This... this brings a tear to my eye. It's the best flash game ever created. posted by fusinski at 10:13 PM on January 27, 2009 [2 favorites]
lulz posted by tcv at 10:16 PM on January 27, 2009
Best Flash Game Ever.
Now if the "Runnin' With the Devil" Soundsmithing of the vocal track were to be the background music to it... posted by Chan at 10:31 PM on January 27, 2009
Now I'm runnin'... now I'm runnin' posted by not_on_display at 10:33 PM on January 27, 2009
The recent surge in David Lee Roth's Internet popularity/pervasiveness frightens and alarms me. But it's fun to shoot Sammy Hagar. posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:31 PM on January 27, 2009
I... I want to go find that Journey game to compare. posted by Pronoiac at 12:50 AM on January 28, 2009
I swear to God I played a Grateful Dead coin-op arcade game in a video arcade in the 1980s -- you had to reunite the band members with their instruments through a variety of levels that riffed on different popular arcade games at the time. I had no idea who the Grateful Dead were at the time, I just thought that skull lightning bolt thingy was cool.
The Internet fails me in trying to find this game, though. I can find some guy that built a coin-op arcade shell with a Grateful Dead theme, and some sort of trivia board game, but no reference to a real stand-alone play-it-with-tokens game from 20-odd years ago. I can't think of any other rock band themed video games from the era, either. posted by Shepherd at 5:53 AM on January 28, 2009
Aha! It was the Journey game, and the giant robot head was what I thought was cool. Never mind. Carry on. posted by Shepherd at 5:56 AM on January 28, 2009
What's the source of that Roth "Runnin' With The Devil" acapella? A podcast I listen to was just using some of the same soundbites from it to carry on a fake conversation with Diamond Dave. posted by DecemberBoy at 7:02 AM on January 28, 2009
It's the actual isolated vocal track from Runnin' With The Devil. I'm not enough of a VH fan (or really a fan at all) to determine if it's from the final version or some other take, but it is awesome. Listen to it all the way through, I dare you not to crack up. posted by DecemberBoy at 7:06 AM on January 28, 2009
I did better at this than I do at regular Asteroids. Make of this what you like.
Nitpick: Hagar should sing VH songs at both sizes - or, if you consider it more thematically appropriate, solo songs at both sizes. I'm partial to "Three Lock Box". posted by Joe Beese at 9:14 AM on January 28, 2009
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:59 PM on January 27, 2009