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What's your favorite game you never hear anybody talk about? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you'd expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS's dual screens. It's also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I'm so sad there's no sequel :(

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Other people know Rocket Jockey?! My friends and I have LAN paries every now and again and it is one of our staple games (although it sometimes runs like trash on modern systems over network). There are communities out there with the ISO floating around and some widescreen/network patches.

There is even a remake project that is still actively in development, but I'm pretty sure it's just one guy working on it, so it's been slow moving for years. You can download beta builds for free.

Edit: Also the soundtrack is absolutely insane. I actually saw a car commercial on TV recently that used the title music and I was like "HEY THAT'S THE ROCKET JOCKEY SONG"... But apparently, it was an actual band/artist that did the soundtrack, so it's not "taken from the game" so to speak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys still LAN Rocket Jockey? You're my heroes!! I've heard of a few projects to revive it, I'd love to see something solid materialize.

I always thought the soundtrack was composed for the game. Either way, the game and the music were a perfect match. I'll leave this link to the soundtrack for the uninitiated 😉. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1wViRyr6HkizYXvUNKIvzsW8RsS8ySTg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes! Thanks for linking the soundtrack. The artist that did the soundtrack, or who's songs were used for the soundtrack was Dick Dale, who is most famous for his song Misirlou (AKA - the Pulp Fiction theme).

It took me forever to find the commercial but this is it - https://www.ispot.tv/ad/nkqx/acura-two-words-dyno-song-by-dick-dale-t1

I guess it wasn't the theme song, but the song Nitro which is the 3rd in the OST. Still caught me by surprise when I heard it.