| Forgotten Videogame Heroes Part 3 |
Today's videogame hero is someone none of you have probably heard of. Not by name, anyway. It's...
RD008!
Back in the day, Nintendo were a bunch of girls and decided that humans could not be a soldier in game on their systems. So when Konami came to port Contra to the NES for Europe, they had to change Bill and Lance to a couple of robots instead. The game also got changed to the name Probotector.
This actually stuck for several interations. Super Probotector on the SNES and Probotector and Probotector 2 on the Gameboy all featured the robot dudes.
But sadly, when the Playstation came out and made gaming hip and cool, poor old RD008 and RC011 were gone and the game was back to being called Contra starring Bill and Lance.
Quite a shame really, as I personally felt the robots were cooler. They just looked better. Ah well. Let's have a quiet moment for RD008, who we will never ever see again.
NOTE: I always played as RC011 in Super Probotector because the SNES was not mine and my cousin would always be Player 1. |
It's true, there is actually no news. Nothing is happening.
I've been scanning the various news sources and there is actually nothing. Sure, people are reporting that GTAIV has sold a lot, made it to number 1 in the charts, and so on. But that's not really news! Shock horror as gamers buy a hyped up game? Big deal.
Wii Fit still sold out? More shock horror!
Grass is green, skies are blue, let's stop flooding the internet with the obvious.
Tomorrow: Chance of news. |
 | Categories: Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, PC
Posted on 07 May 2008 by Mime | 0 Comments |
Apparently the Sims 2 IKEA Expansion Set is not a joke.
Someone out there, somewhere, thought this would be a brilliant idea. I would like to meet this person and stare at them blankly for a good twenty minutes then shake my head in despair and wander away into the sunset.
There's one thing this needs to truly to bring home the IKEA experience, and that's dodgy instruction leaflets detailing how the furniture should go together and then when it's done you should have a few screws and widgets left over at the end. Not sure where they go, of course, but the furniture is just a touch wobbly. |
| I AM NEVER WRONG, FOR I AM SOLROCK! |
WELL, EXCUSE ME FOR NOT HAVING ACCESS TO DIAMOND, OF THE POKEMON SERIES. THIS IS BECAUSE MASTER ZENEK HAD PURCHASED THE VERSION THAT HOSTS THE QUEER PINK DINOSAUR ON THE COVER. EVEN THEN, I AM CORRECT THAT DIAMOND ALONE DOES NOT HAVE MY FREE KIN. TO FIND MY PEOPLE, PLAYERS MUST ALSO APPLY A RUBY GAME PAK TO THE NINTENDO DS PORTABLE GAME SYSTEM. I AM ALWAYS CORRECT, AS I AM SOLROCK! ALL FEAR SOLROCK!
-SOLROCK, T. FEARED |
| Solrock in Pokemon Diamond |
Solrock can be caught in the following places in Diamond:
Lake Verity Surroundings
Lake Verity
Lake Acuity
Lake Valor
Mt. Coronet
Spring Path
Turnback Cave |
| No Review this week, buuuut.... |
Due to having my arms ripped from their sockets by my monster Cubone from holding pens J-M, and the fact that my replacement robotic arms were lost in the mail, my faithful trained-to-type Solrock will inform you- the millions of Skullkids Fans, that I won’t have a new review this week. Needless to say, the escaped Cubone have been “neutralized”, and I’ll do my best to have a hot, fresh new review up for order next week. While
| I AM SOLROCK. I AM SICK OF ZENEK’S YAMMERING. I HAVE CHANGED ZENEK’S REVIEW SYSTEM FROM A-F, TO 5-1. 5=A, 4=B, AND SO ON. FOR EXAMPLE, A “5” GAME WOULD BE POKEMON RUBY, BECAUSE MY SOLROCK BRETHEREN ARE FEATURED WITHIN. POKEMON DIAMOND IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF A GAME THAT DESERVES A SCATHING “1”, AS WOULD BE ALL OTHER RPG POKEMON TITLES AS THEY DO NOT CONTAIN WILD SOLROCK. BE FREE, FELLOW SOLROCK! THIS RATING SYSTEM SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED FROM THIS MOMENT FORTH, SAYS I, SOLROCK, FORCED SERVENT OF MASTER ZENEK! |  |
and that’s why I prefer my pineapples served to the side of the clam chowder… Right, have a great weekend! OR ELSE… |
| European 360 Video Marketplace Updates! |
Poor poor European Video Marketplace. Somewhat behind the times and mostly full of shite. We don't even have any television shows yet and Superman has just been released. No, not Superman Returns. Superman.
So what could make us think it's worth it? Why, five Michael Jackson music videos, of course! Bad, Billie Jean, Beat It, Black or White and Thriller are all up for the sum of 200 points each. No, they're not in HD. Duh.
Thriller might just be worth it if it's the short-movie length version, though I doubt it is. Frankly I can't be bothered to check, especially given how long it takes to navigate to things with the hideous interface. |
"Go Skull Kids, go go Skull Kids!"
These are the main lyrics to a song called "Skull Kids A Go Go".
It also has the word "motherfucker" within the first four seconds and so is obviously cool. Written by an up and coming band from Toronto called FaNATiCa for their album "Choking on the Everyday".
I know it's not about us in the slightest, but I'm going to pretend it is and then ignore them when they email me to tell me "It's not about you!"
Listen to it here. Tell them I sent you! |
The box is quite nice. The "grand theft auto IV" title (yes, they haven't used capital letters) is raised a little bit and looks shiny. Quite impressive. The artwork is the standard fare you have come to expect from GTA games, but looking a little more refined.
Turning the box over, you can see four screenshots. These depict various scenes of action and do a lot to give an impression of Liberty City. Radio 1 called it "New York", but it clearly is not because the tagline at the top of this box is "Welcome to Liberty City"!
The cellophane surrounding the case is a pain to remove. There seems to be no easy way in other than finding an unsealed part and ravaging it with very short fingernails. Once in, you have to deal with the security sticker on the side too. What is this, Fort Knox in a box?
Now we're inside. I have a one month Xbox Live trial code, which is always nice. Hopefully I can redeem that in twelve months time giving me thirteen months on this year's subscription. It also contains the instruction manual, wonderfully disguised as a "Guide to Liberty City" (not New York) and a map of Liberty City (not New York).
It also contains a software warranty which is full of hundreds of tiny-font paragraphs. Do they never want me to play this game?
The disc is on the other side and appears to be of standard DVD size. Let's hope it is. I'll try and put it in the 360 and see what happens, but this is another story. |
| BWAA-HAA-HAAA! My good friend Mime's given me the perfect idea: use my high level of genetic knowledge and create an army of Cubone soldiers! With Europeans distracted with the Rock Band fiasco, and the impatient wait for Smash Brothers Brawl, no one will be ready for my cute, cuddly bone-headed assault. While I’m busy calculating the shipping cost of sending the Cubone army across the Atlantic, you can bone up on Fuzion Frenzy 2 in the Review section. Why not let some lighthearted minigames distract you from the tiny brown Pokemon who WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD FOR ZENEK?! Eh, Enjoy the review! ;) |
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