I want one~!

It'll probably be the only christmas themed object in the house this year, but that'll just make it super special on top of being from you! 

I was recently diagnosed with Diabetes, so no cookies. Or cake. Or...or anything good...*sob*

Ramen. I'm actually eating Ramen right as I type. But I don't put the nasty flavor packet it; I added a bit of non-fat butter, some garlic and some Italian spices. S'good, not too terrible for me, and filling. And cheap, hey.

All I want for Christmas is a pile of cash.

Yeah, I'm not kidding. Not for stuff either, just to pay off some of the backload of debt. Maybe to start the new year out of debt? That would be fantastic.

But if we're being realistic...a nice pair of fluffy socks. Mmm, warm socks. 

Extremely pointless. I own like, four different versions of this game and I'm not buying anymore unless they finally give into the enormous amount of people screaming and frothing at the mouth (I'm one of them) for a graphically updated (But nothing else! MESS WITH NOTHING ELSE!) version. Grr.

I know! They're filming for it soon but the show won't be on forever and ever. We get a Christmas special NEXT YEAR (SOB) and the next season starts in 2016 It's so far away, lol. If the main actors would stop signing up to do other projects (Cumberbatch just signed with Marvel to do Dr. Strange, which is fantastic except....) 

(and shh I do too but John's overwhelming insistence on straightness makes me feel bad for liking it, lmao)

So I'm kind of obsessed...(ok, very obsessed. Perhaps TOO obsessed) with the BBC's Sherlock show. You can watch all three seasons on Netflix now and I think I've watched them ten times. Or, uhm, possibly more.  Y'know, the one with Martin Freeman as Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock? 

I just wanna geek out with anyone else who loves those two boys as much as I do. Seriously. Anyone? No one around here watches it and I'm a little scared of the fan forums (...seriously, I know there are so many moments, but as John yells quite frequently, HE IS NOT GAY...Lol!)

As a person who's never played the games and only been forced to watch some of the cartoons....LOL Jiggly-Puff. The marker. That horrible, awesome marker. And who can't love a fat pink singing monster?

This game brings back a ton of nostalgia for me. This is the only-and I mean that literally-the ONLY game I ever played on a Gamegear. My rich cousin had come to visit and he was playing his. I'd never even seen one in real life before. I asked to play it, he said "Noooo" but my aunt made him give it over. I got to play it for fifteen interesting minutes before he couldn't take it anymore, snatched it out of my hand, and went back to ignoring me. No loss.

I've been looking for this game forever, and now that I've found it...I confess, memory does make the heart grow fonder. And fogs the details.

This is a game that you will either like or hate. For the majority of people, it's going to be BORING. Seriously, tediously boring. Mind-numblingly boring.

For me? Well, I'm one of those kids who loved putting together puzzles and mapped out the original Nintendo Zelda on a huge series of graph papers (complete with carefully colored pencil individual bushes), so...yeah. I like this game, despite its many obvious glaring flaws.

The entire game consists of walking into things. You clear out the 'fog' on the map by walking against the bushes/flowers/cactus/rocks. You kill enemies by walking into them and letting the computer figure out if you hit it or not. That's it. Walk into things. You pick up various colored potions, books, rods and rings, you find different armor and swords, and you clear a level by finding (walking into) the gate. You have health, which you replenish with potions, and food that you pick up, which somehow helps you regenerate until you're out of food and then your hit points start to go down? I'm not entirely sure, even after playing it quite a bit, exactly what the relationship between these two things are except that you need food, and if you run out of food you are in trouble. So, just pick up the food. That's a pretty safe bet. 

A tip for anyone who wants to play it: THROW THE STUFF. If you pick it up, and it's labeled as a color, throw it. Don't use it, unless you want to maybe end up wearing a cursed ring that makes you randomly and annoyingly bounce around the map in random directions. Once you've thrown the item, the next time you pick it up, it will automatically be 'known' to you. Swords and armor are always labeled, but watch those rings!

Graphics: 2
Let's face it. These are some pretty bad graphics. Your guy looks like some kind of hulking ogre thing. The bushes and rocks all look the same. And the most interesting bad guy is a round silver ball. It's terrible. I don't know if that's an issue with the Game Gear, but it's pretty bad. The only redeeming quality is that you actually change appearance when you change armor, which is kind of interesting.

Sound: 1
I turned off the music in the first room. Ow, my poor ears. That's pretty usual in games of this era, though. 

Addictiveness: 8
"How can you give this an 8", I hear you cry. Here's the deal:
Yes. It's repetitive. Yes, you do the same thing over and over. BUT....
The map is always different. The potion ect. colors change with every game. And there's always just one more room, one more monster, one more level...it's never the same game twice. And I'm OCD, so clearing the maps is satisfying in a deep, probably mentally unhealthy way. This requires little thought or investment. It's an early flash game. You can pick it up, walk into stuff for a bit, die, and turn it off without caring much. Ultimate time waster. 

Story: 1
Story? Is there even a story? I have no idea. Doesn't matter much though.

Depth: 6
Ok, here's another place where the score seems kind of high, but let me explain. It's always different. Working your way through the maze before you run out of food, picking up the various armors and potions, figuring out which ring color is cursed this time around before you put it on...there's lots to do. You're constantly in and out of the menu. The game is quick and fun. You gotta keep moving. 

Difficulty: 5
Don't get me wrong. Walking into things is easy. The difficulty comes from the monsters, who are usually just strong enough to be a pain, and remembering where the heck you left the gate when you are suddenly out of food. I've beaten the game but it took about seventeen play-throughs, and most of the time I end up dying in about room 8 or 10. Those stupid silver balls....

Final Thoughts:
Play this game if you: a) need something stupid but engrossing to pass the time with, b) love to do those map puzzles on the back of cereal boxes (I totally do!), and c) have a squirrel-like love of gathering stuff. If you're looking for flash-bang excitement, pass on by. You're not going to like this game.

So hey guys. I'm sorry I disappeared (again). Life just kind of did one of those things where everything sucked and nothing was going right and while nothing was SUPER HUGE CALAMITOUS...the little details piled up and it's rather amazing how heavy a crap-ton of tiny things can be? Does that make sense?

So I'm back. I'm not going to promise constant being on-ness, (that's not a word, I'm aware) but I am going to make an effort to at least come on every couple of days and say hello. It's not nice just disappearing. I am sorry, and I hope no one was unduly worried about me.

 I did miss talking to you guys. I really did. 

Luke, I am your toaster. 

Lol I can't think of anything funnier.

Late to the party as usual, but congratulations on making it to one year! 

So. I never owned a Game Gear; I played my cousin's a bit when he was up, but he didn't like to share that much, so my time with them was limited. Thus I'd never heard of this game. Looking it up online makes me kind of surprised-there's quite a few people who evidently have heard of and not really hated this game. There's even a few let's-plays on youtube for it.

This game was released in 1995. The story-line is kind of lame: you're a laundry boy (Mickey) and you set out to rescue the kingdom because the King (Donald?) is missing. Of course, you end up on a mission to save the world. Nice how everyone's more than willing to let the laundry boy...er, mouse...do all the 'dirty' work, huh? Hah hah, I crack myself up.

Anyhow. Your weapon-you're ONLY weapon-is...magic soap bubbles. Let me say that again. Magic. Soap. Bubbles. Later you get to throw rocks, which is a huge improvement. At least I don't feel like a dope chucking rocks at things, rather than blowing bubbles at them. And I'm really trying hard to avoid any "don't drop the soap" jokes, ok? 

Despite my sarcasm here, I really didn't hate this game. Aside from some serious issues with control (see below), I kind of enjoyed it. I played all the way through it, unlike most of the games I try. It was cute, not that difficult, the puzzles were interesting and varied, and it was fun seeing Disney characters from my childhood in strange places-my favorite was all the way back in the first level, with Hiss from Robin Hood in his floating bubble spy get-up. 

I would recommend this to anyone who just needs a little fun play between more serious games, with an extra shout-out for older people who would recognize the characters (which you younger whippersnappers probably wouldn't get all the references for.)

Graphics: 6

For the Game Gear, not half bad. Bright colors, easily identifiable characters, some very interesting background work...I was slightly impressed. Not blown away by any means, but compared to some other games I've seen on this system, it wasn't bad.

Sound: 1
 
Because I can't give it a -19. So bad. So...so...so bad. Electronic, jittery, grit-your-teeth-and-hit-mute bad. I lasted about half-way through the first level and muted it, so I can't tell you any more than that. Just terrible.

Addictiveness: 5

It kept me playing, all the way through to the end. I'm not sure I'd play it again, but maybe. I missed a lot of boxes, after all, and I'm pretty sure I accidentally glitch-cheated through the ruined castle. If not, that was sure a short level...

Story: 5

Really shallow, but all of these games were like that. Young, innocent, pure-at-heart nobody embarks on epic quest and somehow manages to defeat epic evil that has defeated every other knowledgeable, experienced, well-trained hero in several kingdoms. Toss in some magic and a fair princess and you get the idea. It's pretty well been done, but what can I say? I guess we're all a sucker for a happy ending.

Depth: 3

This game is short. Easy, short, and entirely linear. No side-areas, no real secrets, and aside from a search for hidden boxes some levels, you pretty much go from point A to point B. I beat it in two hours, and that was with smoke breaks.

Difficulty: 4

Let me be honest: the difficulty score I gave this has very little to do with the actual difficulty of the game itself. Aside from a few mildly challenging puzzles and some wth? moments during boss fights, I pretty much skated through this game. There's health literally EVERYWHERE and you have unlimited continues, so yeah.

The total, entire score for the difficulty of this game resides in the controls. The hooooorrriiibbbllleee controls.

Jumping is sometimes so painful it brought swears to my mouth. Good thing i'm alone here at night. And the game's tendency to shift the screen up and down in mid-jump does NOT help things at all. Add having to grab something into a precision jump-screen shift up-grab-screen shift down...it gets really old. Running is fine and shooting is...well, it's ok. Your magic bubbles must weigh a magic ton because they don't fly very far and have a very pronounced downward curve, so you have to learn to compensate for that, but other than that it's fine.

It's when you start having to jump to do anything that the problems first come in. In the second area I nearly quit playing because i could NOT get this vine-jump thing to work. Took me quite a while to figure out you needed to push the controler in the direction you wanted to jump and THEN jump. Not simultaneously, like in every other game, because that would have made too much sense. Nope. Set the jump up, THEN jump.

It's not easy to remember that, and I fell quite a few times throughout the game trying to do fancier maneuvers. 

Oh, and that counts for everything else too-push up, then jump, to grab ropes. Push right, then jump, to switch from monkey...thing...to monkey...weasel...thing. 

Once you get the hang of it, it becomes only mildly less annoying. 

Overall: 5

This isn't going to ever be one of my favorite games, but it's not in my bottom twenty either. It's a fun little game that I'm glad I never paid real money for, but am reasonably satisfied to pay Vizzed for. It was cute. Play it mostly for the time-wasting nostalgia.

I have had surgery twice now, and I've been on breathing masks both times.

It does suck, big time. The worst part is this feeling of being claustrophobic; I'm not usually like that, but feeling that mask on my face was really hard. Especially when I was half out of it on drugs. Mom said they had to keep putting it back on because I'd pull it off like I couldn't breathe, which was dumb because that's where the oxygen was.

It also dried my mouth, lips, nose and face out really bad from the oxygen. The nurse said a lot of people got like that but that mine was fairly bad. The second surgery I was smart enough to have chapstick with me because the stuff they gave me at the hospital was really gross.

I wouldn't worry about it unless they'd been there for awhile. Then I'd be all like, what's up? I don't think I've done anything to rate being banned...lol now I'm all nervous and thinking about stuff I've done and making sure that's correct. 

Thanks for making me feel all paranoid....

Seriously though, I don't pay much attention to who's on my profile. I pop around on different people's profiles sometimes to follow 'conversations' on their post-boards, so if I saw someone there that's probably what I'd assume they were doing anyway.

I'm watching CSI: MIami right now, but that's only because it's 1am here and I don't have a way to check what's on, so meh. 

I usually have ketchup and cheese. Sometimes I'll have some spicy brown mustard. When I'm feeling really special I'll throw on some sauerkraut and onions. Mmmm. 

I have to admit my favorite still is the anal probe gun from Destroy All Humans.

There was just something juvenile-ly hilarious about shooting people and making their heads explode. Mmm, yummy brainz.