Electrophotonic Timesinks

I’ve spent a lot of time raving about the wonderful Moog Minimoog, but I think this Youtube video demonstrates better than anything in writing just how neat it is.

Very impressive for a piece of equipment from 1971!

As mentioned earlier, if you have a USB keyboard and want to have a go yourself, there’s a demo of the emulated version available. I’d play around with it more myself if it wasn’t for the input lag I’m experiencing. I’ll get around to sorting that out sooner or later…

This is a game I’ve wanted to write about for a long time. Not so much for its gameplay, but for its presentation and above all music, both of which I think have stood the test of time remarkably well. Warning, opinionated author!

Music from Ridge Racer Type 4. Click to play, more further down.

In early 1999, Namco released a game called Ridge Racer Type 4, the fifth (!) installment in the Ridge Racer series on the Playstation, counting Revolution. I didn’t have a Playstation at a time, but when I saw the cover of Super PLAY magazine in I think it was April of that year, I knew I had to get one. It featured long-legged mascot girl Reiko Nagase, dressed in a white one-piece dress and white boots, in front of a sleek sports car, the rest of the cover keeping to the stark black text on yellow background seen above.

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