Classics of Classics of Game

What makes it American Skydiving?

Cookie's Bustle features a strange blend of political violence and charming fantasy. Bombo World is partially inhabited by aliens who are staunchly contested by terrorist forces, a situation Cookie has to navigate while also competing in the Olympics and looking for her grandma. It's hard out there for a five-year-old girl like her.

A hundred years prior to the events of the game, aliens crash-landed on Bombo World, a fictional island country in the South Pacific. In exchange for the aliens' technology, the President of Bombo World gave them the northern part of the island, where the aliens established Derocity. However, some of the Bombo World citizens opposed this exchange and has resulted in terrorist activity against the Bombo World government and the aliens.

Thankfully, CoG broke radio silence in order to properly archive every one of their videos on Internet Archive, which is how I have this footage for you today. DMCA being what it is makes these strikes basically incontestable, even these posts may be at risk of being taken down eventually. As per the timeless wisdom of MST3K, keep circulating the tapes.

GOO! GOO! SOUNDY is a weird little DDR-style game from Konami with the bonus feature of being able to insert your own music CDs and generate beatmaps to it, similar to Vib Ribbon. This song is one of the game's original tunes, titled Ange.

This marks this game's third appearance after entries 95 and 104, adding onto its accolade as the only game to have been featured more than once (Until entry 134). CoG must really like this one.

So this game has a prequel for Sega CD titled "Yumemi Yakata no Monogatari" and this game is "Shinsetsu Yumemi Yakata: Tobira no Oku ni Dareka ga..." in Japanese. In a baffling localization move, the prequel's titled in the US is "Mansion of Hidden Souls" and this one is "The Mansion of Hidden Souls", despite being an entirely different game and not a remaster or anything.

I wanted to know who made this song, but info about this game is scarce, there's not even an upload of the game's soundtrack anywhere. The credits attribute the music to JoeDownStudio and lists 7 individuals, which is somehow funnier than a real answer.

Side note, do you have any idea how hard it is to find information about a game called Download?? I was fighting Google tooth and nail to learn anything about this game.

No way.

they're coming up in the queue. stay tuned

The ending of this one always cracks me up.

Also, did you know this game was developed by Rhythm & Hues? Bizarre little game.

There's a post I remember seeing a while back that sticks with me. It's been a while since I've read it so I'm sure to mess up some details, but it was some personal prose about being enamored with the player character in Bloodborne. Not in appearance, but in the effortlessness and ease with which they moved; the exhilaration of being in control of something so fast and fierce, but also fragile, like the erratic movements of a small bird. There is beauty in that thing, that dancing, whirling character on your screen who is veritably an extension of your own body. I find that post very moving but it also comes to mind when I watch this video.

Did YOU know there was a tie-in video game with the hit movie Toys (1992)? I sure didn't.

A PS2 port of a beloved(??) arcade classic.

I've never actually seen it, but I imagine Siskel and Ebert had a lot to say about this part of the movie.