Re: [ASTRO] Space Bunnies Must Die!

["Bart T. Lammey" <lammey@ncsa.uiuc.edu>]

I'm interested, but I'm not sure how to change a dir of mine temporarily
to handle an anonymous ftp thingy...I'll get back to you if I have
something set up.

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Michael Kepler wrote:

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> I was browsing through some old PCGames Magazine CD ROMS and I found,
> on a disc from 1996, an AVI clip advertizing an upcoming game
> called "Space Bunnies Must Die!".
> 
> Well, the cool thing is, the music on the clip was an excerpt from
> "Name of Numbers" by, of course, our beloved MOA?.  Even cooler,
> at the end when the title graphic of the game splashes up, a little
> flying saucer flies by, leaving a iridescent trail that condenses
> to form the words "Music by Man or Astro-man?" in a really cool
> typeface.
> 
> The music on the clip sounds like it comes from the "Destroy..."
> version, but has been overdubbed with sounds that could be coming
> from a Theremin or something like a Moog.  Pretty cool.  Too bad
> it's only a short excerpt.  There's also the sounds of the Bunnies
> hopping around and shooting at each-other, but that doesn't wreck
> the enjoyability of the music, at least for me.
> 
> The sad part is, the game appears to be DOA.  I've searched the web
> for info on it, and it looks like ownership of the project changed
> hands a few times and the developers working on it eventually gave
> up and started something else.  Too bad, because it looks like it
> could have been really cool, and it might have even had an MOA?
> soundtrack.
> 
> I'll try to grab a few frames from the AVI and put them up on my
> website sometime soon.  I'll post again when that happens.  If anybody
> wants the AVI file, I'm afraid 14MB is probably a little too big to
> mail, but if you give me a place to which I can ftp it for you, I would
> be more than happy.  I've also got this program that massively compresses
> avi files into a proprietary self-playing format for MsWindoze.  
> If that makes it small enough to mail, I can mail it to any interested
> parties with access to a  WinTel machine.
> 
> Anybody out there have any more info on this game and MOA?s involvement?
> Is Coco monitoring this transmission at present?
> 
> Mookie
> 
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