| The MAME in the Mirror. |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|11:37 am] |
MJ, as I'll always remember him.
Moonwalker was available on the Sega Genesis (the commercial above), and in the arcade.
( Arcade flyer for Michael Jackson's Moonwalker )
YouTube video playing through the arcade game
Speed demo of the entire Genesis version in three parts (partially remixed with the original music): 1, 2, and 3
Here's a shorter version that showcases some of the moves better:
You can emulate it on MAME for the arcade and . . . whatever it is one uses to emulate the Genesis. ROMs are available, though they are, of course, of questionable legality.
As ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) yeloson pointed out, "Look! POC protagonist who isn't a thug or kung fu master! He has magic and yet transforms into a robot!" And while I don't know anyone who had the Genesis game (I was pretty deep in Nintendo company, I guess), Moonwalker was always a favorite when my friends and I went to the arcade. It wasn't particularly difficult, but it had great music and moves, and it was just lots of fun to play. Pure entertainment, like everything MJ did.
It's a memory of a time when everyone, including Michael, believed that he could do anything, even transform into a jet and fly to the moon. |
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| Black people in JRPGs? Bad? |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|10:55 pm] |
"I must say, as an african american myself, I really don't understand the mindset that every dark-skinned JRPG character is some great sociocultural leap forward, nor the idea that cultural diversity is an intrinsically good thing for video games. But hey, go with what you feel."
How do you answer someone who says that? Do you answer them at all? What do you say?
X-Posted to blackfolk.
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| Radiant - an Exalted game variant |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|11:09 am] |
For you Exalted fans, Radiant is an Exalted "gamehack" (aka, an alternate set of rules to play Exalted with) by Shreyas Sampat. I haven't had a chance to dig into the rules, but they're really nicely laid out, free, and he also makes pretty awesome artwork all around:
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| Seriously? |
[May. 31st, 2009|01:34 pm] |
Walked into the game store yesterday to see THIS:
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| east coast (NYC?) minicon, someday? |
[May. 22nd, 2009|08:15 am] |
I've been thinking, on and off, about a small meetup / minicon on the East Coast, since it seems quite a few people are around there. I'm in Boston, but I could do NYC for some such thing. This is totally hypothetical at the moment. I'm most excited about tabletop RPGs, but other games could totally fit. Thoughts?
(hey yeloson come to the east coast thx)
ETA: I guess to be more useful, I'd be curious for opinions on venue. I have no idea where's gameable space in NYC. When me & some friends were having a LARP*, our original plan was to have it out in Central Park.
* This was an awesome "Midsummer Night's Dream" LARP. Yes. |
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| RPing with kids |
[May. 16th, 2009|05:07 pm] |
(crosspoted to Chromatic Gamers Network)
So, does anyone out there have first, second, third-hand knowledge or experience when it comes to involving kids in a roleplaying game? Or maybe know/read someone that has done such?
( roll on ) |
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| Who's doing nWoD gaming? |
[May. 8th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
I'm running a solo WoD game right now, and it'd be cool to bring in a few more PCs every now and then. Is there anybody in the NYC metro area who'd be interested in hooking up? |
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| the next step |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|04:01 pm] |
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A lot of times when we talk about race and gaming or racism and the fantasy genre, but something we rarely talk about is the next step in representing POCs in gaming and fantasy. What are some things you want to see happen in the fantasy genre and gamerdom so that it reflects more of who you are? |
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| Article: "Blackless Fantasy" |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|12:23 am] |
An article by Tanner Higgin that questions and theorizes the visual and discursive disappearance of blackness from virtual fantasy worlds (EverQuest, EverQuest II, and World of Warcraft).
sage.pub permits free access through the 30th. |
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| Play |
[Apr. 21st, 2009|02:38 pm] |
-Saved a gang of money by renting Halo Wars, Riddick-Assault on Dark Athena, and FEAR 2.
-Halo Wars was actually a lot of fun, and in some ways sidestepped the weird Asian American female character scientist/gruff white action dude stereotypes that I thought for sure it would fall into. It's a simple game, but maybe simple RTS on a controller is a good idea. I had a lot of fun with it. FEAR 2 was okay - what was most memorable was being in the open world and seeing the horrific giant grey cloud covering the sky from an explosion - what it might look like to dinosaurs if a meteor really did knock a ton of dust into the air.
-Riddick was okay. I liked it a lot on the original Xbox, but replaying it again, I found it kinda irritating and gave up.
-I'm coming to realize that, above anything else, I love level design. Not in terms of play - I like walking into a room/area/etc and being wowed by the design/look/ambience etc.
-The Pitt DLC for Fallout 3 is better than Anchorage, but didn't wow me. I'm a little annoyed at the giant new area combined with painstaking fetch quest thing - collect 100 steel ingots for some really cool exclusive armor. Normally I AM A SUCKER for that type of shit, but the weak Bethesda map system combined with the (literal) darkness of the area and the weak light of your PIP boy makes the exploration painful. Give me a damn flashlight, already.
-Playing through Mass Effect for like the 5th time. That game is like crack. I put it away for like a year, then... it's got me bad.
BONUS NERD: My pal is running a steampunk GURPS dino-human game. Last night I was healed by a Stegosaurian doctor. One of my fellow gamers broke out into song, singing in a highpitched voice: "When I get that feelin'/I need stegosaur healin'"
I laughed for like 5 minutes. |
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| Runes of Magic |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|04:41 pm] |
Runes of Magic
The Nitty Gritty:
-MMORPG
-Free to Download/Free to Play
-Six Classes; Warrior, Scout, Rogue, Mage, Priest, Knight
-One Race; human
-Dual-Class-ing
-Continuous world, no zone loading
-Instances
-Guild Halls
-Player Housing
( Pictures and Pontification ) |
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| What are you playing? |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|08:33 am] |
It's been too long since we did a game check in! What are you playing? What are you looking forward to get?
Me:
360 is still red-ringed and I'm doing a stupid amount of work. So my gaming has been decimated.
Right now I've been playing the Legend of the Five Rings Duels of Honor click game on Facebook- pretty much a fancier version of Kingdom of Loathing, but as an old L5R fan, I'm curious to see what they're including or not. The "social" aspect pretty much boils down to battling or hiring people onto your "Dynasty" to aid you in battles. Mindless but what I can do right now.
Just last week my sister flew in town and we threw down at dominoes, and apparently her skills fell off since I'm actually winning instead of getting schooled...
I'm trying to figure out what times/days would make sense for me to set up some Skype gaming and what rpgs I would run with it. Right now it's mostly the month of recovery.
Finally- I'm looking forward to Prototype on the 360 - you play a shapeshifter caught in a battle between the military and weird mutant types. When you take out a human, you read their memories, gain their skills and can shapeshift to look just like them.
And you can play co-op! Whether they executed it well or not is a good question and we'll have to see.
How about you? |
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| Bliss Stage |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|09:38 pm] |
Bliss Stage is an anime tabletop rpg set in a world where aliens attacked, leaving all adults in "the Bliss", a catatonic state of stasis. 7 years later, a band of teenagers led by an insomniac adult find a way to hack their way into the dream world and fight the aliens on their home ground- by forming dream mecha built of the emotional bonds of the people they love.
( Read more... )
I've been wanting to run a game of this for some time now. I've been lucky enough to playtest this before it came out, and just the idea of the whole emo-drama/giant robot/nightmare world head damage appeals to me on so many levels. Plus one of the rules is that the game takes place in whatever city you're at- so you can use all the local landmarks for the setting - I totally want to take a local map or google maps, print it out, put it on corkboard with colored push-pins for the classic mission planning map. |
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| And now for a Public Service Announcement . . . |
[Apr. 5th, 2009|01:19 am] |
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Dear Clueless White Folks,
I will no longer be nice to dipshits high on their own privilege.
I will no longer attempt to educate them by presenting facts and history in a calm, rational manner.
I will no longer expend energy pretending that they're decent, intelligent human beings who have a valid point of view.
From now on, I'm just going to be nasty because that works.
That's right - ignorant motherfuckers are getting cussed the hell out. I'm through with pretending that they mean well but just don't understand.
No more. No fucking more.
Time to toss that frog in the fire (get a cookie if you get the allusion).
Afrodyte
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| Depressed |
[Apr. 3rd, 2009|02:23 pm] |
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I really need to vent right now. I hope that's ok here?
My (White) husband and I have not lived in our current city very long. We're both homebodies, so making friends here has been a challenge. Since D&D 4e came out, we've pretty much used that as our main conduit to social interaction. We are in 2 groups, one of which he DMs, and we just signed up for the Living Forgotten Realms events so that will be a 3rd. 100% of the people we have played with so far have been White males. I am the only woman and only PoC.
I am very shy and afraid of confrontation with anyone I'm not extremely close to. I usually rely on my husband to speak to people when they're being offensive. And of course, it has happened. "Fag", "retard", and the like are thrown around casually. My husband mentioned it in one of the groups (group #2, the one he doesn't dm) and people were apologetic and made an effort to change. Someone made a Polish joke in group #1 and he let it be known he disapproves. So far, so good.
But there is this one guy; we'll call him Bob. He is in group #1 and we also introduced him to the DM of group #2 so he is in that one now too. He also opens his home for us to play there sometimes, which is very helpful. Once I thought I heard him make some crack about "darkies" but he kinda mumbled so I wasn't sure, and I didn't say anything. Bob has also said some misogynistic things in the past, which I sorta spoke up about, but not strongly. Then last week, my character was starting some romantic interaction with another player's character (a Drow) and Bob's all "Once you go Black, you never go back." Some people might think there's nothing offensive about that, but I do not. The smile on my face kinda froze into a strange grimace and I just stared at him. As in most tense social situations, my voice went away. Bob got uncomfortable so I guess he realized I had a problem with that. We continued play and afterwards my husband said he would call Bob up and talk to him before our next session, which will be at Bob's house.
I am pretty depressed, not just about that one incident, but about the whole situation in which I find myself. I'm too cowardly to speak up about these things, my social life is seriously lacking, and the game I play for fun is becoming a source of stress. I need some friends who aren't male and White! I have never been a "talk to people just because they're there" person. I like social interaction to be organized around some activity (like a game), at least during the "getting to know you" stage. Maybe I can meet people through volunteering, or something. |
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