Everybody loves a moai head!

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:41 am

This may belong in offtopic... but seeing how Gradiusesque it is, I stuck it here.

http://www.famicom-plaza.com/new/moai/index.html

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:59 am

I bet that guy gets beat up at a lot of parties.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:02 am

Sweet. Couldn't you actually buy one of those in Snatcher?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:31 am

You know, I'm half tempted to spring for one, just to see what kind of reaction I'd get from wearing it around school...I'll bet few would dare give me a second look.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:10 am

BulletMagnet wrote:You know, I'm half tempted to spring for one, just to see what kind of reaction I'd get from wearing it around school...I'll bet few would dare give me a second look.

I can tell you what kind of reaction you would get. Your underwear would be up over your head.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:42 pm

Au contraire, my head would be far too big and tall for them to even think of getting my underwear all the way up there, so HA to them!

On a slightly more serious note, wearing something like that would be a semi-sure-fire way to know who to label a "jerk" in most any community...decent or open-minded people, for the most part, when they see something like that, will rightly mind their own business, but the perennial pains in the neck will feel it's their patriotic duty to give you trouble, just because you're doing something different. Reminds me oif a quote I heard someplace..."If you're rich, you're eccentric. If you're poor, you're just plain nuts."

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:43 pm

i want one of those as my winter hat! everyone would be jealous on the bus-ride to work. sitting there in my Moai hat playing Galaxies. only the cool people would get it.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:18 pm

Hmm i'm a little scared of that to tell the truth. Is it just me or does the moai mask look like a third rate Doctor Who villian.

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:41 am

I think we could all use a Moai head. Hopefully there'll be a way to pick one up easily in US. On eBay, maybe one of the import stores will stock it. Pleeeaaaase!

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:59 am

That would definitely be the talk of every shmupmeet...

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:37 am

I know!! If I found an arcade that had any incarnation of Gradius in one of their cabinets, I would definitely wear one of those while playing!
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Then again, I'm not good enough at any Gradius game to be able to wear one...
It's one matter to wear one and be able to 1LC several loops, causing people at first to chuckle and mock you but then have their jaws dropped in amazement, but it's entirely different to wear one and suck... and then get beaten up :p

nullstar · Post by **nullstar** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:42 pm

Even the little people.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:44 pm

iatneH wrote:It's one matter to wear one and be able to 1LC several loops, causing people at first to chuckle and mock you but then have their jaws dropped in amazement...

That would be really funny, if anyone ever tried it...I'd want to see videos of both the gameplay footage and the crowd's reactions.

tehkao · Post by **tehkao** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:51 am

Man, why are all the cool stuff only available in Japan??