What do you get when you combine a half-inserted N64 cartridge and spastic late-nineties J-pop?
I stumbled upon it while watching Kampfer Abridged, when the song “Promise” by Hirose Kohmi was used in the stinger after the credits. I immediately fell in love and went in search of other videos about it.
This is the evolution as I understand it:
1. Original. It began with a glitch in the N64 game GoldenEye 007, called “half-inserted cartridge syndrome”. As the name suggests, when the cartridge wasn’t pushed in all the way, characters and planes and helicopters would randomly spaz out. It was only a matter of time before someone put it to music. “Promise” was bouncy and frenetic enough to do the job.
2. Animated dance: I think this is the video by Lamaze P that solidified Geddan into a dance, but, seeing as I can’t read Japanese, I’m probably wrong.
"This budding meme needs more pelvic thrust!"
2. Nitori gets down: Nitori Kawashiro is a character from the 11th Touhou Project game. For some reason, someone decided to animate her getting down. I’m glad they did.
(I’m sorry I don’t know how to just put videos on my page yet)
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