Saturday, February 28, 2009

Gardening Mama Trailer

Get your trowel and kneepads ready cause Gardening Mama's on her way this April!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Punch Out 2009 Trailer

Totally RAD! The new Punch out is on it's way for the Wii! Can't wait! Apparently it will be a Q2 release. Punch Out is up there with my fave games such as Fzero.

Maybe i'll toss a Punch Out party when i do get it.
BTW. I'm glad Tyson isn't in it.

Peace,
Vanilla

Quickly Remembering The Bulletin Board System

I sometimes think about the days before the internet exploded onto the scene. Simple times when kids weren't afraid of the sun. Simple times when, if you couldn't get together with somebody to play chess you would play mailbox chess. Simple times when playing a round of paintball meant wearing shorts in the fall, grab a bucket of freezing water, fill it with horse chestnuts, stick the bucket of chilled chestnuts in a mutually agreed area, run for the bucket, grab chestnuts and throw them as hard as you can at your victim's exposed legs. Simple times when the BBSes ruled the roost.
A BBS was a computer which ran software that people could log into using a terminal program. Once you were jacked in, you could download programs, chat(multiple phone lines multiple chat), access forums and do all kinds of stuff. If you jacked into a BBS which was considered long distance, you would be charged for it.
Sysops were the people who ran the boards. I still fondly remember the following BBSes: The Wizardry, Eclectus, Dogpound....there's a bunch more reg sites who's name i've forgotten.
The best was when you dialed into a BBS and somebody in your house picked up the phone line, they'd be greeted with that screetchy static sound and then you would lose the signal. You'd yell at everyone not to use the phone again for an hour and then you'd dial back in. Hopefully you wouldn't be greeted by a busy signal over and over and over until finally after 20 mins you were in.

Goodbye BBS, it's been fun.

Vanilla Assassin

Sir Shigeru Miyamoto

Little League World Series Baseball

Originally posted Monday February 9th 2009.



Everyone knows Baseball is a geek's sport. Which is why i think the sport slightly appeals to me. Not that i'm a full blown geek, but i do like geeks. Now i've never played a Major League baseball game that i thoroughly enjoyed. But the carts which i did enjoy thoroughly playing were, Bad News Baeball but better yet, Little League(for the NES). Little League was a ball of fun cloaked in seriousness. I spent many a nights trying to load up the bases and knock homers against the Sandman and the Wii Man and Jimmy.
Recently i chanced upon a game for the Wii called Little League World Series 2008 by Activision. Now it's not what i hoped it would be, but it is fun. The characters are cute. The graphics are good. The fun factor is there and there are girls playing alongside boys. By doing well in the game you can receive power ups that'll help you toss a perfect pitch or a swing a perfect hit. When you pop a ball into the air, a fielder automatically runs for it and if he catches it then you swing your Wii remote towards the base you want to toss the ball to. To run faster you jiggle the remote, FAST-ly.
There's also a tournament you can enter and you can also edit the name of your #1 player to whatever name you like.
This game isn't for the serious tobaccy chewin baseball brute out there. But if you want some feel good, old fashioned baseball fun then give it a shot.

Strike you guys out later,
Vanilla Assassin

Little League World Series Baseball

Originally posted Monday February 9th 2009.



Everyone knows Baseball is a geek's sport. Which is why i think the sport slightly appeals to me. Not that i'm a full blown geek, but i do like geeks. Now i've never played a Major League baseball game that i thoroughly enjoyed. But the carts which i did enjoy thoroughly playing were, Bad News Baeball but better yet, Little League(for the NES). Little League was a ball of fun cloaked in seriousness. I spent many a nights trying to load up the bases and knock homers against the Sandman and the Wii Man and Jimmy.
Recently i chanced upon a game for the Wii called Little League World Series 2008 by Activision. Now it's not what i hoped it would be, but it is fun. The characters are cute. The graphics are good. The fun factor is there and there are girls playing alongside boys. By doing well in the game you can receive power ups that'll help you toss a perfect pitch or a swing a perfect hit. When you pop a ball into the air, a fielder automatically runs for it and if he catches it then you swing your Wii remote towards the base you want to toss the ball to. To run faster you jiggle the remote, FAST-ly.
There's also a tournament you can enter and you can also edit the name of your #1 player to whatever name you like.
This game isn't for the serious tobaccy chewin baseball brute out there. But if you want some feel good, old fashioned baseball fun then give it a shot.

The Sims 3

Originally posted Thursday February 5th 2009



Once upon a time i used to be a huge Sim City fan. I followed the craze into the Sim City 2000 era. BUT, what i did was hop off of the Sim type games ship when, "The Sims" became the in -thing. Somehow i wasn't excited over stacking human bodies on top of each other to create "R Tops".
What i did end up doing was jumping into the whole Animal Crossing culture instead.

This year i have vowed to give The Sims a try. Word in the arcade is that The Sims 3 is arriving on shelves June 2009 for the PC and later in the summer for everything else, including iphones and Macs.

Start scrounging your clams together for this purchase. We all know it'll be a blockbuster of the summer. Just pray they don't empty your pockets by offering us expansion packs.

Peace,
Vanilla Assassin

Air Traffic Chaos

Originally posted  Wednesday February 4th 2009



Wowchah! I havn't been this messed in the head since being Tetrisized back in the day, and i mean WAYYY back in the day when i slept on the sidewalks of Moscow and played Tetris against an old grizzled Soviet...i mean University studen...errr i mean Communist. We played on a trench of mud they called a sidewalk and used pebbles and discarded cigarette butts and spit. You know, all that fun Communist equipment.
Anyway, the other day i picked up Air Traffic Chaos for the DS. Wow, talkin bout head trips. I played this cart all afternoon, all night and while i lay on my back in bed with a goose feather pillow below my head, i kept thinking about which runway is the safest to give planes the all clear to. I kept waking up in cold sweats watching two air liners crash above Tokyo Airport. I KEEP SEEYING DEPARTURE TIMES AND ARRIVALS IN THE THEATRE OF MY MIND!!!
Guide the planes to the proper gates and to the skies safely within an allotted time and you become a Novice, then an expert. Do well and the anime girls will swoon over you, screw up and they turn on you. This game is great. Your basically multitasking, watching an airport from your tower. Constantly following planes in the sky and on the ground. Don't let the sky or the runway fill up with too many planes or you'll have a crash on your hands.
If you want a game to pass time with i would totally recommend buying this highly addictive game if the price is right. I bought it for 24.00 Canadian and it's become one of my faves.

Peace,
Vanilla Assasin

Fatal Frame

Deadly Creatures

The Conduit

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Originally posted Thursday January 29, 2009.


For those of you who own a Nintendo Wii and still havn't bought AC:CF and those of you who have purchased AC:CF but havn't purchased a Wii, go out and make your purchase NOW.

I mean, what is there to do in real life? Work? Eat?School? Get yelled at by people? Spend your hard earned money on things that don't leave you happy? Waste time going on a date and then find excuses to back out of the second date? Watch wars on CNN? Listen to broken political promises? Purchase a tombstone and then you die.

I have a better idea. Leave all that behind and build yourself a town in Animal Crossing: City Folk.
There you can be friends with animals. You can purchase a cozy upgradable home on the beach front or beside a stream or a pond. Forget email when you can receive snail mail from your crazy cute neighbors. Want to build a snowman? Go ahead.

BUT BUT i can't leave the world behind because i'll miss halloween!
No worries, spend Halloween in your town.

You like flea markets? Fear not, instead of the filthy, scuzzy flea markets in the real world, you can participate in a clean flea market in your town and you won't have to take a shower once you go home.

Want to go to the city? Just hop on the bus and take a trip over. Go to the theatre, get your hair done, drop your coin at an over priced boutique. Feel like a coffee? Well, forget Starbucks when you can visit the coffee shop in your town. I bet you never had coffee with pigeon milk.

What else....hmmm...go fishing, catch fireflies and butterflies, dig for fossils. This game is pure gold and full of rad things to do. I wish i had enough space to list them all.

If you liked the previous incarnations of this game for the Cube and DS, you'll love this one. Grab a pair of diapers, attach an IV to your arm and you're all set to leave the real world behind.

Peace,
Vanilla Assassin

Battletoads art uncovered


What a scoop!  Battletoads IS being released this year for the Wii.  This cover art proves it!

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