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Technically I can't offer it to you directly, but I bet if you asked nicely, @LOKIOLR (on twitter) might still have it...
One of the biggest summer blockbusters to come out in theaters during our eight years on the internet, would have to be Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga. A (really violent) story about revenge, which also featured some awesome action sequences, lots of swordfighting and martial arts action.
One of the songs on the soundtrack was 'Battle Without Honor or Humanity', which interestingly enough made an appearance in DDR SuperNOVA on the PS2 back in 2007. But that's not the version I'm featuring.
After watching the Blu-Ray version of Volume 1, I remembered that there was a remix of this song done by our very own LOKI! It takes everything that was awesome about the original, while adding just enough new to make it kick even more ass! To me it sounds almost like a mashup with something out of The Matrix movies (which were also still relatively popular) for a very epic mashup.
System: PSP, PS3 Price: $4.99 US (Playstation Store)
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess is a PSP mini platformer that has you in the shoes of the Duke, a vampire with a flair for flamboyant dramatics, looking for his lost princess. The game play is simple and the graphics are great but is it worth the $5?
Welcome to this week's installment of Retro Rearview. This week, I thought I'd take a look at another one of the lesser known systems, although probably not as obscure as last week's entry. The Sharp X68000.
The X68000 was a home computer released by Hudson Soft in Japan, and had various versions (with upgraded RAM, processor, and HDD) released dating as far back as 1987. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that all the games managed to fit on a handful of 5.25" floppy discs!
I'm sure you're thinking, "5.25 floppies?! I bet that thing only runs like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers... maybe Space Invaders if you're lucky!!" Au contraire, I say, as the X68000 had a pretty solid library of games, including some (damn near perfect) arcade ports:
After Burner (SEGA)
Bomberman
Bubble Bobble
Castlevania (aka Akumajo Dracula in Japan, but this one did get a limited US release as 'Castlevania Chronicles' on PSX, which also featured a mode with updated visuals and SFX/music.)
Detana! Twinbee
Dragon Slayer
Final Fight
Galaga '88
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Gradius II
Knights of Xentar (Which I read has some mature content)
Lemmings
Mr. Do
The New Zealand Story
Parodius Da!
River City Ransom (Under its Japanese title, of course Downtown Nekketsu Kunio-Kun, a vastly improved version of the NES/Famicom original)
Street Fighter II
Strider
Twinbee
Ultima
Valis II
Xevious
Ys 1&2
Another interesting bit of trivia, is that many of the arcade games released at the time (like Capcom's, for example) were all developed originally on the X68000 platform, which made pixel-perfect arcade adaptations possible! In fact, one of the many addons released for the X68000 was an adapter made by Capcom which allowed use of either SNES or Genesis controllers (Like say, the CPS Fighter stick which was released for both) which allowed for near-perfect arcade action at home!
Unfortunately, the X68000's last release was in 1993, while there had been one more updated version of it planned, for whatever reason it was cancelled and never released. Perhaps it had to do with the impending release of the Sony Playstation? The world.... may never know.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my look back at the Sharp X68000... certainly one of the most amazing computer systems ever released on either side of the world. Tune in next week for yet another look into the annals of history for another classic videogame system from years past.
There are a whole lot of Starcraft II updates in the first half of our show tonight... you will not believe what people are doing with some of the editors. It probably is nothing compared to a game meant for editing-- Littlebigplanet 2! Nintendo talks some big plans including online presence, a mystery reveal, and more anti-piracy measures... but how much of it do we believe? In part B, we talk about a barrage of fan films to hit the internet recently, as well as a pair of music games... one of them a Bemanish game, the other a game by Armin Van Buuren. All this plus George Romero and... the BABYMAKER. OLR is not just about the news, but it is about YOU-- after all, we are the show where EVERY gamer has a voice. Chatroom antics, live phone calls, twitter topics, e-mails and much more-- it all unfolds LIVE and is here now for you to download!