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Thus Sprach Balboa (Fun Factory, 1988)

CEE

Three things I recall about the day
Kageki debuted,
The game’s tension—the term used in pinball—
Was turned up so high,
You could have punched through the glass,
Strangled the image of an opponent and
He’d’ve Still beaten the shit out of you...
Guys were crowded chockablock
Tokens reserving pecking order, all day
Each set to reign,
Go on to lead the Jets or the Sharks
The finest in stoic local toughs,
We were our grandfathers and greats
Gonna beat the shit out of a circus wrestler
Not understanding he was Hackenschmidt or
Frank Gotch...
And the sound,
Video is only memorable, John Williams, for its
sound
The sound of Kageki, when Reagan ruled the Earth
The sound of the 80’s:
Gunshots, explosions, shattering wood, glass, metal
Car crackups, neutron bombs, sonic booms
Crunched SFX, into punches and kicks
Beautiful, killer over-the-top,
Ittabitty Japanese Hackenschmidts
Beating the shit out of two whole towns

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