TNA Against All Odds 2010

A TNA PPV Musings? From 2010, you say? The Hogan era?

Yeah, didn’t I hate that era?

Sure, because I mostly stuck with the television show… whenever I could be bothered to watch the television show, that is. And yes, the week-to-week television was largely atrocious. However, sometimes you buy one of their PPVs and you luck out on a good show… clearly back in the day, that didn’t happen. And when it comes to Against All Odds 2010 – the second PPV in the Hogan era – I’m not sure if I’d go that far, BUT this wasn’t too bad.

A large part of the show is built around a single-night eight man tournament to crown a new No. 1 contender for the World Title at the upcoming Lockdown PPV (not the next one, the next one is shit) as well as AJ Styles defending his TNA World title against Samoa Joe… with Eric Bischoff as the special referee… for some reason. Let’s see if he can call this down the middle and not suddenly complain about Dave Meltzer for half an hour like he does on his podcast… but I digress.

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THE BITE COMMENTARY #06 – 25 Years Of Classic Game Room

2024 is the year that Classic Game Room celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Well, it’s more accurate to say that twenty five years ago, Classic Game Room was born… to say that there is any celebrating of the occasion would be a bit of a fib… at least, on the part of Classic Game Room.

For what it’s worth, Mark Bussler – host and creator of CGR – is still around. He still has a CGR website that still talks about CGR and showcases CGR content. But he’s more focused on this music-making and publishing ventures, which make more money than the CGR videos do… fair enough from a business standpoint… but still sad to see in the long term.

I’ve been wanting to do a thing on CGR’s 25th anniversary… and truth be told, I had started on this a while back after having watched the CGR 20th anniversary video release that seldom few people know about because it’s a paid collection of CGR reviews – some of which may or may not have made it to the CGR Forever streams that were a thing for a while. I actually started writing this piece earlier this year, with the intent of finishing it and posting it last month. Other stuff came up and this was ultimately forgotten about, but I suddenly remembered that this was a thing and… well, I have thoughts on Classic Game Room, the journey of the show, my enjoyment of it, and well… other such things like possible futures or lack thereof.

Needless to say, I’m going to bounce around all over the place in this supposed narrative. I’m also going to be quite salty in some regards, which may result in some choice words being used that I would otherwise refrain from using. If you don’t mind any of that stuff… well, do dive in.

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WWF Survivor Series 1996

So, just for the sake of full disclosure, this is largely a repost of an old PPV musings I did on this show back in 2018 and you can read that original post here. However, in light of the recent passing of “Sycho” Sid “Vicious” “Justice” Eudy, I’d figure that it’d be appropriate to revisit that one show where the Master and Ruler of the World became WWF World Champion for the very first time… and in Madison Square Garden, no less. There are plenty of Sid moments worthy of revisiting, but let’s give this show another spotlight and perhaps some updated thoughts and annotations for good measure.

Anyway, I had originally seen this show back in 2018 due to someone bringing it up due to it being the show that featured the first PPV encounter between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret “Hitman” Hart. At that point, I don’t recall ever actually seeing the match in full unless it’s on some DVD set somewhere that I don’t recall. However, the main event also saw reigning WWF Champion Shawn Michaels defend his title against challenger Sycho Sid, who was supposed to be the heel in this match and… well… let’s dive into this mostly-2018-written post and give this another whirl.

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WCW Great American Bash 2000

Last count, I only have this one WCW show left to go from the year 2000… and well, if the banner doesn’t give clear indication as to what I think about this show, then I don’t know what to tell you.

For the record, this is not the PPV headlined by WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette – that is the Slamboree PPV from the month prior and I’ve written my thoughts on that show a long ass time ago. And for what it’s worth, I didn’t totally hate that show. I do, however, hate this show.

It says so on the banner… so it must be true.

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I Am Not Watching All In

For the three people wondering if I will be watching All In… the answer is no. Besides the fact that I’m just not feeling the build up to this point as well as not having any desire to watch a sequel show that isn’t as packed as last year’s show, I’m actually busy with some other stuff at the moment and won’t have time to give the show a proper watch.

Not sold on the replay, but I’ll tell you what… if they can somehow manage to get this man to appear on the show…

Then I will buy the replay and do the appropriate musings… hell, I’ll even buy All Out.

I think my wallet is safe in that regard. Don’t worry; we’ve got plenty of other fun stuff to do PPV Musings on next month.

As for the rest of you who don’t care for this otherwise insignificant piece of business… regular operations (such as it is) will resume in September.

Atari Launched 7800+ Console… And I’m Slightly Miffed About It

Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/08/the-atari-7800plus-resurrects-another-classic-atari-console

Yeah, so a year after Atari launched the 2600+ – a modern retro thing that lets you play most 2600 and some 7800 games – they’ve announced the Atari 7800+, which presumably does the same thing, except now it comes with a wireless gamepad and a free game – Bentley Bear’s Crystal Quest… which I’m sure was a homebrew release once upon a time, but now has the official Atari seal of approval… for whatever that’s worth.

So yeah, Atari is putting out another one of these things and I’m slightly miffed since I had bought the Atari 2600+ last year and there has been no word of firmware updates to let the thing play more than the usual stock. Hell, they already have a firmware update for the 400 Mini.

Listen, if this thing plays Xevious, I’m sold… but otherwise, no thanks. I’ll stick with the games.

WCW Spring Stampede 2000

In light of the fact that there was a Who Killed WCW documentary series – yes, another one – I figured that it would only be appropriate that I revisit that lovely period of World Championship Wrestling in the year 2000. Specifically, the first PPV of the Bischoff/Russo reboot era… which took place a week after said era began on Nitro where they stripped everyone of all the titles and divided the roster between the Millionaire Club of old guys and the New Blood group of young guys… and of course, hilarity ensues as a result.

For the sake of prosperity, I went back and re-read all my old musings on the WCW 2000 shows that took place prior to this. I then went ahead and RE-WATCHED the aforementioned shows. Hell, I even went back and sampled a few Nitros… what I witnessed was fucking horrible and I never want to watch that shit again.

With that in mind… is this new collaboration between Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff the shot in the arm that WCW needed? Well, of course not, we wouldn’t be talking about Who Killed WCW TWO FUCKING DECADES LATER if it did… so right now, my only concern would be whether this tried to usher in that new era of WCW that was promised… or was it just the same old shit with a new coat of paint?

Well, let’s find it’s the same old shite. There, the bandage is off. Let’s get this over with.

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