The Coop

There's the "first" new song for those who haven't heard it.

What's so difficult about using "A-O" and "M"? I know America isn't the be all-end all for everything, but we do have one of the most concise and descriptive ratings systems for video games. It can't possibly be that hard to understand "E-C", "E", "E 10+", "T", "M" and "A-O" for games. Each one's pretty clearly defined, and each one has a myriad of extra descriptors to add for more info. Why do other countries feel the need to muck this concept up by over-simplifying it to the point of the system not working well anymore?

And I have a lovely bunch of coconuts. So how did StarFox Command turn out? I heard a lot of rough things about it, most of which stemmed from the stylus usage.

The old UnMod saying "They always come back" applies to the site itself too... even if it is just its chatroom

OCR In Ten Years... Coop sits quietly by the fire, watching the small flames dance over the slowly charring logs. The short-lived waves of warmth that come from it do little to ward off the chill that's sunk deep into his bones, and the rain beating against the window nearby gives him no moment of peace to collect his thoughts. As he tries to make sense of things, what comes next is inevitable. A hurried banging pulls his gaze from the fire, and Coop stares hard at the handle of the front door. A moment later, a voice shouts "Open the door, Coop! We know you're here!" from behind it, as its metal knob begins to rattle. He should say something... but what? "No one's home", or maybe "I'm on the crapper"? Would it make a difference what it was? Probably not, since they wouldn't hear it over the banging. Coop just looks back into the fire, and decides it's not worth it. He knows there'll be a lot of talking shortly. May as well save his voice. The door bursts in, and the room fills with police officers... guns drawn, and pointing straight at the back of his head. "DON'T MOVE!" and "STAY WHERE YOU ARE ASSHOLE!" ring out in a dozen different voices. But they eventually grow silent, and a set of nearly heavy footsteps start to get closer. "Not doing much to hide yourself, huh?" comes a raspy voice. "Not really, no," the Coop says calmly. Footsteps come around, and a detective comes into view. He picks up the poker, and starts prodding the logs in the fireplace. Looking back at Coop from under his weathered brow, "You'd probably feel a lot warmer if you kept this going better." "I doubt it," Coop grins. The detective looks back at the fire. "Yeah, I do to." After a few moments, he stands up and shakes the rain from his overcoat. "So," he says, wiping off his sleeves, "are you up for a little talk?" Coop looks up at him. "About what?" "Oh, just this and that," the man says passingly, as he steps away from the fireplace. Leaning back against the wall along side it, "You wouldn't know anything about a website called... um... hang on a sec." He slowly rummages around in one of the liner pockets of his overcoat. "Let's see..." he mumbles, pulling out a piece of paper. "Oh yeah. OverClocked Remix?" Coop nods a little. "A bit, yeah. I used to post there a lot." "Really?" the man says. "Well, then maybe you can help me out. See, the guy running the place, named 'djp', was nearly killed a week ago." "That so?" "Yep," the man nods. "Seems someone came to his house with backhoe, and started tearing into it. The thing is, they were tearing into where his bedroom was." "Wow," Coop says in an even tone. "Some serious business." "Tell me about it. Whoever was driving that thing was doing a lot of shouting too. Things like, 'First UnMod, then Off Topic, and now Other Stuff?', and 'See how you like loosing part of your home!'." Coop raises his eyebrows. "Sounds like a real nutjob." "More than likely, yeah. You uh... you got any ideas who the person driving that backhoe was?" "No. No I don't," Coop says, shaking his head. "I do know that there were a lot of people who got pretty pissed off about the shenanigans there. Could have been any number of them." The man scratches his head. "This is true. But uh... yours was the only old account still active on that site. According to djp, you were the only remaining older poster who was there for the deletion of all three forums this backhoe driver named. He says you were stilling posting when Other Stuff got the axe... up until a week ago. You haven't posted since the backhoe attack." "My Internet service was shut off a week ago. Seems my provider went under, and I'm still trying to find one that doesn't overcharge me." "Really?" "Really," Coop nods. "Interesting. I'll have to check that out. But uh... in the mean time, try not to make yourself scarce, huh?" "I'll be right here." "Good. Good." After a few moments, "You know, it's a shame he decided to shut down the site. Looking some stuff up, it seemed to have a lot going for it. Was pretty popular from what I read." "It was a fun place, once," Coop says calmly. "But with dozens of restructurings after merging with VGMix, banning everyone who didn't have a remix on the site, and that whole "pay to post" debacle... well, the fun fades when the things people like start getting pulled out from under them. There was always talk about building a stronger community, but it's kind of hard to build a community when you keep splitting it, ya know? Guess someone got tired of it." The man stands there for a bit longer, then turns and starts for the busted in front door. "Well, I'll be in touch." Then to the police in the room, "C'mon guys." Just as the detective reaches the door, "Oh, and detective?" Coop calls back. "Yeah?" the man says, looking back over his shoulder. "If you find the one who did this, be sure to tell them, 'It's just a forum'." The man nods, and leaves the way he came in. The last cop out attempts to prop up the mangled door, but gives up after a few tries. The sound of engines roaring to life drift in over the steady rain. They eventually slowly fade, and Coop is left alone, staring coldly into the dying fire again. Picking up the poker, Coop nudges one of the logs, sending a shower of sparks onto the fireplace floor. "Serious business, indeed."

Gradius V Gradius III&IV R-Type Final Dragon Quest VIII Final Fantasy XII Soul Calibur III WipeOut Fusion Alien Hominid Ace Combat 5 Guilty Gear X2 Metal Slug Anthology Silpheed: The Lost Planet * Onimusha Onimusha 2 Onimusha 3 Contra: Shattered Soldier * MegaMan Anniversary Collection * Capcom Classics Collection * Capcom Classics Collection 2 * Midway Arcade Treasures * Midway Arcade Treasures 2 *= Get the XBox version if you have the option.

Megadeth. Where I listen to some of Metallica's albums (I own all but "St. Anger"... I just can't bring myself to buy that album), I generally listen to all of Megadeth's (even the much hated by many fans "Risk").

There have been a number of games over the years that have had bare breasts. I think it has to do with what happens with the nudity (i.e. fucking), rather than just nudity itself. Besides... isn't God of War supposed to have bare breasted women? I know in Painkiller, there's a nip slip or two with Eve in the cinemas.

Why so far off? I thought you'd already worked out the last of the kinks in your kidnapping plan.

You can play the bad guy if you want to, but I'd wager there are a good number of other folks up for the part Although... you could play a character named Joey Suzu, just to see if anyone gets the reference

Possible theme song (put to the "Facts of Life" theme)... You take the good you take the bad you take them both and there ya have UnMod Forum UnMod Forum There's a lot of things to do and read. Like booby threads and get goatse'd. UnMod Forum UnMod Forum When the foooooorum gets insaaane, try noooot to leeeet it go to your brain. If you don't like what it's about, then go elsewhere to cry and pout boooooooo hooooo-oooo-oo-oo-ooooooo! Whether it's Nice Work or Bagel's rod, that's the way it is in UnMoood... (way it is in UnMooood) way it is in UnMoood... (way it is in UnMooood) way it is in UnMoooooooooooood!

I know I'll get flamed and insulted for this, but... I was pretty disappointed by that Castlevania medley. The guy has some skill to be sure, but the slipped notes, timing issues, odd pauses as he seemed to be looking for keys/foot pedals... it just wrecked the performance. Either he needed more time to learn the medley, or they should have hired someone with more skill to play it. Couple that with the lack of emotion in his playing, and it was just a let down. I'm sorry, but the concept of playing the famous Castlevania tunes on a huge, century old pipe organ deserves a better outcome. Edit: It may be that it was the way the medley was written that was the cause of issues I had with the piece. It may not have been written as cleanly as it could have been for an actual pipe organ performance, resulting in the problems I heard and saw. If that's the case, then kudos to the guy for trying to make it work. But even so, I still think that medley could have been played better.

Not sure about OCR the musical, but how about this... Goatse: The Musical Find out about him as he reveals himself to you... "I'm gaping and I'm red. I'll get intooooo your head. Make you my friend I'll try, just gaze into my brown eye. As you can plainly see, someone did marry me. But little does she know I have a big asshoooooooooole! This is my own fun, stretching apart both my buns. Oh no now here she comes! 'What're you doing?' Nothing huuuuuuuuuuuun." Learn of his fears and weaknesses... "I may seem, rather crude. I come off, rather rude. To trash they say I aaaam akiiiiiiin. Here I am, so open. I'm worried but I'm hopin', that you can help fiiiiiiill me iiiiiiin. Can't you look past all I'll done... turn an eye that's blind. Can't you feel some pity, and not leeeeaaave me behiiiiiiiind." And hear the inner thoughts of his very orifice... "Oh my God! Am I fucked? Inside me your hands are tucked! What the hell? Fucking stop. I feel like I'm going to pop! I just really can not see why you're doing this to me! Tell me what I've ever done to cause you to have this fun by streeeeeeeeetching meeeeeeeeee!!!!" The life... the times... the sphincter. Goatse: The Musical Tickets go on sale June 29th.

Metal Slug 3. This game's a real ball buster, even on the easiest setting. With so many different types of enemies, and the multiple effects they can have on your character, you've got a lot to make it through just to get to final level. If you get there, you're in for a level that's almost as long as the previous ones combined. And just when you think you've won... you're proven wrong. I won't spoil what the final boss is, but it's a bitch to take down. Besides being able to fall off of it (and plummet to your death), it has several attacks that pretty much cover it's surface. One is a ring blast that seems easy to dodge, but isn't, as there's really only one safe spot from it. The second attack is a set of red orbs that have random trajectories as they come up, and them fall down the screen. Only two attacks, but this boss also has a lot of hit points, which makes for much jumping and dodging as you slowly pick away at its health. The only reason I beat this thing, was because I got tired of reaching the final mission and running out of continues ever since I bought the XBox version were it was first released. So I used a little "Free Play" feature in the Metal Slug Anthology, to finally get some sense of satisfaction. Cheat win? You bet. But it felt good

**clicks teeth** GAAAAAWD! Thith ith thoooo two dayth ago. Catch up with the tiiiiimth already. **rolls eyes**

With their PSPP?

http://blog.livedoor.jp/unit00/archives/51405528.html There are finally a few screenshots of the actual game. They don't reveal much of anything, but at least they're proof that something does indeed exist. There's also a link to a cleaner version of the opening movie there.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139499&page=2 There's an interesting comparison of the original Neo-Geo games to the MSA ones. It's down at post #92.

Don't let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out, guys. And could you get me a burger while you're out? I'll pay you for it when you come crawling back to OCR.

It's an SNK title, so the chances of there being more than 6 copies to a store are pretty slim I'd wager. Games like the Metal Slug pack, MS-3 and King of Fighters Neowave didn't have more than 3 copies shipped to the stores around here... and "Neowave" had only one copy to shipped to the few stores that actually got it.

Made a few updates to my short review above. Cleaned it up a bit too, since some of the info wasn't really relevant and didn't affect things.

This thing's still lingering in limbo? Where's all the Dragon Warrior love people?