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Prancing horses

OutRun 2

I wanna say the majority of arcades I visited in the ‘80s and the early ‘90s always had an OutRun arcade cabinet.  With this cabinet, three things always come to mind.  1) The cool ability to select the music you wanted to listen to as you raced.  2) The satisfying way the shifter “clunked” from the low gear to the high gear.  3) The way how the steering wheel you were gripping violently shook when you crashed your incredibly expensive car.  Twenty some-odd years later, there would be a sequel to this game called OutRun 2.  Now while I never played it at the arcades, I got to play it on the Xbox; where this port was successful in accomplishing 2 out of those 3 items above by replicating them, and improving on the 3rd by swapping it with another type of game mechanic.  Here’s a writeup about this fantastic sequel.

Wicked realm

Evil Zone

A fighting game full of crazy made up words like Eretzvaju, I-Praseru, and Ihadurca.  More bizarre is the voice actor of Roy Campbell, placing his identifiable voice all over this game as both a character and narrator.  Adding to this is the voice actor of Duke Nukem, Jon St. John.  Even with all of this voice acting craziness, it’s a game still worthy of your attention.

Something new / Strings, guitars, and gitaroos

Here’s that new piece of content I keep spouting on about.  It will be a feature that will contain a series of short write-ups for games I’ve played.  I’ll start with ones I recently played but I’m also planing to write some stuff regarding classics from the Genesis and NES eras too.  Actually, I’m hoping I’ll be able to cover a wide spectrum of games from many consoles and PC games.  I plan to keep this feature going for a while, so get used to it.  Or ignore it.  Your choice.

Gitaroo Man Lives!

Here’s the first entry of this new feature.  Starting things off easy with a rhythm game for the PSP.  I didn’t get into this game until way, way after it was released.  So long in fact that it was only five bucks used at the local game store; complete with manual and clean of any scratches and cracks.  Buying it solely only on the covert art, it turned out to be a diamond in the rough.