the game, Joystiq posted this narcisstic mess of a promo video with Timbaland sitting on his couch with his son and their PSP go, playing with Timbaland’s newest music video game/app.



What the fuck is that crap? Not only does this music app/game look like absolute shit, Timbaland is an idiot. A plagiarizing, self-serving idiot.

Is that desireable? Does that promo video convince consumers that they should buy Timbaland’s game?

- Kyle

* I visit Joystiq often for the press-releases, but shouldn’t a supposedly independent video game blog be more than just PR fodder?

Barack Obama in Super Mario Bros. Skit on a Japanese Television Show

This is one of many Barack Obama references I’ve seen Japan making. Do the Japanese really like President Obama? Are they continually mocking his campaign motto until they get tired of it, or we finally figure out their true intentions?

Barack cameo aside, this Super Mario Bros. skit is extremely entertaining and is one of many of the prop/hidden actor skits on Kinchan no Kasotaisho.

- Kyle

via offworld.