Post by Kat on Mar 28, 2014 3:18:33 GMT -5
I've been doing some research on a really badly-received DDR clone that was produced in the late 90's by a company called Jaleco. It's a series called Stepping Stage that encompasses the titles STEPPING STAGE, STEPPING STAGE SPECIAL (which is a minor software update,) STEPPING STAGE 2 SUPREME, and STEPPING STAGE 3 SUPERIOR, in addition to one home release, STEPPING SELECTION. An overwhelming majority of the songs are licensed, and many of those songs are either cribbed from the Dance Dance Revolution franchise, or the Dancemania compilations, but in STEPPING STAGE they're almost always covers done by in-house artists, who....aren't very good. I think the term "kitsch" definitely applies to the games in every aspect. The programming is awful, the timing on the charts is off, and the graphics looked like they crawled out of the deepest, darkest end of 1998's computerized self.
So, the verrrry first game in the series includes a cover of ME&MY's Lion Eddie. This is the only bubblegum song that's in any of the games, as most of them are eurodance tunes/a crapshoot of 80's songs. An original soundtrack was released in 20000 but does not include Lion Eddie. This is kind of a mixed blessing, as the custom background videos from the games are gems and I truly feel as if though listening to the cover without the accompanying video would be robbing a lot of humor from an otherwise terrible experience; plus, Lion Eddie's original video is trippy enough as is, so I can't begin to imagine what horrors would emerge in Jaleco's incompetent hands. Observe:
So, yeah. There's an unheard cover of Lion Eddie somewhere out there.
So, the verrrry first game in the series includes a cover of ME&MY's Lion Eddie. This is the only bubblegum song that's in any of the games, as most of them are eurodance tunes/a crapshoot of 80's songs. An original soundtrack was released in 20000 but does not include Lion Eddie. This is kind of a mixed blessing, as the custom background videos from the games are gems and I truly feel as if though listening to the cover without the accompanying video would be robbing a lot of humor from an otherwise terrible experience; plus, Lion Eddie's original video is trippy enough as is, so I can't begin to imagine what horrors would emerge in Jaleco's incompetent hands. Observe:
So, yeah. There's an unheard cover of Lion Eddie somewhere out there.
