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We believe we’ve mentioned this one before, but the MC Frontalot music video for ‘It Is Pitch Dark’ [YouTube version] has just been released, and boy, it’s a potent mix of nerdcore, deep Infocom lore, and geeked-out retro props, thanks to the lyrical mastery of Frontalot and director Jason Scott.
The YouTube video description is a good start: “Front geeked around for an evening in a basement in Massachusetts. It got filmed in HD. Then Jason Scott made a whole video out of it. The song and the video are in service of Jason’s upcoming documentary about text adventures, Get Lamp, but you get to enjoy it now. Peek the cameo by Steve Meretzky.”
For those wanting to read the full lyrics, there’s plenty of references to classic text adventures from the charmingly mellifluous Frontalot - his official site frontpage has a link to the MP3, too:
“You are likely to be […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back
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