Posts Tagged Papa Geek
Geek Blog – Super Spice 64
Never will I look at Super Mario Bros. 64 (or Old Spice for that matter) in the same light. Terry Crews is no Isaiah Mustafa (the man your man could smell like), but he definitely brings an explosive energy to the product.
Super Spice Bros 64 – Watch more Game Trailers
Check out the official commercials here.
-SnowytheGeek [via Break]
Geek Blog – First Love
I recently acquired a friend’s NES and about a metric crapload of cartridges. He was moving, the price was right (even if some of the pins are bent and I really should replace the receptors). When I was 11, I was forced to sell my beloved system in order to come up with the last little bit of cash to purchase a SNES (I had saved my allowance all summer). I fondly remember those early morning Mario runs before school, the late night Zelda sessions with my Mom, sharing codes and cheats with my friends.
From 1991 until summer of 2010, my only feelings of nostalgia were gained from ROMs and emulators found on the internet, from DLC on the Wii Virtual Console, or re-releases for the GameBoy Advance (Played on my Gen1 DS).
But then. OMG but then! Feeling the square corners of the controller as they bit into my palm; sighing in frustration as I was forced to re-insert the cartridge time and time again to make the connection just right (I really should replace those pins). It immediately, and with great force, thrust me back into my childhood. That afternoon all those games and peripherals (finally, a PowerGlove: I’m so BAD) arrived, I disappeared into the past.
That feeling faded as I dreamed of 8bit princesses, octoroks and tetrominoes, waking up the next day, albeit an adult again, but a slightly happier one. Now I boot her up and blow out the carts for the LittleGeek, who has, surprisingly enough, at the age of 3 already beaten World 1-1 in Super Mario Bros. – on the console it was meant to be played.
So I can relate to the teary-eyed reunion that YT user wageman1 presents in this touching short video. Now if only we could figure out how to get the Zapper and R.O.B. to work on new flatscreen TVs – I’m not that keen on keeping a CRT around forever.
NES, you’ll always be my first.
-SnowytheGeek
Geek Blog – Princess’ Girl Time
What Mario and Link don’t know…. would probably devastate them.
And I would have surely pegged, of the two, Peach to be the harlot.
-SnowytheGeek
Geek Blog – Happy Halloween!
The GeekWife has outdone herself again this year. The annual GeekCostume has been completed, just in time for Halloween. I supplied the idea and the did the accessory work; GeekWife used her epic tailoring skills to choose the right fabrics, create the pattern and put it all together.
Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they have obtained. This station is now the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it.
For more pictures and info on my accessory work, check after the jump (to hyperspace).
Geek Blog – How Episode 5 Should Have Ended
It’s no secret that Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite of the original Star Wars saga. The amazingly hilarious site HowItShouldHaveEnded has posted their take on the classic middle child.
I won’t get technical, but there has to be a logical reason why Vader never pulled that move during the climax: I mean, he was using the force to toss about all sorts mechanical equipment in the bowels of Cloud City. Did he forget the adage drilled into us by Yoda mere minutes earlier: “size matters not.”?
I totally Lol’d at Vader’s excitement finding out he was a father: I can relate to that.
-SnowytheGeek [via GaS]
Geek Blog – Math Geek Love Equation
This is for the GeekWife; I’ve been on the road from work for quite some time and now that I’m back, want to show her a token of appreciation. She’s a bit of Math Geek, and she loved the Harold and Kumar Root 3 Poem, so here goes:
-SnowytheGeek [via GJ]
Geek Blog – The Problem with Warping
To warp or not to warp, that is the question that faces us at the end of World 1-2, after finding the whistle in the first fortress of the first World, when you open the path to the first star road in the Donut Plains and as you toss a potion in Dream-Con next to a jar you know will take you to World 4.
Not nearly as fundamental as the question “To turtle-trap or not to turtle-trap”; this conundrum still plagues our youth. Or not.
Is it cheating? If so, who are you cheating? Bowser would have you believe you are cheating yourself.
Exhibit A:
Geek Blog – WoW Players Have RLs Too
Awesome entry into the “4-day Film” Category at the Darklight Film Festival. That means this beauty was filmed, FX’d and comp’d within a 4-day span. Not sure how I’d react to a Tauren in the elevator.
From YT User: cormaction
-SnowytheGeek [via Kotaku]