Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Classic Bite Commentary #38 – July 14th, 2003

Good morning. Sorry I didn’t post last week’s Bite on schedule, but it’s up now. Unfortunately, you may not want to read it, so… Things have been pretty hectic this past week and thus all my plans were put in the back burner. Anyhoo…

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GameFAQs Review – Vs. Gradius (Arcade)

Around the late-80s during the NES craze, Nintendo decided to take some of their top titles and convert them in arcade games. You had games like Vs. Super Mario Bros, Vs. Baseball, Vs. Castlevania, and others like that. The one addition that struck me as odd was Vs. Gradius, which is the NES port of the original arcade game Gradius. Curious. Out of all the NES games they could have converted to the arcade Vs system, they had to choose a game which started out as an arcade game… and a pretty good arcade shooter. In any case, I’ll review this game for what it really is: an arcade port of an NES port of an arcade game.

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GameFAQs Review – Vs. Castlevania (Arcade)

Argh! Too hard! Great game though…

Around 1987, Nintendo created several arcade games that each featured a slightly different Nintendo game. Some of the popular games at the time received this treatment. One of them, conveniently enough, was Castlevania.

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GameFAQs Review – Vs. Super Mario Bros. (Arcade)

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this game. For those unaware, there indeed is an arcade version of the original Super Mario Bros. video game. While mainly a gimmick by Nintendo to try and sell more NES systems, the arcade version is somewhat different from its home counterpart.

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GameFAQs Review – Super Mario Bros. 2 “The Lost Levels” (Famicom Disk System)

So THIS is the Super Mario Bros. 2 game that was never brought to the states either because it was too tough or too much like SMB1, right? All I can technically say is… good move.

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Classic Bite Commentary #36 – June 30th, 2003

Good morning, kiddies. Yep, it’s a coincidence that there’s a post up today. I had a post up just 365 days ago on this very date. Amazing, isn’t? I am hoping to keep this thing on a weekly basis as opposed to every 4 days or 2 months or whenever I feel like it, because then commentaries would last longer if it featured a week-in-review as opposed to… well, Tuesday in review, which can be read anywhere else.

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PPV Predictions – WWE Bad Blood 2003

Fun Fact: This show is sometimes called WWE Bad Bl**d in regards to merchandising. The original 1997 event was called Badd Blood and also featured the first ever Hell In A Cell match between Shawn Michaels and Undertaker. So it seemed almost appropriate that this new Bad Blood PPV – the first PPV to exclusively feature RAW talent – would host a Hell In A Cell main event for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Unfortunately, the match featured Triple H defending the title against Kevin Nash… with Mick Foley as the referee for some reason. It’s been a while, folks. I don’t recall this as much as I would have liked… or as little as I would care to. For this reason more than anything, any reflective thoughts featured here will be brief.

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