Still Saturday Supercade!

Too many Legos on a blog about gamin? Pshaw! You will not be able to say that once you lay your eyes on these Lego masterpieces of art, dear readers. Misterzumbi is the artist responsible for what you see posted above, thanks to Neatorama.com of course!

I love Hellboy but I'd have no problems laying down some money for that Predator creation!

Box Art Wednesday.

Today's Box Art Wednesday is brought to you by the letter J for Jaguar.

I've not had the pleasure of playing any of these titles on an Atari Jaguar nor have I played anything on a Jaguar in fact. I was firmly entrenched with the Sega Genesis and the SNES consoles at that time of its debut.

Released in November 1993 only in the New York and San Francisco Bay area before expanding to the rest of the United States in 1994, the Jaguar console was meant to be a conqueror of the SNES and Genesis systems. Atari hoped that it would win gamers over by its claim of being the only 64-Bit system on the market. However it didn't have the titles to keep itself afloat and by 1995 the Jaguar was all but no more.

In the late 90's it is reported that Hasbro Interactive took control when it bought out the Atari properties and declared the console and open platform allowing for homebrew games to be created. From the Wikipedia entry: "A few developers, including Telegames and Songbird Productions, have not only released previously unfinished materials from the Jaguar's past, but also several brand new titles to satisfy the system's cult following."

The Moment Of Truth - Survivor (Karate Kid Soundtrack)

Friday Flyers...facehugger edition.

"There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die."

I have been a huge Predator fan since the first movie and I am one of those shunned outcasts that actually enjoys the Danny Glover movie more than Schwarzenegger's offering. In the Summer of 1994, my group of friends and I discovered the Aliens Vs Predator arcade game by Capcom at one of our local Wal-Marts. Like many of the Capcom titles of that time this was a side-scrolling beat-em up offering.

Now in the long run of that year only one of my friends and I really took to the game, we must have spent easily a hundred dollars during that Summer, beating it over and over. Mind you these were Summer nights filled with disposable income, nights when you would get off work and meet your friends at the Village Inn, scarf down some greasy hash browns and bacon and then head over to Wal-Mart to grab some Star Wars Micro Machines or other prize.

If I remember correctly a few years later you could buy action figures of the Predators and Aliens not only from the game but the comic series as well.

Good times, good memories.

Empty Garden (hey, hey johnny) - Elton John