DTM Gallery – Page 11

Ordered The Book… Got It Sooner Than Expected

Ordered a copy of this a couple days ago and came in sooner than I thought it would. Praise the glorious patrons of Amazon Prime for timely shipping times.

I’ve never had one of these things before (the publisher has made a bunch of these apparently), so I don’t know the general gist of what to expect beyond a bunch of pictures and some behind the scenes tidbits.

For those wondering, it’s got a few design sketches, some screenshots, some behind the scenes photos for the MMPR years, and lots of promotional imagery that we’ve seen plenty of times over the years. It’s not the deepest historical retrospective and it’s not quite the “tell-all” or “down and dirty” reference book that will reveal anything that hasn’t already been said before, but for a general overview on the history of the franchise and some choice design material to see how it came, it’s a cool little thing to check out that’s meaty enough to give each entry in the franchise a little bit to shine.

This is my bedtime read, by the way.

Another Non-Gordon Quotable

You know… if I had the old website from a decade ago, this would be one of my bottom banners.

But then again, I don’t know if I’d be this “original” or “fresh.”

Word To The Wise

Another food item on the list of things that make me sick, Definitely chimi-chucking-it in the bin.

More Overpriced Classic Stodge

Meanwhile… from the same store, you have these old arcade looking plug-and-play things on sale for about $25 CAD. Yep, paying 25 bucks for a shoddy plug-and-play with an NES version of Ms. Pac-Man (and not even the good one) or a version of Frogger that’s almost arcade-like.

However, that one Namco Museum one in the back… looks semi-interesting. It’s got three games. Forgot which games… but if it’s still there next time I pass by, it could be future video fodder. And I could go for some future video fodder right about now.

Overpriced Classics

So for those who can’t see the prices clearly, the two Galaga and Pac-Man mini-arcade units containing a single game each cost $39.99 CAD while the Pac-Man Pocket Player containing THREE whole games costs roughly $50.24 CAD. Plus tax.

Meanwhile, over at Walmart, you can buy one of those Pixel Player things with roughly 300 games (including some Data East classics… or at least their NES ports) for $24.99 CAD plus tax.

Mind you, I want to say this is just the pharmacy prices since their electronic goods tend to be a bit on the overpriced side… but sadly Walmart has the arcade models as well for roughly the same price.

It’d be worth it for the arcade ports… but not the subpar NES releases that are included on each.

Even the portable player is questionable, with the three games being Genesis ports of Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, and Pac-Attack.

Naturally, these would be easy avoids for any individual… and fortunately, common sense prevailed in this instance, so I saved a bunch of money.

An Unfortunate Kitchen Nightmares Caption

Sometimes, a poor choice in subtitles can ruin your day.

The auto-captioning feature in Youtube videos is astonishingly awful and sometimes results in gems like this, where Gordon Ramsay verbalizes his displeasure at his meal while the captions take those words to be… something else.

Just bad.