Posts Tagged ‘music’

#316 PaRappa the Rapper

Posted: 15th November 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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285th played so far (Okay so taking pictures was getting irritating, especially considering how bad quality a digital camera pic of the TV is. So instead we’ll be reverting to using cover art unless there is a set screen-shot button) Genre: Music Platform: PlayStation Year of Release: 1996 Developer: NanaOn-Sha Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment We […]

#368 Dance Dance Revolution

Posted: 1st December 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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198th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Okay, so the original Dance Dance Revolution wasn’t exactly released outside of Japan. Instead we in the UK got a game called Dancing Stage. As a kid I had the first home release of a DDR game called Dance […]

#653 Guitar Hero

Posted: 6th October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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184th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Harmonix Publisher: RedOctane Time for a slight step back. We’ve played Beatles: Rock Band before, as well as played something from the same series through DJ Hero. Now it’s back to the game that (mostly) started this whole plastic instrument craze… […]

#336 Beatmania

Posted: 2nd October 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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183rd played so far Genre: Music Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Music games started out in the arcade. I think we can all agree on this since all the home peripherals that we have grown to love (by storing them on top of a wardrobe alongside that dragon kite you […]

#423 Space Channel 5

Posted: 20th September 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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180th played so far Genre: Music Platform: Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: United Game Artists Publisher: Sega Woo Dreamfest!!! I got this Dreamcast as a present to myself for finishing a piece of coursework weeks in advance and I can not believe how happy it has made me. I actually had a Dreamcast way […]

#968 The Beatles: Rock Band

Posted: 25th June 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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64th game played so far (will someone PLEASE think of the children!) Genre: Music Platform: Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer:ย  Harmonix, Pi Studios (Wii Only) Publisher: MTV Games So, we spent some simoleons investing in a complete instrument set for the Xbox 360 and it is time to take them […]

#539 Donkey Konga

Posted: 9th June 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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60th game played so far Genre: Music Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Namco Publisher: Nintendo Of all the Nintendo franchises to receive a music-based game I bet there are people who would have bet good money that it would have fallen on The Legend Of Zelda to produce some sort of outing with […]

#908 DJ Hero

Posted: 13th March 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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38th game played so far Genre: Music Platform: Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: FreeStyleGames Publisher: Activision We may be jumping a little late into the music game franchises by taking on DJ Hero, a spin-off title from the bestselling Guitar Hero series, but when both the game and […]

#810 Audiosurf

Posted: 9th January 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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17th game played so far Genre: Puzzle/Music Platform: PC Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Dylan Fitterer Publisher: Steam (online), Ascaron (hard-copy) Many games have been released that have tried to capitalise on visualisations of music. We will be covering a bunch of these later on but Audiosurf already does something that they can not; create […]