They werent invited to many picnics, but damned if they werent one happy family!

*Our buddy Fuzzy Hat seems to be in sad mode. At the moment, HIS buddy, whos name shall be changed to Andrew Slater, to hide his true identity, appeared to have cut him loose from all things communicato. I guess things went poopschtick and they arent on swell terms as of this writing. They had this site where sort of a little business was conducted. Perhaps they sold Russian wives over the internet for rubles or some shyt like that, i honestly wasnt paying attention. Upon fuzzy's return to see how the site was doing all traces of him had become mysteriously not present. It was like some scary ScoobyDoo episode... only on the internet.. and .. as if the show was only seen in my head. At least thats what it seemed like at the time. I was on heavy medication thanks to my allergies and heroin addic- OH LOOK AT THE TIME.... Anyways, The site here shows no speck nor hair of our favorite fuzzy hat wearing cohort, though, he helped out and heavily contributed to many of the projects listed. I think thats terrible and all evil in the world should be stopped. Just what i think. I also think that popcicles and legos are all that are needed to sustain life on this planet. You be the judge.

<discuss: Man, thats cold>

 

*Updated the Downloads section with a new desktop. You Ragnarok Online folks will be happy to see... that ive ripped off some characters (actually, i didnt do much of the ripping) from said online PC MMORPG. I think it turned out ok.

 

*Another little update to the Bit section.

 

*I didnt know goddamned people like this still existed. I thought only cavemen clubbed animals to death for fun. This is truly terrible. Humanity is the only animal that has the capacity to do something like this, for "fun".

<discuss: how many ways can i kick this guy in the balls>

 

*GameSpot is soon gonna also be GameSpot Complete, a fully bannerless, paysite. Id say something more but im so tired right now. I think Tycho summed it up nicely.

<Discuss: Pay for your play info?>

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Stupid Retail Question of the day:

"So you SELL used games, but do you also take them in?"

Ninja
"id rather trust a man that works with his hands"

YOINK!

4/26/2002 Thurs 5:47 AM
Hi! My name is Shinhobbes, im taking Japanese as a first language! ^.^p

edited 4/26 fri 6:15

*I only wish i had as much understanding of the hip hop derivation as some of my peers <cough>Lou or Ryan</cough>. What little ive gotten into has been by pure accident. Cibo Matto, Gorillaz, beck, beasties [boys] all have heavy roots in many things, but all tend to enjoy la flava de hip hop. There is so much there to be explored and had with the whole format that its staggering to think that some people have managed to grab the sound by it's scrotal sac and contorted it's collective nutz is such a way to even invoke it to dance for them. Del (the funky homosapien) is one such person. Unfortunately, i cannot access the dern hieroglyphics.com (the home of del and cohorts) so im afraid the last two links might not function right now. The server is prolly taking a nap. So in the meantime play this over and over and over. Anyways, del is the laid back kinda d00d that would seem like a cool sir to acquaint. The way he uses the english language is unbelievable, it has to be heard to be believe, kids. Check some of his stuff out. I am of the understanding that he has a new disc comin out soon, if not already.

<discuss: del>

 

*Shin has decided that the way he conducts himself verbally means wholly nothing. All those "words" that we all think are so "hot" are all thought for not, on Shin. This choice has been made and his mind set. I know of this change in communicative lifestyle cause he just ordered Rune from NCSX.com in his slow, but sure, quest to rid himself of that terrible affliction...uh, afflicting all of us everyday: a cognitive understand of the english language. Man, do we have it bad. To make a little bit more sense to an already overdrawn and not all that funny joke, check out the REAL site of FromSoftware's RUNE to see what i mean. Read a bit and come back to me with your thoughts handy....

go ahead, ill wait.

<hums the theme to I Dream of Genie>

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SO! What'd ya think? That funny text that prolly didnt show up in your window was supposed to be japanese (or IS if you have a translator... or a mac ;) Those crazy jarbled scribblings are what Shin is going to be staring at for the next couple of weeks or so as he tries to forget what was once known in a desperate struggle to learn the tongue native to the games origin, that being Japan. Ok Ok, its not like i havent imported MY share of games, true, its just the few times that i HAVE imported RPGs [3 or so] it has been nothing short of disaster. Great blissful disaster. I agree with his silly ass, in that, trying to figure out what the hell is going on with the blue guy when the red guy is running around and hitting things with a stick IS indeed fun, but a CARD-based RPG? I dunno if im down for that kinda torture. Well, on the upside he did pay some 60 odd US dollars for it to be at his door step. Not a bad price for such a high profile game, sans english [often times... un-sans (?!) Engrish]. Im sure ill be down at his casa to check it out. I cant blame him, though. Looking at all the neato new shit they got down at NCSX i almost plopped some of MY tax return money too. Thankfully, my need for sustanance and essentials kept my finger from pressing the "Order" button. I hope he comes by to drop off a post or two sos that all you nice folks can get a glimpse of the game before it comes stateside.

<discuss: Rune>

 

*Sad news always makes me ...well, sad. Like the day i found out that Campbell's Pepper Pot soup was to be discontinued i "nearly" cried myself to sleep for a week. That stuff could keep me going forever. Then stuffs like THIS come along. With three of my favorite albums done with this guy screetching on all of em, news like this is truly something i hate coming across in a day.The world turns and we move on. Be at peace, little brutha rooster.

<discuss: Hot Soup and Alice in Chains>

 

*Wipeout Fusion is looking mighty good. Those aussies love them some futuristic gaming. I think thats how they all get around town. Its the only way to explain how true to life it looks. In a bit ill post some larger gameplay screenies. Punch and pie** for all those who stay for them!!! May release, may release, may release, may release... come on, daddy needs a new futuristic combat racing game!!

<discuss: The English get to have ALL the fun!>

 

*OMG, two questiônis: 1. How is it possible that a game can look this fucking good?! 2. if i dry hump my TV while playing this will more of them come out in 9 or so months??!! [GunGrave]

<discuss: Gungrave? more like gift from above!>

 

*DirectX APIs coming to the Mac.

Man invents a car that cleans the air as it runs.

Hell freezes over.

Film at 11.

<discuss: Who in the WHAT now?!>

 

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Stupid Retail Statement of the day:

"just cause i WORK at a video game store dont mean i need to KNOW about the games."

Ninja
"...oh shit there's a bear could you hand me that shotgun buddy also that chair..."

Its clunky AND semi-functional,
WHAT A BARGAIN!

*If there is one thing i can always count on while perusing the web its crazies. Without fail they SOMEHOW find a way to diligently whip ugly web pages and shoot them straight into my browser. This example here would be one such... example... it it werent such a perfect hoax. At least thats what ive been told [MacHall] but check it out for yourself. The rest of the site is also worth a laugh. There is something about religious satire that always hits a funny bone or two in this ninja. I blame the meds. My "doctor" blames my upbringing. Pfft, what does HE know, eh? Sites like this only make sites like THIS seem all the more ridiculously funny. Though, i doubt humor is the the purpose here. Why is it that when someone takes a way o thinking that is their own its an attack on their beliefs but when they shove it in other people's faces its "saving them". The one example that really hit home for me is when Dr. Richard Paley went for the ass-raping and back-jumping of Apple's new OSX. Being that us "long haired hippies" are busy promoting the "forces of darkness" its not possible for some of our "cult" members to actually BE christian. Or so according to the good doctor. Im sure even many of the people whom work at Apple are christian. Im sure there are at least SOME of us whom are in fact believers in the good book AND also mac users/creators. I for one am not, but i can EASILY name off some. This goes to show, if you look far enough into something you will ALWAYS find what you are looking for. Please we ask that though the doctor's email is posted there, DO NOT send hate mail nor propaganda in his direction. Besides, we dont want to stoop to his level.

 

*You guys know me when it comes to ninjas. Im all over that like a geno on a black mustang. Is it possible to combine the coolness of an indie comic with the power of ninja and a turtle or two or four thrown in for good measure? Yeah, i though HELL NO too, but sometimes we all gotta admit we are wrong. The show, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was one of my ALL TIME favorite kiddie programs. When i was a kid, between the comics, the show and the movies, it was like nothing else in the world was needed to sustain life. If you had stuck me in a cave with the comics, a tv and the movies and show on tape (beta even) i... well, i prolly would have eaten my leg off to only end up a pile of dead me, but i would have been happy for the two or three days before the crazy set in. But i digress. There are so many little online quizes and polls that are sent my way via the oh so nutty Fuzzy Hat, of DDR Team Fuzzy Dog fame(?), that i really wonder about the young lad; 'is he taking his vitamins and if yes, what TYPE of vitamins?' Well, he dropped me this TMNT quiz today and i think that everyone should play. I got Leo then Shredder twice. Wee! Fuzzy makes an interesting statement too regarding the portrait of Shredder, "i like the fact shredder is in a tuxedo... and looks like he was from gta3" Happy quizzing!

 

*Hey, Bart, its RYGAR! Remember RYGAR? Hes BACK! In pog form.

 

*LOOK AT MY GUNS! the movie (Psst, Max Payne: the movie)

 

*Hidden among all these boobies is an interview with Vic Ireland, the big head at one of my, if not THE, favorite localization teams around, Working Designs. These nice folks find really great games and try to bring them over here to america in a way that even surpasses the original japanese as far as extras and quality is concerned. Nice folks. These guys care SO much about the fans its unbelievable. Arc the Lad was their last two year ordeal of love. Its companies like this that allow me to keep my faith in gaming alive.

 

*Still working on an update to the site's look and navigation... The forumz should be popupless very soon, too. YAY! Moved a metric ass-load of posts to the archives page.

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Stupid Retail Question of the day: "why is this game so hard?"

Ninja
"I'd never join a club that'd have me as a member"

GRAAAAAAAHH!!
JUST A LITTLE FIRE- STILL GOOD, STILL GOOD!!

*Well, i WAS gonna surprise you all with a cool new look for the site but it seems my computer had other plans. It thought it would be funny to, you know, initialize the main hard drive directory for a chuckle. Man o manoschevitz, was the joke on me. Got me good, computer. Im sure ill be at it again, shin and i really want to slim down the design of this place. Oh well.

-Im sure Bryteblack would love to hear some of your feedback as far as how you want the site to be designed, since you are the ones whom will be looking at it and all that jazz. Send him an email.

-I took into account the little feedback i got already from yallz: No popup windows, slimmer menus, less scrolling, less p00p references. Im working on all but the inevitable latter ^_-|| Wish me luck!

 

*While im still smiling at Koei for their game Gitaroo Man, a new prospect has appeared on the radar. This is one of MY favorite franchises Koei has yet to FULLY exploit on the newer systems (aside from the Rot3K, of course ;), Nobunaga's Ambition. Fully UNexploited until now. Nobunaga's Ambition Online looks to whet the maws of all those who just read that last link in this same sentence. Nobunaga's Ambition Online. SEE! A series that has graced more consoles than even EA's mediocre Madden (a daunting feat), Nobunaga is now gettin the MMORPG treatment. Oh, snap! Im just kiding Madden fans. There ARE more multi system Maddens out there. Goodie for us. For those who dont know: MMORPG stands for Manipulating Manufolds Ordinarily Recoup Random Ground. Or Massive Multiplayer Online Roll Playing Game, so they tell me. Since i dont trust THEM, id go with the previous. Just to be safe. Thus far it looks like there are to be 7 classes: Samurai, Priest, Shinto Priest, Ninja, Blacksmith, Yun Yang Master and Pharmacist. Gee, can you guess which one ILL be? THATS RIGHT! PHARMACIST! Finally i can fulfill me dreams! Its to be beta'ed up there in ol Japan, with a chance of stateside and EUR release. Riiiiiight.

 

*Arc the Lad Collection is now out in stores! W00T. Find them and buy them.

 

*In case you havent heard, PortableMonopoly.com has finished moving to TritonLabs.com. And in case you dont know what im talking about AND you own a GameboyAdvance then 1. take (one) hammer 2. hit head with hammer 3. repeat ^.^p

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Times Ninja's Comp has died: 8

New name for main boot disc: HD poopy x8

Ninja
"fABouLOUS!"

Original Beta for WinXP

*When it comes to rhythm games ive always tried to find a better, more efficient way to play them with the least amount of time lost between the next. I cant get enough of em. Ive decided once i get the funds and the time to do it i will buy tiny projectors to blast a video screen into each one of my eyes thus allowing me to play TWO at a time without the bothersome distraction of the "real world". This brings me to my point: it saddens me when a game is of a certain level of greatness such that it deserves to be bought up and loved to a home but then is rather left on the shelf of your local EB to lay and wish it had a master. Gitaroo Man is one such game. Too wierd for casual americans, Koei's little game o rhythm has a catchy soundtrack, [clinically] insane visuals and a batch of gameplay goodness that is not often found in those cookie-cutter EA games your parents have been playing [and buying] to death every year. It has parts of a bemani game in that it has buttons that have to be hit to a certain beat once a marker hits a point else you get laughed at for not having "skills", whatever those are. In Gitaroo Man, buttons 'fall' INWARD into a little circle towards the center of the screen. If you see a square button coming from the left side of the screen you press SQUARE as it hits the center said circle. Just this much would be all and good, box it up and stamp "BeatMania 8thMix:SuperGitarooManEdition"on it, but it also adds the added challenge to use the left analog stick to follow a line that has button hits all along it also. Its like if that game Irritating stick was also a beat game. Using the left analog stick you point a cone towards the direction of the line carrying the button hits (which curves and loops and turns) while hitting those same button hits with...uh buttons. As long as that line is within that cone you can continue hitting notes without missing. If you dont have the line lined up with the cone? You miss the button hit. Simple. Ok, not so simple sounding but when you are up in the Gitaroo Man drivers seat you will see how intuitive the system really is. Check it out, highly enjoyability will follow. 'Promise. When yer done, tell me what YOU think about the game here! Parappa and Lammy have a new pal. And his name is Gitaroo. Gitaroo...Jones? Gitaroo Jones. Yeah. I like that.

 

*Spiderman, Spiderman he's a fast as a Spiderman. Treyarch has fashioned a wee bit o fun with this one, son. Based on the movie that we all want to see, directed by that director we all like to be and staring a d00d named Toby. God im bored. The game was a surprise. The reviews said it was good and... IT WAS! WHAT THE FUCK?! This just in: Reviewers are to stop writing falsities and start with ...uh... truthitudes .Seriously, it has a very American feel to it... but in a good way.

 

* "ikaruga in america? Please, o please, o please, et al..." (import the DC version!)

 

*apparently there be no godly limit to cute.

 

*Fuzzy Hat decided to instant message me with this quiz, which, being about FinalFantasy, i was easily willing to take.

***spoiler***

Turns out the joke was on me. For full effect be of the male species NOT of homosexual tendancies.

 

*I remember back in MY day when being a cool fucking ninja required lots of skill, vigor and patience. Now all you need is a goddamn T-SHIRT! Kids these days...

[thanks, tycho (PA) for the heads up and all that]

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Stupid Retail Question of the Day: "who makes the sony playstation?"

Ninja
"hello, ive waited here for you everlong"

4/18/2002
Wild horses... right Ninja?

[Ninja: mmmmrmpherump?! <i am busy eating noodles>]

*Okay, I don't know about all you peoples out there in other states... but California has a serious infestation problem. They're all over the place... dirtying up the streets, creating air pollution, and not to mention noise pollution. What is this horrible affliction that Califormia has been infected with, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. Mustangs. Fuckin' Mustangs, Mustangs, Mustangs. And I'm not talking about the animals of equestrian evolution... but the automobiles. Ford struck it rich when it first created this car... and they should have. It was a bad-ass car way back when. But today... the streets are thick with them. Now some of you may be asking, "Now, come on Shin. How bad can it really be?" Really bad. Today, and today alone... I counted 51 one of them. FIFTY-ONE!! The day isn't even over with yet! Now normally I wouldn't hate an inanimate object simply on the fact that it had large numbers, but it's more the fact that almost every one has a zit-popping, sideways baseball cap-wearing, 'that's hella tizight'-saying, 'west side!'-throwing, mommy bought me this-thinking, white-boy, gino behind the wheel. Now I'm white... but a gino I am not. You all know these guys... and they're bitches. All right, I'm better now having got that off my chest. As a constant reminder of the growing disease that is the Ford Mustang, I now present The Daily Mustang Count. It shall be set to 51 for today. Have fun out there kids! My bitching is complete.

Shinhobbes

"Oh yeah... this only includes the newer Mustangs. All others I don't count"

Ninja: Hey shin, yer arm is on fire.
Shin: Hmmm, so it seems.
Ninja: So what are ya gonna do about it?
Shin: About what?
Ninja: Nevermind.

 4/15/2k2
Mmmm... shmups...

this post was updated 4-16-2k2

* The truly great thing about Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlayingGames is just that, they are massively multiplayer. Now, this is all and well until you take notice that a good majority of this here planet's sleep-walking persons are made up of what id like to call "a bitch". Notice that this term, "a bitch", isnt in relation coined towards ACTUAL dogs of the female gender. Or of any gender in specific. No, but rather a nickname for a person whom seems to have his/her mind made up that the more ignorant he/she becomes the cooler (or 1337, if you will) will end up. Obviously these sad individuals are mistaken as ive spent the last 21 (or so) years of my life towards this endeavor and it has helped me none. These "bitches" i speak of are of a special breed. It seems that some of these "bitches" have learned to procreate in masses and have been populating Blizzard's Battle.net servers. This in itself isnt such a bad thing, as Blizzard ACTUALLY expected droves of people to play their superbg ames and thusly have put up many servers for said people to logon and enjoy themselves some gaming. Nice guys, ya see. The problem comes in what these people have been doing: They have been making things difficult for the lives of the nice folks at BN by hacking the servers as if tomorrow was but a wink till oblivion. Making items by the thousands and going about doing all sorts of crazy shenanigans. I guess Blizzard had enough and decided to ban not 5, not 10, hell not even 100, but TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND users. Being a blizzard fan for years now, i feel i should respect their decisions. Though, thats a lot of shit to cut from one's side. No matter how hurty the pain there is. Wait, what was i just talkin about? Shit, i need to lay down.

 

* Another small update to the bit charg section. Check them tizight trizackz. Or something.

 

* There are few shows that are presently being televised which are a must on the list-o-ninja. One of them is the simpsons. Even hearing the crescendo of the intro theme into "thheeeee siiiiiiiiimpssssssooooooonssss" in the distance is enough to make me tear and smile. At the same time. So, rightly did i scoff when somebody brought their two cents to the global table when a joke about them arose. If only the writers would make a joke about ME. <sigh> Brooks: One point for bringing up boxing with a ficticious character...no, icon; minus two points for mentioning Fox's own Celebrity Boxing.

 

* Wow, i just noticed. We are at over 1000 hits!!! i dont know if i should be proud or worried. I think ill be silly happy instead. Thanks from everyone (all two of us) here for the looking and... stuff :_D

 

* Alright, kiddies, who here knows who Treasure is? If you are one of the ones who raised your hand then take a good look in the mirror cause you are physically responding to things you are reading on your computer. D00d, seek help. Those of you who didnt raise your hands are no doubt reveling in your sanity but still get docked points for not showing your love for the makers of Guardian Heroes, Sin and Punishment, Gunstar Heroes, Bangi-o and Radiant Silvergun among others. No points this round. Well, treasure and sega are together again in what may be the dreamcast's last shinning star Ikaruga. This is that project that you may have read about a few months back about how its not the sequel to Radiant Silvergun but is still a shoot-em-up much like RS, with ships that look like they had been stolen from RS and a multi-weapon system that resembles RS', though NOT a sequel to RS. I think we've been had. This HAS to be the sequel. Treasure has always had a no-sequel policy that has always worked out for them but frustrated some fans. (No, Silpheed 2 dont count!) HA! i see what you are trying to do here, Treasure. Ikaruga, eh? thats a nice name... whats the matter? was RadiantSilvergun 2 taken? This must be their way of hidding the fact that it IS in fact the continuation of my all time favorite shooter TO THIS DAY. Whatever, im just happy to have another of their games in my mitts, and on the DC no less! I simply cant wait, Check out NCSX.com and preorder that badboy today! I admit, much of my information about Ikaruga might not be 100%. The game had dropped off my radar for a long time, there were way too many good domestics in the way for once. Im just happy its in focus now.

 

* I also took the counters and polls off the other sections, IE5+ didnt seem to like the server side scripts. Es ist kaput. Es ist scheiße.

Ninja

"can anyone stop this fighting machine?"

*People in the portable system know-how, have prolly been hootin and a'hollerin about his little product. Portable Monopoly's lovely little do-it-yourself backlighting solution. There are a few new goodies in their bag this month, aside from being less than a month away from shipping they also all have very very large penis. So large is their collective glandular oriface that one such as myself might even mention it in one of our updates. Maybe even now. NOW. Sorry, i feel that by simply purchasing one of these things isnt enough of a contribution to the cause le causé. Now for the new stuff:
1. The site is moving to tritonlabs.com. I guess themz people at Hasbro, for whom their game Monopoly is being affronted, are not knowing of how large their penis is not. Period. GAH! i hate is when i type out the punctuation.
2. There will be a name change. It WAS THE AFTERBURNER but they came to their senses and are now allowing you to name it FOR them. In fact you win some sort of prize for having your name chosen. Mail em here to send in your application for namage. A few of the names i sent in were "I-THINK- THE-NAME- AFTERBURNER-SHOULD- DIE-A-HORRIBLE- DEATH-SIRS". They didnt like it, "THIS-NAME- SUCKS-MUCH- MUCH-MUCH-L ESS-THAN- THE-PREVIOUS-
THAT-BEING- THEAFTERBURNER" didnt fly too well either. They sent me this reply: "HAHA! Thanks for the support <ninja> keep those names coming in!" I dont get the joke.

3. They are adding for free anti-glare sticky thingies and plastic card tool for free. Gee golly thats swell.

 

*Martiniracing's BitChar-G site got updated on the 5th without me knowing! Theres all sorts of neat teeny tiny shit to look at and wish was in possession of you. The lil subs look coo. The update inspired me to do a little updating of my own. Checkout the Bitchar-G section for some new custom pix.

 

*Anime movies are more often than not treats, sometimes tricks. The 2001 release of CowboyBebop:Knocking on Heaven's Door is without a single shred of doubt a succulent little glob of treat. I wish i could tell you how bad-ass it is without spoiling it faster than that time i left on "accident" that carton of milk in Shin's car on that hot hot day. Check it out; either HongKong-ing it via eBay, import or wait till it comes to US theaters this fall. If you decide that waiting is for the birds make sure when you buy the DVD that its formatted for both 4:3 AND 16:9 screens. The one i got off my bud for 8 dollaros is formatted for only the latter. Boo on me. Ive yet to sell my soul sos that i can buy a HD teevee. It plays as if Katt was leaning on it from one side, asleep. Something that is not to be done putting into account that he is both bulbous and off-weighted. Fat beyond even human capacities. It squishes everything inward all funny like. Not a desired effect for any Bebop enthusiast indeed. Nevertheless, i trudged on. I hooked my PS2 to its VGA adaptor and pushed and pulled my monitor's horizontal and vertical size until it was nothin but cake from then on out. Of course the output of my PS2 VGA is crap. Eh. Still enjoyed the flic. I hope you do too.

 

*Shin and i added tons of new levels for posters on the board. WEE!

Ninja

"suffer like g did?"

Soo... there ARE going to be alligators here, right...?

*Tycho posted a little press release for his new mod. Its looking really really really... thoughtfull and warm. Makes me happy to be a human. </sarcasm>

 

*Every so often i find a link, lost in my bookmarks, wandering without aim waiting for my comp to crash thus ending its life in said comp. Sometimes, just sometimes, this link is worth a second look. This link is just one of those. IGN posted a lil tribute sega and it included one of my all time favorite spokespersons ever:
SEGATA SANSHIRO!!
read on to see his life and death. Then chant his theme song till the end of time.

 

*Seriously, Capcom, i loves ya, but you gotta draw some sort of line halting your course of mediocrity somewhere. Capcom Versus SNK 2, being the superb game of fighting it is, ACTUALLY has a prequel. Yes, the fabled Capcom vs SNK [of not the second]. Twas a good game at one time. Though riddled with weird priority problems and overweighted by its terrible ratio system, it still was the only place one could pit their Ryu [from street fighter fame] against another's Iori [from kick j0 ass and teeth in, KOF fame] or raiden against dan, if one were so inclined. And drunk. Well, now CapVSNK:Pro [the sort of CapVSNK+.5, as it were] is now coming to America for the first time. On the Sony Playstation, the worst 2d-capable system since before cavemen knew caveman-chalk. Read on to see what i mean. Then play it. Then kick yourself in the nutz (if supplied. Also try hitting one's self in thy boobies. I hear its just as bad for you ladies out there) to LESSEN the hurt. I mean just look at this screen shot here!

Ninja

"its not like you've killed someone,

its not like you've drove a hateful spear into his side"

ITS TRUE! i done seen it wit my own two eyes, Jeb!

*a lil update to the BitCharH page, a few cool designs by some folks at Martini's website. Very cool looking. Im sure to have more up soon, wrxs yay!

 

*switched the forumz to a new EZboard place done by moi. Thanks again, aleoi, for letting us use that space [#3?]. The new place is here. We will be sure to check up on the forumz with your input!

 

*Rants are FINALLY up. I stuck most of the older ones on the board. Ive got newer ones brewin so dont you worry none. Ninja will take care of you. ... ... as you can tell its about 4 in the morning and im drunk and need to lay down. Happy clicking, folks :)

Ninja

"if i wudant Jamaican...would i be wearing this hat?"

Sorry folks... I just love Joe.
He's the Dan of SNK... except he actually has moves that are effective.
Go figure.

*Ah... nostalgia... a powerful factor in the realm of gaming. People are always yearning to find that feeling they once had when they first sat down and played Pitfall. When they played their first RPG, or first fighting game... it was just the same. Now that most of us are rather imbersed in this realm... we no longer can get that feeling. Or can we? As long as we're talking about nostalgia, take a look at this feature at Gamespot. It interested me quite a bit. This brings up an argument that has been floating about the gaming world for some time now. Should old classics be remade into something more modern, or should they be left alone? Some would say that it's fun to see an old idea with new life... whether that new life be polygons, fully-rendered environments, or 750 different points of articulation. Others say that the classics should stay the way they are. They were fine when they first came out... they're fine now. Personally, I do like to see old classics born anew... as long as it's not thrown into the 3D world, just because. There better be a damn good reason for the character and the setting to be all of a sudden 'in yo' face!' Mario 64 is a good example... the developers used every teensy bit of the world to make the game seem like it had always belonged in 3D, in my opinion. What do you all think? Give me an e-mail and I'll integrate your ideas into my next post.

Shin

"I am a... BANANA!" - Banana, "Rejected"

it makes only TOO much sense!

*If there's one thing i dig, its big companies with the balls (or pocket books) big enough to make fun of themselves. Disney's Beauty and the Beast was just re-released in theaters to commemorate its 10th anniversary. What is the VERY next thing they do? They go and make fun of it by posting trailers of it being all mucked up by what appears to be called Stitch. He's a weird little bastard that looks part 4-armed ewok, part thing that goes bump in the night scary. The movie itself doesnt look all too intriguing, maybe its the fact that they poke at 3 of their own all time classics in the trailers but none of that fun is in the movie itself. It looks there is more to come, too.

 

*Say, Ninja, who DID create the characters for such games as Parappa The Rappa, and UmJammerLammy? Well Rodney Alan Greenblat, of course! Pfft, like you didnt know. Actually part of it was also Masaya Matsuura (Parrapa, UmJammer, VibRibbon, MojibRibbon) but shhhh. Check out his nutty site, its weirder than his games. Serious. His site, whimsyload.com is so chock full of his weird crap that its really easy to get lost. Oh, and its mostly in Japanese. Lets just leave it at: he's a pretty fucked up individual. Though, if it werent for him this scrumtralecent beenie would have never come into my possession. Too bad i had to goto the Metreon to get it, ecchh.

Ninja

kick punch its all in the mind

EWOK!
THE BREAKDANCING CRACK DOG!
(my bud Fuzzy Hat's pup)

*How far would i go to play a game? hell, if it were good enough id dance n3kk1d if i needed to for a free copy of preburned beta copy of MGS2 or a couple of dice. I like dice. Not really. Well, i guess people are willing to get so into their games that if something ary were to happen their will to live would crumble. Apparently, a fellow commited SUICIDE over his lost Evercrack, erm, QUEST character. When will people LEARN? Stick to the REAL crack rock and you should be fine. Remember kids, knowing is half the battle.

 

*Moving along, it seems even rich fuckers get shafted sometimes. TAKE THAT RICH PEOPLE! YOUR GETTING SHAFTED! AND YOU'RE RICH! AND SHAFTED! YAY!

 

*never a day goes by that i dont hear of ANOTHER SuperNintendo death.

 

*The saturn was one of my favorite systems. For Panzar Dragoon Saga, RadientSilvergun and Guardian Heroes alone. So i was ecstatic what Assembler put up pics of this lil guy here. Its not really new news but i thought it be coo to show people. So purdy. And bulky. Im trying to find me some Dreamcast dev unit pics, but im at a loss right now.

 

*best little game ever. Short on excitement, long on time? Try to get to the end of this lil game. Truly deserving of a cel-shaded, polygonal, multiplayer, lens flare laden sequel.

 

*wait, this "little" device makes you GameBoyAdvance LESS portable yet its REALLY expensive? This is too GOOD to be true! I gotta see this! Of all the random overpriced under-functional gadgets you can buy for your GBA THIS one takes the cake. And its a pretty big cake at that. <cough>4/1<cough>

 

*Ramdom section finally has some goodies! Not to many right now, there will be more. Oh yes. There will be more. Forums up too! Wee!!

Ninja

in sincerity the only truth and good points are there

*I just finished watching escaflowne and i got a little pissed off at the ending, though it was good overall. I was most pissed, though, at the way allen's sister and a GUY named dilandau were one and the same, but for some reason he never figured it out himself. Now i was thinking, was dilandau actually a chick, and i got confused, or is there some sort of gender changing magic that im not aware of. I mean, even nintendo (the japanese section of it, of course) tested the waters with that whole "zelda/sheik" thing, and took it over 5 years just to clarify that sheik was a girl, though im sure that it was a guy at first, they did the same thing to "her"as they did to birdo from super mario 2. Hell, the americans had such a fest over whether a pink, egg-shooting dinosaur type thing was a chick or not. Well now i say enough is enough, im sick of REAL androgenous people, so i dont need it from my entertainment, theres a lot of ways to make a person believe theyre someone else and KEEP their gender.

Rykoshet

"Does it feel stupid in here, or is it just you?"

*In all emotion driven honesty, i fucking hope this is some sort of horrible April Fools Joke. It seems that The Gaming Intelligence Agency , "theGia" to its loyal followers, has stated its ultimate demise at the end of this new month. This is how you say...ass sucking? The one LAST place that id goto to find GOOD info on GOOD games is plugging its pooper on the one day INFAMOUS for terrible jokes and people being pissed off at said jokes. Its really hard for me to think right now. Im sorry to see it leave. Im sure Penny Arcade , another GIA supporter, will have something funny and bitting to say that will turn that frown of mine to... something a little less a frown, more of a banana on its ends... anyways, wait for ol tycho to say something of long wind and cynic wording to cheer us up. Be sure to send the peeps at TheGia a shout out and tell em how much they will be missed... and if this is a joke how they had better wish they had come equipped with three nutz cause two are DEFINITELY getting kick off by me. Death by nut kickings. Wee. Anyways...

 

*So it was Easter again. Ah, Easter. Easter Easter Easter. What a holiday...

A HOLIDAY of all holidays.

Wait, what the hell is Easter about again?

Eh...

Ninja

<insert Taps here>