Big Giant Robots

While Code Geass is only just being released in the US now, the Japanese and hundreds of thousands of fansub watchers like me have already seen the sequel Code Geass R2. Japan loves Geass, the R2 opening song by Orange Range was advertised EVERYWHERE when I was on holiday in Japan back in March (deservedly [...]

I’ve always been a fan of the Mario Kart series and owned all of them (I think) on various formats. I joined the party late when I bought a SNES just as it was dieing and people were thinking the Mega CD was the good idea. I picked up a cheap copy in Electronics Boutique (now GAME) for about 15 pounds (strange keyboard doesn’t have pound sign..) and rushed home to see what all the fuss was about. I had a minor obsession back then (and still do a bit) with any kind of spite scaling or 2D warping tricks like the SNES’s “Mode 7″ effects so Mario Kart was a dream come true after the basic effects of the Megadrive (Genesis in the states).

After looking at the previous theme I though it would be nice if we could highlight the date of the post (I like to know how old the data I’m looking at is). So I came up with some rough ideas.

Lets talk robots, big giant ones.   Anime/cartoons with them in have long been a source of great joy and expense to me.  From Transformers to Robotech and on to the latest and greatest anime, robots rarely fail to deliver entertainment .  They toys well, they vary a lot more and have often cost me a [...]

No I’m not scruffy but I will be cleaning up around the place. Just wanted to say hello, unlike Binny I have tried on and off to blog but its just no fun alone so we thought we’d get together and just write about things that would interest us and hope that someone out there [...]