THUMBS ON FIRE

Games You Should’ve Played (But Probably Didn’t): Jet Set Radio Future

Remember when you were a budding post-adolescent and started having this almost instinctive urge to start “raging against the machine”? That feeling of needing to fight The Man, whoever That Man may be, though in retrospect probably juvenile and almost assuredly stupid, has become the basis for untold stories, films, and video games, though none have been created with such bravado and outright Japanese insanity as one of my most treasured experiences from my youth, Jet Set Radio Future.

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Sunday Musical Interlude

Well, tuesday morning musical interlude, to be specific. But I digress.

This week I wanted to take it as far away as possible from my initial selection. So I’m going to go with some music that’s also really near and dear to my heart. The soundtrack from Jet Set Radio Future, for the Xbox. Or, specifically, the song “Funky Dealer”, by musical composer Hideki Naganuma.

I’m a massive fan of that song, that soundtrack, and really that entire game. Someone needs to go to Sega, ask them to stop making a sonic game for ten months, and make another Jet Set Radio game. I’d buy two copies.