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Minimate Costumes
I was poking around the net looking for costume ideas when i was all like "hey, what if I went as a Minimate!" so I Googled it and came across this. I don't know what con this came from or who the designer of the outfits is but dude, that is awesome! Kudos to like the millionth power. I can't give enough props.
Wonder what they are made out of? Must be cardboard. The paint jobs are rad. Loki's horns are great.
I am jealous that I don't knowthe person that made these so that I could get the chance to dress up as a Minimate. It's not like that is like something that hardly ever happens. I can't even remember the last time someone asked me to dress up like one.
Better Pic Of The Light Cycle
Here is a somewhat better pic of the Light Cycle I got yesterday. I'm pretty jazzed. I wanted one of these soooo bad when I was a kid. I thought I could mix it in with my Star Wars dudes and it'd be so rad.
The back tire is rubber and heavy. That's neat and it makes it roll a ton better then having two plastic wheels would. I have three of the Tron figures. Tron, the red guard guy and Flynn. I think that I am going to put Flynn up in the cycle for uhm, display purposes.
To The Edge Of Panic
I call him Norm Ya know/ He can cut a record from side to side
Some Stuff I Got Up On Yesterday
This past Sunday me and the wife hit up the small flea market at the Vet's building. It was ok. Maybe 40 or so tables. We bumped into our friend Ezra and managed to get rid of this baby carriage he's been storing in our garage since like Neveruary (that's a month that happens every once in awhile. We haven't had one in years though).
Most of the stuff wasn't that great but there was one table toward the end that I really came up on. The vendor was kind of a funky-hippy type lady with pigtails who seemed really anxious. Anxious to dump her stuff at really low prices. I got all of that stuff up there for 4 dollars and the Joker figure accounted for 3 of them.
That's an original Tron Light Speeder. I've wanted one of them FOREVER! I also got two Mcdonald Land pull back cars, a Duke's Of Hazard wind up police cruiser, Two Gi Joes, Crystal Ball and Mutt. A Donkey Kong Junior Game and Watch handheld that Zelly told me is going for like 40 clams on Ebay, A Battletech Toad armored suit and a Mega Man fig that I gave to her.
It was a pretty good day and it goes to show you is that all it takes is one decent table to turn your whole day around...
Yippy-Ki-Yay John Cena
Ya, that's WWE Chiz-amp John Cena on a horse dressed up like a cowboy. I guess it's for his new flick which I can't remember what it's called or be bothered to look up. It'd be so easy though but I don't want to do it. It would actually be easier then actually typing this.. Oh, I found out by mistake. I looked down and saw the name of the jpeg. It's The Reunion. I guess. I don't know, I'm being prejudiced. Maybe it's good. Maybe it's hella good. Who knows? I don't think it is though.
I wonder if it took him awhile to learn how to ride or if they were like "we don't have time for this crap. Just get him a slow ass horse"? Do you think that he feels weird being in a duster? Prolly.
Minimates Wave 43
I love that SHIELD agent and the J Jonah Jamison is straight awesome but seriously who in the heck needs another Spiderman of any sort? Daredevil too. I must have half a zillion of both lying around The ISR Situation Room.
Ok, let's take a look at what we have, from left to right. The Foolkiller, Spiderman, J Jonah Jamison, A SHIELD Trooper, Jean Dewolff, Aunt May (actually pretty cool) and Daredevil. I suppose that they actually aren't that bad really. Foolkiller looks neat and like I said in the line above this one, Aunt May is pretty cool.
These guys are supposed to represent the Death Of Jean Dewolff Storyline which I am totally unfamiliar with (sorry, I've just never been a big Spidey reader. It's my fault, I know.) I included a link to Wikipedia's entry on it if you really NEED to know. I'm nice like that. Look for the mates January of 2012.
Your World Is Going To Be Broken
I don't know what this is all about but I am a huge Galactus nerd and dude, this looks awesome. I like how big he looks compared to the two people on the edge of the crater. Makes him seem like someone who could eat the planet if he wanted to.
He's big but not big enough to eat it like Pac Man does a power pellet though. It'd take him awhile to get through the whole thing. Maybe like a worm eating a pumpkin or something.
Knowing that it's going to be Fantastic Four number 600 I expect that this is like a super big event type deal where the world's destruction is threatened and that the Four somehow defeat Galactus again. He's like the Trix Rabbit in that sense. He can never earn a win. Not that I want him to or anything but it'd be nice to see him get a big bite of the Earth sometime. I'd like to see Galactus with a big old smile across his face.
Fisher Price Adventure People
As a kid I was always in to Fisher Price Adventure People. I didn't have any but when I saw them in the Sears Christmas catalog or at the store they seemed really neat. What I liked about them was that they were people who did somewhat normal things as opposed to some of the super kooked out things that where happening in Star Wars or whatever.
Fisher Price did have some kooked out space adventures don't get me wrong but they mostly focused on outdoorsy activities and real life professions. Cool professions like race car drivers and news casters but still they had things that you could maybe aspire to be.
Fisher Price produced the line from 1974 to 1985 and pooped out 35 sets. That's not too bad really. I'd have to call them a success. The sets usually included a vehicle and a couple of people but you could also buy some of the people individually carded. I don't remember seeing them that way but that doesn't mean that I didn't. I was prolly just to caught up looking at GI-Joes or DC Super Powers Figures.
The pic up there is my meager collection of Adventure People. I also have a few vehicles but they aren't in the best shape and when I went to look for them to take a picture of I found a couple of them in the bathtub. I guess my daughter still digs them and that's a testament to the durability of the line.
Atari 2600: Warlords
Years ago me and my cousin Jason refurbished an old shed type structure in my folk's backyard. It had a stone frame with a wooden roof and a few windows. The shack had been haggard and smashed up for years. We didn't really do much construction or anything not being skilled in that area. It was mostly a clean up type venture but we did patch up some of the holes in the dilapidated ceiling with corrugated plastic in hopes of keeping rain and falling leaves on the outside. It wasn't much of a building but it served it's purpose as a hideout.
The shack didn't come with any power outlets so we ran a super long extension cord from the pool house down through the ceiling so that we had the juice to set up a boombox, a couple of lights and an Atari 2600 that I picked up at the flea market.
I like Atari as much as the next guy and even I have to admit the games don't hold up well over time, with a few exceptions. One of those major exceptions is a cool ass four player game called Warlords.
The deal with Warlords is that you have a king or some other type of leader encased behind a brick half circle. In front of the half circle is your avatar. In this case a curved thing made out of squares. The point of a the game is to hit the other castle's king with a ball that bounces around the screen until you break through the wall and slay the leader. Last man left is the winner.
You can catch the ball by holding down the button on the side of the paddle and throw it at your foe or just let it bounce off of your avatar toward one of the other dude's home.
What I liked the most about Warlords is that you can play with up to four players at the same time. This was the first time that I can recall seeing this feature. It's really what makes the game fun. You get the chance to defeat your buddies and laugh at them while doing so.
So, we had the Atari set up in the shack and over time picked up a whole bunch of games and the only one that we played more than a couple of times was Warlords. It's not that it's an awesome game but the competition keeps you coming back.
I understand that Warlords started off as an arcade game but I've never had the pleasure of playing it in that format. I'd like to though. It came as a stand up cabinet as well as a cocktail table. The stand up cabinet only allowed for two players at a time but the sit down version let you and three buddies go at it simultaneously.
Warlords was created by Carla Meninsky who was one of two female designers working for Atari (the other being Carol Shaw). Meninsky also created Dodge 'Em which was a car race-maze type deal. According to an interview she gave years back when she started work on Warlords it was a 2600 game before being converted to an arcade game
Overall I'd have to say that Warlords is one of the more memorable Atari cartridges, as a matter of fact it was voted the 25th best game of all time by Game Informer Magazine in a 2001 poll. It's astounding that a 2600 game could crack that list but it was ten years ago and video games have come a really long way in that time. I wonder if Warlords would make a list like that the poll were taken today? Probably not but that doesn't make it any less fun to play.
8 Figures On A Shelf
The little yellow dude is my absolute fave action figure but I have no idea where he came from. I'd like to know but don't really want to go out and ruin the mystery. If you want to hit me up and let me know I'd read it but if you don't want to that's cool too.
Just to the right of these dudes is a bunch of Weebles that I've picked up over the years. I don't know why I didn't include them in the snapshot. Maybe next time. I really like the Lizard Woman from the Flash Gordon set. The ridge across the top of her head is super dope.
The Battlestar Galactic Ovian Alien is neat too. I found him in a dollar box at the Vet's Building 40/8 Flea Market. I got a Freddy Krueger doll that sticks to your window with a suction cup.
Atari 2600 : Combat
Combat came included with the 2600 system and that makes it one of the most ubiquitous cartridges that you run into on the secondary market. Combat is a perfect example of an early Atari 2600 game. Basically you are a square of sorts and you shoot smaller squares at other squares.
Combat was a military type game where you played against someone else to see who could shoot his opponent first. You got to blast away at your friend in a variety of different vehicles, Tanks, Biplanes or jets. I guess that's not really that much of a variety.
In the tank game you drive your little armored vehicle around the screen and try to get one over on the other tank before he gets at you. There was a variety of settings that allowed you to mix it up a bit including different screen set ups and different types of ammo.
I think that my favorite was the one where you could make the shot bounce around the screen. It was mad awesome when someone was hiding behind something like a mark and you could give them one in the rear end with a ricochet. That used to make my cousin Tommy so super pissed. That of course made me super happy.
When you got shot you didn't explode because that would be too violent (conjecture) so what happened instead was your tank spun around in circles for a second before stopping and starting the battle over again. Maybe this game is like a combat simulator-simulator. What I mean is that this isn't a real battle. It's a war game. A practice fight. So what you are doing is playing a video game of two tanks fighting a simulated battle. A simulator-simulator. I guess.
There was also an invisible mode. The deal was that every time you took a shot your tank would become momentarily visible allowing your enemy to get a bead on you. I wasn't that into being in an invisible tank. I think that I was just too young to try and land a shot on something that I couldn't see. It was tricky and in my younger days if something was too hard I'd usually just give it up. I still do that sometimes but far less then when I was ten.
There was also a mode where you got to play as a plane. That was a little more fun. My favorite of the plane games was the one where you could fly as a squad of three little planes against a much larger "bomber" that fired one really large square at a time. The flying games had some pretty cool clouds too. Two big fat ones right in the middle of the screen. I guess they were there to provide some kind of cover but it wasn't like you could put your plane in park and hide behind them for awhile and even if you could your foe would know where to look because there were only two places to hide. If you weren't in cloud one you must be in cloud two. Know what I mean?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Combat was actually the first game made for the 2600. That must be why it was so boring. It's like, no one had any idea how to make an awesome game yet. That skill wouldn't come along until much later.
For a first try though Combat wasn't too bad. I enjoyed it and still remember it today. It had a variety of modes, was for two players, let you shoot your friends, had tanks AND planes that's decent for a first ever game. Combat set Atari off on a good foot. It wasn't Mario Brothers and the NES but considering that they don't even give games away with the system all the time anymore I'm still at least fairly stoked on Combat.
The Mego Star Trek Enterprise Play Set
I picked this up at a flea market here in town. It's a good one. The local veteran's group puts them on 4 times during the summer. They attract a pretty decent level of dealer but recently a different outfit has moved in and started running every weekend and it's diluted the quality of merchandise and word it that the bigger dealers are going to stop rolling through but that's all just scuttlebutt.
I've wanted the Mego Enterprise for awhile now and was more than happy to pay what I paid for it (not that much). It included Kirk, Ohura, The Klingon, Bones, Scotty and Spock plus all their weapons. The deal also included the bridge chair and the consoles and the stools that came with them. I'm pretty stoked.
Megos are awesome. They kind of cross over into being dolls but that's ok. I'm not going to kid myself into thinking that toy collecting is a thugged out hobby so who cares if you want to call them dolls? I aint mad.
Movie Review: Real Steel
I Took my nine year old daughter and her buddy to a movie yesterday. A little robot boxing movie by the name of Real Steel. Ya, it was a little selfish of me to take them to a sci-fi future sports feature but seeing as how it opened at number one this week I think a lot of fools did the same thing or something similar.
As the majordomo of I See Robots I felt that it was probably up to me to go and see the robot boxing movie and tell everyone what it was like. It's not like it was punishment because I am a pretty big fan of fight sports and robots and if there was a robot boxing league I'd probably be one of the bigger followers. Plus I enjoy tales of future sports like Rollerball and Future Sport with Dean Caine and Wesley Snipes.
I read on Grantland.com that the flick was basically Over The Top with robot boxing instead of arm wrestling and that pretty much was what it was. Naturally Over The Top was one of my younger self's top ten joints, so going in I was a little bit stoked on the premise. Real Steel isn't a great movie but it's fun and there are a lot of cool robots and some pretty decent robo hand to hand combat to boot.
The main robot fights his way up through all kinds of weird back yard style robot leagues before getting to the bigs. I always enjoy scenes of the weird leagues that dudes have to beat on the way to the top. The scrapped out piecemeal machines he runs up against include a dude with a sledge hammer hand and a body that looks like car parts and robot with a ten gallon hat and spurs.
Oh ya, dude has his robot fight against a bull at one point and the moment where the robot's fist makes impact with the cows face is priceless. I don't know if I'd support a robot vs. Animal fight. it's inhumane. Worse than bullfighting if you think about it because in bull fighting AT LEAST the bull has a small chance to gore the matador. Robots aren't even alive. Sure they cost a grip but it's not like your ass is on the line or anything.
Kate from Lost plays the female lead. Thought that it was cool to see her. It seems like it's been awhile. I guess it has. Lost has been off the air for years. Evangeline Lilly is a decent actress and she's super pretty so you know, that's a plus.
If you think you'd like to see a robot boxing movie then this is prolly the movie for you. Serious, I think that's all I have to say. If you like robots and boxing and maybe want to take your family out to something that isn't animated and doesn't have dolphins in it than go see Real Steel or as it will always be to me, The Robot Boxing Movie.
Chael Sonnen Loser Leave Town Promo Mega-Mix
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At last nights UFC Chael Sonnen beat the crud out of a game Brian Stann but more importantly cut the best money promo in years. For reals. With a few flaps of his gums Chael earned at least a million more dollars in PPV revenue.
The question is, Would Chael actually leave the UFC if he lost? My guess is that he wouldn't. I don't know how he'd get out of the stip but he'd find a way. Maybe he could return under a mask like how Dusty Rhodes used to do back in the day.
Every now and then Dusty would lose a Loser Leaves Town match and oddly enough every time that happened a portly masked grappler named The Midnight Rider would pop up and blast Dusty's foes with bionic elbows.
Anyhow, if you click on the player button up there you can hear a little mix I put up there. I tightened up some of the dialogue and sweetened up the crowd noise a bit. It's fun, take a listen. It's only like forty five seconds long. How painful could it be?
My Most Favorite Baseball Players
I used to be into baseball a lot more then I am now. I don't know, the expansion of the leagues and inter-league play along with the steroid scandal kind of turned me off but I'm getting back into it now, a little bit. It just doesn't seem the same as when I was a kid though. It's still the same old awesome game but as closed minded as it might seem I have a hard time rooting for people who are so much younger then I am.
In the day though I was a big fan of a lot of dudes. My main allegiance was to the Detroit Tigers and my favorite type of player was the pure unadulterated slugger. The kind of fool who went down swinging or went around the bases trotting.
As a youth I had a tendency to strike out a lot, like all the time and liked to tell myself that the reason I whiffed so frequently was because I was a power hitter, even though my life time total of organized baseball homers is approximately zero. Still though I figured that someday I'd put it all together and become the Jack Clark like slugger I knew myself to be even though I was a home run hitter with doubles power, at best.
4. Pete Incaviglia. This big galoot didn't amount to much after getting called up to the majors without ever setting foot in the minor leagues. He really tore it up in college though and is still the all time D1 home run leader.. Pete led the league in strikeouts in 86 and 88. Incaviglia gets extra points for responding to an autograph response that I sent him as a kid. He might not have been a major league caliber hitter but he was a nice guy in a world filled with jerks.
3. Darrell Evans. Darrell Evans has seemingly always been old. He started playing MLB during the prohibition and carried his bat all the way to the 1989 season. (not really) Darrell hit 414 home runs over his 95 years in the league. He struck out a lot and only hit about .240. Once years ago my father took my brother and me to a baseball card show and I asked this one dealer's son if he had any Darrell Evans' rookie cards and the punk kid told me his dad wiped his ass with Darrell Evans' rookie cards. Way to make a sale junior. Hope those cardboard rectangles gave him anal fissures.
2. Cecil Fielder. Cecil hit fifty homers when that meant something. He was too fat to be on steroids. I remember that he stole a base once and that it was an awesome sight to see. Another cool thing about Cecil is that he played in the Japanese league for years before making his way back to the states. He immediately hit fifty dingers for the then hapless Detroit Tigers.
and number one....
5. Rob Deer. He's from my hometown of Santa Rosa and struck out more then 100 times every year of his life. Even after he retired. I like his gumption though. I mean dude batted.179 one year and didn't give up organized baseball out of shame. That has to count for something. I don't know what, but something.
3. Darrell Evans. Darrell Evans has seemingly always been old. He started playing MLB during the prohibition and carried his bat all the way to the 1989 season. (not really) Darrell hit 414 home runs over his 95 years in the league. He struck out a lot and only hit about .240. Once years ago my father took my brother and me to a baseball card show and I asked this one dealer's son if he had any Darrell Evans' rookie cards and the punk kid told me his dad wiped his ass with Darrell Evans' rookie cards. Way to make a sale junior. Hope those cardboard rectangles gave him anal fissures.
2. Cecil Fielder. Cecil hit fifty homers when that meant something. He was too fat to be on steroids. I remember that he stole a base once and that it was an awesome sight to see. Another cool thing about Cecil is that he played in the Japanese league for years before making his way back to the states. He immediately hit fifty dingers for the then hapless Detroit Tigers.
and number one....
1.Steve "Bye Bye" Balboni. Doesn't he look like Artie Lange in that pic? Kind of a more handsome Artie but an Artie nonetheless. Balboni was bald and fat and hit a lot of home runs. He started off with the Yanks but played 1st base behind Don Mattingly and didn't see a lot of playing time. He eventually moved to the Kansas City Royals where he had a couple of good years before getting shipped to Seattle and out of the bigs for Good. Balboni also known as "Bones" because of his love of Dr.Mcoy on Star Trek is currently coaching some sort of minor league squad. Good for him. Getting paid to be in baseball in any fashion is a good way to make a living.
Joe Rogan Argues
This is pretty long but totally worth it. I don't usually watch things that people share with me if they are longer than 10 secs or so. It's gotta get good quick or I figure it's just one of those things that YOU like, ya know?
Anyhow this jiu-jitsu dude takes it to Joe Rogan about his public weed use. It's funny because the BJJ fella is very earnest and Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan talking on about different things that the other guy doesn't get. I don't know, once I started it was like eight minutes had passed before I knew it.
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Cyberball Memories..
Cyberball was just about the only football game that I ever enjoyed. Mainly because instead of using real players your humanoids were replaced by robots. Robot football, that's a winning proposal right there. Real football but with robots. Awesome.
Cyberball was released in 1988 so that would make me fifteen when it came out. That doesn't seem right. I remember playing it when I was younger but Wikipedia says 1988 so who am I to argue?
My best Cyberball story takes place in an airport in Minnesota. The airport in question had a fairly decent sized arcade and my parent's came through with a roll of quarters knowing that for a few dollars they could get me out of their hair for hours while we waited for our plane to board.
For the record I really don't like air travel. The airport is way too judicious and airplanes themselves are too cramped, the seats are too small and people act like animals. It's like the city bus but worse because city bus trips don't usually take hours and hours...
Irregardless. The airport had an arcade and in the arcade was a Cyberball machine. I had played the game before but wasn't very good at it. I was OK but not great. Still though I really enjoyed the game. The robots appealed to me.
The deal with the game was that you played under somewhat standard football rules except instead of downs you had to cover 50 yards of the field while the football went from cool to critical. When it reached critical status it would explode if the player holding it was tackled.
One of the cooler features of Cyberball was that the game was like two cabinets connected together so that two folks could play at the same time either against each other or together as teammates. That's where my story begins.
I was at the airport arcade and I was rocking the Cyberball like never before when this kid came up and popped in a quarter, challenging me to a match! I was doing well that and was totally up for some competition. The kid was decent but I was so on the ball that day that I was trouncing him and having a great time doing so.
There is nothing better then beating someone that you don't know at something he must have been sure that he was going to beat you at. I mean, why else would he have challenged me if he didn't think that he was going to beat me down?
Me and the kid went at it feverishly we dumped quarter after quarter into the machine while I waited for the plane. We didn't talk outside of a little back and forth trash, nothing major just a little "how you like me now?" or " In yo face!" that sort of 80's trash talk stuff.
I never asked him where he was from or where he was going and he never asked me either. We were into the game. I felt like I was representing California against this upstart from who knows where? I had a vivid imagination when it came to competition. I saw every game I played against someone else to be of similar importance to the 1976 Olympic basketball finals.
A full game of Cyberball took six quarters. That was a lot at the time. That's still a lot for me to spend on an arcade game but for the sake of competition I was down to do whatever it took to win. Even spend a 1.50.
The game between me and the kid wasn't even close and I wanted to win pretty badly but as the game got close to the end my dad came barreling into the arcade because our plane was about to board. I was ahead at the time and felt that I should be declared the winner because my reason for leaving was completely out of my control.
Of course the kid didn't see it that way. He thought that since I was leaving he should be declared the winner and in my wise old years I have come to think that he was prolly right. I was tapping out. Sure I HAD to tap out but I was tapping out nonetheless. I wasn't so enlightened back in the day and argued as intelligently as I could at 15 that I was ahead at the time and since I had no choice about leaving it wasn't my fault. That's the ultimate excuse of the young. It wasn't my fault. In your own mind it absolves you of anything.
My dad was patient but the he knew that the plane wasn't. He gave me as long as he reasonably could (4 or 5 secs) before yanking me along to our terminal. Man, I can still remember that. I was so bummed. Beating a stranger at a video game is the lick and it didn't really happen to me all the time. Hardly ever really.
NYCC Zombie Minimates packaging
This is the packaging for the New York Comic-Con promo zombies. They look pretty good. The paint is solid and it's cool that they included a second head for each guy.
Really you could switch the heads around twice and come out with four different combos. I guess the doctor head with the mask would look funny on the biker chap but maybe you could pretend that he was a cautious biker dude who put a mask one when the pandemic broke out. You know, to protect himself from an air borne virus.
Goose Gossage's Mustache
Dig this pic dude. Goose Gossage has a mighty mustache. Not quite as mighty as Mary Lou Retton's feathered hair but still man, that's a HOF mustache if there was ever one.
I'm glad to see that mustache's are making, nay HAVE! made a comeback in our country. I enjoy a manly accounting of facial hair and am myself in fact working on my winter beard right about now. I have to start early. Facial hair doesn't really run in my fam.I can grow a pretty good horseshoe or evil twin but a full beard eludes my grasp. It's cool. I have other things going for me.
ISR Radio Numero Twenty Eight.. Radio Free Flamingo
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Hey kids and listeners alike. Back again. I know, it's been two weeks, well let me say this: IT IS TOTALLY WORTH IT! The wait is over and ONCE AGAIN IT'S ON! On Like Vietnam, On like Donkey-Kong, on and on and on...
This week is a special episode. We turn the mix over to resident DJ/Producer DJ Sparker Lewis who takes us back to one of his favorite episodes of his favorite show, Parker Lewis Can't Lose.. Radio Free Flamingo. That's the one where Parker and his chums discover a pirate radio station deep in the bowels of the school and decide to resurrect it for a new generation of Flamingo Listeners. Naturally Ms. Musso and her lackey Frank Lemer take umbrage at this and try and take our boys down! Hilarity ensues.
- Jimmy The Fox: Thin Lizzy
- Big John Is My Name: Rare Earth
- Take Me Away: Ween
- Cock The Hammer: Cypress Hill
- Rap Is Outta Control: EPMD
- Limelighters: Camp Lo and Aesop Rock
- Spacey: Large Professor
- All Day Sucker: Stevie Wonder
- You Are In My System: Robert Palmer
- Radioactive: Downtown Science
- Big Beat :Billy Squire
- Fix Up Look Sharp: Dizzy Rascal
- The Buzz Kill: Sage Francis
- Turn The Party Out: The Liks
- Raise It Up: Ultramagnetic
- Keep It Coming: Organized Konfusion
- Talkin’ About Bank: The Whoridas
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Gil Scot Heron
- Play Your Part: Girl Talk
- Timebomb:Beck
- Junk: Eyedea And Abilities
- Ghetto Love: Spinnerette
- I’m Not Scared: Ladytron
- Shadows Of Today; MF Doom
- El P Sings The Blues: El P
- Summer Breeze; The Isley Brothers
We will be back, I promise and that doesn't mean that ISR is going away so make sure to keep on checking in for more of that shit that you can't live without....
Atari 2600:Outlaw
I can still remember the day my Dad brought home our Atari 2600. It was awesome and totally unlike him. It wasn't like my family had tons of dough to throw around and I was only six so it couldn't have been a toy solely for my use. But I don't remember either of my folks ever playing it with me or without me so I don't think that they were gamer types.
Maybe they where though and they liked to play arcade games during the rare times they went out without me. I doubt it but there must have been some reason for them to buy an Atari. My guess is that my Uncle John prolly already had gotten one for my cousin Tom so they felt like they should buy one for me too. I don't know. That makes as much sense as anything.
Anyway, my dad brought home the Atari one day and I was totally stoked. To make the day even more awesome he also scored an additional cartridge The game? Outlaw. The old west gunfighter that predates Red Dead Red Redemption by at least 30 years. Not that the two games have much in common except for that they had cowboys in them.
Outlaw was cool though. It was basically a two player joystick game where you and another fool faced off and commenced to bust caps. It wasn't that easy though (almost, but not quite) before you could shoot up your buddy you had to shoot through an obstacle. Either a cactus, stagecoach or a big wall. It was a lot more fun then it sounds, at least for a seven year old.
I remember playing this game roughly 8 million times. Mainly because outside of Combat, which I also played 8 million times, it was the only game that I had.
I think my favorite part of Outlaw was how when you shot the other cowboy he fell to the ground square onto his Wrangler covered ass.
I always got a kick out of blasting my cousin Tom's cowboy right in the melon only to have him fall to the ground in a very comfortable looking seated position.
I think that the best thing about Outlaw besides the way the bodies hit the floor was the awesome art on on the packaging. The pictures were always so serious and adult like and totally unlike what the gameplay was actually like. I understand where they were coming from though. Who would buy a game if the picture on the box was of a couple of cowboys made out of squares shooting smaller squares at each other?
I like how this one has a Clint Eastwood like character holding two guns across his chest like the game was going to offer you a High Plains Drifter-like experience instead of the cactus shooting sim that Outlaw really was.
As I recall there was also a target practice game where a round ball bounced around the left side of the screen and you got to practice your quick draw skills by trying to hit it as many times as you could or something like that.
I am fully aware that Outlaw doesn't seem that thrilling and honestly it wasn't. But looking at the screen grabs of the game brings back memories of me laying belly down on our orange shag carpet for hours at a time shooting at that bouncing ball. At the time the thrill of being able to move something around on the TV screen was enough to keep me occupied for days at a time.
You know, maybe that's why my parents bought it. To keep me out of their hair. That's the main reason I bought the Nintendo Gamecube for my daughter and it's served it's purpose as babysitter a million times over...
Back To The Future Sticks To The Facts
I love me some BTTF. It's little details like that up there that make it such a great flick. You can tell that they tried hard to make an extra special movie. I have to give fat props to whoever made that little screen grab deal. It's really great. Kudos.
Blown To Bits
Blammie! M.Bison has one heck of a front kick. From what I hear he was the one who taught that kick to Steven Seagal who later taught it to Anderson Silva who later hit Vitor Belfort right on the chin and sent him to la-la land.
I thought about it for a second and realized that you prolly have no idea what I'm talking about.So I went out and found a gif that explains a bit...
It's a pretty good kick by any standards and what makes it all the cooler is that it was taught to him, in all seriousness by the one and only Steven Seagal. No really. Seagal was in his camp helping with the workouts and the legend even came down to ringside with Silva for the fight. I'm more of a JCVD man myself but even I have to admit that's pretty cool
Minimate Pirates Army Builder Set
That's like, A skeleton, a pirate a sailor and a zombie. Pretty cool, a little army builder set for the pirates. I don't really have to much to say about it. It's neat and I will prolly pick it up.
Really though I'd rather see a Marvel army builder set with some S.H.I.E.L.D troopers and Hydra Agents or something, maybe some members of The Hand. That'd be pretty cool but until then I guess we have to be happy with pirates.