prokopetz:

theprinceofpopculture:

prokopetz:

Concept: a fighting game where all the characters are just David Bowie’s various stage personas.

(Come on, who wouldn’t pay money to see Ziggy Stardust dragon punch the Thin White Duke?)

The story mode could be a biographical telling of David Bowie’s life as told through an action fighting game. You’d go through each one of his personas as the game progressed, fighting monsters and villains relevant to his life and music at the time. For instance, the Thin White Duke era would end by fighting the living embodiment of cocaine. The last part of the game would have Bowie in his meta years fighting all of his previous incarnations of himself (just like he did lyrically and sonically through his music on The Next Day and Blackstar).

Let’s also talk about characters. Considering all of the different famous costumes he wore, each Bowie persona could have different skin changes just like with Super Smash Bros. On top of that, imagine all the of the unlockable characters that you could have. They would be other musicians that worked alongside Bowie and even some that he influenced. You could have Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan (who would ride in on a T-Rex, I’ve decided), Freddie Mercury, Trent Reznor, and Brian Eno.

This isn’t a typical tumblr-let’s-make-this-thing-exist idea. This would actually have potential to be a very humorous and heartfelt tribute to Bowie’s life as well as a rockin’ fun game.

It still makes me sad that this is one of my least-reblogged “concept” prompts, because this is honestly one of the best followups I’ve ever received. Especially the bit about the final chapter of the story mode being Bowie fighting and killing all of his stage personas until only the old man remains – like, that has layers.