I know that in the March recap I said that this would be a weekly feature thereafter. Unfortunately, nothing too out there came my way. However, another week has passed and I’ve reloaded, and as you are reading this it’s quite obvious that “t3h w31rd” is here for yet another week.
But, um… if you do happen across something weird, funny or just plain cool, feel free to email it to your friendly neighborhood writer at JW@bingegamer.net, K? K. Moving on.
The $500,000 Dollar Game
Back in the 1980s, there was a company called Gammation. Gammation was a pioneer in the gaming industry for being one of the first big time 3rd party peripheral manufacturers. In fact, without Gammation we may not have Mad Catz or Pelican or Nyko — but we can debate whether or not that’s a good thing another time.
While rumors swirled in the early 80s that Gammation produced a game for Atari did swirl, no cartridges ever actually popped up. Until now, of course. eBay user “Phantom” posted the only known copy of Gammation’s Gamma Attack for the Atari 2600 on the auction site for the astounding price of $500,000.
Regardless of the rarity of the cartridge (again, this is the first one anyone has ever found), nobody took up the $500K price for it. “Phantom” has no plans to try and re-auction the item.
Carlie Daniels Does Not Approve
Anyone who has played Guitar Hero III will tell you that if you’re not prepared, the final boss battle with Lou will eat you alive. It’s a true beast, but also one of the best songs in the game and hell, it just sounds awesome. However, not everybody is happy with the inclusion of the Charlie Daniels classic “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” in Guitar Hero III, namely the man himself – Charlie Daniels.
I want any of you parents out there whose children have this game to know that I did not grant these people my permission to pervert my song and am disgusted with the result.
So what would have Charlie all up in arms? Does he feel that the cover song, which replaces a fiddle with a guitar, not do the song justice? Oh, no. He’s fine with that. He’s just freaked out by the “grotesque monsters”:
Actually the game really has a dark side complete with grotesque monsters on stage with the band, strange, eerie lighting effects and all manner of weird things popping up on the stage.
Look, Charlie Daniels is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. I’m not about to insult the man for his beliefs and old-timey ways. However, I will take issue with one comment Charlie made:
That is not the case with the Guitar Hero version which comes complete with a horned, guitar-playing devil who battles the player and very often wins.
This is true… if you suck.
…yeah… now if you aren’t aware, an entire subculture of Portal fans has grown out of the analysis of GlaDOS. In fact, the same guy also wrote up an analysis of Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive”, which has spawned what is arguably the single most intelligent game-related conversation I have ever come across. yo
Even if they are analyzing a song written by the same man who wrote this classic number.
Nintendo Lifts Ideas From Jackie Chan?
I don’t know who originally discovered this, but they should be given an award on behalf of all the internet. You see, with the massive hype surrounding that ridiculous Wii Fit balance board, many people were curious about what inspired Nintendo to go ahead with such an idea.
Turns out it was Jackie Chan, and Jackie Chan’s J-Mat Fitness board. Don’t believe me? Observe:
The J-Mat Fitness board, along with XaviXPORT (the hosting service for J-Mat supported games) launched in 2005, officially making this idea not Nintendo’s. Suck on that one, fanboys.
I Hope You All Get Pneumonia
Look, I’m no expert on all things Sweden, but I’m pretty sure they have pre-order policies. Either way, a small number of retards gamers retards have already started camping out in order to be the first to get their hands on Grand Theft Auto IV when it’s finally released. On April 29th. Sixteen days away.
But there is one guy in particular…
I don’t know what it is, but something about this guy really just… pisses me off. I don’t know why, but I really… really want to punch him in the mouth… moving on, before I get my blood pressure up.
Wii Want You
As a former member of the United States Army, seeing this story made my heart break, and my brain ache. You see, in an attempt to increase recruiting the US Army has begun a program wherein new recruits could win a Nintendo Wii.
One Wii.
Suffice to say the response to the campaign has been less than warm. In fact, the campaign has been such a disaster that the Army is planning on cutting the program entirely in May.
And finally, I’ll leave you all with a little tribute to my favorite gaming community, All Games Radio (sorry D’Toid, but All Games has seniority): Who all see da leprechaun say “Yeeeeeeah!”
See y’all next week!
The video that leads into this is “Alfred Ashford Parody EXTENDED Version” by YouTube user mjfan84. He also was the creator of the initial featured video in our Tuesday Tunes series for “Tearing Away“.
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