I bought a bunch of Famicom Disk System games while I was in Tokyo last fall, and thanks to Retronauts I've managed to find an excuse to play one of them. Yes, I'm a sick and broken person who doesn't play video games unless I can extract some sort of work-related content from them. Adulthood!

Thankfully, this one was worth the hoop-jumping. Otocky is one of those games I've heard about, and in action it turned out to be every bit as enjoyable as whispered Internet rumors have suggested. A simple shooter based around musical concepts like timing, melody, and loops, Otocky laid the groundwork for modern rhythm games like Rez and, I dunno, Crypt of the NecroDancer. So! You should watch this video:

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Episode Description

We've mentioned Otocky in passing, but now we delve into greater depth about this little-known but marvelously inventive music-based shoot-em-up by Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai.