Get ready for Find Your Own Way Home, a hidden object game based upon the classic 80s band REO Speedwagon. Let me repeat that so there's no confusion: It's a hidden object game based on REO Speedwagon.
I'm no fan of music videogames. I have zero interest in Guitar Hero, Rock Band or any of the bastard offspring they've spawned. In my eyes, they're a lot like sports videogames: I'd rather watch people play them than play them myself and I'd far rather go out and do something else entirely than watch people play them. But Find Your Own Way Home sounds like a twist on the genre I can really get behind.
Players will take on the role of Ruby, a "hip Hollywood reporter" shadowing REO Speedwagon as they tour in advance of the release of their latest CD. But on the day of the release party, singer Kevin Cronin goes missing and it's up to Ruby to search for clues, track him down and get everyone to the party on time!
The game will include 80 levels adding up to an estimated ten hours of gameplay, along with 12 REO Speedwagon tracks including brand-new recordings of the classics "Keep On Loving You" and "Roll With the Changes." The game is named after the band's most recent album, released in 2007, which did not chart but produced two minor hits on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 100. (Hey, give 'em a break, it was their first studio album since 1996.)
So why do we care? Because it's REO freakin' Speedwagon, that's why! The concept of an REO Speedwagon hidden object game is so random, so completely without a rational basis and yet so utterly awesome that we have to shout it from the rooftops: You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish! The Speedwagon cometh!
UPDATE:Find Your Own Way Home won't include quite as much classic Speedwagon as we'd hoped; aside from "Keep On Loving You" and "Roll With the Changes," the music in the game will come entirely from the band's last album, so there'll be no "Take It On the Run" or "Keep the Fire Burnin'" this time around. Lloyd Melnick of publisher Merscom says the game is set for release on December 2 - it may not be another Rocktober but you better believe I've got it marked on my calendar.
Malygris: You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish!
an oldie facepalm for an oldie band.
Anyway, is a hidden Object game is like a Point and Click adventure? If so I might pick it up, not that Im a fan or anything, but Im getting bored with the games I have.
cleverlymadeup: dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up
i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful
Listen to this
And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).
Flying-Emu: Is it wrong if I absolutely DESPISE REO Speedwagon?
I'd love to agree, call them garbage and say "well Grand Funk Railroad are better, can this trash!" but...I'd be lying because Keep on Loving You is a classic. Sorry Bruh.
Get ready for Find Your Own Way Home, a hidden object game based upon the classic 80s band REO Speedwagon. Let me repeat that so there's no confusion: It's a hidden object game based on REO Speedwagon.
I'm no fan of music videogames. I have zero interest in Guitar Hero, Rock Band or any of the bastard offspring they've spawned. In my eyes, they're a lot like sports videogames: I'd rather watch people play them than play them myself and I'd far rather go out and do something else entirely than watch people play them. But Find Your Own Way Home sounds like a twist on the genre I can really get behind.
Players will take on the role of Ruby, a "hip Hollywood reporter" shadowing REO Speedwagon as they tour in advance of the release of their latest CD. But on the day of the release party, singer Kevin Cronin goes missing and it's up to Ruby to search for clues, track him down and get everyone to the party on time!
The game will include 80 levels adding up to an estimated ten hours of gameplay, along with 12 REO Speedwagon tracks including brand-new recordings of the classics "Keep On Loving You" and "Roll With the Changes." The game is named after the band's most recent album, released in 2007, which did not chart but produced two minor hits on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 100. (Hey, give 'em a break, it was their first studio album since 1996.)
So why do we care? Because it's REO freakin' Speedwagon, that's why! The concept of an REO Speedwagon hidden object game is so random, so completely without a rational basis and yet so utterly awesome that we have to shout it from the rooftops: You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish! The Speedwagon cometh!
Cousin_IT: still waiting on a game based around Cock & Ball Torture. It could only be interesting
oh shit, I can't even imagine. maybe it would just be wading through a pile of guts, while listening to the gruesome SFX voiced by the singer. then at the end of the level you have to murder a giant pig, also played by that singer. that singer sounds incredible, I've never heard anything so disgusting.
which reminds me, next time my roommate starts listening to madonna, I'm gonna abuse him with this band
cleverlymadeup: dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up
i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful
Greatest fuckin song ever
And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).
Look, Spirit of Radio kicks ass. But not enough to compensate for Hall and Oates AND Falco. Just... NO. And certainly, Rush would kick the shit out of REO Speedwagon in a street fight, or a hidden object game competition. Most certainly in a light saber battle.
Taking the whole list into account, Yes and Rush would just gang up on poor REO and synthesizer them to death. What's that, buddy? You got a Hammond B3 and a Grand Piano? We got MOOGs, fool! SUCK ON IT!
cleverlymadeup: dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up
i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful
Listen to this
And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).
thanx for proving my point about how bad the 80s were and Cars was from the 70s
*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.
not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid
cleverlymadeup: dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up
i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful
Listen to this
And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).
*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.
not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid
We also had some of the best children's television ever, TISWAS, Max Headroom, The 64/Speccy console wars, Elite, Twin Kingdom Valley, ULTIMATE Play the Game (to become Rare), The Darling Brothers (To become Codemasters), The Avengers, 2000 AD's best years, THE WATCHMEN, Empire+Return, Nu-wave, The Beginnings of Goth, Electronica, Wispa bars, The Dukes Of Hazzard, M*A*S*H's finale, The A Team, Magnum P.I., ALF, Moonlighting, Cheers, The screen birth of Samuel L M-Fing Jackson, Surely Airplane!, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Fluorescent tube socks, Deeley Boppers (Ok...the last two were awful), Good Morning Vietnam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Wargames, BeetleJuice, The Princess Bride, Short Circuit, WWF(E), The Terminator, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The basis of Trainspotting, Watermelon Gobstoppers/Dinosour Eggs, AC/DC/ Maiden, some of the cheesiest Xmas music ever and some of the best (Fairytale of New York, Stop The Cavalry), Flash DIVE MY HAWKMEN!!!!!11! Gordon.
I mean, c'mon, what have the 00's got apart from Moffat's Doctor Who episodes, good as they maybe; and maybe House, Dexter and Chuck.
Edit: And I feel all that text deserves a picture.
*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.
not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid
the Brutal Legend soundtrack - THAT is why the 80's were awesome!
Judas Priest, Motorhead, Ozzy's first two albums, all that great obscure stuff plus Iron Maiden and Dio
synth-pop, well I see it continuing to go in and out of popularity. during the 90s no one could stand that cheesy mess, now it's all the rage. you'd think with better synthesis technology we'd be playing around with newer, better sounds, but no. we just canibalize the 80s. BUT, I can dig The Cars, and that song Cars, and Thomas Dolby, some of the stuff that wasn't afraid to be outright nerdy.
and Hair Metal does not count as good 80s metal.
OT, if I had to listen to REO Speedwagon, gimme "Ridin' the Storm Out" over their cheesy ballad stuff.
Much as you may hate poodlerock, you can't deny it's influence. Unless you're also prepared to take on Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Guns & Roses and Spinal Tap.
the Brutal Legend soundtrack - THAT is why the 80's were awesome!
Judas Priest, Motorhead, Ozzy's first two albums, all that great obscure stuff plus Iron Maiden and Dio
those were all 70s bands that just got some more popularity in the 80s
synth-pop, well I see it continuing to go in and out of popularity. during the 90s no one could stand that cheesy mess, now it's all the rage. you'd think with better synthesis technology we'd be playing around with newer, better sounds, but no. we just canibalize the 80s. BUT, I can dig The Cars, and that song Cars, and Thomas Dolby, some of the stuff that wasn't afraid to be outright nerdy.
synthpop, with one or two notable exceptions hasn't been that popular ever. sure it's big in the goth scene but that's about it. granted there are a couple notable exceptions but for the most part it's not well liked
Much as you may hate poodlerock, you can't deny it's influence. Unless you're also prepared to take on Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Guns & Roses and Spinal Tap.
Alice Cooper came in the early 70s and was a rock'n'roll circus. There's nothing like him (as much as Kiss might try, they fail by comparison.) Iron Maiden, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the origin of meathead rockers (like me) running around calling everything epic. Iron Maiden would use their flaming swords of pure metal to ignite the putrescent Aquanet'd hair of the infidels. Def Leppard... piss on 'em. Guns & Roses is just a great rock'n'roll band, where most hair metal groups were just mediocre rock'n'roll bands (not true metal). They happened to take the same formula for success that all these poddlerock jokers were using and turned it against them. If I had to sink the entire hair-metal gunship, G&R would probably have to go down with it. It'd be a tough casualty to accept... but deep in my heart I know I'd rather see commercial music fail, so I'd have to go through with it.
And finally... Spinal Tap. What a great movie. Funny soundtrack. But you've gotta realize, they were satirizing (in '82) all the commercial excess that was about to give birth to all these poodlerockers.
And another thing... as much as I hate poodlerock, I love the word 'poodlerock'. So thanks for that, I need to go find someone in rl who likes poodlerock and start making fun of poodlerock to their face.
the Brutal Legend soundtrack - THAT is why the 80's were awesome!
Judas Priest, Motorhead, Ozzy's first two albums, all that great obscure stuff plus Iron Maiden and Dio
those were all 70s bands that just got some more popularity in the 80s
synth-pop, well I see it continuing to go in and out of popularity. during the 90s no one could stand that cheesy mess, now it's all the rage. you'd think with better synthesis technology we'd be playing around with newer, better sounds, but no. we just canibalize the 80s. BUT, I can dig The Cars, and that song Cars, and Thomas Dolby, some of the stuff that wasn't afraid to be outright nerdy.
synthpop, with one or two notable exceptions hasn't been that popular ever. sure it's big in the goth scene but that's about it. granted there are a couple notable exceptions but for the most part it's not well liked
70's acts that grew stronger in the 80's - hey, just like REO Speedwagon Ozzy's solo stuff, BTW, started in 81 with Blizz of Oz.
Synthpop - are you kidding me? What's all this pop music with synthesizers I'm hearing down the street at 80's Night, then? They sure do love them some Falco over there... And what about The Killers, The Bravery, even MGMT? I hear a lot of music on the radio today that wouldn't be anywhere without the retro strains of 80's synth music.
cleverlymadeup: dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up
i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful
Listen to this
And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).
thanx for proving my point about how bad the 80s were and Cars was from the 70s
*frowns* I respectfully disagree with you sir. There was much about the 80's that was simply outrageous.
not much, Tom Baker left as The Doctor and any of the good music was rather obscure, the "good" stuff people think is great is horrible horrible music that. the only two good types of music in the 80s were industrial and metal, the rest was horrid
cleverlymadeup: dear god people the 70s and 80s are over, give it up
i hate retro stuff and have for a very long time, people thinking the 80s were a good thing, they were horrid and awful
Listen to this
And this is just the pop! A lot better than the shit that is getting pumped out now. Most of this is from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack. I still think Vice City had the best soundtrack, right behind The Ballad of Gay Tony (Not Grand Theft Auto IV, just The Ballad of Gay Tony).
Spinal Tap wasn't real???? NOOoOOooOOOOooOoooooooOOOOooo!
:o ok, in my defense, 'Like My Love Pump' has got to be the saddest song of all time... and come to think of it, Spinal Tap did make the 80's pretty awesome.
Cheeze_Pavilion: This thread is so full of WIN, it clearly needs a sticky.
Strike that: this thread needs to be the homepage from now on.
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Holy Crap, It's an REO Speedwagon Hidden Object Game! - UPDATED
Get ready for Find Your Own Way Home, a hidden object game based upon the classic 80s band REO Speedwagon. Let me repeat that so there's no confusion: It's a hidden object game based on REO Speedwagon.
I'm no fan of music videogames. I have zero interest in Guitar Hero, Rock Band or any of the bastard offspring they've spawned. In my eyes, they're a lot like sports videogames: I'd rather watch people play them than play them myself and I'd far rather go out and do something else entirely than watch people play them. But Find Your Own Way Home sounds like a twist on the genre I can really get behind.
Players will take on the role of Ruby, a "hip Hollywood reporter" shadowing REO Speedwagon as they tour in advance of the release of their latest CD. But on the day of the release party, singer Kevin Cronin goes missing and it's up to Ruby to search for clues, track him down and get everyone to the party on time!
The game will include 80 levels adding up to an estimated ten hours of gameplay, along with 12 REO Speedwagon tracks including brand-new recordings of the classics "Keep On Loving You" and "Roll With the Changes." The game is named after the band's most recent album, released in 2007, which did not chart but produced two minor hits on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 100. (Hey, give 'em a break, it was their first studio album since 1996.)
So why do we care? Because it's REO freakin' Speedwagon, that's why! The concept of an REO Speedwagon hidden object game is so random, so completely without a rational basis and yet so utterly awesome that we have to shout it from the rooftops: You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish! The Speedwagon cometh!
UPDATE: Find Your Own Way Home won't include quite as much classic Speedwagon as we'd hoped; aside from "Keep On Loving You" and "Roll With the Changes," the music in the game will come entirely from the band's last album, so there'll be no "Take It On the Run" or "Keep the Fire Burnin'" this time around. Lloyd Melnick of publisher Merscom says the game is set for release on December 2 - it may not be another Rocktober but you better believe I've got it marked on my calendar.
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