I thought I'd cracked it, folks - I thought I'd finally found that old Konami arcade shooter I had played in Electronic Experience all those years ago with the beautiful rip off/homage of Chopin as the level one music - Yes, indeedy, Thunder Cross seriously, genuinely, desperately looked like it fitted the whole goddamn bill...The look of the thing definitely rings some major bells with the old boy, especially the section with the multi-level parallax red cloud background (still a sucker for that stuff). Other wee touches like the big old metallic bosses (no, not another errant Sabs reference) are very much in the mould of the mystery game I'm thinking of... and I am still 90% sure it was published by Konami...
However, as that famed Zen master Roy Walker might have said when confronting this particular situation, "mmm...it's good...but it's not right". The dread realisation was something that I confirmed for myself first hand when I stumbled across this vid of the game being played from start to finish - it's full of standard issue late eighties synthy j-rock game music, all well done natch but nothing at all like the game music I'm hearing in my head - all upbeat, bass heavy, eminently danceable shit, no moody piano sonatas whatsoever, zero zilch zip nada. I sat through it all and watched the whole f**king thing being played to completion (yes, I am one singularly sad bas - hell, you must know that already) but, grud on a greeny, it just ain't the one... :-(((
So my (deservedly) lonely quest goes on - I move on to another place, assume another fake surname again, hope to God the folk in the next town don't make me angry (sorry, different quest, wrong meeting, erm, carry on)...anyway, I'm begging you, please, someone out there has just got to help me !!! Do I have to plough through every single friggin' japanese horizontal scrolling blaster released between 1985 and 1992 before I get any satisfaction around here ?!??!
Damn you! God damn you all to hell!
5 comments:
would love to be able to help you old bean but my memory of the old Electronic Experience isn't that good.
I remember that you only had to put two or more improbable words together and you had the title of a Capcom or Konami game...
My favourites we Rampant Unicorn X and the old clasic beat-em-up Herbal Penis Clan Wars.
Hmm, I seem to remember that other variation, Rampant Penis Wars, being a big favourite of old Hinshy back in the day but let's not go there... :-o
Anyhoo, it's frightening to think that the arcade game era we are talking about is nearly twenty flippin' years ago - I really am one demented old fart for still giving a fork about this kind of sh*t :-(
I have read that the Yank and Japanese versions of Thunder Cross are pretty different so my next move is to get them both fired up in MAME and see whether one of them has different music - a long shot but it might just work...
I need proof of your neigbours Sue Perkabilityness, that's what I call cross-blog contamination!!!
Hmm, Uncle Mex is still pondering the legal and moral ramifications of providing evidence of said Perkabilityness - tho' the fappability ramifications are unquestionable (oh dear, there I go lowering the tone again) :-P
BTW, did ya like my wee profile pic with my last comment on your blog ? I tried to crop it so that Uncle Mex/IG-88 would be shown in deep conversation with Hunny/Bossk but it was difficult to get us both in the pic... :-)
sorry I thought that was just your passport pic?!?
I'm not saying post a pic here, email your filth!
I'll send you a pic of fatboy so you can have a chortle.
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