Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

WCW Monday Nitro (Jan. 1st, 1996) – Where The Big Boys Have A Happy New Year

Happy New Year, everyone!

Needless to say that I’ve recovered from my musings over that Bash At The Beach show that I’m suddenly in a good mood thanks to the new year… or maybe this was written ahead of time and I’m just dropping this opening bit as a clever means of transition from the morbid mood that last show left me in.

Thankfully, we’re starting the New Year with a quick recap of today’s edition of 30 Year Old WCW Monday Nitro… which we’ll get out of the way now so that the more important post of the day – the annual Winners And Losers list for 2025 – can be posted about a half hour later and get most of the attention.

In the meantime, we have WCW Nitro from the Omni in Atlanta, where Ric Flair is set to defend the WCW World title against the Orange Goblin himself, Hulk Hogan. Will this match work for the Huckster, brother? Let’s find out.

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Review #1270 – Game & Watch Collection (NDS)

Welp… we didn’t end things as intended, but on the other hand, aren’t you glad that we’re closing out 2025 on a slightly less miserable note than if we had done Ecclesia?

Anyway, here’s what a potential DS review would look like; old-school, rough looking camcorder shots with low audio quality. If you would like more of that, then I openly question your sanity… but we’ll see how it goes regardless.

Review #1269 – Where’s Waldo? (NES)

Wait just a minute, King. This isn’t Portrait Of Ruin. What the hell is this?

Well, I wish that I could say that it’s a swerve and you all fell for it, but no, technical issues prompted me to put the kibosh on the Dominus leftovers and replace them with some dirty and quick. Hence, Part 1 of this endeavor, which covers every wannabe angry reviewer’s low-hanging fruit once they saw ericmansuper’s original video from 19 years ago… I could have held this off for another year and marked as a 20th anniversary celebration, but no, VEGAS has to take a fart during the editing process. Thanks, Shanoa.

Anyway, this one’s a late night special. Another one’s coming later today.

On The Last Day Of 2025… Another Declaration Of Not Having Watched Section 31

It is the 31st of December of the year 2025 – otherwise known as New Year’s Eve – and I find myself astounded that I STILL have NOT watched the Star Trek: Section 31 streaming video motion picture film starring Academy Award Winner Michelle Yeoh.

Despite a two-month Paramount+ subscription period… I never found myself watching the film. Instead, I watched the completed run of Strange New Worlds instead… the third season that is a considerable step above the second’s swinging and shit. I haven’t gotten a disc copy for either my birthday OR as a Christmas gift. The threat of Section 31 no doubt looms in the distance, but we’re still… able to keep this thing going.

In any event, tomorrow is the Winners And Losers Of 2025 and I’ll give you a bit of a spoiler: Section 31 is the top Loser of the year… this despite the fact that I haven’t seen the bloody thing yet.

But when has that stopped me before?

Anyway, enjoy your New Year’s eve, everyone.

WCW Bash At The Beach 2000

Listen, I know I’m pinching things here by pushing both videos to a New Year’s Eve clusterfuck. And I realize that this isn’t a fair trade off… but trust me, I want these vids to actually be worthwhile. So it gets the extra time to cook. In the meantime… you get this piece of business, which surprised me more than anyone.

Right, so sometime last year, while I was doing my weekly Wednesday PPV musings, I did musings for WCW Mayhem 2000 and I had declared it the final WCW 2000 that I would ever watch. A little over a couple months later, I was kindly informed that in all the time I’ve been bitching over having to put up with every horrible WCW 2000 PPV and the utterly miserable time I’ve had watching these goddamned shows, I have never done a musings on the one show from that year that genuinely mattered in the long term of things.

At first, I dismissed the notion. Surely, that’s a mistake. Surely I must have d0ne a musings on that show and it’s possible that it never published. Sometimes, that sort of happens around here where I would have something ready to go and it wouldn’t launch on schedule… or god forbid, a post would launch before it was even ready to do so. So I did a quick check on things and sure enough… I had the one hole left in that WCW 2000 checklist.

And sure enough, it was the show.

Bash At The Beach 2000.

Cue the Cornette face because I ain’t doing a banner for this shitshow.

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The Last Minute Pushback

A bit of a pushback on the videos, as the last one is going to be a bit of a whopper… or is it a burial of sorts? So what was supposed to be today’s offering (Portrait Of Ruin) bleeds to tomorrow and that means, yes, the Order Of Ecclesia review falls on New Year’s Eve… which is appropriate because I can bury both this game and this whole, godforsaken year in one fell swoop. Not only that, but there’s also a little bonus for the few who wanted another PPV musings from me. No, it’s not a recent PPV, but it is covering something that I thought I already touched on back in the day and turns out that… yeah, we haven’t done that. Anyway, you’ll know it when you see it.

This past weekend has been busier than usual, which mean no time to properly finish these reviews, which have been – quite frankly – the most difficult pieces of work that I ever had to put together. Technical issues, creative conflicts, and erratic runtimes are the main culprits… but at the same time, it also becomes a matter of losing something in translation if something gets cut. So there’s a very good chance that one of these videos will end up being one of the longest video reviews ever produced on this channel and one has to wonder if the excess is really worth it. It’s no secret that I tend to prefer nice, brief video outings because they’re simple, straightforward, and tell you everything you need to know without spoiling everything. Sometimes, you need a little more to dive into the context of why you feel the way you do about something. As much as you strive to be as unbiased and as objective as possible, by their very nature, reviews are subjective due to each individual experience being unique… and I will tell you this much; that Ecclesia video is going to be a very unique review.

Not exactly great taste in ending the year on such a downer video – and yes, I am out and out telling you that the video is going to be as miserable an experience as the subject matter it covers was – but on the other hand, all that means is that we get to start 2026 on a good note… which means we dive into Ataribox, which might be a multi-part series.

I mention the part about being busy during the weekend and that’s partially true. Some stuff came up that required my attention, but also some health issues popped up that required my staying in bed to recover… hence the rushed nature of SGT#50, which was always intended to be that, but much more prepared. Truth be told, there’s a lot of stuff that needed to be better prepared, but once we get stuff in order around these parts, we can get 2026 off to a good start, which is the ultimate end goal right now. For what it’s worth, I’ve had some nasty bowel movements as a result of something I ate over the holidays that didn’t agree with me and usually when that happens, I end up with pains that keep me from doing anything productive for a good while. I’m doing better now, but it’s a constant reminder that I’m not out of the woods as far as this condition I’m dealing with is concerned and that I should always be vigilant in keeping up with recovery methods.

And so if this ends up being the last hopeful message of the year, then so be it. But on the other hand, let’s get all the bad news out of the way while we’re still in the old year so that we can start the next one on the right foot… or the left foot if you’re a leftie.

That’s all I’ve got.

Later.

2011 Game Reviews Being Refreshed On Youtube

So yes, there is no new video today and I did another reshuffling of the schedule today… however, it’s not all bad news, especially if you enjoy watching vintage old crappy videos from a decade or so ago.

I am pleased (or dismayed) to announce that all forty video reviews from 2011 are in the process of being given the fresh new upload treatment on YouTube and should be done by year’s end. These include everything from Empire Strikes Back on 2600 to the original Robotron 64 review to the widely viewed Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue on N64 and all the way up to Joust VGA for MS-DOS. The refreshed treatment basically means a new (numbered) title card and some minor edits, although a couple videos have seen some significant overhauls, such as the Lightspeed Rescue review, which has a new segment that was previously unseen until now.

Sadly, some videos couldn’t be salvaged much. The Donkey Kong 2600 review, for example, was the victim of a hard drive crash that resulted in the old VEGAS files being lost, so the end result is a review that looks rougher on paper. Besides that, however, everything (else) is (more or less) as you remember them.. or not… for better or worse…

The rest of the video output should continue on as scheduled and then maybe we’ll throw up a quick trailer or two down the road.