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Fungi and Fun Gals
I’m back on a Mario kick this week. Wait, does Mario kick? I know he punches in Super Mario 64. Oh, wait, he kicks Koopa shells. First, I wanted to look at another Mario mini-movie, Mario to Yoshi no Daibouken … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Gender, Humor, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Video Games | Tagged anime, bart simpson, birdo, bowsette, captain toad, captain toad treasure tracker, dinosaur land, dinosaurs, forest of illusion, fungus federation, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, koichi hayashida, koopalings, lemmy koopa, luigi mario, mama luigi, mario and yoshi's adventure land, mario mario, mario party: the top 100, mario to yoshi no daibouken land, mushroom retainers, mushroom world, new super mario bros. u, oogtar, paper mario: the origami king, paper mario: the thousand-year door, peachette, princess peach toadstool, samus aran, shigeru miyamoto, super crown, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario strikers, super mario world, the great mission to rescue princess peach, toad, toadette, toads, toadsworth, trees, yoshi |
Guests from Another Game
You might well know by now about my mixed feelings on crossovers, how I love the idea but think they bring their own headaches, particularly when it comes to continuity. What’s kind of strange is that crossovers in the Mario franchise … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Crossing, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Toys, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged basketball, behemoth, bomberman, cactuars, captain olimar, crossovers, culex, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, fortune street, fox mccloud, golbez, inklings, king bowser koopa, link, malboros, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mario and sonic at the olympic games, mario hoops 3-on-3, mario kart, mario kart 8, mario kart arcade gp, mario kart tour, mario sports mix, mobile golf, moogles, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, namco, nes open tournament golf, nintendo, ochus, otyughs, pac-man, punch-out, samus aran, slimes, splatoon, super mario bros. 3, super mario rpg, super smash bros., wario, wario blast featuring bomberman, warp zones |
Magnoflex, Monster Masters, and Metroids
Just a few book and comic reviews this time, all stuff related to Oz or video games. Helda the Witch of Oz, by James Fuller – This is a series of five books, each one with a different color in … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Dragon Quest, Humor, Magic, Metroid, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games | Tagged bini aru, dai no daibouken, deadtree, dino, dragon quest ii, dragon quest monsters, emblem of roto, erdrick, helda the blue witch of oz, helda the green witch of oz, helda the purple witch from oz, helda the red witch of oz, helda the witch of oz, helda the yellow witch of oz, james fuller, kandar, kraid, loran, mari yoshimura #2, marumo, mine yoshizaki, monster masters, nome king, pazuzu, peter pan, ridley, robbin' hood, samus aran, scalawagons, secret of evolution, tamkichi sakura, terry, the shape of happiness, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz |
Conquer Yourself
My wife has been playing Kid Icarus: Uprising, and there’s a character in it called Dark Pit. A little bit of research reveals that there’s also a Dark Samus and a Dark Link, or rather several Dark Links and Shadow … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Comics, Focus on the Foes, Greek Mythology, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged akira himekawa, biolizard, black doom, bowser koopa jr., calatia, clones, coming home, dark link, dark meta knight, dark mirror, dark pit, dark samus, dimension mirror, doppelgangers, dr. eggman, dr. gerald robotnik, dr. ivo robotnik, four swords adventures, ganon, in search of the king, kid icarus of myths and monsters, kid icarus uprising, king charles, king dedede, kirby and the amazing mirror, kirby triple deluxe, link, luigi mario, manga, maria robotnik, mario mario, metroid prime, mirror of truth, mirror world, mother brain, nintendo, nintendo comics system, ocarina of time, palutena, pandora, phaaze, phazon, pit, pittoo, pop star, princess lana, project shadow, putt, samus aran, shadow dedede, shadow kirby, shadow link, shadow mario, shadow the hedgehog, simon belmont, space pirates, spirit tracks, super mario sunshine, the adventure of link, the legend of zelda four swords, triforce, vaati, valiant comics, videoland, waluigi, wario |
Dig Dug Divorce
You know about Dig Dug, right? If not, I wrote a bit of an overview on it before. It has creative gameplay, featuring a hero who digs tunnels and inflates enemies with an air pump. While the hero was simply … Continue reading →
Posted in Families, Gender, Metroid, Pac-Man, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged ataru hori, baraduke, capcom, cranky kong, dig dug, dig dug digging strike, dig dug ii, masuyo tobi, mr. driller, mr. driller g, namco, paccets, samus aran, super smash bros., susumu hori, taiyo tobi, taizo hori |
How About Those Metroids?
This page at the Metroid Database features scans of many different Metroid-related comics, including English translations of some manga that never received official release outside Japan. The 2002 Metroid Manga tells the story of how Ridley killed Samus Aran‘s parents, … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Comics, Metroid, Television, Video Games | Tagged adam malkovich, bounty hunters, chozo, galactic federation, metroid database, metroid ex, metroid fusion, metroid manga, metroid: other m, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, ridley, samus and joey, samus aran, super metroid, x, zebes |
Sprite Size Matters
It can be difficult to determine the real-life sizes of video game characters, or cartoon characters for that matter, especially when there aren’t very many points of comparison. Sprite size isn’t even always that useful, especially in earlier games. The … Continue reading →
Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chrono Trigger, Comics, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Mario, Metroid, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged captain lou albano, captain olimar, captain snes, doki doki panic, donkey kong, final fantasy iv, ganondorf, gorillas, king bowser koopa, king dedede, king kong, lara croft, link, luigi, mario kart, nintendo adventure books, ocarina of time, palom, penguins, pikmin, pit, porom, princess daisy, princess nadia of guardia, princess peach toadstool, rosa joanna farrell, Rosalina, samus aran, shigeru miyamoto, super mario bros. 2, super smash bros., the adventure of link, the legend of zelda, the wind waker, toad, wario |
Final Fakery
The TV Tropes page on Urban Legends of Zelda (good name, by the way) had a link to this post from the alt.games.final-fantasy newsgroup, which brought back some memories. I read that group pretty regularly back when I started college, … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Crossing, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Mario, Metroid, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged 7th saga, aerith gainsborough, alt.games.final-fantasy, bahamut, battletoads, dragon queen, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy dissidia, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy tactics, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy X, general leo christophe, kain highwind, king bowser koopa, lavos, lufenia, lunarians, lutz, neko, noah, psaro, ricard highwind, ridley, rumors, samus aran, schala, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, tom nook, torneko taloon, tortimer, tv tropes, wart, zemus, zenith dragon, zenus |
Won’t You Come Home, Justin Bailey?
Back in the days when memory cards for video game systems had yet to be invented and battery backup was still new, some games used passwords that would start you where you last left off. Mind you, calling them passWORDS … Continue reading →
There’s a Name for My Pain, and It’s Mother Brain
It’s interesting that there are a few different video games with Mother Brains. The original and most famous, and likely the inspiration for the others, appears in Metroid as the final boss. She’s basically a biomechanical supercomputer created by the … Continue reading →
Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Chrono Trigger, Metroid, Phantasy Star, Television, Video Games | Tagged andy richter, artificial intelligence, chozo, lavos, levi stubbs, metroid: other m, motavia, mother brain, robots, samus aran, super metroid |