Rapper Del the Funky Homosapien Offers his Top 5 Games

August 11, 3:43 PMVideo Game ExaminerQuibian Salazar-Moreno

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Fans of rapper Del the Funky Homosapien know that he’s a hardcore video gamer. Not only are many of his songs featured in a plethora of video games (Tony Hawk Franchise, NBA 2K Series), but his music and videos have that digital style and feel that you would find in the scoring of video games.

Del is currently on tour promoting his new album, The 11th Hour, released earlier this year, but we caught up with him to find out his five all time favorite video games.

#1 – Super Mario Bros. - "Every other action/adventure game is based on that one. It opened the doors for everything else. Sonic the Hedgehog wouldn’t exist without Super Mario Bros. First, it was an arcade game, then it helped made the Nintendo home system a success. This all happened a long, long time. So damn long ago, I can hardly believe it. I was still in grammar school back when that came out, but it’s still one of my favorite games of all time. I could pick it up right now and play for hours. Anybody who denies that this isn’t the best game of all time is hella ancient and you can tell them that Del say so."

#2 – "I’ma go back a little bit earlier for this one - Zaxxon by Sega. It was of the first pseudo 3-D games that was out at the time around ‘84 or something. I think they called Asymmetric graphics. It’s like a cube, you could see 3 sides of the cube but you couldn’t see the other side. Zaxxon was a space shooting game but you moved forward in time, you kept fighting until you met with a boss. This ish is hella old but back then, the graphics were tight for that era. I could still mess with this game. It pales in comparison of course to today’s games, but I’d still play."

#3 – Wipe Out. "That was the one game that made me think that the Playstation could be tight. A Plus had a Playstation so he actually had Wipe Out and it was hella tight. It was they flagship game, or what they called your killer app. It was supposed to sell hella Playstations. There are a lot of reasons why this game is dope - the graphics and the game itself were ridiculous. You didn’t just drive a car, you were driving a spaceship!. You’d be driving ridiculously fast. And they had a Prodigy song in there – that’s how I found out about them. Not Prodigy from Mobb Deep but that British hardcore techno punk group."

#4 – Quartet and Super Quartet. "Any of them Capcom or Konami in where 4 muthaf**kas could play at the same time, all arcade style. There were super heroes and you had to defeat a crazy robot boss who had a key to a door that led you to the next level and you blew his ass up to get the key. He was a black robot with a cape on. That game was raw to me because 4 people could play at the same time. Your quarter would last longer. You’d be with your friends, working together, saving your money, so you could be at the arcade all day. We would play that when I was going to art school."

#5 – Virtual Fighter by Sega. "Any one of the games in the series. I actually learned martial arts from that game. The actual moves, everything was stop motion graphics. That’s the ish. And the graphics were great. In general, people who liked Street Fighter didn’t like Virtual because they had to learn a new fighting style but it was actually easier. For instance, you could block all the time, you didn’t hold back on the joystick like in Street Fighter, which restricts your fighting. On Virtual Fighter you had a block button, and you could do other moves while blocking. Watching two people play Virtual Fighter was almost like watching a kung fu movie."