Analog Medium

Zombie Conspiracy by Max Capacity

2009-11-07T19:14:00.000-08:00

Zombie Conspiracy by Max Capacity

Modified from a screenshot from Golgo 13: The Mafat Conspiracy (NES 1990):

Source: pixelstyle

Wu-Note Album Cover Project

2009-11-06T12:14:00.000-08:00

Ghostface Killah - Iron Man by Logan Walters

Check out Logan Walters' re-envisioning of the original Wu-Tang album art as Blue Note album covers. All our favorites are there. We wouldn't mind seeing some special edition vinyl releases with these covers. Except that there's really no need to bother fucking with the first Bobby Digital album cover. C'mon son.

RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo

Also: Check out some original Blue Note LP covers

Little Nemo: The Dream Master (NES 1990) Game Genie

2009-11-06T02:29:00.000-08:00

aka パジャマヒーロー NEMO (Capcom 1990)

PEKKSZLA - 1 life
TEKKSZLA - 6 lives
PEKKSZLE - 9 lives
SZOKSLVG - Infinite lives
TOKZKNZA - Mega-jump
SXKTGEVK - Infinite 'life'
PEUKOZAA - Start on stage 2
ZEUKOZAA - Start on stage 3
LEUKOZAA - Start on stage 4
GEUKOZAA - Start on stage 5
IEUKOZAA - Start on stage 6
TEUKOZAA - Start on stage 7
YEUKOZAA - Start on stage 8
GESLYPPA + UYUUIOVN - Speed jumps
ZEXLLPPA + SYEUPOVN - Super speed

Source: GameGenie.com

AM Sticker Sightings

2009-11-06T02:01:00.000-08:00

Jeremy Brooks / CC BY-NC 2.0

Flickring ourselves, much like one might Google him/herself, we came to find a treasure trove of photographs of our stickers adorning various objects. We compiled them all into the AM Sightings gallery on Flickr. Maybe you want some free stickers? Maybe you want to take a picture of your stickers and post it up for us? Just saying is all.

Also: Jeremy Brooks @ Flickr

Ed Lover: C'mon Son (Episode 6)

2009-11-02T14:23:00.001-08:00

Ed Lover is a funny, funny man. You gotta check out the rest of the C'mon Son series over at Ed Lover's YouTube account.

Farwell Silver Screen Kid

2009-11-02T13:29:00.000-08:00

The Silver Screen Kid is going to fight aliens on a far away planet. We don't know when or if he will return. The last received communique read:

"So long. Thanks for all the memories. Peace."

We wish him the best in his fight.

Meet the Analog Medium Team

2009-11-02T00:01:00.000-08:00

CONTRIBUTORS (DROOGS):
Editors: Max Capacity, Master Blasphemy, BigKilla, Mark Rogers

Content: 2-Bit Scammer, Arnold Armstrong, Asmodeus, Chester Chafedson, Chewbacca Uncircumcised, Chimpy the Lush, Cole Icky, Daniel Jordan, Dick Dastardly, Ed Hideous, Emperor Zombie, Endless Mike, Ernest Bluntsmore III, Frank Fiddlesticks, Dr. Footcheese, Gamma Ray Atomic Gun, Hexxenn, Dr. Archer Howell, HypnoToad, Jaime, Johnny Deformed, Killer Robot, Larry King, Larry Manhandler, Lax the Stampede, Lloyd Monga, Master Kush, Molotov Cocktease, Nature Wolf, NoSympathy, Northern Californian, One-Night Stan, Oswald Fincklestein, Dr. Prognosis Scirosis, Silver Screen Kid, Sole Controller, TESM, THRILLHO, Ultimate Death Pirate

Engineering: Dog from Duck Hunt, HypnoToad, Johnny 5, Malfunctioning Eddie, PhateKills, Shatner Face, DJ Silent, Three Bean Salad, TonyRockyHorror

You can follow us on these sites:
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If you would like us to review something on our blog (movies, books, video games, music, etc.), email us or just send it along:

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Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T18:01:00.000-07:00

Give us all your candy!

Source: The Creeping Linker, Phantom Spaceman

The 2nd-Rate: Stan's Beat Steaks

2009-10-30T13:01:00.000-07:00

Our friends at The 2nd-Rate have a free beat that they want you to do something with. As they put it:

Beats Steaks are free beats for anyone to do anything with. Like per say add a rap or singing part and maybe some more instrumentation. Or do an interpretive dance and video yourself. Please, we always encourage people to send back what they do with the beat steak.

Head over to The2ndRate.com and download the beat. Just be sure to send them back your interpretive dance video. That sort of thing needs to be shared with the world. If we manage to get off our collective asses and make a fun remix, we'll post it up here.

Source: the2ndrate.com

Packard Jennings' Business Reply Pamphlet

2009-10-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

Someday, Analog Medium will have its own office building. It will be called Pod Six and we'll have a monster living in the trash compactors on the detention level. Now we have a handy guide to follow.

Packard Jennings describes his own project:

This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company

Source: SET UP US THE BOMB

Retro Arcade Typefaces

2009-10-27T13:14:00.000-07:00

1989 UPL LIMITED

If you're like us, you're a lot of different kinds of nerd. We're retro videogaming nerds and graphic design nerds. You might have noticed our love of NES title screens. Our friend .tiff is clearly a nerd like us. She works on a sweet blog called Text Adventure that catalogs videogamey typographical delights. She also clued us into this insane Japanese Namco Font Museum (unfortunately not the kind of museum that's in a building).

Max Capacity wants "GAME OVER" tattooed on his forearms. The question is, which font? If you check out the font museum, make a suggestion as to what font Mr. Capacity should immortalize on his body.

Source: tiffchow.typepad.com

Breakthru (NES 1986) Game Genie Codes

2009-10-26T15:13:00.000-07:00

BreakThru (ブレークスルー) - Data East 1986

GZUKYPVG - Infinite lives for both players
GZKSLZVG - Freeze weapon timer
PEUKPZLA - Player 1 start with 1 life
PEKGGZLA - Player 2 start with 1 life
TEUKPZLA - Player 1 start with 6 lives
TEKGGZLA - Player 2 start with 6 lives
PEUKPZLE - Player 1 start with 9 lives
PEKGGZLE - Player 2 start with 9 lives
ZANKLZPA - Start game on level 2
LANKLZPA - Start game on level 3
GANKLZPA - Start game on level 4
IANKLZPA - Start game on level 5
LTUKTLAA - Start each life with 3-way firing and 99 seconds

Source: gamegenie.com

DEATH BY VIDEO - Robocop Fried Chicken Commercial

2009-10-23T19:36:00.000-07:00

Robocop Fried Chicken Commercial

Also check out: Nissin Noodles RoboCop Ad

Source: DEATH BY VIDEO

Mixtape: Little Yellow Man In My Head

2009-10-18T15:37:00.001-07:00

The AM Droogs whipped up this great mixtape here at Pod Six using all vinyl straight to a cassette tape. Then we got a decent digital transfer from the tape and made it into an mp3 for your enjoyment.

Analog Medium Mixtape - Little Yellow Man In My Head
(1:01:07 / 192kbps / 88mb)

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
David Bowie - Suffragette City
The Damned - Lust For Life
The Kinks - Destroyer
The Clash - Guns On The Roof
The Specials - Nite Klub
The Spits - She Don't Kare
The Kinks - Add It Up
The Cars - Cruiser
Devo - Theme from Doctor Detroit
Styx - Mr. Roboto
The Knack - My Sharona
David Bowie - Hang On To Yourself
The Damned - New Rose
The Spits - Bring
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy

AM Meetup Fall 2009 - Pictures.

2009-10-15T11:16:00.000-07:00

So last weekend was a blast. We're all still kinda recovering (health-wise AND financially). It was a blast. You can see the pictures on the AM Meetup Fall 2009 Flickr set. They're also posted on the Fall 2009 meetup blog for posterity's sake. And don't miss Emperor Zombie's new animated persona.

For everyone who couldn't make it, don't fear. We're going to do it again next March.

Sci-Fi Surf Rock

2009-09-30T10:13:00.000-07:00

Science fiction surf rock is easily the coolest sub-niche of the surf rock revival scene. I've always been a fan of Man or Astro-Man, but I never really tallied up the other science fiction surf bands that are out there. Until now.

I've got links here to buy/listen/research. So be the first kid on your block to impress all your hipster friends with your knowledge of obscure science fiction surf rock.

Daikaiju - Amazon - BlueBeat - Last.fm
Man or Astro-Man? - Amazon - BlueBeat - Last.fm - Wikipedia
The Space Cossacks - Amazon - BlueBeat - Last.fm
Laika & The Cosmonauts - Amazon - BlueBeat - Last.fm - Wikipedia

Heavy Barrel (NES 1990) Game Genie Codes

2009-09-27T00:00:00.000-07:00

Reposted from December 2006
Review by Silver Screen Kid

Heavy Barrel is an A+ shooter that offers tons of special weapons, full 360 degree range of motion, and kick-ass simultaneous two player mayhem. It's the perfect game for anyone who watched Rambo as a kid. Or Commando for that matter. You wade through throngs of henchmen, laying down sheets of automatic weapon-fire and grenade blasts. The secret to success is to never stop chucking grenades. You get 40 per life, so you might as well get rid of as many as possible before biting the dust. Or the Game Genie codes help. The Game took on a whole 'nother dimension when Mark entered the codes for 1+2 player auto-fire and unlimited weapons.

ENSTPVSN - Player one autofire
EYNVINSN - Player two autofire
AEKVXLII - Grenades last 4 times longer
ENVVKLEI - Unlimited grenades
OXVVVLVS - Unlimited firearms grenades
XVKZVEXK - Enemies don't fire handguns
XTOVVEXK - Invincibility and invisibility

Fall 2009 AM Meetup Guide

2009-09-26T21:51:00.000-07:00

The first semi-annual AM Meetup in Santa Cruz, CA is approaching (October 9th-11th), and we've been getting together some guides to Santa Cruz and the Fall 2009 AM Meetup.

So far we've posted up a motel guide, food/liquor guide, points of interest map, and the main event map. Pod Six will probably be littered with droogs sleeping on the floor, so we'll probably be partying at your motel once we clog the toilets at our place. To recap the plan:

Friday Night: We're going downtown to check out a movie or two and get a drink or two while we're at it

Saturday: We're headed over to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to ride a couple rides and mostly hang out in the arcade.

Saturday Night: The Main Event! We're going to converge on the local pub. There's pinball, billiards, darts, foosball, and free WiFi

Sunday: Enjoy Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas. We'll have a "Points of Interest" map for you to help plan your day.

- Check out the AM Meetup Fall 2009 blog
- RSVP to the Fall 2009 AM Meetup on Facebook
- Email us for more info

AM Monsterfest (Fearfest) 2009 Initial Schedule

2009-09-23T13:50:00.000-07:00

It's become somewhat of a tradition for me to cover the AMC Monsterfest schedule this time of year. Then last year, they changed the name of the game on me, to Fearfest. But we just keep calling it Monsterfest around Pod Six. And Monsterfest it remains.

The official AMC Fearfest site is still showing 2008's info. But the AMC schedule has at least the start of this year's schedule. Notice the Alien marathon and the inclusion of my personal fav, The Return of the Living Dead. Also exciting to see is the Omen (though on the schedule they called it "Backstory") and The Shining. Two of the creepiest movies around. I would also like to state for the record that I demand more Hammer Films!

(All Times Eastern)

Friday - October 23, 2009
8:00p Alien
10:30p Aliens

Saturday - October 24, 2009
1:30a - The Return of the Living Dead
3:30a - The Omen (?)
4:30a - Jack the Ripper
6:15a - The Brain Eaters
7:30a - The Fly
9:30a - Dracula
12:00p - Exorcist: The Beginning
2:30p - Alien
5:00p - Aliens
8:00p - Alien 3
10:30p - Alien Resurrection

Sunday - October 25, 2009
1:00a - Wolf
4:00a - The Beast Must Die
6:00a - The Frighteners
8:30a - Raising Cain
10:30a - Wolf
1:30p - Alien 3
4:00p - Alien Resurrection
6:30p - The Shining

AM Flicks 01

2009-09-18T11:16:00.001-07:00

Max Capacity is archiving his cell phone pics for AM. He's got some weird shit. You can keep up with them on the Analog Medium Flickr stream.

Elsewhere Public Works: The Search for Eva Lucien

2009-09-15T16:50:00.000-07:00

ALTERNATE REALITY ALERT! Alternate Reality Gaming, that is. The Silver Screen Kid is tumbling down the rabbit hole, into the complex and sinister world of ARGs. Apparently I've stumbled onto a particularly roxxers ARG here in my native San Francisco. I started playing without any prior knowledge of the inner workings of the game - I decided to take a leap of faith. SO glad I did. This shit is more fun than a pack of blunts, an ounce, and 30 Wii games. Well, nothing's really more fun than that... :P

But the experience really is indescribable. It makes you feel like you're about to start frying. Excited, a vague sense of dread, and the inescapable sense that you're involved in something you have NO control over. When I previously wrote an article about this ARG for AM, I thought the game might have run its course. Then, lo and behold, I was emailed with a fresh set of instructions. I'm starting to feel like I'm on-call for a psychotic underground society of pop culture insurgents.

Now I've completed the steps laid out in the second set of instructions. I've picked up more working knowledge of what-the-hell I'm involved in. Before, I didn't even know the goal of the game. Now I know I'm on the hunt for one Ms. Eva Lucien, a girl who disappeared without a trace in the late 1980s. One other thing I know for sure this time: it is definitely not over. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.

- The Jejune Institute
- Elsewhere Public Works
- Elsewhere Public Works on Analog Medium - oh, how naive I was when I wrote this, lol
- SPOILER ALERT: Jejune Institute Flickr photo set

ZOMBIE! A New Musical (2009)

2009-09-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

I constantly struggle with the dark heart beating at the core of my being. That dark heart pumps out a lot of toxic shit - like concentrated, liquid laziness. Whether it's a learned habit, or bred into me, I don't know - but I definitely have a tendency to slack off. Out of all the rad shit I've slept on, I'm especially ashamed of sleeping through the entire first run through of ZOMBIE! A New Musical.

One of my associates in the amateur video racket here in San Francisco is intimately involved in the production. Reverand Luke, whom I had the pleasure of working with on a self-funded zombie short, is the mastermind behind the stage make-up. Everything about the show sounds enchanting - from the look of the zombies to the metal soundtrack (complete with original lyrics!).

Facebook sez: "A rock/horror/tragicomedy that will eat your face off! Trent and Violet are just two rebellious teens from Colma, CA. That is, until Violet dies and is brought back to life using the Army's secret Zombie Gas! Now Trent's insane Army uncle, a fame hungry reporter, and even Ozzy Osbourne are after them. This hysterical new musical is one part horror movie, one part rock concert, and a 'Whole Lotta Awesome.'"

I'm not completely out of luck, though, and neither are you. I have it on good authority that they will be taking some time off to "re-tool", and they'll be back for an entire month long run in October, culminating with a closing night blow-out on (of course) Halloween! Sounds like a rotten good time.

- ZOMBIE! A New Musical - Official Site
- ZOMBIE! A New Musical on Facebook

Shatterhand (NES)

2009-09-08T10:35:00.000-07:00

Shatterhand by Max Capacity

Source: AM Notebook, Max Capacity

Night of the Comet (1984) Review

2009-08-31T15:26:00.000-07:00

Reposted from February 2007

I have a certain affinity for anything made in or around my birth year, 1985. It was the time of Nintendo, Atari, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Transformers. Night of the Comet falls right into that category. Alas, I didn’t know about this gem until late last year. It first came to my attention when a colleague recommended it based on his memory of it from when he was eight. I had to see it. Zombies, cheerleaders, guns, the 80s. That’s all I knew, and it was enough to go on a quest for it. Incredibly, no one has bothered to release it on DVD as of yet. According to my sources, it’s set to be released in the digital realm on March 6th, 2007. I can’t friggin wait. To bide my time I found a long forgotten torrent with one seed and patiently downloaded a VCD rip, probably taken from some ancient VHS copy. Kids, don’t try that at home.

If there was ever a script that deserved a bigger budget than it got, it was Night of the Comet. The dialogue is kick-ass, the plot turns make your head spin, the characters are outrageous, and it is steeped in 80s pop culture. Kick ass all around. The picture starts with the lead, Reggie (a big haired 80s chick), working at a movie theatre where she plays arcade games and screws the projectionist. We jump into the plot on the night a comet is set to pass by the Earth (not unlike Halley’s comet that passed by in 1986). Little do us silly humans know, the radiation from the comet has the power to disintegrate millions of people and turn the rest into zombies. The only survivors are a handful of ridiculously mismatched byproducts of the 1980s, including big-haired Reggie, her half-sister the cheerleader, and a well natured trucker played by Robert Beltran.

I won’t even go into the gritty details of the plot; they’re too delicious to put into words. Take my advice and go out there and get a copy of this flick. Whether it be on VHS or the long-awaited DVD version. You won’t be disappointed. If you want to find out more in the mean time you should check out this intense fan site I found while doing a little research: www.nightofthecomet.info. It goes so far as to offer pictures of the locations they filmed scenes in so you can see how they look today. That’s web 2.0 baby, takin' over.

BAD BOOK // BAD ART - August 2009

2009-08-27T15:06:00.000-07:00

NEAR. by KID EPOXY

KID EPOXY has expanded the scope of his project, BAD BOOK // BAD ART. In his words:

"BAD BOOK is a collection of bad/found/trash art collected around Pod Six, the Analog Medium HQ, and compiled by KID EPOXY of Analog Medium."