Kahran Ramsus

True. Good Friday might impact Smackdown though.

There were two main problems with the Summerslam match. 1) Already mentioned. Ventura didn't want to raise the hand of a heel. 2) Austin had a knee injury and there were major concerns whether he could work a singles match. Austin did his job to Trip at No Mercy.

This is the one noticeable edit in the collection that I have as well.

Thank you. This is what I'm going to try. I just need some time for the Gamebit to get here. This might be the problem. What I still find really odd is that it starts working after awhile, but its a bugger to get started. It definitely isn't the disks since they all don't work, then they all start working at the same time. After that it is only when the GameCube is off for an extended period that it stops working again. I had to adjust the lazer on the PS2 before too, but it was a hell of a lot easier to get into the machine.

What is going to happen to the Survivor Series RAW vs. Smackdown match now? Because without Edge, it seems like it is going to be HBK and four scrubs against the Smackdown team. RAW had enough of a talent deficit to begin with. They probably have to find a way to insert Show & Kane in the match just to make it even plausible that the RAW side could stand a chance.

Personally, I don't think Flair should be beating HHH to begin with, especially with him expected to face Cena eventually. Your point is valid though.

Atlanta (2.5) at Miami Carolina (1.5) at Tampa Bay - Tampa isn't the same without Griese. Chicago (3.5) at New Orleans Cincinnati (3.5) at Baltimore Detroit (1.5) at Minnesota Houston at Jacksonville (13.5) - Just because I'm picking too many road teams. Oakland at Kansas City (4.5) San Diego (6.5) at N.Y. Jets Tennessee at Cleveland (2.5) N.Y. Giants (10.5) at San Francisco Seattle (4.5) at Arizona - On paper this is a walk, but Seattle just can't seem to win on the road too often. Pittsburgh (6.5) at Green Bay - Closer than 7, although Steelers likely win. Philadelphia at Washington (2.5) - Philly had enough problems with TO, now they are missing their most explosive player. Indianapolis (3.5) at New England - Don't worry Colts fans, you'll get your revenge when the Pats visit the RCA Dome in January. Pittsburgh - 24. Unfortunately Green Bay will probably only get 20 or 21. Minnesota - 6

We had fights over Koopa Troopa too. The loser would usually end up with Luigi. Sometimes Bowzer (in Match Race) or Yoshi (in Battle Mode).

Nice to see Hudson finally get some credit.

HBK & HHH probably wouldn't have to walk out, they would just get it changed, and they would be perfectly justified in doing so.

No. I'm alternating between Steelers/Ravens and Canada's Worst Drivers. That bad, eh?

So what is the replacement?

The NFC West deserves mention too. The 49ers are crap, the Cardinals are crap, the Rams aren't much better at this point and the Seahawks always find a way to screw up no matter how good they should be. Right now New York, Carolina & Atlanta look the best in the NFC. But it is really a complete crapshoot from there. I have no clue who all is going to make the playoffs in the NFC. I assume Seattle will win their division with ease (more because of the lousy division than them being great), but other than that it is wide open. In the AFC, I think most people would agree that the 6 best teams are the Colts, Steelers, Bengals, Patriots, Broncos & Chargers and aside from maybe Jacksonville or Kansas City, the rest are also-rans.

Edge. He was starting to really get over at the beginning of the year with his screwed-over gimmick, where he kept on winning but never got title shots and even was involved in a controversial finish where he seemingly won the title in the Benoit/Edge double-win triple threat. And immediately after they made him an afterthought in the Elimination Chamber, designed to put over the Evolution stuff, got stuck in a feud with Shawn Michaels where he lost the blowoff and killed his momentum, won a title shot at Money in the Bank and now looks like a coward for never using it, jobbed big time to Batista after the Gold Rush Tournament despite massive interference, and is stuck with an anchor in Lita that ruins the careers and heat of everyone she gets paired with. There was so much promise with Edge at the beginning of the year, and they pissed it all away.

I see that now. Sorry. Anyways, about that question there have been several long main events on Smackdown this year alone (Angle/JBL, Angle/Eddy, JBL/Big Show/Booker T/Angle Elimination Match, Eddy/Rey Street Fight, Benoit/Orton, Orton/Taker, etc.) Most of the time their main event is a lot better than the RAW main event, which is often an interview segment. Smackdown almost always ends with an actual match of decent length.

1) Super Mario Bros. 3 - This was THE game when I was about 9. Everyone played it to death. I can't remember another game in my years of gaming, except maybe Goldeneye, that was so popular for so long among so many people. 2) Super Mario Bros. 2 - I really liked the different style here from the other games in the series, especially how you could select four different characters to play as each with unique attributes. As such, in comparison with something like SMB1, which was obsolete when SMB3 game out, SMB2 remained interesting afterwards. On Mario All-Stars, this was the game I would usually end up playing the most. At the time it was always behind SMB3 though. 3) Super Mario World - This completes the main three and sold countless SNES's back in the day. But it wasn't as big a step up from SMB3 that it that game was to SMB1, despite the system upgrade. Most people considered SMB3 the better game at the time, let alone today. 4) Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Other than the annoying cries that occur whenever you lose Baby Mario, this game is great. Unfortunately it came out at a time where it was overshadowed by the inferior but better hyped Donkey Kong Country series. The series really needed a change like this at that point with SMB3 & SMW, as well as the Gameboy series all using the same basic gameplay. 5) Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land - The series changed into a more puzzle-based format later, but this one retains its origin in the Super Mario Land series, with different moves for Wario being the key difference. Of the portable Mario games, this is easily the best one that isn't just a port of one of the console games listed above.

That was an elimination match, like most of Smackdown's multi-man matches (at least this year) tend to be. JBL went over everyone's favourite jobber, Christian, at the end.

It is easier to cut this one as the book has a lot of subplots that could be trimmed, like the stuff with the twins and Ludo Bagman. Character development among the other contestants will probably suffer a bit, but that's about it. It is going to be a bitch to edit Order of the Phoenix into a single movie though. This was also my favourite of the books, so I'm looking forward to it. It is going to be interesting to see how certain people (ie. soccer moms) react to the ending of this one.

For IV they went too far in the other direction. Just when it starts getting good, the game is over. It goes by way too quickly. That's another problem with some recent RPGs. They aren't long enough. I expect more than 20 hours of play in an RPG. I can forgive it in Suikoden I since it was the first, but they should know better these days.

I don't necessarily think it is the cliches. Just that modern RPGs aren't nearly as good. Specifically the actual gameplay part of the game has disappeared in favour of the 20 minute cutscene. Back in the SNES and early PS1 days characters would have a couple of lines of dialogue before sending you off to the next dungeon.

Since everybody else is doing it... 1) SNES 2) Playstation 2 3) NES Those are the big three, after that things get much closer. 4) N64 5) Dreamcast 6) Playstation 7) Atari 2600 8) GameCube 9) Genesis 10) Neo-Geo

I just call them the Blue Bloods and the FBI, because they are essentially the same thing. Plus there is the jobber teams of Kendrick/London & Scotty/Funaki. Decent show, BTW. It wasn't fantastic, but I was entertained enough. It certainly sounds better than RAW, which I didn't watch so I can't say for sure.

Atlanta would have won the West.

I remember the 92 & 93 World Series like they were yesterday. The oldest WS I can remember watching is Royals/Cards. I first started getting interested in MLB during Toronto's divisional run that year.

This might be the best four game sweep ever.