I don't recall how I came to learn that there was a 1983 video game based on the band Journey. Perhaps I searched Google for "bar + man + singing + totally + gay" or maybe I was researching the history of coin-operated arcade games, a genre for which this game would place as my all-time second-favorite. (With all the rest being tied for first, of course.)
The object of the game, as described by the righteous Killer List of Video Games, is to "recover the instruments for the five members of the rock band Journey," without explanation as to why those instruments were seized in the first place. (Though I have a pretty good idea.)
In the bonus round, you act as a roadie who must push fans away from the concert stage. I'm presuming a healthy ratio of the rambunctious fans are women. Being trapped in 1983 is good for only two types of people: Baltimore Orioles fans and roadies for Journey. Gotta figure that the women pushing their way to Journey stages in 2008 are the same ones as from 1983. Try sharing those tales from the road with anyone who may have worked even a month with Motley Crue in 1985.
Other Web Finds:
• $1.18 Million Diamond on Amazon — When you're in the market for seven-figures' worth of precious jewels, you really can't go wrong with a place that bills itself as the world's largest bookseller.
• Clone-A-Willy — And to add to that million-dollar-plus shopping cart, Amazon also sells a sex toy in which you mold your hard dick into a custom vibrator for your gal.
• NFL.com's Outdated Giants Super Bowl Commemorative Jacket — For $200, you can proudly show off your Big Blue pride with this jacket adorned with patches celebrating the Giants' victories in Super Bowls XXI and XXV. Hmmm, anyone see something missing here? (As an aside, anyone who buys this NFC champs "helmet head" should be committed and sentenced to a lifetime of playing Journey video games.)
• Big Huge Labs' Flickr Toys — A bunch of free effects, frames and generators that you can apply to your library of Flickr photos.
• YouTube: Rob Halford Singing in Court — This is from when Judas Priest was on trial after it was alleged that subliminal messages in their song "Better By You, Better Than Me" had triggered suicide attempts in Nevada by two young men, one of which was "successful." That's some scary-ass shit, how only 18 years ago — in this supposed most advanced country in the world — a band could be put in trial because of how others may have interpreted their words. Guaran-fucking-tee you religious brainwashing and a fight against "Devil's music" played a role here, as pious loons continue to let thousands of years of telephone override common sense.
• People Riding Buses to Atlantic City For Profit — The New York Times illustrates how, for some, the vouchers Atlantic City casinos hand out to treat bus riders exceeds the cost of the fare itself. Hence, a profit without gambling a dime and a meager source of income for downtrodden folks.
• Dopes, Get Your Dirt — Phil Mushnick of the New York Post on more ridiculously priced collectibles from Steiner Sports and the New York Yankees, including a "2005 Opening Day Batter's Box Dirt Collage" for $120, an Ian Kennedy locker room name plate for $500 and a Jose Veras "game used" duffel bag for $250.
