sanfranciscorush – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Sat, 16 Apr 2022 05:41:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png sanfranciscorush – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 Sundry Sunday: “What’s Your Name” https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-whats-your-name/ Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=221 Continue reading "Sundry Sunday: “What’s Your Name”"]]>

It’s Sunday! You made it through another week. Your reward is this wonderful bit of ephemera from San Francisco Rush. With the death of Midway and Atari Games, arcade aesthetics have largely been ceded to Japanese studios which, nothing against them, but sometimes it feels like we’ve lost something fundamental.

What’s Your Name, the high-score name entry music from San Francisco Rush, is a favorite example of this. In the twenty-six years since the game was released to arcades, I find it shocking that this catchy little ditty isn’t remembered by more people. It makes me happy just to hear it. “Starts with a C… starts with a G… starts with a Z… nothing nasty now!”

Sundry Sunday is a little feature I’m doing to post something silly and fun, related to the world of gaming, once a week. I hope you’re ready for some weird….

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