Points of Interest – 10/23/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- The cover for the upcoming TransFormers: Spotlight: Blaster is now live and in color. Love that Steeljaw.
- So, got your hands on BotCon’s Classics Bugbite, and feel he needs another GoBot companion? Then look no further than Mirage as this tutorial turns him into the female Renegade known as Crasher!
- Speaking of customs, someone came up with a cool Masterpiece-style figure of Elita-1, Optimus Prime’s old flame.
- Ben Yee has a new review up, this time spotlighting the ’09 Concept Camaro form that Bumblebee takes on in TransFormers: The Movie.
Assorted Mushrooms
- I have never seen The Protector, but it’d have to be REALLY good to beat Kajeto “Over 9000″ Kun’s latest video.
- “Steady… steady… whoops.”
- Maybe this is what they were talking about when they wrote Highway to the Danger Zone.”
- Mm, I like bacon.
- Last week, Conan O’Brien found his show… interupted. Fire alarms wailed, ruining a spotless record of 15 years of recording without incident.
Now, Conan is on the hunt for the bastard responsible in a tale of adversity, triumph, and in the end… friendship.
It is a film for the whole family to see again and again and again, as we find the answers to… Conan’s Burning Questions.
Coming soon to a theater near you. This film has not yet been rated.
- Don’cha just love the cute things cats do?
- I do so despise pretentious troublemakers who think the rules don’t apply to them. Add that I have once worked in a supermarket, and this story warms my heart.
- So, Drew Carey has officially begun hosting The Price Is Right. How do you think he’s doing?
Me? I don’t think I’ve watched the show since I was on summer vacation in elementary school, when my mom had it on. Save for the VERY odd occassion there was nothing else on or to do.
Video Power
- The surprisingly funny Street Fighter: The Later Years has released its fifth installment, which is somehow made a little funnier by the announcement of Street Fighter IV.
- Racketboy and fastbilly1 takes a look back at one of my favorite games, Super Mario Bros. 2, by comparing the four versions: Super Mario Bros. 2 for the NES, Super Mario Bros. 2 from Super Mario All-Stars for the Super NES, Doki-Doki Panic for the Famicom, and Super Mario Advance for the Game Boy Advance.
It should be said again that Super Mario Advance is different from the previous versions, moreso than even I realized with these shots, in that many touches were added to make it feel more like a traditional Mario title, and is definitely worth the Player’s Choice price it’s available at now.
- Games Radar takes a look back a the dying days of several consoles, and what gems arose in the 11th hour as gamers moved on to greener, more textured pastures.
- Some people, you just never expect to come forward and admit they had a part in something. Like Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game, for example.
You would think that the CDi Zelda games would trump that. You’d be wrong.
- Sounds like AJ Styles is a real Nintendo fan, and of Pokemon as well. Who knew?
- Joystiq has managed to dig up eight years of video games on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, now that Comedy Central has decided to place the entire archive of shows online. Sweet deal.
- So, I didn’t get to go to E for All. And boy, don’t I feel like a sucker.
- …wow. This makes killing thugs almost too easy.
- Clearly I’ve missed something. What the hell is a Companion Cube? Is it from Portal? ‘Cause I still need to play that.
- Interviewing Igarashi must be en vogue, as Destructoid gets into the act. And it bears good news, if you dislike the anime stylings of the recent DS games.
- And to close, one of the fathers of video games, Nolan Bushnell, thinks today’s games are “unadulterated trash”. Whoopee, big surprise there.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”