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I'm not in a big rush for Skies of Arcadia because I have it on Dreamcast but the rest of these look great. These all look great. I really like the Gamecube's controller. Nintendo never followed trends when they designed controllers. They always set the trend and it always worked.

At first, Microsoft and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane planned to release a show called,"Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show". The show was a half hour long and contained no commercials. Microsoft paid to have it's Windows 7 featured throughout, but during the October 16 taping, Microsoft executives were unhappy with the show's content of typical Family Guy stuff like, deaf people, incest and feminine hygiene jokes. Seth Macfarlane did not want to change it's material because when a sponsor touches or lays a finger on the entertainment itself, integrity goes out the window, and so do the fans. A Microsoft spokesperson says, "We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humour of Family Guy, but after reviewing an early version of the variety show, it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand. We continue to have a good partnership with Fox, Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein and are working with them in other areas. We continue to believe in the value of brand integrations and partnerships between brands, media companies and talent." The show is scheduled for release in mid November but with an unknown sponser. Maybe Apple? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raDwiXpcGXw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC2eCJ2F77M

#1 is Xevious #4 is Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story on Super Nintendo

#3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0hOD-axig #4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzptlLO3QXQ

Jake's Name That Game Challenge! I don't know if some of these are too easy but I would enjoy if nobody got it. I'm thinking of trying some RPG's soon and it takes alot of time because I have to play through the whole game while recording but I'll bet those would be harder to guess than the classics are. Okay let's move on to the first one. #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU-1tXc-HXE #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbhfIXjx5s

Hows your Wiki going? I have been working on Atari Age. It takes alot of time figuring out a code method. It can get quite complex.

Were always glad to have new members. It is impressive to read these magazines again. The detail and the work that has gone in to making them is astounding and they will be around forever.

Do mean the reference to the Angry Video Game Nerd and his review of it? I like the artist formerly known as The Angry Nintendo Nerd. He reviews old games in the new age and besides his potty mouth, I enjoy watching them.

Yes on China Warrior. No on Raiden.

It would have looked better if I squeezed all of the animal transformations, and stuffed them into one video. The transformations were cheesy good and it looked cool if you punch out the baddies to get your Power Orbs. You gotta memorize the patterns of the killing techniques. 2 New Challenges! #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOdnlxuEu7g #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hz0wSME4ng

My short attention span has forced me to keep playing games forgotten. I don't think anybody could play and beat all of the games they've wanted to, even a game reviewer.

Yeah I used to blow in the console and the cartridge. I've seen alot of people do it and so a monkey see, a monkey do. The game genie is hard on the connectors. After I installed a new NES Connector I bought from Ebay into my NES console I took a second lease on it's life. I keep the lid closed and the cartridges anywhere but on the floor. Slip cases are the best. When I buy a used cartridge, I dip a swab in a cleaning fluid which contains alcohol.(the same stuff that cleans records) This cleans the cartridge the best but Nintendo wants you to purchase their cleaning kit. To much alcohol can also ruin the inside of the cartridge as well as smear the ink off the label and turn the glue to slime.

I was only referring to Photoshop. New versions and old versions never use more than half the two cores I have. Even when I'm turning filters on and off. It needs alot of RAM and the faster the better. Photoshop Creative Suite 4 has a new requirement for your graphic card and that is 512 MB's because it skips over your onboard ram in favour of graphics card ram. That has nothing to do with encoding. Any audio/video editor like Nero Vision, Corel Video Studio and Adobe Premiere will benefit from extra threads like a 4-core microprocessor provides. Compressing and decompressing large files like an 8 gigabyte operating system will also max out your processor. I need not mention 7-zip and WinRAR.

I don't like you linking to a rom site.

I figured Photoshop was more dependent on your graphics card and total amount of ram as well as latency of ram.

I always think of South Park's Guitar Queer-O. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W66JUhwPGI

Kids tend to make rash decisions without weighing the consequences. How much did they give him for it? Five bucks and sold it for 20? In Sega's defense, while Nintendo was force feeding crap NES games down the throats of children, Sega was giving the option to play better looking and more complex arcade ports on their Mega Drive for 2 full years before Super Nintendo came out. And when it was released the Nintendo fanboys could not accept the slow down issues found in some Super Nintendo games like Super Mario World. Reading Electronic Gaming Monthly, I learned the CPU in a SNES was less than half the speed of a Genesis although they did seem to get more colors on the screen and made it sharper. In a perfect world of course you would own both systems and enjoy what each offers, but if you bought a Genesis in 89 to play sports games then there would be no need to purchase a SNES. Just go to a friends house and play it. Nintendo was lucky to have it's developers return after being in a forced marriage to Nintendo for 7 years.

I'm always interested in other computers. I remember a day when I had only a 1-core microprocessor and I thought it was fast. Now I look at that 2300 Mhz single core cpu and want to forget. I have 4 computers that are relatively matched in computing horsepower, two having a graphics card worth mentioning. All my computers have 2 cores and with the amount of time I spend encoding videos it would be worth having four cores on at least one of them. It's just not in the budget this year. Here's a shot of the computer I spend the most time working on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFk93PLS9B8

I as well as many are interested in game development. Developing a game is not as hard as you may think. It takes a group of people to make one game in a certain amount of time. Most good games take roughly 3 years to complete from start to finish. Many movie to game creations are rushed, they have a limited budget or they come out before the movie. This explains why the popularity and the reviews are nearly always sub-par. Some of the best games take a considerable more amount of time to create. Closer to five years is the time spent researching and developing Donkey Kong Country. As a part of Nintendo's marketing campaign, a 15-minute VHS tape titled Donkey Kong Country: Exposed was sent to subscribers of Nintendo Power magazine. At any given time in a game studio you could have 20 game artists and 15 programmers working on a project. Each artist has their own job such as texturing a background with Illustrator or drawing different weapons and other objects used in the game while 10 others work on 3D character models. The programmers are responsible for taking this artwork and data and making it work in a system. They are responsible for making controllers manipulate the game as well as everything else and different programming languages are needed. This usually calls for at least a bachelor in Computer Science. It's all pretty much like clockwork where you have foreman and managers making sure everything remains on schedule. At the end of the Arc The Lad Collection released in the USA in April of 2002 there was a disc entitled "The Making Of Arc The Lad". There are interviews with Working Design and Sony Staff of Japan and in the USA. I recorded this video and uploaded it on youtube to show because I was interested. I also found someone else had already uploaded the 15 minute VHS tape of Donkey Kong which I mentioned already. The quality of the video cassette has obviously deteriorated but still worth seeing if you want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGC-nqeJT1c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8THdDHfjtU

Happy birthday. Your hard work is appreciated here. Grumpy Bear

#1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6LtXP7f1ic

#3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkkskotQok #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-gSRbDEsA