The 64th Gamer

While Country II is already great, this variant cuts down on all the dialogue to hit you with just those outstanding songs, alongside adding three new ones with Shawn Fernandez as a new Klunk voice! It’s also neat having the Ricky Scaggs Medley replace Dook with Klunk in the first segment so you get a nice variant for playlists. IMO one of the best song compilation tapes in the whole tape library. Sad we never got to see more Klunk variant tapes, this rendition of him feels appropriately toned down to match the other characters, which would have been nice to see how they would have interacted in future shows.

While it is a nice gesture to save each stage type in a mostly even spread across the US and Canada, there isn’t much drive to visit these special locations unless you’re a local resident. Saving the animatronics is merely a preservation gesture, but no effort is put into making them an attractive offer to visit what can’t already be shown from a YouTube video. If they were properly offered as an attraction to visit, they should’ve offered to play classic shows- or offer location exclusive performances. An adult wanting to relive the 80’s-00’s experience will be met with the Cocomelon slop and measley production value of the current shows. None of the classic arcades from those eras show up either, keeping the same generic machines you can find at any local arcade. But if these were kept for preservation and not a cohesive retro experience, they would be better off in a museum. Museums offer proper restoration, historical info for patrons to learn, and are as a whole an attraction worth visiting. If you’re at a legacy store just to look at a piece of history, a children’s arcade isn’t the best viewing experience, especially one that gives you no context or help as to their relevancy.

While this show originally seemed pretty good back when it was the only circus tape we knew, the latest reveal of the prior Circus Tape now just makes this a bizarre alternative (and not in a good way like Country Klunk) All the tape does is swap out Tears of a Clown for the prior Beatles White Album segment of the Monkees Medley. Seems to be a random mashup created to pad out the rest of the year until ShowBiz corporate decided to make their own shows by December. Even weirder is this could’ve been a nice revision to the Circus Tape that kept TOAC in, added back the additional missing tracks Aaron has teased, and maybe some other misc older songs. Instead its just as short and with no good reason to.