AndrewTS

That Zelda poster is gold. And since somebody once joked to me about the possibility of Michael Jackson as Link, it doesn't seem as awful as it should seem to me. I'd love the folks who made Lost Skeleton of Cadavra to get a decent budget and make a Destroy All Humans game, but I still get to soak in the source material very often anyway.

MK1 is competent, but I don't have a DVD of it like I do Annihilation. I'd probably get the SF Movie DVD if it had tons of special features and the movie wasn't on TV all the time.

Because red seems to be Bison's favorite color? It's such an inexplicable change. They didn't even make her alternate color in the game blue.

Changing the outfit if it is practical, like in the X-Men movies: acceptable. Virtually every single "Allied Nations" soldier being dressed in powder blue in a bright-green tropical nation-state? : even sillier. And regardless if it looked like she was Special Forces, it actually would have made much more sense with the conditions she'd be fighting in than her movie outfit. Or at least it could have been more camo-green. I don't know where to begin on Bison's short-bus Stormtrooper/Power Ranger dudes, but at least I could buy that they were armored...even if they were bright maroon/red.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/677/677770p1.html I want one. February paycheck when I've shored up a bit more cash (since student loan payback, games, and Christmas gifts are killing me now), I swear.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28338 Video-Game Characters Denounce Randomly Placed Swinging Blades August 9, 2000 | Issue 36•27 | Special Section: Gaming WASHINGTON, DC–A coalition of video-game characters representing the nation's leading systems appeared before Congress Monday to decry "the pointless, deadly presence" of spinning blades in video-game landscapes. Enlarge ImageVideo-Game Characters A concerned Mario discusses the rotating fireball chains found throughout World 1-4 of Super Mario Bros. "We are here to demand an end to the shockingly casual placement of dangerous blades in our places of work," said Tomb Raider star Lara Croft, who estimates that she has lost more than 600,000 lives to spinning, falling, swinging, and suddenly appearing blades this year alone. "This kind of thing has been going on since the days of Pitfall Harry, and it has got to stop." Croft, flanked by Metal Gear's Solid Snake, Super Mario 64's Mario, and both soldiers from Contra, called upon Congress to revise OSHA laws to extend protection to the digitally rendered. "From Pitfall to Bad Dudes Versus Dragon Ninja to Gauntlet, the deadly spinning blade has been with us so long, we no longer even question it," Croft said. "It's high time it was done away with once and for all." Exacerbating the situation, Mario said, is the seemingly arbitrary placement of the hazards. "I could see why, if you're in a factory, you might find yourself jumping around on dangerous conveyor belts moving in different directions," he said. "But why would you have conveyor belts in a castle? Or in the middle of a forest? Nintendo and these other companies are always talking about how realistic their graphics are. Well, what's so realistic about killer turtles shooting out of clouds and such?" Added Mario: "It's-a me, Mario!" In addition to the standard spinning blade, the coalition is seeking restrictions on random whirling fireball chains, falling blocks, spike-pit traps, and invisible cross-corridor laser arrays. Legislators listened attentively as the digitized characters told of their near-death encounters. "Just the other day, I was running through the British Museum's Egyptology exhibit when a bunch of six-foot steel scythes suddenly burst out of a sarcophagus," Croft said. "Fortunately, I managed to leap out of the way at the last possible second. But a situation like that could have easily turned tragic." "We're not so different from you," the blue-jacketed guy from Double Dragon said. "We just want to be left alone to do our jobs–saving princesses, finding lost treasures, destroying out-of-control nuclear-equipped robots. But it's nearly impossible to go about your daily life when you're living in constant fear of some giant, evil mushroom suddenly lunging at you from out of nowhere." "I mean, would you put up with a row of whirling knives in the cereal aisle at Safeway?" the Double Dragon guy continued. "Of course not. Why, then, should Duke Nukem have to run through a corridor of them to get the health pack he needs need to survive?" The characters said they intend to boycott their respective video games until Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and other manufacturers take "significant measures" to improve safety. "In addition to mandatory warning lights and buzzers at least eight seconds before the appearance of a blade, spike, or other health hazard, we are calling for mapping features in all 3D-rendered environments, large flashing arrows to highlight such hidden objects as health and life bonuses, and, in the case of Sonic Team games, safety guardrails on all loops." Added Sonic: "And would it kill you to compose better music? I almost didn't finish the jungle part on that last one."

Well, descendants of British whores and criminals several hundred years removed from the island, raised in a freakin' hot climate around some of Mother Nature's freakiest-looking beasts. However, their culture and dialect is vastly different. Regardless, even a stump-stupid Brit will still sound more educated to us than the smartest Australian. Although I believe literacy rates are on par or (in some areas) higher in Austrialia than the UK, and higher overall than the US. (Stupid American)Well, they had Einstein, after all. (/Stupid American)

They couldn't get one apparently to play her in the US movie, sadly. Although they also couldn't find a buff, blond, American martial artist who fit Guile, either.

I want the zombie ref. However...how is that going to work if he shot himself in the head? Won't work. Now, maybe if he shot himself in the heart, I could buy it. Didn't the Brood try to lynch some wrestlers on a few occasions?

Incestual metaphysical homosexual necrophilia. Hawt. Anyone else remember when Bossman was lynched...then came back not long after and nothing was mentioned about it?

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I never noticed it myself, and I haven't seen any pictures of it so I'm not too sure of it. I'll say. I thought that was common knowledge at this point. However, they mixed up the win quotes in the GBA Turbo Revival because of the name changes.

Not in the live action movie. There's like a one frame cameo that people believe is him in the SFII animated movie. However, he is in the Street Fighter Alpha animated movie and I believe he's in Generations too (the sequel).

Fairly certain one is in development. Trapped in development hell, believed to be quietly cancelled. Did a movie directed by a Hong Kong action director based on a Japanese video game based loosely on a classic American sci fi movie ever have a chance in hell? The Motion Picture was pretty cheesy, and somewhat of a stretch to call "good." Sulia was lame, annoying, and looked like jailbait. Some decent fight scenes, but I thought the SFII animated movie was better. The second one was kind of neat because how ballsy it was to portray Terry as little more than a total drunk. Too bad he basically wandered around and drank the entire film, hiding from Krauser. I never saw the 3rd movie.

70+ games? I'd be hard pressed to name 2. How many would be worth playing anyway?

"Some other company" did the arcade game (officially "co-developed")--that was Incredible Technologies. The home game was Capcom. Check virtually ever site that ever covers the game. Capcom is the developer for that title, and developed and published it in Japan (as "Real Battle on Film"; the US version was published by Acclaim). The home game is not the same as the arcade game. They share the sprites. That's it.

"Hey look! Polish soldiers are here too!"

Why not? Most body heat escapes through your head. She's got that covered.

Meh. I pictured that he'd have cgi ghosts that help him cheat during his matches. Or 3-4 guys who happened to love their alcohol and were each named after one: Gin Russell Vodka Sipinski Benjamin Schnapps And of course, a valet named Brandy.

Ditto. Sadly I never remember to d/l Velocity. And Firefox is awesome indeed. How was Ferguson's dancing?

It was like SSF2T...minus the turbo, and not very super, with really stiff animation, crappy voices... But it still smoked Shaq Fu and tons of other garbage games like that. Capcom attempted to turn the awful arcade game into something playable. They succeeded to a degree, but it still wasn't so hot of a game.

two main reasons come to mind for myself. 1. Plenty of us have a known history of watching crap and deriving perverse entertainment from it. See: Amazing Rando, a fellow MST3K fan. Likewise, I like my b-movies and MST3K as well. The Raw thread is rarely constructive discussion. It's mostly us ripping apart the show and how crappy it is. 2. However, there's also the lingering hope that it gets better because most of us want good wrestling and like good wrestling. Raw's live, so there's the slim hope there will be something good. Smackdown we know the gist of days ahead of time, so it's lucky to even get a thread. EDIT: and LaParkaYourCar gives a quick-and-dirty summation of point #1.

Necrophilia, rape, murder, suicide... Was there something else that Vince said they'd never do for an angle?

I'd sue Hollywood. Dozens of action movies have conditioned us to believe that jumping onto the hood of a car is perfectly safe, and if it stops, rolling along the ground will prevent any serious injuries.

Does Leo Laporte still have a show on G4 somewhere? I miss him. He was bar-none the most fun guy to watch on the channel.