Earlier this year, Capcom released a collection of their Marvel licensed arcade games. It was pretty surprising that they did this, seeing how Marvel is owned by Disney now and all. But they made it happen! I got the physical release of this recently, so I thought I’d ‘take you for a ride’ and check out all the games on this collection.
We’re rapidly running out of stock of Nerds Without Pants, so get yours now! This episode has our lovely listeners turning the tables on us and doing the game recommendations for once! Then we talk a few games, and even some comic books!
Konami recently came out with a collection of their licensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games they released back in the late 80s and early 90s, during the first round of the Turtles’ heyday. Since a lot of people grew up with and enjoyed these titles, this collection is a pretty big deal. Especially since for a long time, it would’ve been hard to get the rights to all these games again! But I guess since Nickelodeon has all the rights to TMNT stuff now, maybe that part was easier to do? Anyway, of course I got this collection so grab a slice of pizza and let’s take a look at the games on here as well as my personal history with each title.
Here’s some reviews I’ve recently posted this month at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
How primitive were graphics in video games in their early days? Some games didn't even have graphics. Instead, these games had textual descriptions of your environments and the on-screen action. You interacted with these games using a command prompt.
On this episode of the Pizza Pixel Podcast, my youngest brother Caleb and I talk about our favorite comic book characters. Should be interesting since I don’t really get into comic books much. So please excuse my lack of knowledge and feel free to correct my errors in the comments section. Click on the link below and check it out!
I’ve cooked up a smorgasbord of game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com for you all to munch on! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two! I’d appreciate it. Bon appetit!
Well good morning Pixlpeeps! It is a breezy Friday here in what is normally sunny Southern California. I should be eating a regular breakfast but yesterday while buying some groceries I saw that the local Winco carries Tim Tam’s, and I think from a random YouTube video I saw someone mention it and how great they are. It’s there, I figure what the hell, and I bought a pack. Hey Australia, it’s not that bad. Currently I have a couple on a plate and that’s what I am chewing on while typing.
There were actually quite a few movies that came out this Spring that interested me, so here’s a blog about them. I’ll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum, and I’ll try to make any spoilers I make very subtle, but just in case, I’ll put a spoiler warning here anyway.
Usually at the end of the summer, I’ll have watched enough movies to write a blog about them. And sometimes, that happens in the winter, too. This is one of those winters! So here’s a blog about the movies I’ve seen in the past couple of months. There might be some slight spoilers here and there. Nothing too significant, but you’ve been warned anyway.
Merry Christmas! It’s time to do what I do every year and have my Cary’s Pretend Christmas Present Party! Here’s how it works. In the comments section, you give me a pretend present. It can be anything you want. It’s the thought that counts, literally, and it won’t cost you a dime! And then I’ll reply with a pretend present for YOU! It’s fun when it’s fun. Also, I have MORE presents for you, too! More game reviews I’ve written recently at GamerDad.com! Just what you always wanted, right? Anyway, please read as many as you can and maybe even post a like or comment or two. I’d appreciate it!
In the second part of my look at the characters in Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, we’ll go over the fighters on the Capcom side. I’m way more into video games (obviously, since I review them) than I am comic books, so hopefully I’ll sound a bit more knowledgeable here. So let’s dive right in. Oh yeah, some slight Story Mode spoilers here and there may happen, so you’ve been warned.
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite is a fighting game featuring characters from Marvel comic and Capcom game universes. Usually when I play a fighting game that has a lot of interesting characters in it, I’ll write a blog about them, so that’s what we’re going to do here. We’ll start with the Marvel cast. Keep in mind that I’m not a big comic book fan, so most of my knowledge of Marvel characters comes from the movies, Marvel vs. Capcom games, and the LEGO games. So when I go over these characters, if you ARE a Marvel fan, please feel free to correct me on anything or provide any information or insight that you might like to share.
Recently I reviewed The Disney Afternoon Collection. It’s a compilation of Capcom’s NES titles that were based on shows on The Disney Afternoon, a block of Disney cartoons that aired back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I really loved watching The Disney Afternoon as a kid, and I also enjoyed the NES games a lot, too. In fact, many of the games on this collection are more memorable to me than titles like Mario! They could’ve called this the Cary’s Childhood Collection! So I thought I’d go into more detail and share my memories of each of the NES games on this collection, and the cartoons they’re based on.
Well, summer’s almost over, so you know what that means. It’s time for me to talk about the movies I saw this summer (and some in the spring, too), as well as movies I wanted to see but didn’t get a chance to. I’ll try to keep things spoiler-free, but there may be a few that slip out, so just be warned. So let’s do this thing!
For my minifigure picture of the day I decided to showcase the minifigures that are not Lego. Last summer while roaming around the swapmeet I started buying these figures from a vendor I like to call Fake Lego Lady. She sold tons of these figures that are modeled after the Lego Minifigure. Some are direct ripoffs of current Lego sets while others are completely new concepts like Super Mario Bros., characters form the Marvel and DC Universes not represented in the Lego line, and I think I saw figures from some computer games. I figured what the heck, there’s nothing wrong in trying to have figures not made by Lego but fit into their universe so I started buying some, and soon I had a decent size collection that I would like to share with you good people.
On the weekend I decided to download all of my electronic graphic novels/comic books to one device so that I would have easy access to them all. After a few hours of downloading HD PDFs I finally got to the B's. I have a long way to go.
For Canadians it's $41.59 but I imagine it is less in the US.
As a small fledgling in the first grade, I liked comic books superheroes, but I wasn’t nearly as familiar with them as I am now. Sure, I knew about guys like Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. But for the most part, I had only a narrow understanding of the world of comic books and the heroes within them.
Well another summer is almost over, and I watched a lot of summer movies in theaters this year. So I thought I’d write a blog with brief impressions on them! Keep in mind that there MIGHT be some slight spoilers here and there, but I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. So grab your popcorn and see what I watched this summer!
Was Bat-Mite or Bat-Dog considered Batman canon at one point since they were in the comic books according to DC's history of Batman account for the 75th anniversary of the character online? If comic books themselves can have different canons involving the same character and general universe, why not media inspired by them?
This week I'm celebrating 1988 in the arts. In retrospec, '88 was a pretty good year, but at the time I was not involved in consuming media all that much. I was at college in upstate New York kind of isolated from a lot of stuff. Plus, I was going through an anti-TV phase and steered away from any fellow students who watched their favorite shows everyday. I wanted to get away from the life I led at home: school, TV, homework, bed. Yuk! I grew to hate that routine, and I still do. But I'll try and remember the good stuff here below.
This was the November 1982 issue and the last one I have for that year. These are some of my notes and scans of things that interested me. You can read the whole issue if you want at annarchive.