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To start off BEMANI Month to celebrate OLR's 10th Anniversary, we're really turning on the heat with some "Firery" songs all this week.
Today's track is "Fire" by Pink Pong from Beatmania 6th Mix!
Please note due to copyright issues I can not make this song available for you to download directly.
We can't really talk about BEMANI without mentioning it's roots. And what can I say about Beatmania that most of you probably don't know about already? So I'll just talk about my first Beatmania experience.
Back in the day, when I played DDR, I knew about the BEMANI franchises but hadn't gotten the opportunity to play them. Until a close friend told that an arcade the town next to ours had gotten a BM machine, so I was truly excited to play, even though it wasn't a IIDX one. We naturally went to check it out and at first it was weird. While BM is quite basic stuff it's still hard to learn and master. So we failed and failed until we got it right. And the first song in the whole setlist is this one, "Fire". It isn't the most amazing song ever (not even one the best songs in this mix), but it's good and it does help you to learn how to follow the rhythm and hit the keys on time.
So I personally picked this song just because it's special to me. It was my first Beatmania experience outside DDR (and probably GuitarFreaks/DrumMania). In other words, nostalgia, what can you do?
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It is a quiet calm before the E3 storm this week on Orange Lounge Radio. The show was taped prior to Sunday this week meaning no live chatters or callers unfortunately, but our hosts have plenty of pre-E3 buzz to dissect including:
* Sony Cloud Service Rumors * Was Silent Hill HD made from incomplete code? * New Wii-U Functionality rumors * Doom 3 Remake * Skyrim: Dawnguard deatils
All this and MORE on the show where EVERY gamer has a voice-- Orange Lounge Radio! LIVE on the VOG Network, Sunday nights at 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern www.vognetwork.com E-mail:
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Just a quick post to let people know what's going on this month, celebrating our 10th birthday! But before I get into that, don't forget there's the VOG Virtual Media Briefing tonight over at www.vognetwork.com with Rob Roberts and Bobby Blackwolf spilling the beans on the future of our new independent geek news network!
As for over here, I have a few surprises planned for our 10th birthday. For starters, 'Where are they now?!" will be returning... with what is quite possibly the most anticipated interview in the article's history! But ... you'll have to wait for Saturday the 23rd to see who it is!
And more than likely I'll have a few retro BEMANI-themed 'I Love That Song!' articles and maybe one or two others... so watch out for those, and quite possibly a video stumble article as well!
Fair word of warning you probably won't see any of this stuff until E3's over with... I really don't wanna compete with the deluge of information so I'd just as soon wait til the hype's died down. So stay tuned about Wednesday or so when the 10th anniversary celebration stuff officially kicks off!
Until then, see you at the press event at the VOG satelite!!
Dead Rising 3... Minecraft Stats... New Star Wars Game... 38 Studios closure... Ads to interrupt games?... New Zone of the Enders... Kinect SDK Update... Konami lawsuit and MORE on the show where EVERY gamer has a voice-- Orange Lounge Radio!
