A spin-off from the thread in GQ about the jet-ski racing pool…
Does anyone here love Wave Race for Nintendo 64? This is one of my favorite classic games of all time (I’m 22 so I do view the N64 as “classic.”) For the time, the wave physics modeling was really remarkable. The waves looked real and they moved the way real waves move, or at least as close to it as you could get with the technology of the time. The levels were badass and the stunt mode was really fun. And the music was great!
One night, during the summer where I first started using marijuana a lot, I was playing this game and I was just like, “this music is unbelievable.” I called my friend Nate and was like, “man, you have to get over here and get high and listen to the Wave Race music right now - it’s amazing.”
We smoked and then went to the “Audio” screen in the Options of WaveRace where you can just listen to whatever song you want, without even playing the game. We listened to every song, intensely, picking them apart musically and discussing the individual elements of them.
We were so stoned that we actually made up lyrics to the Wave Race main theme:
“Wave Race is the game that we like to play
We race jet-skis all around the pa-aaaa-aaa-aaark”
(instrumental: da da daaaa, da-da da daaaaa…)
“Racing around, in the park
We’re racing around, racing around the park…
Racing around, in the park
We’re racing around, racing around the park…”
I wish I was joking, but I’m not. Actually I don’t wish I was joking, I’m proud of it.
Any other Wave Race fans?
Oh yeah, and I always wanted to fuck A. Stewart. Preferably with her jet-ski-racing helmet on, with her blonde ponytail sticking out of the back, just like in the game.