This 4-seater game features textured graphics (none of the polygon/ triangle shit) very similar to Doom, dual joystick, 4 fire button (right cannon, left cannon, and 2 special weapons/defenses), and built-in Interactor-style sound.
For those not familiar with the Interactor, the commercial shows a young boy sitting down to a static filled TV screen and plugging this black plastic vest into his video game via the audio out jack. Then he starts hallucinating really hard (those peaks are almost impossible to breathe in) and the video game is all over the room. Of course what really happens is a G'd-up style woofer is embedded in the back of the jacket and the lower register noises are amplified into your chest cavity. It's actually very cool.
So while your playing the sound is throbbing behind you. You (and your three favorite buddies/enemies are driving your choice of 6 very techno-fiction vehicles in alien terrains trying to blow each other's brains out. [quick impression - Homer Simpson does "Night of the Living Dead" : '...mmmmMMM, brains....'] Every time you get hit, you can feel it in your gut!
I happened upon a curious thing this monday morning that falls upon the tails of a rather debaucherous saturday evening. I will recount the events of that evening here as I now find them to be quite momentous.
Upon returning from the cinema that evening, my fellows and I sat down to enjoy a Mexican beverage known as "Tequila". The custom in Mexico, as I am told, is to coat one's tongue with salt prior to taking a drink of the tequila, then following that with the juice of a lemon, sucked directly from a slice of the fruit. As we were pasing the time in this manner, I happened to notice, written upon the container of salt, Morton household hint #10, which outlined a procedure for making a natural and effective air freshener. The instructions dictated that one take the shell of half an orange and fill it with salt to produce an object for the absorption of offensive odours. Having no orange, I substituted a small slice from the lemons we had on hand. After cutting away the pulp of the fruit, I gave the peel a liberal coating of the salt. I noticed no reduction in the normal odours of my apartment, and consequently forgot about my creation until this moment when I happened to find it in the paper towel I wrapped it in the previous evening. having accidentally brushed my fingers against the salted side, I touched my fingers to my tongue to clean them. I was startled and surprised to find a flavor so enjoyable that I can only thank God's providence for causing me to find it. Upon closer examination of the lemon peel, I found that the fruitful essences had been drained from the remaining pulp, leaving a flesh that looked as if it had suffered the attentions of a vampyre. I can only assume that the lemon's essence was conducted into the salt, transforming it into an altogether new substance. In homage to the emotions this substance evoked in me upon tasting it, I have decided to name it "Twang". I will conduct further research into the effects of the "Twang" at higher concentrations and dosage.
I got the coolest CD-ROM last week. It's A Wonderful Life. No, my life isn't wonderful because of the CD-ROM, the CD-ROM features that infamous Christmas movie, "It's A Wonderful Life". This CD-ROM has the entire script, reviews, the original short story, a scrapbook from the making og the movie, a cast list (including some people who were turned down for roles), and THE ENTIRE MOVIE INCLUDING THE TRAILER. It's actually two CD-ROM's (Suggested retail:$29.95 on sale for $20) that you switch out half-way through. On my 485-50 with a single speed CD-ROM, and Tseng4000 video, it actually looks good!
The same company has put out similarly done versions of the Beatles' HELP!, and It's a Hard Day's Night. I can't wait to get my hands on those.