I wish that Atari had bought Activision…
Sure, they probably couldn’t handle Call of Duty…
But think of all those wonderful 2600 games they could have brought back to the fold.
Pitfall, River Raid, Keystone Kapers, Enduro…
Yes, even Dragster deserves another chance to shine…
But no, let’s give it to Microsoft so that Nintendo can get back Battletoads or something.
Fuck off.
Bye.
They call it “final” but they keep making moar…
“Hulkamania is alive! Well, so is communism in China and crotch rot,
and no one’s real thrilled about them, either.”
Scott Keith, 2002
Someone had sent a question via the question box gimmick on the blog’s side bar thing about how I had felt when Hulk Hogan had won the WWF Championship in 2002.
For those who need context, WWF Wrestlemania X-8 featured the marquee match of The Rock facing off against Hollywood Hulk Hogan, where the heel Hogan was cheered by the Toronto crowd while the normally babyface Rock was booed heavily. This resulted in a resurgence of popularity that saw Hogan break away from the WWF version of the nWo (another story for another time), bring back Jimi Hendrix as an entrance theme (before it got redubbed with Real American in the replays), and go back to the ol’ red and yellow… while keeping the Hollywood Hogan five o’clock shadow. This nostalgia run, as it were, somehow resulted in a PPV main event that saw Hogan challenge for the Undisputed WWF Championship, which was being held by McSon-In-Law, who won the title at Mania from Chris Jericho in what can be generously described as an anemic main event.
The thought then occurred to me that it’s been years since I’ve seen the Backlash show in which that match took place. And while the WWE Network is kaput, the show is on Netflix… but I also have my old DVD recording of the PPV from back in the day and since I prefer Voodoo Child over Real American as a Hogan theme – hell, I’d take American Made over Real American – I went with that instead.
And yes, I will get this out of the way. Backlash 2002 is a largely terrible show because WWF in 2002 was the drizzling shits that wouldn’t get better… but at the very least, it gives me stuff to talk about. Granted, I could have watched the Backlash show that took place last weekend, but really, other than the 738,909,251,831,862,583,019th match between John Cena and Randy Orton, there was nothing on that show that made me go, “Yes, I want to watch this.” So you get this, instead.
See? We both suffer… that’s how life works around here. Anyway, moving right along…
Click here to play:
https://megamanmaker.com/?level=580158
Yes, it’s a Quickman-esque “dodge the death beams of death” inspired level. How original. It gets somewhat sketchy towards the end and there’s a couple fights to boot. If only the video output held up a little better, but it’s better than nothing (no pun intended.)
It’s been a little over a month since my recent hospitalization. If you haven’t heard, I suffered a pulmonary embolism and a relapse of Crohn’s. I won’t go into the details here; there’s a Bite Commentary that I posted last week which pretty much has that covered. I implore you to read it because it paints a clear picture in terms of health.
So I’ve reached the point to where I’m more or less back to the same state that I was before. I’m breathing a little better, I’m moving a little better, I’m back to my usual daily routine (for the most part), I’ve been continuing my meds and even got my first major treatment a week or so ago, which went by rather smoothly.
I want to say that I’m in a better place right now, but at the moment, I’m just… not quite where I need to be. Hell, I’m not even sure if I’ll ever get there… but one day at a time, I’ve been told. We’ll see…
You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to get this off the bucket list… and most of it was good ol’ fashioned procrastination. Hurray for lack of motivation!
Happy Mother’s Day, here’s some electronic tat.
Found this at a swap meet last year, did some footage for it, and left it laying to finish off a year later and hopefully no worse for wear. A long time coming? Sure. Totally worth it? Debatable. But at least it’s done and we can all move on with our lives… such as it is.
Who actually reads Screen Rant around here?
It seems like every time I look up news for a particular piece of entertainment – whether it’d be a long-running franchise whose only presence is relegated to a monthly comic book or a recently-released motion picture based on a comic book property and is also part of a long-running cinematic universe – I’d see dozens upon dozens of these headlines from Screen Rant in general and they’re usually among the most inane pieces that I’ve come across.
Sometimes it’s complaining about a sequel that never came and devoting no more than a handful of articles dedicated to this supposed missed opportunity. Other times, it’s talking about minor plot points in a film that, oh yeah, thanks for spoiling, assholes. (Not that I’d care; I’m usually looking up the synopsis on Wikipedia for these things anyway.) And on rare occasions that they’re actually dispensing some sort of actual news articles, they’re written in a way that feel more like opinion pieces than actual news articles that, you know, tell you the news.
People will now go “But Dave, you fool! You sometimes post links to news pages and then share your thoughts! What’s the difference?!”
Difference is that this is a blog where I share my thoughts on things. I’m not reporting news; I’m just regurgitating what’s there, add my thoughts, and if you want to learn more, here’s the page I got the news from. Also, I don’t get paid for this shit. The shit on that site, however, is content that people are paid to write. People earn money writing this crap. I get this is an age where anyone can get monetized if they want, but there has to be a limit in terms of the quality of the material.
Is this me being bitter?
I don’t know… I’m not sure if I’d consider what I do here worthy of commission. I just post thoughts and move on with my day. You’d figure that anyone in the so-called professional field would put more care into their work.
But no, I’m being annoyed… at these search engines who brings these inane opinion pieces up and try to pass them off as news.
That and the clickbait.
Oh, boy… the clickbait.
That shit can go fuck itself too.
This has been your Sunday Morning session of old man yelling at cloud.
A friend of mine had asked me this week if I was watching tonight’s Backlash PLE from St. Louis, which is being headlined by the 271,752,716th encounter between John Cena and Randy Orton… to which I replied “No, I dropped Netflix shortly after Wrestlemania.”
He then asked about someone called Larry Valkyrie, to which I raised an eyebrow. “Who?”
“You know. Larry Valkyrie. Bird lady with the Irish accent?”
Took me a while to figure out who he was talking about, but then I knew and I told him, “Dude. It’s not Larry Valkyrie. It’s Lyra Valkyria.”
My buddy was like, “Eh?”
“Her name is Lyra Valkyria, not Larry.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Oh… well, what about Becky Lynch? Is she back yet?”
“Oh yes, but she’s no longer Becky Lynch. Now she goes by Bucky Lynch.”
“BUCKY Lynch.”
“Oh yeah… taking this whole MAN thing to another level.”
My buddy looked at me for a moment before realizing that I was pulling his leg. We got a good laugh out of it and went on with our day.
But yes, all the best to Larry Valkyrie and Bucky Lynch on their PLE match tonight.
And also fuck Pat McAfee. Hope GUNTHER destroys his sorry ass.
Two ancient relics return to the spotlight.
dtm666 