IJ’s Saturday Morning
It's 4am. I have work in 3 hours. I have no clue why I'm up. So in honor of being up so early on a Saturday, we'll watch some cartoons. Who didn't wake up early Saturday mornings just to plop themselves in front of a TV to watch GI Joe, Transformers, and other cartoon blocks? Not as prevalent these days, but back when I was a wee-Tank, there were cartoons all the way till noon...about when Save By the Bell came on. LOL. Anyhow, this won't be your normal Saturday morning cartoon block tho...as we'll focus on something a little more anime than Robotech. So with that, this morning's cartoon is Wangan Midnight - Episode 1. Why not start this morning off with that damn blue Z that kicked my ass many years ago at the arcades... ENJOY!
Hit the split for Part 2/Part 3!
This is what I’m talking about…
$7k dealer option? Well worth it when it comes to the Tony Stewart Toyota Camry! In honor of Tony Stewart racing a Camry in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, a US dealer decided to slap on some decals, add some spiffy NASCAR seats, official NASCAR wheels and some crazy interior/exterior Home Depot Orange trimmings to a Camry. LoL, it'd make a great addition to the Family Car Crew. Dream come true...not really.
From the pages screens of Jalopnik!
SC’s Gone Wild
Nice vid. To bad the current SC is a shell of it's former glory...a big fat shell at that.
Video Game Nostalgia: Road Avenger (Sega CD)
I think everyone remembers the 16-bit console wars - Nintendo vs. Sega. Anyhow, I was one of the fortunate ones to own both a Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. In the end though, I spent so much more time playing with my Nintendo that my Sega game collection was rather dismal: Sonic 1-3, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter Championship Edition, and I believe that was it compared to about 30 SNES games. Very sad indeed. Well, after one Christmas I ended up with a Sega CD. This, I thought would pad my Sega collection cause it was a CD-based system that offered way better graphics and gameplay than the SNES. In the end, that was a lie in my eyes and I could never trust Sega again. The system did have a great game in Sonic CD and some rather niche gems - My favorite being Road Avenger also known as Road Blaster FX in Japan.
The story goes on about a cop losing his wife when a road gang runs them off the road. The cop goes and seeks out the road gang to avenge his wife's death. Not much is spoken through out the game as the story unfolds in cinematics and whatever is happening during the gameplay. The game has a definite old-looking anime feel with gameplay similar to Dragon's Lair: onscreen cues for you to move in certain directions and button presses. It was an awesome game cause seriously, there was nothing really like it at the time. I would spend hours just playing this game to watch the clips over and over again. Also that opening song is still one of my favorite songs to this day - kind of catchy as most other owners of the game will attest to. I doubt the game itself would stand up to the gaming audience of today who live off of Gran Turismo and Forza, but it will always be one of my favorite car games of the early 90s.
Hit the split to catch a video of gameplay for the final stage and ending of the game!