DONT STOP BELIEVING... HOLD ON TO THAT FEEEELAAAANG.

drunkentyger

@eugaet: Heh I remember playing the Atari 2600 Atari game too. Only back then I had no idea who Journey was. Not that knowing who they were or not helped understand what that game was supposed to be about.

Dullshimmer

I loved the game in the arcades as a kid, and continue to enjoy it on MAMEoX.
It is pretty high up on the difficulty scale too.

lawnmowerdeth

Thanks allot STEVE for trying to trash my childhood memories

chip5541

@Spoony Bard: Totally Awesome Video.

Man, you need some taste.

laughingmangits

Well, since no one else has said it...

Dont stop believin'
Hold on to the feelin'

There is hope for this game.

Tyber_Zann

@Spoony Bard: I think you meant "Best video of all time".

grecords

man i loved it when they had that game on starcade! i was like omg the GRAPHIX! who else watched starcade. that was the best show when i was a kid!

cephun

Those graphics look better than I remember.

badasscat

Separate Ways is the greatest video of all time, not the worst. When I have parties, the DVD of that video is always requested.

Dorgon

The Atari 2600 Journey game was full of win. I never really understood what the hell was happening on the screen, but I sunk a good chunk of hours into it during my childhood.

eugaet

I saw Steve Perry playing pool at a karaoke bar here in LA about 2 years ago. He looked like he just stepped off the set of the "Some Day Love Will Find You" video. He did not, however, regale us with a song.

ViolentLee

Was their a midnight train that went anywhere?

If not i would of been disapointed too

theTOMSTA666

This will be probably the only time I agree with anything related to Journey, ever.

Perry's right. That game was stupid as hell.

Archaotic

@Spoony Bard: TAKE THAT BACK!! >(

Mal-Content

@Jayl3w: Yes.
I am seeing. and I am also completely agreeing. I think its the medias fault.

udiie

@Jayl3w: It might be a bit of both, really.

BlinkinPark182

So they thought the GAME was bad..but he was OK WITH THE WORST VIDEO OF ALL TIME!?!

+ Watch video

Spoony Bard

Anyone else noticed the increase of aged musicians suddenly having opinions about different games, and usually not good opinions?

Am I sensing some media-leeching, or is that my paranoia kicking in?

Jayl3w

@theTOMSTA666: Yes there was, and it went on and on and on and on.

trachten

This was dumb.
But wait, that means we are supposed to like it right?
Dumb stuff from the past...we like that I think.
What do I do, guys?

Fine, I'll just go back to Lolcats.

Jas49

Oh, and off-topic (kind of), Journey is SO sad and lonesome without Perry. They keep trying new lead singers (hell, they even let the drummer take a few lead vocals now) but none of them even come close.

It's like peanut butter trying to find a replacement for jelly.

sandwiches

@Tyber_Zann: @Darkest Daze:
I think you both actually meant to say:
"Hold onto that feeeelaay-eeey-aaayy-haaay-ann-uh!"

sandwiches

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the "technology" used to capture their faces was originally tested as a way to take pictures of player for the high score board. (Yes, a pre-cursor to Xbox Live cam.) They tested it at one location. Surprise, surprise, with in 24 hours the high score board was all asses and penises.

Nice to know things haven't changed.

SixSider

@Dullshimmer: I LOVED the 2600 game, holy crap.

It was so impossible you couldn't get past any level. And nothing made sense. You had to get past gates (ok so far), greedy managers (bug eyed looking aliens), groupies (bug eyed looking aliens) and your rabid fans (bug eyed looking aliens) in order to get into that ladybug shaped spaceship.

None of that was any fun. However the monophonic Atari sound generator playing the Don't Stop Believing riff on a loop amused me to no end when I was high in college rediscovering that game.

noamjamski

@eugaet:
Same here. I played and played and played that game, not know what the hell was going on. I just liked it for some reason. I still don't know what it was about, other then I was flying a metalic egg or somthing.

Darkest Daze

That game rules,and I still play it on MAME,faithfully.
So I guess I have to disagree this once,but I'm pretty sure it will be the last time I disagree with Steve Perry.
OH YOU SHOULDA BEEN GAW ON!!!!!

kidnicky

Slow news day? ;-)

"Just a city boy...LIVIN IN SOUTH DETROOOOIIIIITTTT..
He took the midnight going ANNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
WWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Dragoona

DON'T STOP

::cut to black::

twinturbo2

@Spoony Bard: My first time hearing of Journey, and I have to say, that video is full of win. I can't relate to anyone here about the good old 2600 days; I was a kid during the N64 days, so I'm 17, which makes me a lot younger than most of you here, I guess.

DukeOfPwn

@Spoony Bard: The video doesn't work for me, but I'm assuming it's Separate Ways. If so, there is some badass "air keyboard" in that vid.

Journey Escape was awesome! I was so excited when I got to play it for the first time. There was a HUGE line.

mind in rewind

Awesome song, but I have to agree that video was bad. Air guitar, I get. Air drums? I can go with that too. But Air keyboard? Jonathan Cain looks like he's pawing the ground like a lol cat, sorry, I just don't buy it.

And yes, I had that game as well, and loved it. "Escape" was the first CD I bought when I got my $400 Sony 5-disc carousel CD changer when I was 14 and upgraded from the Kenmore turntable/cassette deck crappy stereo that I think every kid growing up in the early 80's had. I saved for a full year with my paper route earnings to get that CD player, separate dual cassette deck, amplifier/tuner, and Boston Acoustic speakers. And Journey was the first music that came out of it. And it was glorious.

AZTriGuy

Loved that game. I always saw it as a sequel of sorts to Tron (the game, I mean.) If I had saved all the quarters I dropped in that one, I probably could have paid for college without student loans. Heh.

Captain Wrong

I wouldn't call him a "twat", but Steve is out of his mind on a lot of things. Like, letting Journey continue with a midget singer or even worse....the DRUMMER singing. I loved this game back then and still fire it up on MAME from time to time....because, I...uh, own the original ROMs for it...yeah.

valoisian

Fun Fact: The original version of the game included a camera to take a snapshot of the player to be used in the game and for the high score list, but it was taken out when developers realized that players could either throw the camera dirty gestures or even flash or moon it.

Paul Soth

Steve Perry is a twat and with his huge ego he screwed over the rest of the band.

As for Journey, nice recent comeback though, their new lead is oddly cool.

zzt711

@mind in rewind: Hell yeah Air KEYBOARD FTW!

Where have you been my friend?

Spoony Bard

He's right, you know. The game was dumb... but it was a silly, fun kind of dumb. Plus it had one of the smartest play mechanics I've ever seen in a video game... each round started out passive, but once you grabbed your instrument, the entire screen came to life and went after you!

ManekiNeko

If Steve Perry felt it was unnecessary, than so be it. HE is allowed his opinion. Didn't have the opportunity to ever play it, but probably would of loved it. I love everything Steve does. Anyhow...I love the Steve Perry mention. Have a Perry nice day!!

PerrysGirl

Holy crap, when I was a kid, there was an arcade in Boston that had this relic sitting around. I must have been like 2 or 3 when it was originally released, but I definitely lost some quarters to it... I still remember collecting the microphone and getting to rock out to "Separate Ways".. on a crappy warped tape (yes, this game used a cassette tape for the audio). Good times.

Some day, love will find youuuuuuuuu (cassette Steve Perry disintegrates)

bainelaker

Lest we forget, Steve Perry taught Kenny Loggins the value of rocking out - in a karate suit.

yashin19

I remember wasting a few hours playing Journey Escape on the Atari when I was a kid. Never really understood WTF the Kool-Aid Man was doing in the game though.

ksuxtc