Points of Interest – 10/18/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- iF Magazine has posted the second part of their interview with Mark Ryan, voice of Bumblebee from TransFormers: The Movie.
- Curious just what online content the Circuit City version of the movie’s DVD contains? Then look no further.
Assorted Mushrooms
- On IGN today, producer Seth Green and his band of merry misfit writers talk about making one of my favorite shows, Robot Chicken.
Video Power
- Just when you thought it was safe to go outside without your Power Suit… then you find out that Metroids are real! Well, sort of.
- Press The Buttons looks back at Yoshi’s Story, a game that was absurd for $60 in 1998, but is enjoyable enough for a mere $10.
- Timed to go with yesterday’s announcement of Street Fighter IV: A New Beginning, GameSpite takes a look back Street Fighter III: Third Strike, an excellent game that still seemed to come a little too late to really capitalize on the glory created by its predecessor.
- Metroid Prime 3 commercial, in French.
I wonder if any hilarious conversations occur there involving Nintendo’s new system and simple “yes” or “no” questions.
- To continue GameSpot’s week of Bionic Commando, they’ve added a video look back at the original title to bear the name.
- A new “viral vid” at Game Daily has Mario being interviewed about his team going to the Olympics.
But what’s with that other guy trying to squish his head?
- Now here’s a good point about video game websites (that is, from the companies to promote a new title): most of them are pretty bad.
Japan seems to have the right idea, though. And of course, Smash Bros. DOJO!! has it perfected.
- What’s cool: Urban Nintendo clothing.
What’s cooler: URBAN CHAMPION urban Nintendo clothing!
What’s not so cool: Where’s my damn Balloon Fight?
What sucks: Produced in limited quantities, apparently.
- I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, because I cannot emphasize it enough: it would totally make my day to receive a cake like this on my birthday.
Seriously, I’d have to break out the camera for that. Presents are great and all, but this…
And what’s cool here is that there are some details as to how they did it!
- This is kind of funny, in a way: Master Chief sucks at Halo 3, apparently the third of a series.
- Yet another cool jack-o-lantern, this time in the image of one of the most recent games, Halo 3.
…versus one in the image of one of the oldest, Space Invaders.
And to round things out, here’s a Boo pumpkin from somewhere around the middle.
- The Final Fantasy VII “Potion” drink? Absolutely horrible. Or so I hear, damn if I’m spending that money when a reputation like this drink has precedes it.
But the commercial? Not so bad.
But I’m still not buying.
- And to wrap things up, Jeremy Parish gives a lengthy but enjoyable blog entry about his Super Mario Sunshine impressions (“mind blowing” and comparisons to Super Mario Bros. 3 among them) and Metal Gear Solid 4.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”