Well, you don't see that every day. FOX News obviously has an N64 player among its ranks, and while it wouldn't surprise me that the dinosaurs at FOX have only just discovered Nintendo's 64-bit system, what does surprise me is the fact that they snuck some music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time into one of their stories.
Hit the jump and check out the video. Brings back memories and really makes me want to track down an old N64 and play the game again. Nice to see that not everybody at FOX is a clueless f*ckstick, right?
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VERY WEIRD. It sounds just like the songs they play during those "inquisitive" parts of stories, though!
Related to the stories: ah, scam companies. I remember being rused into an interview for one once. Never again. As soon as the interviewer said "we selected ONLY your resume out of hundreds of candidates!" I felt a chill.
At first I was going to comment that the song near the end is from "The Last Guy" but decided to do a little bit of research before sticking my foot in my mouth. Turns out the song I'm familiar with in that game is actually a variation on an oft-covered song called "Popcorn", originally recorded by Gershon Kingsley in 1969.
/uninteresting history lesson
Thank you crappy news station, for inspiring me to learn something new.
Fox News sued for illegal use of copyrighted property! Princess of Hyrule seen topless at local beach!? And, find out how Lon Lon Milk can KILL YOU! Story at 11!
good for the folks who were getting scammed that they did that video, but, man, that reporter was *terribly* obnoxious. he could sell junk in an infomercial!
Nice, Jim what a sublime way to show that a Fox affiliate is trying to do good and expose scams. If it takes game music to get it on the site so be it.
BTW, Fox is the Devil cause it is the only TV network that is not part of the of the Obama State Run Media. Keep up the good work.?!
Chances are some 20 something video editing intern stuck it in after putting on his nostalgia goggles. I doubt that the people who actually write for or talk on the show had anything to do with that music.
@Cranes88: Its not their reporting thats the problem, is that their shows are just as neoconservatively biased (cuz they sure as hell aint conservative) as other news stations are liberal biased.
This isn't the Fox News Channel, it's for a local station in Detroit. It's owned and operated by the Fox Television Network, which, outside of business terms, amounts to a very loose affiliation.
Not much room for climbing up on a soapbox about the shortcomings of whichever cable news network caught your particular ire, but hey, pay no mind to me, I'm only right.
Umm... Is this what news is like in the USA, or is it just Fox?
This wasn't reporting, it was just... well... almost commentary. It's the kind of thing you'd find on a not-particularly-serious show here in the UK, like Rogue Traders or something, not the news.
Hopeless Savage is dead on. This isn't the nationally syndicated cable network, its their Detroit affiliate that they don't control the daily operations of.
The cable network does enough to earn the ire of gamers that one doesn't need to grasp at straws.
@ Tyrotoxismist
How is a local news organization alerting citizens of a scam just commentary? So I take it a local news paper posting a story about a restaurant in it's locality with numerous recent health code violations is just commentary as well?
What the fuck? One minute in and no Zelda; please give me back my wasted minute now. One minute is one minute of attention more than I'm willing to give to any FOX broadcast, ever.
I suppose that's the proper timeframe. Fox News, out of fear of being seen as progressive, will not use any technology until it's been a dozen years since it was released. So the guy who put the music in is playing OoT for the FIRST TIME.
Fortunately, by the time they discover Halo 2, most of us will have moved on. I just KNOW it'll trigger another wave of slinging homophobic slurs at people with superior skillz.
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Related to the stories: ah, scam companies. I remember being rused into an interview for one once. Never again. As soon as the interviewer said "we selected ONLY your resume out of hundreds of candidates!" I felt a chill.
Then I heard it. :)
The innuendo stands for itself.
Also, good effort by the news team, except: why didn't you call the cops for the employment agency and assault by the landlord?
/uninteresting history lesson
Thank you crappy news station, for inspiring me to learn something new.
BTW, Fox is the Devil cause it is the only TV network that is not part of the of the Obama State Run Media. Keep up the good work.?!
That is awesome!
Hey, Top Gear used a song from Halo once. News?
Jim reports on a random 10 second sound bite and it turns into a possible 50 comment FOX news fest - JOURNALISM!
"I don't think that ONE city (or local area) could have so many criminals."
It's Detroit. Believe it.
Not much room for climbing up on a soapbox about the shortcomings of whichever cable news network caught your particular ire, but hey, pay no mind to me, I'm only right.
This wasn't reporting, it was just... well... almost commentary. It's the kind of thing you'd find on a not-particularly-serious show here in the UK, like Rogue Traders or something, not the news.
x.x
The cable network does enough to earn the ire of gamers that one doesn't need to grasp at straws.
@ Tyrotoxismist
How is a local news organization alerting citizens of a scam just commentary? So I take it a local news paper posting a story about a restaurant in it's locality with numerous recent health code violations is just commentary as well?
Fox news and it's affiliates are still fox news, as it's on the, you know, fox channel...
We're talking abou FOX afterall.
Fortunately, by the time they discover Halo 2, most of us will have moved on. I just KNOW it'll trigger another wave of slinging homophobic slurs at people with superior skillz.