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There's probably some argument to be made how my first game purchase wasn't actually with my own money but when I was around 14 years old our house had just gotten a computer and I was spending a rather pathetic amount of time playing on Segasoft's long forgotten multiplayer gaming site Heat.net. The thing about this site was that they payed you in their virtual currency called "degrees" while you played games with other people. The other thing about this site is that for a $50 annual membership you could spend your degrees on full retail games at first from the Segasoft store and then later from a store called Chips and Bits and shipping could also be covered by this virtual currency if you had enough to tack on. However due to some extremely poor business planning on SegaSoft's part it was VERY easy to pay $50 for the membership then walk off with $100+ worth of games/hardware/accessories over the course of the year depending on how much you played. ...and I had a bad Quake 2 CTF addiction. Within a few months I had the 50000 degrees and a few thousand more to cover the shipping for a little game called Vigilance which was a 3rd person shooter with an absolutely insane multiplayer deathmatch and was at the time the most hyped game coming from Segasoft. The day i received that game in the mail was unforgettable. ...and with Vigilance and Quake 2 taking most of my waking life I was eventually able to walk off with 3 cheap Sega Saturn games, 2 launch games for the Sega Dreamcast and a rumble pack all before the year membership was up, and that was AFTER the switch from 1000 degrees=$1 to 5000 degrees=$1. Before that I was planning to cover the launch of the Dreamcast with what I had earned through playing. So yea, cheers to the late Heat.net which made all of that possible and it's terrible business model which led to it's fast demise.

Wow, I wish I knew more about visualizers to help ya here. For the record, I love this song, great to have it in my SD3 collection. I rather enjoy the ring arrangement for the visualizer, keeps the eyes from having to dart around the screen while certainly keeping busy. I guess the only thing I can really offer is a thought about color, namely that it might be a little more interesting with color changes, or something like that. Hope someone with better feedback gets to you on this one, but this plebeian thinks it's a cool visualizer!