Any Way You Want It
Posted by Alex | Filed under Music
A few nights ago I was explaining the concept of Equalizr to someone, and he asked me,
“So… if I wanted to have a game based entirely on Journey, I could do that?”
“Yes Rob, you take your music, throw it in the game, and you can have it Any Way You Want It.”
What I didn’t realize until just yesterday is that someone had already beaten me to the punch!
I don’t know what amuses me most about this video: the random footage of a towheaded, shirtless youth playing a Pac-Man clone in an arcade (can anyone place that game?), the back-alley posturing clip of the band members, or the conspicuous absence of frontman Steve Perry.
Perhaps most notable is keyboardist Jonathan Cain’s longshot attempt to tie the subtext of the game to the creative process of an artist—not his own or his group’s, but Perry’s, vicariously—while Nick Schon smirks smugly in the background. Such is the tragic nature of the rock keyboardist, always required to justify their stature, however futile. Or maybe he just never gets stuck himself.
3 Responses to “Any Way You Want It”
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j.william Says:
December 14th, 2009 at 7:20 pmI totally forgot about that Journey game, most likely because it was completely forgettable. Terrible! It was like Riddle of the Sphinx with no riddle and you don’t get to throw stones.
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Alex Says:
December 15th, 2009 at 12:42 amI had to look up Riddle of the Sphinx on youtube, since it was before my time, and found this review (emphasis mine):
“…I find this game slightly more fun than Raiders of the Lost Ark and ET, but it not one I’d want to really play again either.”Slightly more fun than ET, that’s quite the endorsement. I wonder if there is a cache of Journey Escape cartridges buried somewhere in the Nevada desert, waiting to be found as a representation of our cultural achievement as a species.
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Hawk Says:
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:36 pmI remember this blog like it was just last year.