A 'Lost' Game For Nintendo? Yes Please....

Check out this faux Lost game that was fashioned by Hot Meteor. I would download the shit out of this game on my Wii for 5 bucks and play it for hours. Great work. Keep these coming!

I'm Gonna Knock You Out!!!!

Check out this awesome video by Duane & Brando, which combines cool live action acting with cut scenes from the Nintendo classic Mike Tyson's Punch Out! The rap is pretty good as well, and given the fact that I downloaded Punch Out for Wii last week I thought it would be appropriate to share. Who was your favorite character to fight back in the day? Did you ever REALLY beat Mke Tyson on Nintendo? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Demonic Possesion... There's An App For That!!!

Check out this cool trailer (brought to us by Topless Robot) for the upcoming Apple Ipod/Ipad/Iphone Evil Dead game. Wow. Just wow. It has a certain Wii goofiness in its look, but the people who have created it said there will be gore... lots of gore. To quote Rob over at Topless "Thats an awfully big head to cut off with a chainsaw!". We are lookng forward to this... just another reason to buy an Ipad (as if I needed more reasons!). The game/app will be available in the Apple Itunes App Store sometime in the near future. Stay tuned for a specific release date.

I Have A New NetFlix Obsession, But This One Is Going To Take Awhile...

Everyone who knows me and has been following the blog knows that I am a huge fan of the NetFlix instant streaming feature on my Wii. Since I am a teacher and on summer vacation, I have found myself watching an inordinate amount of old television shows and movies using the service. I have long been interested in the 60's and early 70's classic soap opera/horrorfest known as Dark Shadows, but was always scared away by the sheer number of shows in the series. When I first saw the DVD's, there were 40 episodes on each one... and over 20 volumes!!! The show only aired for 5 years (form 1966-1971) but was on everyday, 5 days a week. The result is over 1,225 episodes. Talk about a job that I am undertaking... I must be f'n crazy!!!

The show always had a supernatural side to it, right from the beginning with ghosts and mythical creatures like the Phoenix playing integral parts of the story. But in episode 210, we are introduced to Barnabas Collins. Barnabas is a long lost relative of the Collins family, but he is a vampire. The character was greatly accepted and the shows popularity took off through the roof. The writers went on to throw the full gamut of horror characters into the mix. Werewolves, witches, sea monsters, time travel, zombies... you name it, Dark Shadows had it. They also used classics by H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe as inspiration for story lines. The DVD's of the show even start off at episode 210, basically ignoring the first 209 episodes and acknowledging that the show really start with the intro of Barnabas. What makes the show so appealing to me is that they were getting away with this type of content on DAYTIME TV IN THE 1960'S!!!! My girlfriends mom and my pops both told me how they used to race home from school to watch the show at 4pm everyday.

Now there is talk that Tim Burton is going to remake the classic show into a movie with Johnny Depp in the Barnabas role. They were both big fans of the show, and filming starts in a few months. So I decided to start the viewing... sheshhhhh!!!! All 20 volumes are on Netflix Instant Streaming, and I am 10 episodes into the 1,000 + episodes I am set to watch. (I started at episode 210 with Barnabas) They are roughly 20 minutes long... oh boy, this is sick. I'll keep you posted on my journey.... long live the night!!!!!!

Can Anyone Say Goldeneye, Part II... Yup, I Can!!!!

Anyone who know me, knows that I am a HUGE James Bond fan. I grew up on all the movies, and even though I think Roger Moore was the best Bond ever (Yeah, I said it), Pierce Brosnan was pretty bad ass as well. Goldeneye was his first film in the series, and the 17th movie overall. Goldeneye is also the name of James Bond creator Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica where he wrote all of his novels. So, when the video game version of the movie came out for Nintendo 64 in 1997, I copped instantly. Not only was the game play awesome, but it was the first time I had ever played a Bond game and felt like it did the character justice. But even though the levels were cool and there were characters/items from other Bond films in the game, the coolest part about it was the split screen multiplayer feature...

Even though it was not the first game to offer split screen multiplayer, nor the last since then, the functionality of this feature was flawless and lead to this mode becoming the most popular. Coupled with the Ninetendo 64's four controller setup, many people have spent many a night kicking each others asses with rocket launchers, shotguns, and PP7's (silenced, of course). God knows I spent millions of hours playing multiplayer with my college classmates. And despite the fact that some newer games might look way cooler (like Halo for instance), the game still plays well. Better then well... I know some friends who still play the game on Nintendo 64, and it plays wonderfully. Now comes news that a sequel may be in the works... what!!!!!

Rumors are flying around the 'net that Microsoft and Nintendo have finally reached some sort of agreement after years of squabbling. Microsoft bought Rare, the company that designed the game. Microsoft owns Nintendo rival X-Box, and they wanted Rare to develop a sequel for X-Box. Nintendo owned the rights to Goldeneye, and they wanted another developer to come in and design a new version for the Wii. This is why no new Goldeneye game was ever made, and tons of titles like Perfect Dark and Timesplitters jacked the tone of Goldeneye. Well, I for one hope that these two industry titans can work out their differences and get this game made... and then they could bring the original Goldeneye to the Wii Virtual Console and the X-Box Live Marketplace for download. One can certainly wish, can't he...

 

Netflix Live Streaming Finally Comes To The Wii...

I think this picture says it best... after a long wait, the Nintendo Wii has finally joined the PS3 and Xbox 360 with live streaming of movies on the gaming console. Like the PS3, a free disc from Netflix is required to watch the on demand style flicks, but the disk is free and takes 1 day to recieve. For just $8.99 per month you can enjoy thousands of movies on demand as well as 1 movie out at a time through the mail. I just signed up, and boy am I excited to start watching... go to Netflix right now and get 1 month free. The link is below. Enjoy!!!

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