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Van Halen and 80s video games
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:29 am
by bruce
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:40 am
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Can someone clarify something for me? Eddie and Alex Van Halen did not have the exact same parents, right? This has been bugging me for nigh twenty years. I wouldn't care, except that they named their band "Van Halen." If Alex's real name is something like Van Halen-Nagawasii then fair's fair... I just no longer wish to be kept in the dark about it.
I love Jumpman. I even liked the sequel "Jumpman Lives!" even though it was a giant spoiler for the outcome of the first game, where you think Jumpman dies. (I mention this only because I plan on seeing Kill Bill later. I think that the Bill guy is gonna end up dying.)
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:27 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
waitasec, Jumpman wasn't there that was a trap
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:17 pm
by Vitriola
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:29 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
It might as well have jumped...
IN FRONT OF A CAR
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:14 am
by Jethro Q. Walrustitty
Christ, Jonsey, do your homework!
The sequel to Jumpman is Jumpman Jr, with - I think - 10-12 levels as compared to the 30 in the original. (Quick research shows 15 levels. OK, whatever.) Yet another original classic for the Atari 8bits.
Anything after that is a knockoff by uninvolved parties. (In fact, looks like Jumpman Lives was a completely illegal product, a mere repackaging of the first two games in a PC translation, but Apogee had no ownership of the Jumpman name, so it was quickly removed from the market.)
Bill is not killed in Kill Bill, at least not Volume One.
There's no Santa Claus, either.
Who the hell is Alex Van Halen?
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:19 pm
by AArdvark
That was a cool video. I haven't seen some of those screens for .. oh must be twenty years or so.
Alex and Eddie have the same parents. Fact is, Eddie started out on drums and Alex played guitar. Weird how some things get swapped out and then all hell breaks loose. Gonna check out Rolling Stone encyclopaedia of Rock and Roll to be sure, tho.
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