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Friday, January 26
Musical False Memories
 The original Tomb Raider for the Playstation (that's PS1 for the kids) was one of the few adventure type games I ever slogged all the way through to the end. In those days, Lara was a little light on the polygon count, but back then, I didn't mind.I listened to a lot of the orchestral score to the "The Saint" while playing Tomb Raider, which was practically a perfect fit to a game of suspenseful exploration. To this day, when one of those pieces from the Saint soundtrack manages to shuffle into my ears from the iPod, I can't help but think of it first as the Tomb Raider soundtrack. You can listen to some excerpts below. Main Title Get the Flash Player to see this player. Searching the Apartment Get the Flash Player to see this player. '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |