Fellow Geekronicitite, Chief, has long been talking about doing a podcast. In fact that is how the idea of this site came to be. We were talking about doing a podcast and Chief was super excited about it...and we were going to do it...but never did. Hopefully some day we will. Anyway, through the magic of Facebook, I found that my second cousin and a buddy of his started their very own podcast. I wanted to use our little site that no one goes to to give them some props.
The name of their podcast is Gamephiliac and they have just recorded their first podcast.
I just read about this in the latested edition of Wired Magazine and thought that it would be nice to mention on our site...especially since it has been pretty dormant lately. I started a new day job as of recent and have just been very busy with the happy Holiday season. I was kind of hoping that someone else may have decided to post something somewhat geekalicious on our site but I am not so lucky.
With that out the way, I am a huge fan of comic books and while I don't collect them (anymore), I still very much like the whole mythos of them. And this, my friends, is a mash up of the best Superheroes and some great historic moments of the last century. I picked my favorite of the series below:
Gotta love the Dark Knight looking over a very young Fidel Castro.
I am not sure what exactly Nintendo was thinking when they made Dr. Mario. The reason I was thinking about Dr. Mario was that I was playing it the other day and sucking it up on it as usual. For some reason girls seem to be better at this game then guys...just like Tetris as well. I think it is because they have better hand eye coordination. Anyway, here is the story of Dr. Mario...
He throws pills at viruses. Match the colored pills with the colored viruses. Repeat. Don't let your girlfriend/wife beat you.
For something more enjoyable, check out "What if Dr. Mario had lyrics?" by Internet sensation, brentalfloss.
Lately, I have been consumed by a Nintendo Entertainment System game collecting fix. I have been going throw my old games and picking up some new ones by way of eBay. Dusting them off, cleaning off some grim and NOT blowing in them. Never liked to blow into the games. If I ever do, I always put a cotton filter over it...cotton filter being my t-shirt that I am wearing.
Anyway...Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos on the NES is completely ridiculous. B-Rye was over and I was hoping that he would want to play some Mega Man 2 or some TMNT 2, but no. He picked Ninja Gaiden 2 off of the shelf. I couldn't remember getting past the level where the wind changes directions on you as a kid. Anyway, he started playing it and did pretty well. Handled the controller off to me and I hit start and apparently you have continues...I think it is unlimited continues. So we just kept trading the controller off. I will admit, B-Rye did must of the grunt work. I beat one of the bosses by doing a cheap move. After a lot of close boss battles that went in our favor, we were all the way to 7-2 (7-5 is the final boss). I was ass terrible at this level. Took me a lot of tries to get the timing down right on where the enemies come from. But this was our doom. You can get all the way to the first boss on your first guy of the continue and if you die at the boss, it does not send you back to the last checkpoint (there are 2 checkpoints before the boss). It sends you back to the beginning of the entire level so that you can get violated by all the ninja psychopaths and crazed green birds all over again. Needless to say, after a couple of hours victory was not ours and we did not get to see the glorious final cut scenes. We got owned. 'nuff said.
