fashion disaster

[egypturnash]

I had an urge to just go out for a while today. Nothing special, just wandering to the mall to see if I felt like buying anything (I didn't, and I was once again reminded that, without a specific goal, malls make me paranoid) and taking a mildly circituitious route home. I need to go buy some food but I'll probably do that later this evening. I also need to do laundry.

I put together what I felt was a reasonably odd ensemble for this, after looking at some of the shirts that'd been sitting in my closet, unloved, for a while. From bottom to top:

• My somewhat decrepid sneakers. I really need new shoes.
  
• Old socks in which the elastic has completely sprung.
  
• Wide shorts.
  
• The t-shirt that came with my copy of the Amiga game "Shadow of the Beast". It's got a random Roger Dean robot animal drawing, and thorny typography that belongs on an eighties progrock album cover that simply says "Beast".
  
• And, of course, blue-and-purple hair.
  

I got rather a lot of befuddled looks! I'm so proud of myself. On the other hand, it may have been the person in the clothes, rather than the clothes; I get a lot of befuddled looks anyway.

And now I should start some laundry, and maybe try to make myself get somewhere on the chunk of work that followed me home this weekend. *sigh*

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

I had one of those T-shirts!

Long gone, though...I was in...uh...well, we won't talk about what grade I was in.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Shame the game looked nowhere near as cool as the shirt. I have a Beast II shirt as well... and the lack of the cool Roger Dean shirt is probably part of why I never got a legal copy of Beast III.

We won't talk about where I was in my educational career when I first had the shirt, either.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

I love you both. :D I never had the Beast shirt, but I DID have the "Awesome" shirt, which if you might reall, was that bizarre hybrid Psygnosis shoot'em up that the SotBeast developers did after Beast 2.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

We must all model our Psygnosis promo t-shirts together sometime! Unless you and Ursula lost yours.

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

I still have my "Oswald" T-shirt from the "Scud - Disposable Assassin" comic series. While the comic seems to have died a horrible and sudden death, I can't help but want to keep this neon orange shirt (with a green robot bunny-man holding twin laser pistols) in mint condition. Would framing this shirt be too much?

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

Oh that game rocked. Back when Amiga was *the* gaming machine, that was a real killer. I have an Ultima T-shirt somewhere too. I'm sure that's gotten pretty valuable.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

And now it's only marginally better-looking to nostalgic eyes than a Colecovision game, and we can all see what an annoying excuse for a game it was.

But my jaw dropped the first time I saw that thing in action.

A KEY... FIND the DOOR it opens!

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

Well, since I'm *bored out of my skull!!!!*, I'm sitting here sorting through tubs of old computer and video game gear. I've found, among other gems, an original Pong set, with the paddle controllers, a full "rune bag" from the original Ultima Underworld, a TRS 80 Color Computer (The 16 kb version), some old game software of varying quality, an old GeForce Nintendo accessory, a Robby the Robot (Missing it's top), and nine cloth maps from various games. I should start a museum!

We Have Explosives

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, Shadow Of The Beast.
I had that on the Atari ST, but I didn't play it much.
Actually, the problem with a lot of Psygnosis games was that they looked cool but played
like crap. This was because their whole design philosophy, in the first 5 or so years of
their existence, could be summed up as: "Hey, we found this new nifty graphic trick we
can do on the Amiga/ST. Now, what kind of game can we build around it?"

The first Psygnosis that looked good and played well, in my strictly personal opinion,
was "The Killing Game Show". It was a platform/shooty thing, but dammit, it was fun!
And the controls responded really well. The copy protection scheme on it was rather
amusing. If you tried to copy the game, it looked like it copied perfectly, but if you
played it, you discovered that the water level in the game would rise about 10 times
faster than normal, making the game virtually unplayable. Clever!

My all-time favorite Psygnosis creation is hands-down "WipEout XL" on the PSX.
It all came together perfectly: the game (anti-gravity racing), the music (the best
techno from 1995, and some of the best Techno period!), the look (Designers Republic).

Psygnosis is now known as Leeds Studio, a division of Sony.
I hear a new Wipeout game is in the works, with online play, for PS2.
I can't wait!!!



Signed: The #1 Wipeout Freak