Cyber Troopers Virtual On Official Sound Data CD!

This is a cool one.




And not just because I paid a total princely sum of 11 cents for it, either.

This, my friends, is the Cyber Troopers: Virtual On Official Sound Data CD. In other words, the soundtrack to the arcade machine that Pokey cannot defeat me at!

Yes, long before the full machine inhabited my garage, this disc inhabited my CD player. Fade to Black is pretty much the best fight music ever.

This is fairly straightforward for anyone accustomed to collecting video game stuff from Japan- in Japan, games are big enough that soundtracks for sale is no biggie. It's like grabbing the cast recording of Annie at a Barnes and Noble. What's cool about this one is the art inside, as well as the elaborate plot that is all written in Japanese that I do not understand at all. But, as phone pics suck and I have a scanner, let the pictures commence!

Some of this is easy to find out there already, but this has some art of the Z-Gradt I've never seen before, and this booklet has never been scanned before. So off we go to a picture show~!








In other news, Star Trek Online is now 8% downloaded for me. Sucks as I joined the beta testing yesterday but only now got a real installation file working. Wish me luck, and my apologies about not following through with the clock today- a video might crash the server with all I've got going right now and we don't that happening. Expect that tomorrow!

Temjin Plushie

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? A straightforward blog post?



Yep, no videos or scans this time, as it doesn't do anything and isn't really paper! This is a rare Temjin plush (Virtual On series- Oratorio Tangram to be precise) from 1999 Sega. This is a fairly straightforward plushie, but it's made of really weird material.

First of all, this thing is HEAVY. And I DO mean HEAVY. It weighs as much as a figure it's size (about 12") would weigh.

It's stuffed with really firm stuffing and is almost solid, except for it's ears which are generic plushie material and just droop. Problem is, they're supposed to stick up like antennas in game. Oh well, artistic integrity and all that.

The plushie itself is made up of normal plushie material, stuffing, cardboard and this weird hard felt stuff. The plushie part of it feels like dog-toy grade fabric and is very soft. The details are haphazardly cut foam and are like a rock- this thing ain't cuddly. There is cardboard in the feet to make it stand (protip- it still can't) and the few parts with detail are just transferred on like a t-shirt.



Especially due to its rarity and overall haphazard construction, I thought this was a bootleg upon purchase. However, as seen above, it has official tags- which bootlegs never do. Hmm. Someone at Sega was a little drunk during quality control. It's an awesome plushie, just really random in its materials. And not cuddly. And it has an ornament hanger loop sticking out of its head, but that's common for UFO Catcher (Japanese claw machine) plushies.

All right, next up, Virtual On CD!