Big World 10; or a podcast, then [censored] phallus.

05.27.09
New podcast! It's been long in coming, but here we are again. For the first time, here's the playlist courtesy of thumb-drive DJing. I'm like Johnny Mnemonic, but with more "data capacity." (Quite a bit more, in fact.)


The broad overview is acid-freak Arthurian legend into lo-fi African hip-hop into some excellent vintage Japanese blues-rock into chiptune into some rather mind-bending gravelly singing-ish hip-hop (you have to hear it to imagine).






It's a pretty damn good show this time out, and I'm not a little proud of it. Don't mind the moment in each of the first two songs when it cuts out for a second. Our laptop hard-drive is apparently suffering a slow death, but D.J.O.E. (my regular co-host, for those new to the show) was able to transition over to the actual recording/broadcasting laptop, and everything proceeded just fine after that. He literally saved the show, probably not for the first or last time, either. Let's say extended commentary in the comments field. (Let me know if there's any problem with the Mega Upload file, as it was acting pretty weird.)


Okay, I don't usually write much about the YouTube videos, but these... these warrant a disclaimer. A put your kids to bed, NSFW... Vern would have a seizure if she watched these. Ah, I got it. That's why I find myself drawn to them. They're genuinely scary, something I haven't experienced in a long time. If these don't freak you out and just impress the hell out of you, there is something wrong with either your eyes or head.

They're so deadly serious that the YouTube comments aren't even about sex?! I've almost never seen that before.

It could be dangerous. It could be diseased.

ALF








Which I believe are from Andrew Hussie, half of the team Jandrew Edits that brought us that lovely Star Trek TNG fan edit series found a few posts back, of which there are some new ones, as well. (Those Alf videos have been continually drawing me in and freaking me out all fucking week. Three cheers for the corruption of a more innocent era.)





And lastly, something I've been sitting on for quite a while, waiting for a good post to append them to. Unfortunately, if I intend to work my way through the entire series it will have to be portioned out over (let's see) about seven posts. Alright, enough stalling.


Famicase
If I have any readers that diligently trawl the gaming scene sites that I link to then they'll already be aware of the Famicase exhibit, put on annually by Meteor, a Tokyo games shop. Every year they ask artists, designers, illustrators, and assorted sundry creative folk to design a label for an invented and imagined Famicom game cartridge. Similar to the vintage paperback game-cover redesigns, or that Criterion meme that was circulating for a while, except in this case divorced from any actual game. It's a really great project with some stunningly fantastic results.

The American gaming sites that have linked to it have reposted a few of the pieces, but they all neglect to mention that each label is accompanied by a fictitious company logo, which are almost all equally interesting and well designed. I only just started collecting these in addition to the actual labels, as I think they'll function quite nicely as inspiration and motivation in the design of my rubber stamp, the necessary missing element of my business card, which I am fairly happy with so far.

The link for the 08 collection changed when they uploaded the 09 show, but it's still out there. (It took me a lot of agonized trawling to turn it up at all.) Take a look if you haven't already.

Notice anything? Each cartridge also has an accompanying description in text. Oh man, I thought, what I would give to be fluent in Japanese. But... there's always machine translation, right? Which, though obviously being astronomically removed from genuine authentic translation, at least gives another degree of insight into what the original designer had been thinking about their game's concept or premise when they made the artwork. So here's the first eight from the last two years collections with accompanying pseudo translation. Some of them are more clear than others, but I found them to be very illuminating and entertaining nonetheless.

Famicase 08
Games 1-8


"KASETTOBASHI"
CONSUMERS / musician & designer Official Site
Use the original NES console, cassette discharged (ejected) out of how soft competition. Cassette used, certified by the Association KASETTOBASHI TYPE-A ~ G (classified by weight) only, except when using the cassette as it is no official record. Criteria, to range upwards, the horizontal distance of the land, art (acting air) determined by total points. The current world record July 15, 2006 in Sydney on Sunday "KASETTOBASHI Summer 2006" by her in the SARAN BERUNADETTO of France won the 158.2 points


"Whale noise"
2g (NIGURAMU) / Official Site cartoonist and illustrator
Your FC up to the front of the connector 20 can be connected. Four-way controller with a side of the controller 2 controls the audible noise from the controller. (2 Please listen to it in the controller) you will hear a channel is good for something better. Maybe we can hear the voices of the whales if you're lucky


"FAMILY CONTROLLED 303"
Die / KetchupArts Hondalady
FC was released in 1988, music production software that uses the instrument. Rhythm software was released simultaneously, FC-606 is a unified design, the two cars side by side in a rock band! Copy, that is called a hot topic on the band, for the same period a vague way, was not popular. But the music scene of 1990 that occurred in late age, with this software in ACID BIT MUSIC, can enter the limelight. Fewer number of releases, because the manufacturers have gone bankrupt in the secondhand market is still rising in value.


"LOVE LOVE FAVORITHOLD 48"
Enami Tadashi Akira / T-shirt shop
○ like her on-screen long played the sexy one that we pose, pose取RI続KE through time in the time limit or use the hands and feet anywhere in the matte screen shows all clear to 48 aspects 1P mode.
○ touch anywhere who played alternately in the two great approach to losing and losing RABURABUMODO 2P pose either. And friends! And love! My husband! Family! Satisfactorily married couples, love, accomplishment.決MERO take all the tricks of love必殺Now! ! Family Trainer mat software included


"FAMIKASEROKKU"
Yuppy / office worker
FAMIKONSEKYURITISOFUTO. Registration screen is displayed and PIN number to start the software, plug in a cassette. And lock the cassette body to register a PIN, enter your PIN unless you have registered, you can not remove the cassette. By using this software, prevents the parents of the children for a long time to gameplay. Also, included up to my friends at home, the act that prevents FAMIKONPUREI. ※ Please never stop because you will damage the body and force cassette抜KOU


"PIGEON RACING"
Tetsuya八川/ FrogPort manager
That pigeon racing is an elegant sport handed down from 5000 BC. Kimi is the owner of a mating pigeon racing, training, pigeon race held in and around training.目指SE won the race to win a prosperous and demanding to be only a few percent evasion rate! ! Reflect the current position of racing pigeons is love GHPS (pigeons global positioning system) you can check real-time flight status feature! !


"DIGUBAGU"
President Muscat / enthusiast Scratch
Technical bugs WAKASHI賑was a lot of tricks of the magazine section at the game, it was built in secret in the game using the bug! It is points to a bug discovered during play, taking out and putting on a cassette while the coercive power to be an expert, you can make a screen appearance hides a new bug in high score or to replace . What is it good for bugs but it shook a little weak in NES console is more vibration, and strong-arm tactics that were popular on stage and warp back in time to the body vibrated. You can clear the true 256W?


"DOLPHIN ISLAND 2"
KOKOSAC / Artists
DORUFINAIRANDO regained his peace of peach and Sola. Sola incident occurs in the world back to reality from the game. Be rewritten by someone DORUFINAIRANDO of peace programs, the return of Satan will have trouble beating. Games had a cassette, and we are caught in Satan classmates. Find Sola programmers in the real world.乗RI込MI the game world instead of Sola, AISHA classmates head to recapture. 2 beaten while visiting the world of Satan, that I can save someone's classmate.


Famicase 09
Games 1-8


"True hunting octopus"
Kuske (KPLECRAFT) / Musician
The offensive stars of the Octopus!
And this is a monster with the Legion!
It's bad!


"What is the weather (sunny and cloudy Tokyo)"
[JP] TV "DCT-Channel" and is your job to forecast the weather on a weather map of the Japan Meteorological Agency announced. As faithful viewers, please choose the weather. Remove CHATTARA If N ○ K might get people watching. Good luck


"BABURISHINSESAIZA"
2PLAYER OTANI (SEXY-SYNTHESIZER) Official Site
All gold world, gold, gold action games. BABURI world and mind of the enemy to his knees and tossed a wad of money. If less money, earned in the casino and gambling baccarat. Natural Nine NAISUDORO! Let's Xeni ZENIGEBA ... crazy SHUSENDO ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥


"Dr. Land Puzzle virus"
2g (NIGURAMU) / dishwasher meat
The virus comes down
Disappears and the next three rows of two viruses in the same color?
Vanish and the two vertical rows of two viruses of the same form?
Surrounding the virus disappears in the same?
More random in each round of change in rules 500
Put out to find a rule against the virus before the ever-increasing,
Ride off! (The chain is a genius, if possible.)


"Mei tei oh (king drunk)"
CAP / office worker
King win the seat of drunkenness, drinking good wine in the world!
New sense of inability to control game action.
Several attempts to clear the stage while enjoying the state of drunkenness.
And would destroy the tourist rush to the stage to a minus ...
Beyond the level of Z-grade B zetto The gift is a memorable series.


"All you can eat meat."
Kaori Baba / Graphic Designer
Ride meat eat eat eat! Each time you clear a stage, upgrade the menu. You can eat the meat and roast rare luxury. The bonus stage is a quiz challenge cult by friend roast roast! Roast chain if all the games, "he cow" can be used at all 800 stores will be distributing discount coupons. ※ 2000 valid at least


"Twilight TV"
Hasegawa Shiyunsuke / office worker
I have not seen, I want them. Let's become such a television lighting. Firefly or jellyfish, or any other TSUKIYODAKE photogen, fire, moonlight, stars, features a variety of light situations such as night scenes big world 10. Emission patterns and fluctuations, the analysis of tone, a bit combination of art reproduced in taste. Sub lighting.
* Timer function
* UP lighting effect from the attachment and not included in the sale.


"Zan cans - ends Kang -"
Asami / GURAFIKKA
I wish I can say I listen to country and even her cat Eitz also. Cans worth of them around (values) to the hole, go to your own values KAKIMAWASHI stuck in GUTCHAGUCHA the contents, being a dictator of the world! Now let's not cooperate! I倒SOU the hearts of everyone! R11 SAITEADOBENCHA designated as a RPG. "You're the values of the Rain!"