Do it for them.

Oh yeah, and two days until Video Games Live. WOOT!

So I'll leave you with my little tribute to one of my favorite TV shows.

Note that I did not do the screenshot from The Secret of NIMH 2. I did the seats and my character Steven Fox watching the movie and flipping it off. The reason why I chose to bash this movie again was that I despise it so damn much (you know that), that Ijust had to make a tribute to Mystery Science Theater 3000 with it,because MST3Kkept the tradition of the characters sitting in a theater watching horrible movies. Oh MGM, how you've disappointed me.

Sorry for the bad quality, as I took the picture with my cellphone, but here he is. He's a young kitten named Runey, named after a whiny football player that I have no idea who the hell that is, nor bothering to find out, so ha.

Look at him. LOOK AT HIM DAMN YOU!!!

If there are two things I love in life besides music, it's video games and animated cartoons. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Saturday mornings kicked ass, as some of the shows that aired on those mornings are based on various video games from Mario to Sonic. Now a days, you can pretty much find them on a crappy TV line-up known as 4Kids, who have huge problems with censorship issues and feels like the people at 4Kids don't have any respect for entertainment from Japan or any other country except for the U.S., but that's a rant for a different day. The two that mostly come to mind that still air are re-runs of Sonic X and the continuing (and sucking) series known as Pokemon (games still rock, though). But what about the shows that we know ever since we were children? I decided to talk about some. See if they bring any nostalgia to any gamer who watched cartoons back then, such as myself.

First, let's start with a show that started the video game cartoon trend that no one probably has heard of.

Saturday Supercade. Now if you don't know what the hell this show is, I can tell you some things from the best of my knowledge and with the magic of Wikipedia. Saturday Supercade was a compilation TV show that aired on CBS in the 1980s that featured cartoon adaptations of various arcade games that were popular at the time, such as Nintendo's Donkey Kong, Gottlieb's Q*Bert, Don Bluth's Space Ace (he didn't do the animation for this show, btw), and Atari's Kangaroo. Every saturday morning, this show would air so that every arcade junkie can tune in and see what games are featured on the 30 minute program. The show only ran for two seasons, and wasn't well known. However, it did start the cartoon adaptations of video games that later came as time went by.

Next we have...

I think every one knows about this show. This show ran for only 1 season, containing 52 episodes. It is the first cartoon show to be based on the ever so popular Super Mario Bros. video game on the NES. Every episode featured a live-action segment at the beginning and the end of a show with wrestlerCapt. Lou Albano (R.I.P.) as Mario, who would "Do the Mario" during the end credits. Every Friday, however, they would air a Legend of Zelda episode instead of Mario, which coined the phrase "EXCCCCCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME, PRINCESS!" The animation for this show is questionable, but in my opinion, it could've done a hell of a lot better. This show later spawned the The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (based on the NES game of the same name), and Super Mario World (based on the SNES game of the same name) cartoons.

I think you know what comes next.

If this looks familiar, you know what the hell this show is. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Now this show I have a LOT to talk about, because this was the show I grew upon while tuning into the DisneyChannel.This turns out to be based on "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" on the Sega Genesis. How? Tails is in it, andKnuckles and Amy aren't. I'm sure every single game player should know that by now. The Nostalgia Critic may have hated this show because of the animation $tyle and wacky storylines, but in this case, I have to go against that, because that's what makes this show great. This show still entertains me today, because I love it when Dr. Robotnik (aka Dr. Eggman) and his nincombots make total asses of themselves as they try to capture Sonic and hisyoung fox companion, Tails, which turn out to fail every...single...time. If I had to choose my favorite episode of all time, it would have to be "Sonic's Song", because I like the Sonic games, or video games in general, and I love music.That's just me. Plus the fact that at one point,Sonic references one of the members of Van Halen, calling the guitarest "Eddie Van Hedgehog". Don't ask why I like it, I just love Van Halen. They did Running with the Devil for crying out loud. Anyway,this show later spawned Sonic SatAM, which was more darker than this one, and Sonic Underground, which added music to the story but was executed poorly, probably for this reason: IT SUCKED!!! You may think otherwise, but I hated Sonic Underground. Lastly, it spawned Sonic X which was released by 4Kids. They didn't do a bad job at first, but itshould've been a hell of a lot better. In fact, the voice actors have gotten better in my opinion, especially Jason Griffith as Sonic. If Sega ever made a game outof the Meterex saga from Season 3, I bet it would kick ass...just aslong as they check for bugs and not let it become the new Sonic '06.Anyway, back to the cartoon,AoSTH has to be my favorite video game based TV show, because it is pure nostalgia to any video game player who watched the show and/or played the games on the Genesis, and I live for that crap.

There are other video game shows I can cover, but I'll stop it here. If I didn't get your favorite and you feel depressed because of it, don't be. You're just being difficult. This is just one of the reasons why I want a career in animation. It's because cartoons like these take me back to the great moments of my childhood, especially with the films I never seen nor watched when I was a kid. You can tell that video game based cartoons definitely had an impact on me as a fellow gamer. With that said, peace out.

Yes, it's time to mention Video Games Live again. It turns out what I said was official. In a week, I'll be heading to Portland at the Schnitzer Concert Hall to go see Video Games Live, and I got myself a great seat in the Orchestra level. In fact, it's better than great. I got one of the best seats in the concert hall, which is in the middle, so I can see everything perfectly. Ticketmaster FTW!

This is probably my first concert experience. I've never been to a single music concert in my entire life, and I'm glad that a concert that celebrates video game music and the video game industry is my first experience at a music concert.

Moving on, since I now got all of my movies from Amazon (finally)and saw all of them, I might as well give a short opinion on all 3 of my movie purchases, starting with my most recent film I watched.

Once Upon a Forest (20th Century Fox)

In my opinion, a better environmental film than FernGully. Also, fans of FernGully will like this flick. A question though, was the bird band and choir's musical number really necessary? To me, the answer is a resounding no. Meh. Still a good movie. David Kirschner (creator of Child's Play and An American Tail), you've done it again.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Columbia)

Absolutely amazing animation and a fabulous flick for any fan of the sci-fi genre or the Final Fantasy videogame series. Great work, Sakaguchi.

Heavy Traffic (Metro Goldwyn Mayer)

Really good urban film. It also has the achievement of combining live-action and animation at the time, and this was 16 years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit was released into theaters (1973, to be precise).

So that's all I have to say. Peace!

So here are my 10 facts:

1. I applied at The Art Institute of Portland and am starting next fall.

2. I am a big soda junkie, and I'm refreshed every time I drink it.

3. I love it when MSNBC's Keith Olbermann of Countdown bashes Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, because it's true.

4. I'm still working on my Steven Fox character.

5. I'm going to see the movie "Michael Jackson: This Is It" this Wednesday.

6. I consider myself an audiophile.

7. One of my main goals in life is to yell "**** YOU!!!" and give the finger to the IRS building.

8. I don't trace when I draw other people's cartoon characters. I do them all freehand.

9. The only movie I want to see again is "The Land Before Time". The original, not the sequels.

10. Speaking of, I despise the sequels of The Land Before Time, An American Tail (with the exception of Feivel Goes West, which was great), Balto, and any other property that Universal made big bucks on...this includes Jaws. Sorry, but Jaws 3 and 4 suck, and Jaws 2 was mediocre. You can't top the original Steven Speilberg cla$$ic.

Alright, I tag:

pashmina626

ebbderelict

angeldeb82

GamerJM

and benleslie5