A blog exclusive that stars *ME* and Grant / Tiffany! Break out your boogie shoes and come inside!
Yeah, I accidentally typed in boobie shoes by mistake. Force of habit I guess! Anyway, this caption is complete fiction .. as the only way I could do DDR at all is to be possessed by the ghost of a girl that used to be obsessed by dancing.
I had the idea ahead of time about an urban legend and a "killer app" arcade game and punched up a search engine to see what sort of photos I could find. Not as many girls in short skirts cutting a rug on a DDR machine as I thought there would be, but this one worked just fine .. especially since I wanted the place to see abandoned .. please ignore the slight bit of arm on the left hand side of the picture!
Then it was trying to get the words down enough where I could tell the story I wanted to tell without going overboard on exposition. I also wanted to through in a few bits of video game references that might be fun for those who understood them .. for instance the modified "Konami Code" which would have let Tiff cheat her way with invincibility in the 1980's Contra game.
It's not a surprise that I had been watching lots of retro-tech videos on Youtube. I have a thing for old consoles, and I miss the ones I had collected in the early 2000's before I had to move to this current apartment (I ended up throwing out a coleco-vision, intellivision, Atari 7800 and others because no one wanted to buy them at the time! I still have a PS1 original, and a Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. Someday I'll have an awesome man cave where all my old systems will be set up, and I'll have a few retro arcade machines too!
Had to write this up ahead of time, as the first round of Bruins / Hurricanes is tonight at 7 PM. This will be posted around the end of the game. Let's hope the B's can pull it off without one of their better defensemen being suspended one game.
Another post should be up in a day or two, and that will most likely be another blog exclusive, so whip up some comments and ask me any question you want! I'm totally up for an AMA.
Hopefully everyone can see the video. Kewl song, but awesome video and I was thinking about it when I made the caption. Enjoy!