August 10, 2010
BleepCast, Seph Carissa / texx sound, films, games, retro
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The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there’s no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You’ll love it! I’m happy, Bob!
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The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there's no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You'll love it! I'm happy, Bob!
July 1, 2010
BleepCast, Computing, music, retro
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There it is, what you haven’t been waiting for ever since: The BleepCast podcast is all about chip-music, retro gaming and memories from the good old times when we all were young and begun having no life, instead indulging in shitty games with shitty music, or as we call it: “Classics with epic soundtracks”. So if you want me to take you back to the past to play the shitty games that suck ass, then you just discovered your favorite podcast!
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There it is, what you haven't been waiting for ever since: The BleepCast podcast is all about chip-music, retro gaming and memories from the good old times when we all were young and begun having no life, instead indulging in shitty games with shitty music, or as we call it: "Classics with epic soundtracks". So if you want me to take you back to the past to play the shitty games that suck ass, then you just discovered your favorite podcast!
Level Information:
This level occupies a good 42 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 46:24 min.
This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally the dreaded F-word escaped my mouth. Sorry!
The first appearance of the term BleepCast at SongByToad.com. Still: I stick with the name and hope that nobody's gonna be a dick about it.
Jon Dunn's short bio on GiantBomb so you can read it yourself.
David Whittaker's awesome Total Recall theme from the Amiga.
A list of Jon Dunn's games which he made music for.
"Now you're playing with power -- SUPER P
February 20, 2010
Reports, games, retro
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Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max’ offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong!
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Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max' offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong!
So yesterday I finally had the cash together and some time to pick up the heavy packing case with tons of 1990's state of the art consoles. There was a a black Game Boy pocket, a painted PlayStation ("it glows under a UV-lamp"), a SNES with 50/60 Hz switch ("So you could play Japanese titles as well"), Nintendo 64 with memory extension, a Sega Dreamcast with modem and keyboard and a Sega Genesis with 32x extension and SEGA-CD drive, something so bulky that you just gotta love it. Everything in good to very good condition, compl