Bleep Bloop Blog

Bleep Bloop - Arcade UFO

Our final “Save the Arcades!” stop. Thanks again to all the great people we met on our trip, especially the arcade owners.

Bleep Bloop: DJ Hero

- Caption we didn’t use: “A DJ Hero saved my game last night.”
- Like Tony Hawk Ride, we’ve been planning a DJ Hero episode pretty much since it was announced. Bleep Bloop loves unusual videogame hardware (for instance, Rock Band fog machines and yesterday’s nightvision goggles).
- Best joke that didn’t make the episode - “I thought this was VJ Hero and we were going to be broadcasting from Cancun”
- Whenever we only have three people we try to balance things out with some of our friends from StuffedRobot.com
- LeShev’s legit, here’s his MySpace

We got the Call of Duty Prestige Edition which comes with, among other things, actual nightvision goggles. Here’s the unboxing.

For the third installment of our Save the Arcades campaign we visited Game Galaxy in Nashville.

Notes:
- The ad for Back to the Future pinball is amazing.
- The pizza was from S’barros, and I did eventually eat it.
- I did awesome at the Sopranos pinball machine there, eventually earning an extra ball.
- Pat alludes to Crime Patrol 2, which happened in Bleep Bloop: War on Drugs.

We played both Wu Tang Shaolin Style and Hannah Montanna The Movie The Game for this week’s Bleep Bloop, though neither made the main episode.

Hannah Montanna’s just not that interesting. We actually played this one when we shot our last sequel, Girly Games Slumber Party II, though it wasn’t interesting enough for that episode either. I’d say it’s pretty unlikely we’ll try for a third time, sorry Miley.

Wu Tang Shaolin Style is one of the few PS1 games that doesn’t work in PS3. You can watch the movies and get to the character selection screen, but it hangs on the loading screen.We actually went out and bought a PS1 ($25!), but then we couldn’t get the PS1 to work with our video recorder.

Bleep Bloop - Games Starring Musicains II

Notes:
- This is more or less the 50th episode of Bleep Bloop.
- Way back when we did Games Starring Musicians I we ordered Queen: The Eye, a dystopian PC game that spans 5 CDs and features the music of Queen. I had to import it from the UK so it didn’t get here in time. We’ve had it for a year now and for the life of me I can’t get it running. There’s an issue with Windows XP and the sound drivers that as far as I can tell only me and one guy on the QueenZone.com messageboards are having.
- Also had trouble getting the Motorhead and Frankie Goes to Hollywood games, both of which are for Commodore 64. Perhaps in Games Starring Musicians III.
- It killed me not to include 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand which actually isn’t terrible but has perhaps the craziest premise (50 rampages through Iraq in search of a diamond crusted skull). I skipped it because it was already featured in Bleep Bloop: Virtual Celebrities.