Two dozen years ago last week Lemmings invaded home computers for the first time. This was of course DMA Design’s fictional, blue tunicked, Doozer-like subspecies rather than the adorable but apocryphally suicidal rodents. To cut […]
Tag: music monday
Music Monday: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
The original Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (or Circle of Blood if you’re in the US) is one of those games of which I retain immensely lucid memories. Almost as if the protagonist’s […]
Music Monday: Diddy Kong Racing
Issue 156 of the Cane and Rinse podcast is out now, and it’s all about the jolly japes of Rare’s 1997 kartie/kitey/kraftie klassic, Diddy Kong Racing. Much of our lingering affection for the game revolves […]
Music Monday: Super Smash Bros.
We’ve gone large on Super Smash Bros. to mark the release of the latest version of the game on Wii U. We’ve got three Quick Rinse videos of the N64 original, Melee on the GameCube […]
Music Monday: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
It’s been over a year since SEGA Studios Australia released their (to me) hugely disappointing remake for contemporary platforms, but, as is not unusual, I woke up feeling nostalgic for the music of AM7’s Mega […]
Music Monday: Silent Hill
Music Monday returns with guest contributor and Silent Hill/Akira Yamaoka superfan, Jon Salmon (@CatatonicNali). Let me preface this by saying that I’m something of a Silent Hill fanatic. I’ve played most of the games in […]
Music Monday: Xenon 2: Megablast
So the obvious Music Monday this week would almost certainly be the one that ties in with issue 150 of the podcast, and celebrates the much-lauded soundtrack to Hotline Miami. However, though I like what […]
Music Monday: Dragon Age: Origins
A blindingly obvious but frankly essential Music Monday this week. In the latest Cane and Rinse the podcast (issue 149) we review BioWare’s five-year-old (how?!) RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. Returning to the game after all […]
Music Monday: Sonic 3
There are so many great tracks from the Mega Drive/Genesis Sonic games that I could share with you, but these particular selections from Sonic 3 have always resonated with my subconscious. Both themes for Marble […]
Music Monday: Bejeweled 3
My hunch is that the music of Bejeweled 3 was developed under laboratory conditions, using algorithms that specifically and subliminally target whatever parts of the brain it is that trigger the neurotransmitters dedicated to the […]