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May 5, 2006 10:13 AM

Friday insanity: "We are no longer going to be the band that plays old game tunes. We are going to be the band that plays old game tunes on game controllers!" [23Mb DivX, explanation]. Witness Commodore 64 revival band Press Play On Tape playing Cannon Fodder using a bunch of game console controllers. War has never been so much fun.
posted by hoverboards don't work on water (9 comments total)

I was all ready to shake my fist at DIVX, which I refuse to bother with. But then I took a deep breath, and looked on YouTube. Of course YouTube has this video, all pre-DIVXed up, and I don't have to install anything. Thanks internet!

So okay, with that out of the way, I can now move on to pointing out the obligatory Monty Python reference, be all "Oh, snap!" at their jab at the XBox controller (it's funny because it's true, right nerds?), and wonder at the time some people have on their hands.

Then I can point out that this isn't as geeky in my geeky opinion as the Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, previously on teh blue, don'tcha know.

What am I missing? Should I wonder if these guys get dates, or live in their mothers' basements?
posted by dammitjim at 11:30 AM on May 5, 2006

I like it.
posted by bardic at 11:46 AM on May 5, 2006

not even close to the first time this has been done. at the very least, people have been playing LSDJ for 6 or so years.
posted by tumult at 11:51 AM on May 5, 2006

So those guys got beaten up a lot in highschool.
posted by 517 at 11:56 AM on May 5, 2006

I doubt that cool's the word for it, but that was cool.
posted by graventy at 1:08 PM on May 5, 2006

Ye Gods, a YouTube link. I'd email the admins and ask them to edit the post, but apparently there are better things to be doing than nerding it up with the Jon Hare!
posted by hoverboards don't work on water at 2:18 PM on May 5, 2006

Okay, so the jam session was really pathetic, but hearing that awesome music again after 15 years or so gave me goosebumps. Thanks!
posted by martona at 7:38 PM on May 5, 2006

If you're laying down a bassline, it seems that a PS controller is not what you want to use.

One chord song.

Sort of interesting...
posted by parm=serial at 9:18 PM on May 5, 2006

dammitjim, DivX is just an implementation of MPEG-4, so it can be played by any complient MPEG-4 decoder, like XviD or ffdshow. You don't need to install DivX, and I wouldn't, it's got adware.
posted by zixyer at 3:08 PM on May 6, 2006