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[Etchasketchist]

I just registered...to say...I love Space Giraffe!</steviewonder>

A little history:

I had an Atari (I think it was a 2600, or maybe a 5200) back in the day and my favorite game was Dr. J vs. Larry Bird One-on-One basketball. My dad and I rocked a lot of Xevious, but shooters were never my thing, and if I was going to be shooting, I wanted some kind of story too. I hate Space Invaders and Centipede. Galaga was pretty badass and they had it at the Pizza Hut down the street so i went a few rounds with that while waiting for the NARC machine to free up. I'd never even heard of Tempest until reading about T2K in GamePro back in 199whatever. Didn't buy a Jaguar, didn't play the game.

Furthermore, I can't stand tie-dyed hippie crap. I hate raves and ecstasy and techno music. I'm an American. I listen to rap. I listen to rap while I play NBA 2K7 and Gears of War. And I prefer Kids In the Hall to Monty Python. Marmite makes me gag.

In other words, I am not at all what you might call your target audience. Never heard of you or your llamas. I like my videogames big and huge and expensive with lots of cut scenes and 3-d people walking around beating each other up and driving cars into buildings and whatnot. I like paying sixty dollars for them and reading instruction booklets.

But, that said, I love me some Space Giraffe. This game is the tits. It's completely fucked my world up. The fundamental way I think about video games has been altered by this simple little 400 pt. Live Arcade game that nobody but me seems to like. My roommates find the sound effects annoying and the game play so incomprehensible that they don't enjoy watching me play. A shooter fan co-worker thought it was too easy (ha!) and didn't like the trippy backgrounds.

But me, I can. not. get. enough. I wanna play it right now! I want a 9x multiplyer. I want to bull off a huge pack of grunts and swing back to get a pod. I want to hoof shot some flowers so I keep my Power Zone extended. I want to eat flowers with my hooves and burp. A lot. Does this make me weird?

But beyond the pure pure sweet pleasure of actually playing the game, you've made me question my basic beliefs about why I like to play video games. I'm asking myself questions about graphics and sound and gameplay that had never occured to me before. It hasn't just displaced one unlucky game on my all-time favorites list, it's completely messed the whole thing up. It's a mental revolution the likes of which I haven't experienced since I first read William Burroughs or Eugene Ionesco or Mikhail Bakunin. Or listened to Ornette Coleman or Afrikka Baambaataa. Or saw the works of Duchamp or Jackson Pollack. If a video game can ever be that big a deal, Space Giraffe is. Please please please. I literally beg of you, DO NOT LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN! I know the cert process was a bitch and the haters in the magazine are a drag, but I NEED you to keep making games for Xbox Live Arcade. I will buy every piece of useless giraffe armor downloadable content you put out there. Whatever it takes.

[Etchasketchist]

This was meant to go into the Thanks thread below. Sorry. Didn't get the difference between Post and Reply.

[merman]

Welcome to the fluffiest forum on the web, have a

Glad you could join us!

[axel000]

Nice post, yeah SG is one of a kind nowadays. I'm in a similar boat, playing games since the VCS and just couldn't shake the feeling that modern games were missing something. I never finished Gears of War, it bored me, Bioshock I've probably put 3 hours into max so far.

These are nice looking games, and technically rather brilliant, but games used to just be fun.

SG brings back the fun, in spades.

[Etchasketchist]

Wanna know what happens at the end of Gears? You fight a boss and then it's over. Sorry if that was a spoiler.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

I liked "The kids in the hall" when they showed it over here!

Oh, hello too by the way!

[matt]

Etchasketchist: just to say I love your blog and etch-a-sketch art. Found it on Flickr originally.

Keep on truckin'

matt

[Elizian]

But me, I can. not. get. enough. I wanna play it right now! I want a 9x multiplyer. I want to bull off a huge pack of grunts and swing back to get a pod. I want to hoof shot some flowers so I keep my Power Zone extended. I want to eat flowers with my hooves and burp. A lot.

Yak ... your work here is done

Does this make me weird?

Yes ... but that's par for the course 'round here

[choddo]

Quality post.

"Don't like Monty Python" though?

Get out