{"id":407,"date":"2004-01-29T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2020-11-10T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:52:43","slug":"the_minibosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"the minibosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">[ <b>current selection<\/b> | the minibosses \u2013 <i>castlevania 3<\/i> ]<br>[ <b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>like rockin\u2019 out<\/i> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">so who had a nintendo when they were growing up? ok, not me\u2026i wasnt so fortunate back then. but everybody else and their sisters seemed to have one, so i didnt necessarily need one myself. zelda, metroid, punch-out, kid icarus, contra\u2026the list of fond childhood video game memories just geeks on and on. theres an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.02\/miniboss.html?pg=1&amp;topic=&amp;topic_set=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article on wired<\/a> about a band out of phoenix who managed to extend their swishy video-game days well into their adulthood\u2026and are now <i>the minibosses<\/i>, a cover-band that doesnt actually cover other bands songs, but soundtracks from old-school nes games. word. nes-games\u2026and only nes (except mario). that so rocks. theres even band rivalry too! theres apparently another vid-geek-rock band called <i>the neskimoes<\/i> who poos <i>the minibosses<\/i> and sound decidedly geeky. \u201c<i>\u2026They have a Web site that disses the Minibosses, because they won\u2019t perform the theme to Mario. \u201cIt\u2019s like an A-ha cover band not playing \u2018Take on Me,'\u201d says Dr. Wily, the NESKimoes\u2019 lead guitarist.<\/i>\u201d shit, dr. wily? i wonder if the bassist is the eggplant wizard. hopefully things will get nasty soon and theyll start flinging nes cartridges at each other shuriken-style. the life of a rockstar\u2026rock on\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.02\/miniboss.html?pg=1&amp;topic=&amp;topic_set=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the minibosses (via wired)<\/a><br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/minibosses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the minibosses website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/minibosses1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/minibosses1.jpg 230w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/minibosses1-138x180.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>QUICKIE UPDATE<\/b><br>yo, who thought the chem brothers old-school kung-fu video was hot? thanks to greg, you can download a bigass 480\u00d7360 divx version from his site. you\u2019ll need both <a href=\"http:\/\/download.divx.com\/divx\/DivX511Bundle.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">divx<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/download.divxmovies.com\/ac3filter_0_70b.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ac3 audio codex<\/a> to play the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flattire.org\/temp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chemical brothers \u2013 get yourself high divx<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flattire.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flattire<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ current selection | the minibosses \u2013 castlevania 3 ][ feelin\u2019 | like rockin\u2019 out ] so who had a nintendo when they were growing up? ok, not me\u2026i wasnt so fortunate back then. but everybody else and their sisters seemed to have one, so i didnt necessarily need one myself. zelda, metroid, punch-out, kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-contraband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}