DrVenkman PhD

I haven't played a lot yet, but I enjoyed the classic bridge battle with Bowser in world 1 (that death animation seemed a bit violent for a Mario game but cool all the same).

Well we know the Funaki stretcher job really happened, so I'll go with those spoilers.

Tuesday night in Bakersfield, Calif., Funaki, competing in a Velocity match, was knocked out for nearly two minutes. SmackDown head trainer Larry Heck later determined that he suffered a Grade 2 concussion. Funaki was taken to a local medical facility for precautionary X-rays. He will have a 100 percent recovery rate. Be sure to watch Velocity this Saturday on WWE.com for more on this situation.

I did ok considering I had to set my roster up by the 14th without any clue as to what would have happened at Judgment Day or would be upcoming on Raw on the 22nd.

It was neat, he showed me the laser cutter device and I saw a sheet of templates (I don't know for sure that the triforce was on it, but I think it was - only thing I saw for certain was a mushroom). Somehow I just thought it seemed like way too nerdy a way to spend $20, even for me. It's only after the fact I realized it was just nerdy enough and would have been interesting to show my other DS owning friends.

I was told it was an offer exclusive to those buying a new DS from the Nintendo World store.

This entry exists only to say I'm back home. Attending the Colbert Report was a great experience and all around a fun trip was had. More details (and pictures!) later, maybe.

So while in NYC, I decided to buy a DS packed with Mario Kart as well as Tetris, Mario 64 DS, New Mario, and Brian Age from the Nintendo store. I guess if I gave them $20 more they would have engraved a triforce or whatever Nintendo symbol I chose on it, but I opted not to (kinda wish I did now, for uniqueness). Good times so far, and happy to know things like trauma center and Phoenix Wright, as well as other titles, are available as games that meant nothing to me until now but people seem to like. Those mystery cubes that come with minuatures were no longer being sold. I took some pictures of the museum area of the store if anyone would like me to post them tomorrow (the camera I had when I was there previously did not function properly).

I read about that sacreligious game in EGM a few months ago. I will spend the same amount of time with it that I plan on doing with the movie and book.

In March of 1998 (I believe the day before, but possibly the week before WrestleMania XIV) I had the pleasure of attending what was one of the best house shows I've ever attended, and it wasn't even put on by me beloved World Wrestling Federation. No, this show was put on by the "bad guys" - the Sega to my Nintendo, the Pepsi to my Coke - yes, this was a house show brought to you by World Championship Wrestling. Fortunatley, this was 1998. Wrestling popularity was very high and while WCW was certainly viewed as "the other guys" where I live, it was wrestling, and wrestling was hot. WCW vs. nWo: World Tour was also dominating my N64 playtime with the friends I went to the show with, so that helped make the idea of going to a WCW show seem less like a runner up prize and more like a first rate show. It also helped that we would be seeing some of our federation favourites like Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash (give me a break, I was 13 when Hall and Nash were at their WWE peak and only 16 at this show, and Hogan will alwyas be Hogan), and Bret Hart in action. Although the first event I attended was in 1991, and The Fed and WCW ran quite a bit in the Detroit market, this was only the fourth show I had been to - my first since the Federation's "In High Gear" tour in early 1995. I was a somewhat wiser fan by now, but still a mark at heart (compared to now, where I'm a wiser fan with an Observer subscription... but STILL a mark at heart). I didn't think the car ride home would have us discussing how we enjoyed a match like The Headsrinkers vs. The Blu Twins this time around. Nope, this time the post-show discssion would be about how awesome Hogan vs. Sting was! Arriving at the show, it was immediatley evident that this show would be quite different than the two previous Federation house shows I attended here (the above mentioned In High Gear and October 1994's Hart Attack Tour - neither of them a show I've done an entry about since I wanted to make my first four parts about the four different promotion's shows I've attended). Previously, myself and the family I went with were driven there by their dad because he obtained box seats from his job. At both Fed shows, attendance was low and we could easily leave our booth and head to the lower bowl. Not this show - it was almost sold out. We were stuck watching from the high (but very luxurious) box seats at the top of the arena. There was another family in the box with us who followed WCW much closer than I did, but that's all I really remember about them, other than they wanted Booker T to beat Chris Jericho while I did not. To start the night, we were informed of some card changes - Bret Hart vs. Kevin Nash and Ric Flair vs. Scott Hall were off. Instead, we were given Bret Hart vs. Curt Hennig and Ric Flair vs. Scott Norton. I approved of these changes. I don't remember the card exactly, and unfortunatley I have not found a place that has a listing of it (oh how I wish at times a WCW site as comprehensive as Cawthon's WWF/E site existed). I do know that the first two matches were Psicosis vs. La Parka, and it was good. Much different than any match I had seen from the Fed live at that point in time. This was followed by a Chris Jericho vs. Booker T where both men cut promos before the match, and naturally Jericho's was awesome... I think. I don't remember, but it must have been. There were some stinkers in there, like a Goldberg match that wasn't any good but people were so into Goldberg that it seemed people were just happy to see him beat someone, and a Brian Adams vs. British Bulldog match. There was a hardcore tag match which I believe was DDP/Benoit vs Kidman/Raven, and we all enjoyed that. DDP got on the house mic after the match to declare that Raven was a fag, which seemed odd. Hart/Hennig was pretty good (but probably not early 90s Fed levels of good) and Norton/Flair was good if only because we got to see Flair win (I assume he would have lost to Hall). The main event was a steel cage match between Hollywood Hogan and WCW Champion Sting. It was fought under those bizarre Hulk Hogan WCW Cage rules where they brawl outside the cage on the floor. I remember this match being good, but that may have been me being a mark for the star power / being there live. The finish was also very cool - Sting had Hogan set for the Scopion Death Drop, but The Disciple came into the cage and went for his version of the Stunner. Sting turned the Stunner lock up into a Death Drop, and I THINK he did a double drop on both men. If not, he at least did the nifty Stunner counter. Either way, Hogan laid down clean and was pinned. Hogan and Brutus the Disciple Beefcake sold the Death Drop by laying around forever while some fans tried to get garbage over the cage and into the ring - I think Hogan got nailed by a cup of Coke. An amazing atmosphere compared to the previous Fed shows I attended to, some great matches, fun promos, and star power that most people don't eqaute with a WCW house show equalled a great time. Speaking of having a great time, I'm gone until a week from Tuesday to do some gambling and hanging out out of town for the week surrounding my birthday (May 21st!). I look forward to getting into The Colbert Report and having an overal great trip. It's too bad ROH wasn't running a NYC show on this trip, but I can't luck out every visit. Until then, thanks for reading.

The bottom line is it seems like they are punishing him for having the audacity to be a sympathetic enough character to be given a world title victory at WrestleMania (though many fans became sick of the act by Mania). But this comes from a company that determined the best way to capitalize on Matt Hardy's immense popularity in the fall of 2005 was to do nothing with him, then punish him for not wanting Undertaker to derail his momentum for no reason. I'm generally not a fan of the WCW/WWE comparisons people enjoy making, but I do think Meltzer's "dangerously high buyrate" quote about Hart vs. Flair from Souled Out 98 is appropriate these days (though in a slightly different context, as this has nothing to do with PPV buys but fan reactions and/or TV ratings).

Eh, wasn't really being serious... back when EB was (they possibly still are like this, but have not been in my experience) obsessed with asking every person - customer or browser - to trade in their old games and/or buy used games instead of new and save, save, save, one clerk told me I could even give them Atari 2600 games (but for very low store credit - about 5 cents). He may have been joking.

I'm going to just assume the MikeSC thing is an inside joke from 2005 when everyone assumed you were he, but if not, well, everyone has an opinion on who is good and who is not I suppose. The important thing is a person who has a blog that people like to read and comment on didn't include me as bottom 10 poster. That's the kind of adequacity that one should make goals out of in life.

But will they still take 2600 games for 5 cents?

I strongly suggest not getting into an argument you won't win. She's not the Queen of the Iron first for nothing.

This was either ghostwritten by someone who did not read up on the continuity of the subject matter, or I missed character development somewhere. Either way, colour me confused.

I wasn't complaining, I was saying I thought it was funny. The way Kirby looks around, I thought it was an intended joke. I watched the SSBB trailer yesterday with people at work on a computer that had no sound - watching it today and hearing the MGS "game over" at the end with Snake makes even better.

An enjoyable read with many excellent points. With Rey, I had no problems with the idea of him as a transitional champion from Mania to Judgment Day, but that was on the assumption that they booked him well leading up to it. It sounds like JBL has one more opponent for Rey next week, and who knows if Rey will win or lose. The only logic I see in this is that, much like when Jericho was losing every match before Vengeance, Rey goes over on PPV. I know that was not the plan, but I seriously don't get what the point of having him lose every week before losing the title would be. Hell, even with the Angle match, he said the next week he was about to tap out before Henry ran in.

Various trailers and footage (most from IGN) I just searched for on Youtube: Very short Pilotwings trailer Wii Game Trailer Compilation Halo 3 MGS 4 Tekken 6 (Mario and the Colossus?) Love the Mario Galaxy video. I also like how in the Smash Brothers intro, Mario and Link morph from their previous models into TP/SMG models, Pikachu seems to have a slight difference, and Kirby... seems to look exaclty the same.

(paraphrased) "I don't believe you... please continue." "We're giving money to charity that was gambled... why don't we just do drugs or prostitute ourselves for charity too?" Great stuff all around, though I was a bit confused when I started my tape after work last night and was seemingly way too far into Earl's plot to have just missed a minute, but I guess NBC had a gimmick of 40 minutes shows last night.

Yes. Growing up, my two biggest interests were video games and wrestling, and I was supporting Nintendo and The Fed while Genesis was like WCW - nothing wrong with it, and I'll play it, but it's not what I'll support the most. Fast forward and I now live in a world where WWE owns the WCW video library and you can play Genesis games on a Nintendo console, and people keep waiting for Sonic to appear in a Smash Brother game.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/nintendos-e3-booth-tour/ Included in that are some (mock-up) virtual console photos - including Genesis games.

You know who needs to be a hidden character in a game series that is all about having people from different game worlds interact with each other? Captain N.

Well, they have announced singing people for ECW and the ECW vs WWE special on USA on WWE.com already. However, for a show like AM Raw, I see no reason for WWE.com to do a story about it getting a TV 14 rating for "Edgier content" when it's just a recap show unless something more important is happening.