technabob » prope http://technabob.com/blog gadgets, gizmos, games, cool gadgets, geeky gadgets Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:25:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 let’s tap: the game you play with a box http://technabob.com/blog/2009/02/03/lets-tap-the-game-you-play-with-a-box/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/02/03/lets-tap-the-game-you-play-with-a-box/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:00:11 +0000 alisha k. http://technabob.com/blog/?p=8550 Let’s Tap is a game about beating out a rhythm on a cardboard box. It’s dashboard drumming tuned to a purpose; you tap, and (weird, psychedelic) things happen on screen. You don’t use the controller directly, but instead, it sits on the box and picks up the vibes…]]> Let’s just put it on the table: Let’s Tap is a game about beating out a rhythm on a cardboard box. It’s dashboard drumming tuned to a purpose; you tap, and (weird, psychedelic) things happen on screen. You don’t use the controller directly, but instead, it sits on the box and picks up the vibes of your tip-tapping. Odd? Yes, but also innovative, and that’s a difficult thing to be in the current glut of rhythm games.

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When Japanese game developer Yuji Naka, the man behind Sonic the Hedgehog and Nights, first started talking about Let’s Tap, it was called a game “even penguins” could play, and that it was played controller-free. It’s easy to understand something like Donkey Konga, with the original game’s bongo peripherals, but this is some sort of Finger-Tapping Hero business that can be difficult to understand. Fortunately, there are some great trailers available, complete with catchy theme music.

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Let’s Tap was released in mid-December in Japan to a lukewarm response, but the game is being given a second chance in the rest of the world with a rumored North American release on the way.

[61FPS via NeoGAF]

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