Hey dudes and chicks. This week's, well this quarter of a year's edition of ISR Radio is a goodie. There is tons of cool hip-hop and some bits based around the Atari 2600 game Yar's Revenge. I was way into Yar's back in the day. I really dug/dig that battle-fly type insect right up there. I mean, how rad? He has like a Gatling Gun on his paw or whatever it is on a bug, tendril? I don't know, and he has some sort of energy cannon on his snout ( In his snout ?) to boot.

1. Ease Up :Third Eye
2. Klap To Dis: Tymz Up
3. Pump Up The Volume: Cool Kids
4. Royal Flush: Big Boi ft. Raekwon and Andre 3K
5. Hoe Cakes (Ant Remix): MF Doom
6. Roller Skating Jam Named Saturday (Qbert Remix); De La Soul
7. On Point (Alladin Remix): House Of Pain
8. Cosmic Slop:Redman
9. Lazerface's Warning: El P
10. Sit Down Man: Das Racist
11. Bionic Oldsmobile: Analog Brothers
12. My 2600: Capt. Funkaho
13. Hip Hop Is Dead (remix) Jay-Z ft, Rakim, Dr. Dre
14. Nuttin' But Flava': Funkmaster Flex ft. Chali Brown, ODB and Biz Markie
15. The Symphony: Marly Marl ft. Masta' Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane
16. I Know You Got Soul: Eric B & Rakim

There is also a bunch of little ISR-Yar's Revenge remix type deals. What I mean by that is like, old commercials set to break beats and with the vocals all out of order. I think you get the drift. If not click on here to hear one of my oldies before you get to involved with a whole episode... Real Sports Baseball: Retro Remix.

In Yar's Revenge you are some sort of bug like creature who is attacking this circular structure in space. First you have to break through a barrier, after that you shoot your cannon at this structure's sweet innards and blow that deal to smithereens.

There is a story involved about aliens defending their space from an evil attacker or something like that. I don't want to look it up. I remember that the cartridge came with a mini comic and that at the time I liked the story quite a bit.

I also remember reading somewhere that Yar's revenge was the best selling cartridge for the 2600. That seems hard to believe. I would think that it was E.T which totally sucked, but everyone seemed to have. I gave in and looked it up and check this out... Yar and E.T where actually designed by the same dude! Fella by the name of Howard Warshaw.

I think that I'd actually be pretty stoked to have had a hand in E.T's creation just due to it's ubiquity. I mean that piece is EVERYWHERE! I prolly see a baker's dozen of them at every flea market that I go to. Seriously. 

Oh, according to the sometimes correct Wikipedia Yar's actually was the best selling cartridge. How about that? Good for you Yar. Good for you.