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ex_aphonia179 January 23 2003, 05:30:07 UTC

Mind Candy reminds me of old Psykosonik videos. If you know what I'm talking about, then I simultaneously salute and feel sorry for you.

A.

babysimon January 23 2003, 05:31:23 UTC

There seem to be plenty of copies of Rez in the UK, in case you care enough to go to the trouble of importing.

My new mobile phone has a Rez-like feature - you can set each button to make a different drum sound. Amusing for five minutes.

jwz January 23 2003, 15:58:48 UTC

Do UK PS2 games play on unmodified US PS2 consoles? If so, can you point me at anyone online who still sells it?

injector January 23 2003, 18:02:01 UTC

No, and the mod needed to play a UK game on a US system is more than the normal solder-less mod. But if you copy a UK game to a CD then a solder-less mod will be able to boot it. Yes, I know it is odd. I just wanted to import a few Japanese games, but didn't want to permanently change my system. I found it odd that I would have to copy a game that I bought to play it. I never bothered to go through with it.

You can read more here http://www.modchip.com/ps2/.

jfpoole January 23 2003, 22:22:05 UTC

There seem to be plenty of copies of Rez in the UK, in case you care enough to go to the trouble of importing.

There also seem to be a fair number of copies here in Canada; everytime I wander into an EB they seem to have a couple sitting on the shelf.

Maybe it's a Commonwealth thing?

jerronimo January 23 2003, 05:37:37 UTC

I personally always liked the demos that were more about "what we can do" rather than "who we know"... the ones that have little to no shout outs, and preferrably, no sine scrollers. ;)

My favorites:

Spaceballs - "State Of The Art", "9 Fingers" - full motion video on one or two 800k floppies? dancing to the music? Yup. Greetz? Nope. probably two of the most impressive amiga demos I've ever seen.
another one which I can't rememeber which I think was by Cryptoburners? which was all in 3-D.. you need red-blue glasses for it. it was keen.

(I have ADF's for these, and they play well under UAE/Fellow)

Coma - just about any of theirs. they had a very neat looking "full motion video" engine. "Washingmachine", "Poliisi", "Agent 42", etc.
MiST - "Xaos" probably my favorite PC demo. Every time I watch it, I get this tense felling in my gut. not many demos or even programs do this. VERY cool demo. It does have greetz at one point, but it's very short and to the beat of the music. hehe.
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zenmonkeykstop January 23 2003, 06:29:18 UTC

Rez also has a special peripheral:

http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26/sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html

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zenmonkeykstop January 23 2003, 07:01:09 UTC

D'oh!

eaterofhands January 23 2003, 06:54:09 UTC

Damn, I didn't know stuff was still being released under the title cabaret voltaire. Maybe I'll have to bring my light addiction, though I should probably convince my self that I don't any more than the 10 or so that I already have.

Now if only someone would put out some ClockDVA stuff again...