Lordi is a group of monsters that are neither good or evil, trying to escape purgatory The beostie boys met when the group ran from the police after a robbery at a fancy restaurant Daft punk is a couple of alien robots, trying to bring peace to earth through rock Len was a group of kids from d rock city touring the world, like a pop & rap version of josey & the pussy cats. Iron maiden is a bunch of zombies, trying to destroy the devils influence on the world, through the " creative zone" , using metal. Elvis went to prison & reformed himself, as a gospel rock singer Rush was a bunch of rock musicians who left there post apocalyptic planet, after there guitarist redisovered music , to explore earth The guys who did " safety dance" , were apparently sewer mutants .... Yeah, bands have lore .... : /
Just for those who are wondering: The awful music for the credits is me mixing the music from the Atari game with the Arcade game. I had to play with the tone and tempo to make them match up and they still sound awful together. Enjoy.
I read somewhere that the engine for the arcade game (the b&w headshots on characters bit) was developed for a concept where the player’s own face would be photographed and then used in the game. That idea was scrapped when people photographed their... not faces.
Ok, that part with tape recorder gets genuine props from me. It works in the band's music in a logical manner and utilises game's theme (as much as there is) to its fullest.
Not counting alll those obvious pinball, dancing & rhythm games, there is a surprising amount of weird games based on bands, like that Kiss: Psycho Circus FPS, the adventure game Queen: The eYe, that God awful Blues Brothers 2000 platformer, the Wu-Tang Clan fighting game & the Aerosmith arcade shooter Revolution X just to name a few.
The Wu-Tang Clan fighting game also actually evolved from the cancelled PS1 game Thrill Kill, whom EA balked at for being too gratuitously violent (not to mention that its AO rating meant that a console release is out of the question; console manufacturers do not allow games with such rating on their platforms).
It really shows my age that I didn't think of the recent Journey game at all and instead thought "oh yeah, I remember that game and played it all the time in the video arcades!"
God, you have to love how ridiculous games like these are. I sincerely hope there's more weird games made specifically about bands or rock stars, because these always make for the best videos.
You wondered what Journey thought of the game. They thought it was stupid, or at least Steve Perry did. But he's not with the band anymore, so who's crying now? Er, anyway. I liked the duality this game offered. Each stage starts out with some sort of gentle platforming challenge, but once you get your instrument back, everything on the screen decides that it wants to kill you and you have to shoot your way out. Imagine if Donkey Kong were the same way.
@@garethspotfur1 Yes, since they're all very different games. I'm also counting the two Journey games, plus Revolution X, Rock N Rage, and you can sort of count Aero Fighters since one of the pilots is a J-Pop Idol
The faces were in B&W because the resolution was twice as good in that mode and they wanted to keep the digitized faces as high-resolution as-possible. Color ones looked unrecognizable when they tried it and too pixilated in the arcade. Played it in the arcade when it came out. Moderately popular.
The bouncer is actually the characterized version of Herbie Herbert, the manager of Journey. There were sources say that Journey would love a video game of themselves, just no guns and violence. I read about another game that was being in a similar style of the Journey arcade game, but there were issues regarding exhibitionism (like exposing private parts).
I recall the New Kids on the Block cartoon having a bodyguard who looked exactly like the bouncer in this game, and a literal conspiracy of fans which even had a headquarters for coordinating their stalking activities, like what Journey seems to be experiencing in this game. Probably a coincidence but an interesting one.
I’d like to request The Fairyland Story. It’s about a little Witch that’s actually a Princess who transforms monsters into Cakes to crush other monsters with, and if she gets touched, a Bubble forms around her and carries her away. Also, some Levels are Cakes.
I’m surprised the concept of this game wasn’t used for a music video. Talk about a missed opportunity!! Also, the camera used to digitize the band members’ faces was originally intended to be used to photograph mugshots of players who achieved good scores on video games-their face would appear beside their score and initials on the leaderboard screen. Unfortunately, the concept failed localization testing when someone decided to be funny and flash their junk to the camera. Weirder yet, I can’t seem to find any info on what game this feature was originally intended for-perhaps they retrofitted a pre-existing game to test the technology (Tron and Tapper used the same hardware that was used for Journey, and all 3 games display animated sprites at a higher resolution than the background).
6:04 "Journey Escape," a little in-joke I guess. This game seems ahead of its time. A level select/overworld screen, a soundtrack of rockin' chiptunes, digitized actor sprites, lots of platforming with nice physics and controls. The style and themes aged most poorly; actually I have doubts that "trippy outer space" things seemed au courant even back in 1983.
I think they were implying that it's so realistic it would look like you were actually controlling the real-life band members, which is why I couldn't stop laughing.
Here's another band with a lore: Faxed Head. This is how it goes: "When a group of young glue sniffers in Coalinga, CA decided to commit suicide in the early 1990s, nobody could've guessed that not only would they survive, but they'd exit their ordeal with bizarre, unnatural injuries and perplexing pseudonyms. Nevertheless, this was no fiction and the bizarre saga of noise/metal kings Faxed Head was just beginning. Vocalist McPatrick Head found himself confined to a wheelchair with a monstrously enlarged plaid head and mile-long eel-like arms, guitarist Neck Head's entire head was removed and replaced by a two-foot neck, drummer LaBrea Tar Pits Head suffered the indignity of a face covered in tar, and both electronic noisemaker Fifth Head and bassist Graph Head became ugly and poorly dressed."
I thought so too, but at the end, all the fans that storm the stage appear to be male or androgynous. I mean, I used to think "groupie" was a more innocent term about fans who just hang out with and travel with the band, like roadies until I found out I'd been using it wrong and it was a very embarrassing time for me. So now I don't know what to believe.
