From an article posted on Nintendojo.

Nintendo’s announcement of Revolution’s 20 year backward compatibility was met with extreme support from the gaming industry. Apparently, the competition is not quite as impressed. Xbox Live Arcade group manager Greg Canessa says Nintendo’s virtual console games are not going to be as fun as fans expect.

“A lot of those games are fun in your head when you think, ‘Oh, yeah when I was 12, this was really fun,’ and you have these great nostalgic reasons to play them,” says Canessa. “Then you do play them, and they’re just not very fun anymore.” He says some older games like Joust and Gauntlet (both offered on Arcade) are still fun today. He says, however, that “Nintendo games aren’t going to hold up.”

First of all, Microsoft WISHES they had the gaming history and experience that Nintendo has. This is true. Bill Gates has said that if Nintendo was for sale, he’d buy the entire company. But now we’ve got this shmuck saying that they’re really not that great. Hmm, something smells like grape to me. Big juicy sour ones.

Next, has this guy even played a Nintendo game? There’s a reason why people still talk about those games today, and it’s not just nostalgia. There were some phenomenal games on the NES, SNES, and N64. They were great back then, and they’re still great now! If they didn’t hold up, then why are the GBA and DS remakes as successful as they are? I seriously doubt that there is a single game on the X-Box that as deep and involving as, let’s say, Super Mario Bros. 3. They just don’t make ’em them like that anymore. At least, they don’t make ’em on the XBox. Perhaps I am biased because I do not own an XBox, but I don’t particularly care to own one since there are no Nintendo games for it.

Finally, since it seems that Microsoft is going to continue to pander to the drunken jock segment of the gaming market and say that these classic, revolutionary games are not that great anymore, then as far as I’m concerned they don’t deserve to play them. People like that are too full of their own crap and don’t appreciate true quality anyway.

I hope that I pissed somebody off.

Sayonara.

Everyone has been talking about Densha Otoko. I had heard the story, of course, and was interested, but never really looked into it.

Until this past week, when I watched fansubs of the J-Dorama that the story inspired.

Actually, I should clarify. I watched the entire series in 1 day. I was so captivated by what I was watching that I could not bare the thought of not watching anymore until I had seen the very end.

I had never seen a proper J-Dorama before, but I thought that this was just an amazing series.

BENOIST!!!

Sayonara.

As part of placing in the top 10 in the TFW2005 Super Deformed Transformers contest, my SD drawing of SkyByte has been incorporated into a poster with the other 9 winners. You can purchase a copy of the poster and see what it’ll look like on the first4figures website. It’s $29.99 US, which I guess is expensive for a poster, but only 500 copies are ever going to be made available. Plus, this is the first ever project that is both 100% licensed and endorsed by Hasbro and 100% created by fans. I think that’s pretty freaking cool, myself. And hey, it’s pretty much the first thing that I ever had a hand in that is going to be published so widely. I don’t get any money out of it, but that doesn’t really matter here. It’s just neat that I can say that I drew a part of something and now you can buy it. And hey, maybe when I’m all rich and famous and have risen to the heavens with my god-like superpowers, it’ll be worth something. Ha ha.

I’d say that it’d make a great gift for the holidays, but it looks like they won’t be ready to ship until January, so just buy one for yourself I guess.

Sayonara.

It is here.

I saw it. It took an entire year to see it, but I did.

Godzilla: Final Wars is out on DVD starting TODAY!

Naturally, I woke up early, rushed to the mall just after it opened, bought myself a copy, rushed back home, and watched it. These actions should not be a surprise to anyone by now.

There was a short moment there were I was thinking “OK, now what?“, because I waited so long to see this movie. It’s like accomplishing a goal and not knowing where to go from there. This feeling was fleeting, however. I know that there are several more films out there that deserve a DVD release in North America, and more being released in their native countries all the time. So come on! Which company is going to show come guts, step up to the plate, and give us Ultraman: The Next?

Until then, I think I’ll be pretty happy watching Final Wars about 200 more times.

Sayonara.

It’s hard to belive that it was 5 whole years ago when I released the article “Ninjatron: Published Poet“, exposing how the evil Poetry.com has manipulated would-be poets into parting with their money. The article was a huge hit, and even nowadays I get comments on it. People are still talking about this ridiculous article I wrote, and it’s even been used by poetry enthusiasts online as proof of Poetry.com’s deceptive ways.

I thought it’d be fun and interesting to retrospectively look back at this article, talk about it again, and maybe dust it off for those who have yet to read it.

While I will admit that the poem I wrote, “Pie is so Good“, was indeed a silly and stupid piece of nonsense, I certainly do believe in its message. From it’s first line down to the conclusion, it delivers an only slightly-skewed version of the truth. I really do like pie. And macaroni and cheese as well.

Sayonara.