Bemani - whoever said games aren't cool?

So it's 4am. It's officially the end of Corona Night.

For those not in the know Bishops Blaise - the bar on the corner of Benjamin Russel Court - does £1 Corona on thursdays.

Tonight I obtained a Corona bandana, so catch me rocking a yellow shade of headwear next week, and a Jack Daniels jumper and it's a little too soon to be comprehending how exactly I obtained it but that's not the point right now.

Monday was a night out at Original Four where a guy who resembled Mr. Bean did Mr. Bean-esque dances to commercial Hip Hop music. Never-the-less they could have made a BBC special out of it but that would be expoiltative and the BBC as we all know tends to stray from the more controversial affairs of the human psyche.

The title of this blog was originally going to be "The Blog of the blog" which would entail details of how my browser would not load neither Blogger.com or Wikipedia.com (for reference, I had already read the article but my brain was like a sponge at the time) at 11pm when I was trying to write up my now 855 word piece on the 80s-90s of video games. It was stressful indeed and overall became a successful piece in such a moment of anxiety and distress.

I celebrated as I always do with a few alcohol beverages and played a little bit of MGO (Metal Gear Online for those not in the know).

I am getting fairly annoyed at headshot-whores who spend nothing more than every second of their time spraying with an XM16E or AK47 in First Person View at your head. At first it's impressive until you've been sprayed down for the fithteenth time. So I spent a lil time learning the tricks of their trade and found it to be nothing more than recoil adjustment by kneeling down or lying flat on the floor...THE SWINES!!! The same people detest the use of shotguns. It's fairly humourous as you need to be 1ft away for a shotgun to take full effect. Those headshot-seekers are threatened by a weapon that can't even harm them at a safe distance - thus revealing their ultimate weakness.

Straying from less than 100th in the rankings to around 1, 000th without even playing has put me off playing for the time being. So I dig out an old PSX game - Bust A Groove.

A Bemani game that requires nothing more than 4 directional buttons, X, O and a little bit of rhythm (understand now why I strayed from alcoholism, to Mr. Bean dancing, to MGO to Bust a Groove? If you still don't understand please divert all your questions to jlikew00t@hotmail.com where I will answer all queries with a short description and a possible voice message).

It's a fun game. Very Japanese in terms of colour and song-choices but overall a pretty enjoyable game for even the most controller-inept casual gamer.
With a selection of crazy characters and around 10 stages of prancing dancing beats ranging from funk to hiphop to j-pop you cannot deny it's appeal. The only thing that would put it a step above the rest would be a dance-mat compatible option but unfortunately you must settle with a control pad.

I enjoyed this game so much I learned it's routine off by heart so I could taunt those I played against by inputting functions behind my back, and even closing my eyes.

This blog was nothing more than pure self appreciation and to try and persuade those who have never heard of Bust A Groove to give it a try. It's a fun game to play sober, drunk, with or without friends or infact to wild-up your housemates who are trying to sleep.

Next blog; how to complete Super Mario 64 in 16 stars and the future of video gaming.

Until next time party people.