It’s the Halloween Havoc post-show… we apparently have a new WCW World Champion in the Giant… Jimmy Hart has turned on Hulk Hogan… Lex Luger has turned on Macho Man… Ric Flair has turned on Sting… that must have been a very exciting show, I wonder if I had seen it.
Anyway, on with Nitro.
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Yeah, so a last minute medical appointment (nothing serious – just an intravenous injection of fluid after work that lasted a couple hours) has prevented me from uploading today’s scheduled video. Good news is that it’ll be up tomorrow (maybe later than usual) and then Friday is the one people actually care about.
Long story short, the treatment that was supposed to be treating my bowels didn’t exactly get the job done, so I got an emergency infusion of stuff. For what it’s worth, I feel fine. I still have bouts of pain, but my stools have been fairly solid and trips to the john have been less frequent compared to earlier in the year. It’s just something in the internals that the medical professionals didn’t think was progressing as far as it should.
Joy.
Sorry for the morbid details, but this is serious business that is treated seriously and morbid details are what you’re getting. When I get this video crap out of the way, we’ll find some funny way of digesting this information… or you could just watch whatever AVGN thing is out right now.
He still makes those, doesn’t he?
The above is from 2019 and is the review queue that I had going on. If we were to scratch off the games we did since then, we’d have the following list:
Any potential subjects for the future? Anything there worth checking out? You tell me…
Bela Lugosi’s first official video game appearance… emphasis on the word “appearance.”
Hey, folks… we were going to do a Spooky Week of video entertainment, but sadly… health issues arose.
Good news is that I’m fine. Bad news is that this big ambitious plan to do a whole week worth of videos is out the window, which basically boils down to some of these things needing more week and I really don’t feel like rushing through what are supposed to be some pretty major videos. So we’re going to scale back things.
Those Castlevania DS videos? They’re being pushed back to December. If you’re really desperate for your Dominus fix, Uncle Johnny is there to hold you folks over until I can get these babies ready on my end. Point being that I’d rather hold this off and spend a little more time making these things look beautiful and wonderful than rush them out and have them look like shit. Especially when there’s very specific bits that I want to highlight.
However, nobody who watches this stuff cares about that. They just want the one with Chef. That hits on Halloween.
After that, it’s Atari month in November because I want to put out shit that’s nice and quick while I work on the bigger stuff for later down the road. Not quite sure what December is going to look like, but it’s also going to be a bit different.
On the bright side, Sunday Gimmick Tables will return starting next Sunday. I’ve had to shuffle some videos around because some stuff isn’t ready, but there’s enough to work with for the next few weeks, at least. I’ve been experimenting with some methods in regards to DVD rips brought up to a respectable HD level. Won’t use these for review purposes, but they might be useful for the Gimmick Tables. We’ll see how that goes.
I wish I had better news for you and I’m sorry that yet another plan is foiled by bowel pains… but I’m hoping things will be less turbulent going forward… would be nice.
Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/tron-ares-ran-off-grid-140312176.html
So in 1982, Disney put out a movie called TRON. Apparently, people liked it and it made some money, but not enough to warrant a follow-up. I only vaguely remember the movie myself – the special effects are something to admire for its day, but that’s about all it had going for it. Most of my association with TRON was through that one Deadly Discs game on Atari… and a couple others along the way.
Then in 2010 – almost THREE DECADES later – Disney puts out TRON: Legacy, a sequel to the original film that I actually liked better than the first movie. Like the first movie, people seemed to like this one and it made some money… and we even got a short-lived animated series out of it, but not enough to make a new movie out of the gate.
And so here we are again with TRON Ares; a drastic departure from what came before with Jared Leto in the lead and virtually nothing to connect to the previous films beyond a few special effects, a few familiar names, and a token Jeff Bridges cameo. Reaction to this film was a little more mixed and – say it with me – it’s not making enough money to justify an immediate follow-up any time soon.
But then again, this is the new Disney. They’ll milk properties until they’re dry and then continue to beat that dead horse even long after the rot and decay has set in. I wouldn’t be surprised if this TRON is what gets a follow-up in a year or two, but otherwise… I guess we’ll try this shit again in 2048 or something, I don’t know.
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Ataribox! Amicovision! Mini PCs! And not much else. But hey, aren’t you glad there aren’t any wrestling questions on this show? That’s worth something, no?
Atari 7800 returns with a vengeance… with the threat of more to come in November. In the meantime, enjoy this Columns-inspired game review thing as content is uploaded to prepare for next week’s festivities.
We open the show with Randy Savage struggling against some New Japan guy whose name I don’t remember before getting a comeback and hitting the elbow for the win. This is followed by a Dungeon Of Doom promo threatening the end of Hulkamania and then that’s followed by another Hulk Hogan in black promo, who continues to tease his evil side that we’d be more familiar with in later years, but that’s besides the point.
And there’s a block of ice ready to burst or something.
Eddie Guerrero and Mr. JL defeated Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit with an assist from an injured Alex Wright, who tripped up Malenko with his crutch, allowing JL to nail Malenko with the dealiest move in modern day pro wrestling: the dreaded ROLL UP FOR THE PIN. And then Brian Pillman comes out and nails Guerrero on his way to the back. A pretty solid match with four talented workers. It’s worth noting that JL is subbing for Alex Wright, who was supposed to be Guerrero’s partner, but was injured. Nothing against Wright, but we got a slightly better match out of it with the swap.
The main event of the show Sting & Lex Luger duke it out against Harlem Heat in a pretty ho-hum main event that saw Sting pin Booker after landing a flying lariat. This is followed by the Giant coming to attack the babyfaces, which prompts Hogan and Savage to chase after Giant… but then the ice break and out comes THE YET-AY… who is a tall guy in a mummy costume… thank fuck they called it THE YET-AY and not the Yeti, which is the name of the abominable snowman, not a mummy. You morons.
Anyway, the YET-AY emerges and the feed dies… and that was Nitro, everyone… the go-home show for Halloween Havoc… was the debut of the YET-AY. I sure can’t wait to watch that PPV!
Let’s get dangerous… by revisiting the days when Disney didn’t sell you total fucking garbitch.
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