Points of Interest – 5/2/07
- Some nice Mega Man 2 tunes as performed by a band whose name I can’t figure out, courtesy of Metal Shark Player.
But can they beat Haruhi’s rendition to take the title?
…either way, so long as she doesn’t get it.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd unleashes his wrath on… SEGA CD.
- “Taste the meat, AND the heat! Mwahahaha!!
A damn shame Fox didn’t make a mini-online game based on this. Can you imagine?
- Oh no! Not more Nintendo trading cards!
I still have all my originals from the NES era with the different fields scratched off. Remember those?
God, I just hope they keep these affordable.
- Game Daily with a Bruce Campbell interview.
Why?
Because who doesn’t love Bruce Campbell? He’s only a notch beneath Mr. T and Chuck Norris for geek stardom.
I need to get his book someday.
- Game|Life gives a contrary argument on the whole Sony-goat thing, basically comparing it to any other meat.
Personally, it’s not that they had a dead goat there. Fine, whatever. It was when the story seemed to report of a fresh decapitation with invites to eat from the insides. THAT was gross.
I’m sure some people still think the thing lacked class, and I can go with that. Is going to get some meat to eat after bitching about this hypocrisy? I don’t think so. I mean, just because I know HOW my parents conceived me doesn’t mean I want a close-up view of the action.
Same basic principle here. There are just some things people don’t want to see, knowledge or ignorance be damned.
- Voice acting remains one of the biggest problems in video games, and casting celebrities isn’t a surefire way to improve it.
Sure, it gives it an air of authenticity, specifically in the case of a movie/TV show tie-in, but that doesn’t make it good.
Then again, with some people, I don’t know that any voice acting to them will ever be considered “good.”
All the same, this is why I got into voice-acting to start with. Or rather, why I went to college to help with it. Just a damn shame I couldn’t really afford to pursue it. But at least if all goes to plan, you’ll be hearing my yap spout off nonsense soon enough, regardless.
- Super Mario Bros., played blind.
1337 skillz, or too much time on their hands? You be the judge.
- Now this is taking initiative in marketing.
That’s the sort of thing that’d make me look twice at the product, anyway.
- Kotaku shows off some nice Mario fan artwork, in the vein of I am 8-Bit offerings.
The fire flower one is cool, but I like the other two more. Poor Mario.
- Taking it a step further, they’ve got some rather pricey origami of Mario, Luigi, Astro Boy, and more.
- In two days, Spider-man 3 comes out.
Right now, however, 1up has a Spider-man retrospective.
Many puns abound as Jake McNeil looks at the good, the bad, and the Spidey.
Personally, though, I’ve some fond memories of Maximum Carnage, thanks to an old friend. But I really do need to get one of the more recent games…
- Still not sure whether any of this week’s Virtual Console games are worth downloading? Don’t worry, Toastyfrog is here to tell you what’s what.
I suppose by “any Mega Man game ever” not having co-op play, that he wasn’t counting the arcade titles.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”