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• You Won't Agree With This: GameTrailers' Top Ten Video Game Themes Ever

  Editors love Top Ten lists. There is so very little in this vast world that can be summed up with a Top Ten list, which is why readers go orangutan when writers try. And "readers going orangutan" is a proven traffic-booster. The thing is, nobody can resist the pull of these lists. We want to see our personal favourites up on the marquee; we want validation in an anonymous world. Lord knows that when GameTrailers/Screw Attack uploaded its list of the Top Ten Video Game Themes Ever, I loaded the hell out of the video just so I could sit back and yell at it. Not to say Screw Attack made bad choices. Most of them are pretty obvious. It's just impossible to please everyone, least of all me. For instance, I'm not so sure about choosing the Prelude for the whole Final Fantasy series (Screw Attack limited suggestions to one per franchise). The Prelude theme is very nice and it certainly represents the series as a whole, but there are other songs that are far more striking. The Opera from Final Fantasy VI, for starters. Or the Redwings' anthem from Final Fantasy IV. I can at least give Screw Attack credit for not choosing One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII. I saw that performed as a jangling mess at Video Games Live, confirming a suspicion I've long held: the song is not particularly well-written. Read More... Posted Oct 17 2008, 08:12 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: screw attack, mega man, donkey kong country, game music, controversy, nadia oxford, secret of mana, gametrailers, donkey kong country 2, indecision

• Screw Attack Remembers The Lion King; I Remember a 16-Bit Jungle Hell

  Screw Attack's Video Game Vault peeks back at the games we enjoyed as cubs. Most of the commentary on their video game recollections doesn't go beyond "This game was AWESOME!" or "This game sucked!" It's hard to fault them for it, since we all have a tendency to do the very same. Their latest retrospective, which looks at the Lion King game for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, is another "omg this game was rad in ever-y way!!" moment. Maybe they're thinking of another game in a parallel dimension or something because I remember a gamethat was exceptionally well done in some areas and finger-breakingly frustrating in others. For starters, I have a shaky history with The Lion King. I know chunks of the movie are lifted from Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion (The Simpsons acknowledges the very same in the episode "'Round Springfield," with the famous ghost-delivered line, "You must avenge my death, Kimba--dah, I mean, Simba.") and that Disney's subsequent denial of Osamu Tezuka's existance is the worst thing the company has ever done outside of Walt gassing Jewish children in Space Mountain (disclaimer: Walt probably never gassed children). Read More... Posted Oct 07 2008, 05:35 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: screw attack, disney, retro, 16-bit, nadia oxford, movie games, the lion king

• Growl, Snarl, Bark: Screw Attack's Top 10 Genesis Games

  Nothing instigates Holy Forum Wars like Top Ten Lists. I've seen them all; I've smelled the blood as it flowed across the text. Top Ten Toothpicks. Top Ten Clothes Pin Brands. Top Ten Dog Breeds (From one to ten: German Shepherd, Newfoundland, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Pharaoh Hound, Corgi, American bulldog, Redbone Coon Hound, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Scottish Terrier, thine Mother, Ha ha ha). Video game-related Top Tens generate the most fun through flaming bitchslaps and the subsequent weeping. Screw Attack, a site that normally never seeks cheap attention through tits and swears has put together a video collection of the Top Ten Genesis Games with the aid of tits and swears. Read More... Posted Sep 26 2008, 04:30 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: screw attack, genesis, game music, strider, game trailers, nadia oxford, top ten genesis games, sonic 3, sonic 2, top ten lists

• Where is Doug TenNapel?

  Written by Derrick Sanskrit Over the past few years, I've become convinced that Doug TenNapel is one of the most enviably original dudes in the history of mankind. The man has been the creative voice behind some of the most original animation (Catscratch), graphic novels (Creature Tech), films (Sockbaby – Watch it. You will love it.), and video games (The Neverhood) in recent history. He won an Eisner Award (the top honors for comic book creators) for his work on Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror! But his most famous creation is the quirklicious Earthworm Jim. He designed the characters, wrote the story, even voiced Jim himself in the first two games. In the past two years, more or less since the disintegration of the Earthworm Jim PSP remake, Doug's disappeared from the world of games. So where's he been? Read More... Posted May 22 2008, 12:00 PM by John Constantine with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: derrick sanskrit, psp, where is, the neverhood, earthworm jim, creature tech, sockbaby, simpsons, screw attack, catscratch, doug tennapel