Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Episode 042: A Periodic Guest


Welcome to The Diad Presents!

Well this is certainly different... Strap in for a less-informative, more goofy episode of the Diad Presents with a very special guest.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And as promised, here are some examples of my WWF No Mercy Mods:

Here are some "AKI-style" mods of a couple familiar wrestlers:
















And here is a "Hi res" version of another wrestler:


And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Kirby Superstars - The Great Cave Offensive - SNES - Jun Ishikawa
2 - Rhythm Heaven Fever - Ringside - Wii - TSUNKU♂ Masami Yone Shinji Ushiroda Asuka Ito
3 - Quizzes and Dragons - The Flatfields - Arcade - Isao Abe
4 - Quizzes and Dragons - Beast Mountain - Arcade - Isao Abe
5 - Fire Pro Wrestling D - Menu Theme - Dreamcast - Unknown
6 - Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour - Coin Attack - Game Cube - Motoi Sakuraba
7 - Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball - Game Theme Player ?? - NES / FC - Unknown

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16 comments:

  1. Nathan DanielsJanuary 31, 2018 at 10:16 AM

    Great tracks, and great conversation! That Mario Golf track totally reminds me of a Sega Racing Track or a Sonic Adventure track, but I can’t put my finger on it. Perhaps from Sega Rally: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRtaAHG_k8HAGFmns9WruFpFW23dYb0JF&params=OAFIAVgC&v=vny8e6jyC_Q&mode=NORMAL

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    1. Nathan DanielsJanuary 31, 2018 at 10:18 AM

      Or was it
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRtaAHG_k8HAGFmns9WruFpFW23dYb0JF&params=OAFIAVgD&v=7mSufU42ASw&mode=NORMAL

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    2. The DiadJanuary 31, 2018 at 10:20 AM

      I like this Sega Racing song! Takenobu doing his true sincerity thang.

      I think I can see the similarities. The Golf track has a sorta late 90s dance-y vibe to it, I think.

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  2. Nathan DanielsJanuary 31, 2018 at 10:21 AM

    https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRtaAHG_k8HAGFmns9WruFpFW23dYb0JF

    Actually, it’s all of them.

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    1. The DiadJanuary 31, 2018 at 10:23 AM

      Dang, this is a great soundtrack.

      Maybe I need to do a disc-based racing game focus episode? Saturn, Early PS1, even Dreamcast and Xbox had some good ones.

      Hmmmmm

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    2. Nathan DanielsMarch 18, 2018 at 12:27 AM

      Um YES PLEASE. From Wipeout, to the Sega Racers, to Rage Racer(which ties Sega Rally for my favorite racer of all time, and trumps it in terms of feeeeels), to Sonic R, to Scorcher.....heck, even just one system could provide you with more than enough tracks. I swear, the Xbox and PS2 had a hundred racing games each. And I know it’s probably off-limits, but Gran Tourismo 3’s remix of Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way”(with accompanying video) is one of my all-time favorite passive gaming experiences, and the reason I bought a PS2(in spite of having sworn off games after the Dreamcast died). Well, that’s kind of a lie. I also bought the PS2 to play Rage Racer and Metal Gear Solid, both of which I missed out on originally because of my misguided Sega fanboyism.

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    3. The DiadMarch 19, 2018 at 3:26 PM

      You know what is misguided? Your insertion of the word "misguided"!

      I had a brief stint as a Nintendo heretic during the Dreamcast era. If they had kept on making systems, who knows what I would have done.

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  3. suprcrackersAugust 29, 2018 at 10:04 PM

    Hey since my son is now in Ann Arbor at CS Motts I decided to visit Pinball Pete's. That's a big arcade you guys had access to. I'm pleased to announce that Quizzes and Dragons, err I mean Quizmasters, is still there.

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    1. The DiadAugust 30, 2018 at 11:22 AM

      Hey Suprcrackers!

      It's a pretty cool place, right? I'm very relieved to hear Quizmasters is still there, but the question remains... did you play it? And if so, did you enter your initials?

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    2. suprcrackersAugust 30, 2018 at 7:08 PM

      What was your and Alan's high score? Now you do have the advantage of it being your home turf and memorizing the answers, but I do have the useless skill upgrade of early 90's sports knowledge. We will just have to see how the match up turns out.

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    3. suprcrackersAugust 30, 2018 at 10:47 PM

      Well, I made it there again tonight. It is now set a $.50 a game which allowed me on my $3.00 to get to the boss of the third stage. I think my score was around 200,000. Not that it will help me much because as you said the scores get reset every day.

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    4. The DiadAugust 31, 2018 at 9:31 AM

      I can't remember what my high score was. Usually Alan buzzes in first, so he always had the higher score. But at least you can live on in infamy for a short while.

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  4. suprcrackersAugust 30, 2018 at 12:00 PM

    I was with my wife so a little back story is in order. Remember, back in the day where it was not so cool to wear your gaming credentials on your sleeve? Well, I'm squarely from that generation. I had to stay in the closet so to speak in order not to scare away the head cheerleader because I'm a cool guy not some nerd who likes videogames, right?

    So here I am 16 years later still very comfortable staying in my don't as don't tell cocoon. Some things never change I guess? Getting my wife in there with me was a challenge in itself. I reluctantly got her to play some pinball. I was not going to push my luck with Quizzes and Dragons. Maybe next time?

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  5. suprcrackersAugust 30, 2018 at 5:28 PM

    I might pull a cartoonish diversion. Point in the opposite direction, "is that a farmers market?" by the time she turned her head back there would just be a puff of smoke left behind.

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  6. LucyAugust 25, 2022 at 9:30 AM

    https://youtu.be/rcd8T1sLhCE

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