For those of you who need to know, AKB48, is a J-Pop group with 88 members (yes - 88!) who range in age from 13 to their mid-20s when the crystal in the pal starts flashing red and it's time to visit the Carousel - certainly no one hits 30.
The bad thing about having so many members is that if you go and see their show, you never know who you are getting! (Please let it be the legal ones!)
Anyhow... I was watching the animated movie Wreck-it Ralph with my son on Saturday. I hadn't seen it before, and heard the reviews were fair to middling.
First off - as a 40-something male who played video games at the arcade from their infancy and continued to play them at home as of seven hours ago (as of this writing), Wreck-it Ralph is a great movie, full of references to classic video games that used to make 'find quarters in pocket' until I learned the old quarter on a string trick.
The movie contains cameos from such games as: Q*bert, Dig-Dug (love-it!), Burger Time (That chef kept getting killed by a pickle!), Rootbeer Tapper (boring!), Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt (that's where I learned to shoot with a gun) (It's also the closest I've come to using a real gun), Sonic The Hedgehog, Street Fighter II, Satan's Hollow (I would STILL play this game!!! - love the intro music - Wagner's Flight of the Valkries - still my favorite classical piece!), Pacman (did I really buy the Buckner & Garcia Pacman Fever record album - yes, but mostly for the Pac-Man cheat sheet record cover!), Frogger, Metal Gear (I saw the exclamation point!) and Joust (I loves my ostrich!).
And the movie itself was quite enteratining. It's what Tron II could have been like!
Anyhow, it did have one disturbing thing... a song called Sugar Rush... that had me tapping my foot and singing along... and the... the end credits.... ohhhhh crap! AKB48. Damn.
At least I can honestly say that I wasn't in on it for the pre-pubescent-looking girls... but the music?
Geez... which is worse?!
These girls look like they are 14 - all done up to look cute et al... but how old are they really? I don't know... but it disturbed me... almost as much as having the Scotch Tape from 3M give way from holding the string to my quarter while I jiggled it up and downto click the credit counter to 98 - desperately wanting that 99th and last credit.
(The only time I ever needed 99 credits was trying to play the horrible Donkey Kong III featuring Luigi and Mario as plumbers in a sewer system. I don't think there was actually a gorilla in the whole thing... and now that I have looked it up, the game was actually called Mario Bros. - that game sucked. Sucked donkeys. Sucked donkey kongs. I can't believe it was so popular that they created the whole Super Mario Bros. world.)
Anyhow... I can't believe I like the song Sugar Rush. You will too. It has been determined. You shall be assimilated.
And... for the record... there has ever ben one video game that ever gave me the creeps: Conker's Bad Fur Day... a Nintendo 64 game for adults... everytime I came up to a part where I had to kill zombie squirrels... watching them teeter around... I visibly got the chills and couln't concentrate enough to get by the board... for days I tried and finally gave up, never finishing the game... a first for me with a finishing type adventure game.
Have you watched the video yet? S-U-G-A-R, jump into your racing car. Say Sugar Rush! Sugar Rush! (Hey!)
AAAggghh! It won't get out of my brain! It's turning me into a zombie squirrel! Who stole my nuts?!
Somewhere on a sugar rush,
Andrew Joseph
PS - the age joke regarding the Carousel is from Logan's Run.
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