Video Game Music Sorbet - Mega Man: The Power Battle
With this week's release of Mega Man X on the WiiWare network (PS3 and Xbox versions coming out this week!) and recent news that Bass will be available soon as a playable character through DLC, what better way to sit back on a Saturday afternoon in our Wily cosplay outfit and pop the top off a few E-tanks and relax to the soothing beat of the ultra rare Mega Man fighting game, the Power Battle, one of the first games that allowed you to pick between playing as Mega, Proto Man, or Bass:
City of Doves Flying Out Of Everyone's Sleeves
Ever want to be in a John Woo movie? Ever want to be in a John Woo movie about punching aliens and nazis in the face with dual welding bulletfists? Well, if you pre-order the new City of Heroes expansion pack, Going Rogue, you get access to a new powerset right this second: Dual Pistols!
Pork and Ammunitions Never Had It So Good
Do you like bacon? Do you like shooting people in the face? Also, do you like Team Fortress 2 only you wished it took place in a hyper-futuristic arena that would make Smash TV look like that Rollerball remake? Well then, I have two gifts for you: Monday Night Combat and its new bacon crisper/ammo casing, the AmmoMule. The game is coming out later this year on Xbox 360, so get your pork fat smoked now in anticipation.
Good Music You Should Know About - The Disco Biscuits
One of the benefits of having MTVu on my digital cable channel listing isn't just their awkwardly low-rent ABC Newsbreaks in between commercial breaks. No, often times you get bombarded with shapes, colors, and sounds. Roughly 95% of the videos shown by this MTV spin-off are weird indie band who exploit animation or retro irony to get their video play. The other 5%? Pure genius that exploit animation and retro irony, like Disco Biscuits' "You And I" which also has the benefit of featuring the (I have to assume true) story of a lonely Japanese salaryman:
Episode 240 - “Rape Your Way To A Better You!”
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the season finale of Fair Use Law case file 2. To celebrate, the Triceratops Tribunal has reformed and leveled up to the Triceratops Triforce as we bring you even more inanity and/or inappropriate sex jokes than ever thought possible. This week we discuss EA putting a dollar value on the female nipple, what a female bobsledder wears underneath her spandex when she splits her pants, how awesome Arkedo Studios is when compared to Bob of Bob’s Game infamy, Carly Simon being so vain and/or broke, and Dan takes one for the team and test runs “Sleeping with Hinako” as a legit sleeping aid.
With the end of Case File 2, I give you a mega dose of show note video clips!
We start with an honest-to-goodness product of ultra double plus good greatness for all to try. Branching out from programming for the DS (including underrated gems like Nervous Brickdown and Big Bang Mini), game programmers Arkedo are now doing some excellent and excellently well priced Xbox Live Indie Games. Here's the first in the series with Arkedo Series 01 Jump!:
Continuing on the trend of greatness, Randy and Dan also gush about one of their new favorite movies to come out of the great country of Spain this week in the movie Rec 2, the sequel to the movie that was renamed Quarantine when it was brought to American theaters. Here's a sneak peak to whet your appetite for gore, shaky cam, and zombies:
Also watched this week and life changing in its own right was the Spike Lee produced documentary Confederate States of America, a documentary recapping the last two hundred years or so of US history if the confederacy won the Civil War:
Folks, I believe the Winter Olympics and Female Bobsledding finally got interesting:
Since we're pretty sure Carly Simon is so vain she probably thinks this podcast episode is all about her, we'll spare you a video of her performing her viral marketing stunt dressed up as a pop song. Instead, here is the video for Nine Inch Nails Starsuckers Inc (a classic example where a PG-rated censorship makes a song title funnier):
And finally, I apologize in advance for the following video. This week on the podcast we ran an experiment if Japanese anime sleep aid "Sleeping With Hinako" actually could help the overly wound up fall asleep peacefully to very mixed results. It turns out this was actually a sequel to a very popular initial product: Training with Hinako, the animated work out video to help all fatty fat fat otakus get in shape through the abuse of fan service:
With the end of Case File 2, I give you a mega dose of show note video clips!
We start with an honest-to-goodness product of ultra double plus good greatness for all to try. Branching out from programming for the DS (including underrated gems like Nervous Brickdown and Big Bang Mini), game programmers Arkedo are now doing some excellent and excellently well priced Xbox Live Indie Games. Here's the first in the series with Arkedo Series 01 Jump!:
Continuing on the trend of greatness, Randy and Dan also gush about one of their new favorite movies to come out of the great country of Spain this week in the movie Rec 2, the sequel to the movie that was renamed Quarantine when it was brought to American theaters. Here's a sneak peak to whet your appetite for gore, shaky cam, and zombies:
Also watched this week and life changing in its own right was the Spike Lee produced documentary Confederate States of America, a documentary recapping the last two hundred years or so of US history if the confederacy won the Civil War:
Folks, I believe the Winter Olympics and Female Bobsledding finally got interesting:
Since we're pretty sure Carly Simon is so vain she probably thinks this podcast episode is all about her, we'll spare you a video of her performing her viral marketing stunt dressed up as a pop song. Instead, here is the video for Nine Inch Nails Starsuckers Inc (a classic example where a PG-rated censorship makes a song title funnier):
And finally, I apologize in advance for the following video. This week on the podcast we ran an experiment if Japanese anime sleep aid "Sleeping With Hinako" actually could help the overly wound up fall asleep peacefully to very mixed results. It turns out this was actually a sequel to a very popular initial product: Training with Hinako, the animated work out video to help all fatty fat fat otakus get in shape through the abuse of fan service:
Video Game Music Sorbet: X-Men - The Arcade Game
Every Saturday here at the Fair Use Law institute for higher learning/mutant sanctuary we like to sit back with our exploding Popecrawler communion wafers and a sifter of the Legacy Virus cure and listen to some of our favorite video game music of yesteryear. One of the bigger games of our childhood, one that would forever change arena rock at we know it, was X-Men: The Arcade Game, giving the video game population its first taste of playable Dazzler AND Colossus' most excellent Russian yell. Form a secondary mutation of excellent hearing and please enjoy its awesome beats:
RIP Andrew Koenig, The Ultimate Joker
The comedy podcast community was hit hard this week when news of Never Not Funny's video director and resident AK47, Andrew Koenig, was missing in Vancouver. Sadly, after an exhaustive search that included an incredible outpouring on Twitter and Facebook, the search ended with the discovery of Andrew's apparent suicide. Please, if you or anyone you know is suffering from depression, please reach out for help.
In tribute to Andrew, I give you his great turn as the Joker in this Batman short film, proving that sometimes the best cinematic version of a character isn't in major motion pictures:
In tribute to Andrew, I give you his great turn as the Joker in this Batman short film, proving that sometimes the best cinematic version of a character isn't in major motion pictures:
