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| date = September 22, 2006 | | date = September 22, 2006 | ||
| title = Accident | | title = Accident | ||
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| titletext = As far as treachery-as-driving-music goes, Katamari music is matched only by Guitar Hero music. | | titletext = As far as treachery-as-driving-music goes, Katamari music is matched only by Guitar Hero music. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | After someone plays a game enough, various instincts develop. One might be ready to push the right button when a right arrow comes up on screen. One might learn the tricky sequences of moves needed for a situation in the game, and find oneself doing them in another game in a similar situation. Or, as in this case, one might get used to pushing a giant ball around trying to collect smaller objects, and try doing so with your car when the [ | + | After someone plays a game enough, various instincts develop. One might be ready to push the right button when a right arrow comes up on screen. One might learn the tricky sequences of moves needed for a situation in the game, and find oneself doing them in another game in a similar situation. Or, as in this case, one might get used to pushing a giant ball around trying to collect smaller objects, and try doing so with your car when the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5QPSvOsS8o game's themesong] starts playing. |
| − | + | The game {{w|Katamari Damacy}}is also referenced in frame 3. In the game, the player has to grow an initial object by rolling over smaller objects in the playfield which become attached to it, growing the object and making it larger and larger. As the conglomeration of objects gets larger, bigger things in the environment will begin to attach to it, allowing it to grow further. How big the player can get this conglomeration of objects, or "katamari", determines how well the player does in the game. | |
| − | When Katamari Damacy's theme song comes on in the third panel, [[Cueball]] begins acting out the game's premise, and drives his car into a mailbox - which "looked smaller" than his car - trying to get it to attach. This doesn't work so well outside | + | When Katamari Damacy's theme song comes on in the third panel, [[Cueball]] begins acting out the game's premise, and drives his car into a mailbox - which "looked smaller" than his car - trying to get it to attach. This doesn't work so well outside fo the game. |
| − | The title text | + | The title text states that while driving your car, the danger imposed by listening to the Katamari theme song, will only be topped by listening to the music from {{w|Guitar Hero}}. The danger from the latter could be, that the road one is driving on might appear as the "note highway" that is the gameplay mechanism of Guitar Hero; in this case, the driver would weave rapidly between lanes in order to "hit all the notes," which could prove far more devastating than only trying to hit items smaller than the car. |
The theme song from Katamari Damacy is also mentioned in [[851: Na]]. | The theme song from Katamari Damacy is also mentioned in [[851: Na]]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | :[Cueball driving | + | :[Cueball driving car while singing.] |
| − | : | + | :Cueball: NAAAA NA NA NANA NANA NA NA KATAMARI DAMACY |
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:[Cueball and Megan talking.] | :[Cueball and Megan talking.] | ||
:Megan: And that's when you veered into the mailbox? | :Megan: And that's when you veered into the mailbox? | ||
:Cueball: It looked smaller then me. It was just instinct. | :Cueball: It looked smaller then me. It was just instinct. | ||
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{{Comic discussion}} | {{Comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Video games]] | [[Category:Video games]] | ||
[[Category:Music]] | [[Category:Music]] | ||
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[[Category:Guitar Hero]] | [[Category:Guitar Hero]] | ||
