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Tampopo Arcade
Video game documentrys are a rare breed. Even if you don't live under a rock the highly acclaimed Street Fighter documentry "Bang The Machine" probably slipped far under your radar. It was fairly underground, yes. Tampopo Arcade is even further.
In Tampopo Arcade you see the world of Southern California Bemani through the eyes of Axe. Hes not that big of an arcade fan but he really likes Beatmania and Keyboard Mania. He hates Dance Dance Revolution because one time while playing he broke his ankle and then he had to drive himself to the hospital while Crackpr0n (A major player in the movies) laughed at him the entire way there. Now you know why this man is bitter.
The Tampopo Arcade DVD is a set of 2 DVD's. On the first DVD you get the original documentry, Tampopo Arcade (Directors Cut), 2 tracks of audio commentary (Both funny as hell), and over 40 minutes of bonus footage from both movies. On the second DVD you get the much better Tampopo Arcade II along with an extra commentary track and a SoCal picture slideshow.
So what are these movies about exactly? Basically the lives of Southern California Bemani players inside and outside of the games. You'll see them compete in tournaments, talk shit about everyone else, fail at meeting women, jump off two story buildings and even attempted freestyle rapping while drunk. Both movies take place in about a 2 year span of what happened in Southern California for the DDR and Beatmania players. So if you play Bemani games and you're interested in seeing what other players are like, this is the perfect opportunity to see exactly how fucked up we are (Im in TA2..hooray!). If you hate Bemani games then this is even greater. You can watch it and laugh at how retarded and fobby a lot of us are. Everything comes up winning!
The one glaring problem with Tampopo Arcade is that if you never followed the scene, you'll feel like you're in the dark a lot. Although Axe tries to make everything make sense, without watching both movies and the extra scenes you won't get the whole picture. Even after that you might not understand why x person hates y and so on. Why is Crackpr0n's dismill love life so important? You might not know. Too many inside jokes can make this hard to follow, but the antics of Chango and the TCL gang make up for most of it.
Now because I'm bored, The 3 best scenes in Tampopo Arcade I & II!
http://www.sl1p.changethechannel.net/images/ta1.jpg
Solo Sucks Anyways
Ever wanted to see someone damn near kill themselves on a DDR machine? Marvel as dj hung makes the biggest freestyle fuck up in the history of ddr front of a huge crowd at the biggest tourney of the year. Then laugh your ass off as hes interviewed about it 6 months later and punches our poor camera man sabishii.
http://www.sl1p.changethechannel.net/images/ta2.jpg
Godden
If you see this man, hilarity shall ensue. Godden is one funny guy, and he dosen't even realize it.
http://www.sl1p.changethechannel.net/images/ta3.jpg
A-Jay crying
For the Matsuri tournament, the organizing team decided to have it be the first tournament that used a gong for freestyle. You know, like the gong show! A-Jay was one of the many to be gonged but the only one who cried. Hiliarity ensues.
If you're interested in ordering this DVD just tell me here or PM me and I can give you the info on who to contact. It's $35.00 (Includes shipping) for the DVD set and a special extra that only makes sense if you See TA2.
Thought you guys might be interested :) OH NO!
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I actually am interested. PM the info to me, please, and thanks for sharing this. :)
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This sounds cool. PM me :)
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Re: Tampopo Arcade
What the fuck is going on there?
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He's uhhh....trying to jump in the and and kick both his legs over the bar from right to left there. And he failed. Horribly. The result is amazingly hilarious.
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damn. i thought this was about the movie Tampopo, where this guy saves a noodle shop.
but this looks cool too! any online clips we can watch?
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does this flick have anybody else from TCL in it besides godden?
seeing chango in high res dvd go apeshit would be worth every god damn dime. that is one classy motherfucker.
