Sunday, August 26th, 2007
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Everything Old is New Again..
Posted by Thomas on 26 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: General Ramblings, Reviews
Back, “in the day“, and by in the day, I mean like 1994-95, I used to have and play an Atari Jaguar.
I remember the first time I played one, too. I was having one of my usual, incredible, super-cool-people only parties (ie: me and my friends playing video games and probably have liquor.) and I rented a Jaguar and some games from the local video game store up the street.
It turns out we spent much of the time playing just one game on it: Tempest 2000. A ‘remix’ of the classic arcade game, it had very strange visuals mixed with a pretty cool soundtrack. Oh, and a sexy-chick voice that said “Super Zapper Recharge!” between each level.
What more could you ask for?
Later, a friend got me a used Jaguar and Tempest 2000, and all was well in the world.
Until, unfortunately, a few years later, my Jaguar was ruined in a water-heater failure in our apartment. That ended my Jaguar.
Until the other day.
When I realized that the newest game on Xbox Live for my 360 was called “Space Giraffe“, made by a man named Jeff Minter.
Jeff Minter, in case you didn’t know, made Tempest 2000. Oh, and he has a thing for animals and especially llama’s. Hey, whatever.
So, basically, Space Giraffe is an even weirder version of Tempest 2000. No, it’s a little different than Tempest, but the game play is definitely there.
If you have an XBox 360, and are into funky, weird, and downright strange gameplay, then you have to buy Space Giraffe. You owe it to yourself.
It’s cheaper than buying a llama.