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Worst Game Theme in the World
Feb. 21st, 2010 10:53 amI remember that the era of full-3D games was beginning when Total Reality was on CITV, and that I was amazed at the look of a Saturn/arcade game that they showed called Daytona USA. I also couldn't help... noticing... its music - for some reason, as part of a triumphant start to the era they'd decided to set the game to the most over-the-top "Wow, I'm a 3D racing game" soundtrack that then rang throughout arcades for a number of years (you must have heard it - it's possibly even more iconic than "Ridgeidge Raceraceracer").
I thought it was hideous even at the time and couldn't understand why it the programme was saying how great it was, but of course, what I didn't realize at that age, having no sense of paradox, was that directly because this was the worst game theme in the world, that retroactively makes it also the best one in the world. Even if you've forgotten it by now, you'll never be able to get it out of your head once you've dared to click on this link.
DAY-TO-NAAAAA - Let's [indeterminate noise]!
Of particular note are the lyrics, starting with the hideously jolly "Do-do-do-de-do-do" part and then performing the spectacular feat of managing to turn downhill from there. It's mostly in that mangled attempt at something resembling English that only the Japanese and Ben Sotto have truly perfected, but as far as I can tell, the first verse is something along the lines of:
As the art of good lyric writing seems oddly to be equivalent to that of not saying what you actually mean, you've got to admire their bluntness. I suppose by American motorsports standards the courses are indeed really tough, sometimes featuring corners that turn to the right as well as to the left.
I thought it was hideous even at the time and couldn't understand why it the programme was saying how great it was, but of course, what I didn't realize at that age, having no sense of paradox, was that directly because this was the worst game theme in the world, that retroactively makes it also the best one in the world. Even if you've forgotten it by now, you'll never be able to get it out of your head once you've dared to click on this link.
DAY-TO-NAAAAA - Let's [indeterminate noise]!
Of particular note are the lyrics, starting with the hideously jolly "Do-do-do-de-do-do" part and then performing the spectacular feat of managing to turn downhill from there. It's mostly in that mangled attempt at something resembling English that only the Japanese and Ben Sotto have truly perfected, but as far as I can tell, the first verse is something along the lines of:
This is your Crew Chief,
The courses are really tough,
But it's a beautiful day,
So... [long pause] feckitDAYTONAAAAAAA...
As the art of good lyric writing seems oddly to be equivalent to that of not saying what you actually mean, you've got to admire their bluntness. I suppose by American motorsports standards the courses are indeed really tough, sometimes featuring corners that turn to the right as well as to the left.
