![]() ![]() Vibri skips around along the eponymous vib ribbon and you have to control Vibri until the end, dodging obstacles to rack up as many points as you can. Vib Ribbon is the “one that got away” and back then, when we still had that old-school thinking around regional lockout, there was no simple way for those outside of Europe and Japan to even encounter the game. Your rabbity character, Vibri, is composed of some fairly basic geometric shapes. But it did show, again, that PlayStation is the place where everything innovative, challenging, new and somewhat off-course can come to find a fan, a market, and a home.The game released in Japan and Europe, but in the Americas not so much as a demo. Vib-Ribbon, an early Sony rhythm game that is almost entirely forgotten in our modern era, may be making a comeback, if a European trademark filed by the gaming giant is anything to go by. It comes in a clear PVC sleeve with black artwork with clear cutouts by Anouvong Southiphong that are visible when inserting the record. The release is a single LP on white vinyl cut at 45RPM. Sure, it didn’t go platinum and it didn’t make a ton of money. Minimum Records have released the soundtrack to Vib-Ribbon on vinyl. I could not get this into the hands of European gamers without having marketing support for the release.Luckily, we eventually got the greenlight to release Vib Ribbon in Europe. What they did not understand was that Vib Ribbon, with all its retro madness, was also part of the new game continuum and, in fact, a very radical offshoot of that, which was worthy of praise. There’s me thinking, “I’M IN!!!”But, curiously, marketing at the time was not a believer in this quirky game. ![]()
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