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WiiWare: BIT.TRIP BEAT tunes in to retro cool
Wii Wii —
... From the video on the official site, it looks like a high-score-chasing rhythm-action collect-’em-up, which requires the player to move a line up and down to collect chunky pixel ‘beats’, to beef up the chiptune soundtrack burbling away merrily in the background. ...
Bit.Trip: Beat is 2600 kinds of awesome
Joystiq [Nintendo] —
... was a retro-style game that combined Pong and rhythm, which sounds pretty great. But it wasn't until the minimalist site for the Aksys-published WiiWare title opened and we saw this trailer that we fully understood the glory of Bit.Trip. Gaijin Games and Aksys have fully been forgiven for the silly ...
AKSYS Games Bit.Trip Beat Is VCSTASTIC
GayGamer.net —
... but then beats you down with
difficulty levels that rival our favorite games
of the 80s.
While the game can be difficult, if you crank up
the tunes and get in the zone, you'll have a
great time. Performing perfectly isn't required to experience all the game's content, but the extra challenge will keep score-hunters coming back in search of each level's elusive "PERFECT" score.
No release date. No price point. Lots of anticipation.
Bit.Trip Beat [AKSYS Games]
[via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]
CommanderVideo: We Barely Knew Ye
ARGNet —
Four days before Christmas, fans of alternate reality games got an early present. A member on the Unfiction forums noticed a strange new video and from there, it seemed that a new ARG had begun. The video, an eerie clip that showed a group of German explorers discovering and being attacked by a partially buried television, got the attention of the message board members who looked towards commandervideo.com for answers.
At the apparent trailhead web site, the rabbit hole wound further down as players began getting correspondence from a being named CommanderVideo, a professed alien life form ...
Throwback games are awesome.
Infinite Lives —
The other day I was making the usual internet rounds, and came across some people on a retrogaming site talking about an upcoming Wii Ware title, called Bit.Trip Beat. I was intrigued, and went looking for the trailer they mentioned.
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To me it looks like what Space Invaders Extreme was to Space Invaders, only in this case, to Pong. I’m a fan of those games with dynamic soundtracks, like the aforementioned Space Invaders Extreme, Orbient, or ...
Tiny Q&A: Gaijin Games' Chris Osborn (BIT.TRIP:BEAT)
Tiny Cartridge —
Chris Osborn from Gaijin Games was kind enough to answer some questions about the developer’s upcoming WiiWare retro rhythm-Pong game BIT.TRIP:BEAT, which I’m pretty dang excited to get to play sometime this month. The first part of the interview appears below, and the rest will go up tomorrow!
Tiny Cartridge: First off, is there any news on the release date? Is it still slated for this month? How much can we expect to pay for it? > Chris Osborn: Onto the juicy bits right out of the gate! I admire your gumption. Unfortunately, there’s no firm release date. ...
Tiny Q&A: Gaijin Games' Chris Osborn (BIT.TRIP: BEAT) part 2
Tiny Cartridge —
Here’s the continuation of our interview with Gaijin Games’ Chris Osborn about the highly punctuated WiiWare rhythm game BIT.TRIP:BEAT.
Other BIT.TRIP games are also rhythm-based. Will they all feature the same kind of graphical theme, or are you traveling through different eras of game history? > The BIT.TRIP series plants itself right of the middle of the “second generation” of video games, which includes not only the Atari 2600, but also Intellivision, ColecoVision, and even the Atari ...
NA WiiWare Update: BIT.TRIP BEAT
GamerBytes —
BIT.TRIP BEAT
Wii Points: 600
Game Type: Arcade
Control Type: Wii Remote
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Aksys Games
"BIT.TRIP BEAT is a rhythm game that brings retro action into the present, letting you use the motion-sensing Wii Remote controller to bounce beats. Retro visuals, classic game play, four-player multiplayer and an 8-bit soundtrack will get you in the zone and rock your world. The challenges are mighty, but if you can stay cool as the difficulty increases, you'll ...
VC and WiiWare releases for the week of March 16
That VideoGame Blog —
I love the smell of WiiWare in the morning. Actually, not always. Sometimes I take a look at the Nintendo press release and roll my eyes in sadness and disappointment at what is coming out on WiiWare. Thankfully, most of the time the VC has something solid coming out to balance it all out. This week things are a bit flipped though with the intriguing BIT.TRIP BEAT (Aksys Games, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 600 Wii Points) hitting WiiWare and the not so exciting Summer Games II (Commodore 64, 1-8 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points) flopping onto the VC. ...
BIT.TRIP BEAT
TIGSource —
... BIT.TRIP BEAT is the first in a series of “BIT.TRIP” games from the (relatively) new independent label ...
EU WiiWare Update: BIT.TRIP BEAT
GamerBytes —
BIT.TRIP BEAT
Wii Points: 600
Game Type: Arcade
Control Type: Wii Remote
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Aksys Games
"BIT.TRIP BEAT is a rhythm game that brings retro action into the present, letting you use the motion-sensing Wii Remote controller to bounce beats. Retro visuals, classic game play, four-player multiplayer and an 8-bit soundtrack will get you in the zone and rock your world. The challenges are mighty, but if you can stay cool as the difficulty increases, you'll ...
Download the Bleeping Soundtrack For Bit.Trip Beat
GameLife —
The bleepy, bloopy chiptune sounds of the indie game Bit.Trip Beat etch themselves in your brain when you play. Now you can carry those retro tones wherever you go.
Gaijin Games just dropped a 10-track soundtrack to its WiiWare game, currently available at CDBaby for $6. Come October 27, the soundtrack will hit services like Amazon, iTunes, and eMusic.
The Bit.Trip Beat soundtrack features two guest tunes from Bit Shifter, one of the many chiptune creators due to play this year’s Blip Festival in New York City.
The retro-styled ...
