Posts tagged contraband 
Joystiq at the Ninja Gaiden Band concert
The concept is simple: a four-piece band recreates the soundtrack to the original Ninja Gaiden for NES while one skilled player runs through the game with little effort. You may have heard about this before when they previously performed as Contraband (Contra, natch), Megaband (Mega Man II) and Zel...
Today in Joystiq: January 25, 2007
Contra + band = Contraband. Two guys, no codes, near flawless play -- and they've got a backing band to play all the music. If you're in the area of Athens, Georgia, they are playing at the Georgia Theatre tomorrow night and this writer, in a Joystiq t-shirt, will be there to enjoy the awesomeness...
Today in Joystiq: January 18, 2007
Being an Athens, Ga local myself, seeing a Joystiq commenter yesterday plug local gaming group Contraband gave me an idea ... I can plug them better. Contraband, where rock group Cinemechanica plays the background music while two costumed players run through Contra with no cheat codes (image credi...
Games rank low on worldwide contraband chart
The pirated video games market might be valued at $3 billion, but that figure is paled by the gobs of cash circulating the pirated movies ($18.2 billion) and software ($34 billion) trades. Indeed, pirated games rank a lowly 25th among the world's leading illegal markets; perhaps a testament to gamer...
