And buying was an addiction, however many records you had it was never enough, you needed more. And you didn’t want to go from store to store looking for your heart’s desire, you knew Tower had it. Radio was for discovery, but the passionate needed to own. This was not Amoeba, no, Tower was for EVERYBODY! You didn’t have to put on your look before you went, they sold no tchotchkes, it was only music, all the time. That’s something that disappeared in the CD era, defective product, to get a good vinyl record was almost impossible. Furthermore, they had a shrinkwrap machine in the back, so workers could borrow LPs and then return them, so product returned could be put right back on the shelves. As freewheeling as the store was, the cassettes were in a walled-off section, to reduce theft, even though most of the stealing seemed to be done by employees, at least that’s the legend. Sometime in the eighties, there were more SKUs than room.Īnd there was a switch from vinyl to cassettes to CDs. Until there just wasn’t room for them anymore. Seems amazing now, but to find a store with all the Neil Young albums, or all the Zappa LPs, was impossible. You’d comb through and see LPs you’d only read about. Which sometimes contained items that never made it to the bins. Under the bins were shelves of overstock. Ask for a record at Tower and they’d point you in the general direction as if they were too busy to be bothered and you should know better. Ask for an item at Whole Foods and an employee will take you there. It wasn’t as insulting as Rhino, where they judged you by what you bought, but it was always aloof and never helpful.
You’d see all those copies of albums only you thought you knew about and feel included. Hundreds of copies of new albums, not only the hits, but the obscure. You picked those up on your way out, you stuffed them into your yellow plastic bag.Īnd then in front of you, blocking your entrance, were the stacks. Now right by the door were the rags, the throwaway magazines that have all been thrown away. But if you wanted to see everything, if you wanted to feel on the pulse, if you wanted to go to where they opened up early for Elton John so he could fill up a shopping cart with albums… Being a company town you could buy promos in those stores. There was Aron’s in Hollywood and Rhino in Westwood. Now this was when Los Angeles was a bastion of neighborhood record stores. Who knows if they had everything, but they had more than everybody else, and at a reasonable price! And all the new releases were always cheap, as cheap as anywhere in town, and if you waited long enough you could pick up that catalog item at a low price too. Another time the entire New York Knicks, I was standing next to Patrick Ewing, man was he tall.īut the key feature was the inventory. You could drop by on a whim.Ĭlose to midnight, Michael Caine and his wife. This was where music lived.Īnd unlike every other emporium on Sunset, there was adequate parking. And on the outside of the nondescript building were paintings of albums.
It was on Sunset, in the era when there were billboards for albums.
#Original tower records Pc#
The franchise only spawned four games, with the most recent release, Clock Tower 3, launching over two decades ago on the PlayStation 2, with the series remaining dormant until today's announcement.Ĭlock Tower remastered will launch on PC (via Steam), PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch early next year.When you came to L.A., you went to the Whisky, the Troubadour, the Roxy and… "Starting with River City Girls Zero, we've been bringing these Japanese-only releases to a Western audience," WayForward CEO and Founder Voldi Way said in the announcement video.Ĭlock Tower was originally released in 1995 and is not to be confused with the PlayStation 1 game Clock Tower released in 1996. This remaster also marks the first time the original Clock Tower game will see an official release outside of Japan, which up until this point only had fan translations. In an LRG3 presentation event held by Limited Run Games today, the company confirmed that a remaster was in the works and development is a collaboration effort between Capcom, Sunsoft, WayForward, and Limited Run.
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