On: When Emo Conquered the Mainstream

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Ah yes dear friends, there is indeed a nice web culture crossover here. Who here remembers the Emogames?:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emogame

Flash beat-em-ups where you control control popular emo artistes of the day. For example, helping At The Drive-In’s bouffant Cedric Bixler battle a human centipede version of Puddle of Muddddd before taking on the end of level boss in the form of a pixelated Fred Durst while rocking out to Alkaline Trio etc.

Happy memories. I found a lot of bands through those games.

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Jason Oda, who made these (I think entirely by himself), was probably asked to design merch and album covers by hundreds of bands but only ever did one that I’m aware of: Lydia’s This December; It’s One More and I’m Free

It’s incredible (and so is the album)

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I remember Absolute Punk being my homepage.