22 April 2012 Space Channel 5 day

22nd April is Space Channel 5 day in memory of Owen.

I failed miserably last year to get past the first stage, I am hoping to do better this year.

So go into your basement or lofts & find your dreamcast console & games.

Space Channel 5 - Level 1 Failure

In memory of Owen, I plugged up the Sega Dreamcast & purchased Space Channel 5 from ebay. It is not a game I had in my collection, dancing & music games are non existent. You play Ulala a news reporter who has to pull off dance moves to save humans whilst blasting aliens. It is a repetition game in that the aliens will do the moves first & then it's your turn to do the moves. Obviously timing & remembering the moves is all there is to the game. Owen had great difficulty playing this game and wrote on his blog 22/04/2006 that he would try again in 5 years time. Sadly Owen is no longer with us, so it was down to his friends (UGVM, RLLMUK, BETEO & others) to attempt this on his behalf.

The first level has a viewing figure of 15% to pass it, on my first attempt I really messed up the timing & got a dreadfully low score. My boys then had a turn and managed to do better than me with Abbas getting 10%, another attempt by me had me only managing 12%

Owen it is not just you I hated playing the game I was sure I was pressing the buttons on time but it would not register, I found it very frustrating.

I'll try again next year

22 April 2011: Space Channel 5 day

Copy & Pasted from Tim on UGVM
On 22 April 2006, Owen wrote the following on his blog, about Space
Channel 5:

> Thought I’d try this again. I’ve had an extra five or six years of video game practice since I last tried it, after all.
>
> But, no, I still can’t get past level one. I normally end with a viewing figure of 13% and less than 15% means cancellation.
>
> I don’t think I’ll ever see level two, but maybe I’ll try again in another five years.
>
> It’s ridiculously hard and it’s made even more annoying by the fact that everyone else on earth seems to think it’s stupidly easy. Bah.

It is stupidly easy, but Owen didn't get to try again five years later.
Instead, I propose that we do.

So, get a copy of Space Channel 5.  If you can't find a copy of the
original game, try the sequel.  On 22 April, play it and try to get past
level 1.  Come on to ugvm and post about it.

Tim (tm)


So I will be dusting off my dreamcast & crossing one game off my list of "games not played"  for Owen