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[โ€“] yelgo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The earliest video games I remember playing were the Magic School Bus CD-ROM video games when I was like 7 or so. We had an ancient PC running Windows 98 or something that was the only computer we had that could still run them, since our other computer ran Linux at the time. (I don't even know if any Windows versions past 98 or maybe Vista can even run them either) Those old PC's were LOUD AF when they booted up; both an old-ass hard-drive and the disk drive would calibrate itself on boot making a bunch of noise. I played the shit out of those old games. It was so much fun coming into my Dad's office and sorting through our stack of CD's to pick out a game and listen to the disk drive spin up as the game loaded, and playing the game while my Dad was working beside me. I also played a lot of flash games at the time, but looking back those old MSB games stand out much more to me.

[โ€“] yelgo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have been changing their sound constantly since they began as a a band, to the point where this variety is one of the defining attributes of the band.

First album they released was garage/surf rock. To prevent being typecast as a garage rock band their next album was a narrated, spaghetti-western style story album. Since then, they have done psychedelic and progressive rock, thrash metal, acoustic folk, synthpop/dream pop, jazz fusion, microtonal/Turkish rock, two Beastie Boys style tracks, sludge/doom metal, boogie rock, krautrock, and more.

Once you've explored enough of their music and get a sense of their sound you start to notice common styles and characteristics, but it can still be hard sometimes to believe their entire discography is one band.