Ikaruga "bash"-ed!

(tags Ikaruga, humor)

While slogging through the toilet humor that is bash.org (the premier IRC funnies collator), I finally found something game related, #37144:

<[SA]Jibaku> Guys, by what voodoo does ikaruga compress to a scant 17 megabytes?
<HentaiTentacleDemon> The good voodoo
<[SA]MofoTPG> The magic of "incomplete download"?

But it's true, a "rip" of the Dreamcast version of the Ikaruga game weighs in at less than 20 MB compressed. I know because... um. Yeah.

I looked at the English version of the Wikipedia "Ikaruga" entry, and my own words made it (through Greng's site now defunct, but it was here) to the "Reception and Criticism" section. Seriously, I wrote about the Famitsu and home sales part (originally at Shmups Forum), but in retrospect home sales don't mean squat in comparison to the arcade reaction, the pure emotion, the... I'm waxing nostalgia, aren't I?