• 17Sep 08

  Games I Think Should Be Put on the Wii and/or DS

  There have been some games that I've been thinking would be good games for the Wii and DS so I decided to make this guide. Anyway, here's what games I think would be good on the Wii and DS.

  Chu Chu Rocket!

  In this game, you guide some mice threw puzzle stages to get to their rockets and you need to be careful not to run into any of the cats in the puzzle. There is a feature where can make your own puzzles for your friends to play. When this game was released on the Dreamcast, there was a feature where you could hook your Dreamcast to your home phone allowing you to go to a site online that the game featured then you could share the puzzles you made with people online however, since people stick to cellphones generally these days and/or have a different kind of home phone, barely anyone can do that anymore so I'm hoping that Sega will release 'Chu Chu Rocket!' on the Wii and/or the DS and have the Chu Chu website feature available on the Wi Fi. I think they might do that eventually since they did make new games on the Wii for Nights and Samba De Amigo.

  Orly's Draw a Story

  This was a PC game made by Broderbund that I had when I was little and used a Windows 95 and I loved it. It was one of my favorite PC games but then when my Windows 95 got old and was replaced with a Windows XP, that was one of the games that I came to a dissapointment when it turned out to not work on the newer computer. This game is kind of simular to 'Drawn to Life' only instead of drawing props and charactors for a video game, you draw them for an animated story narrated by the main charactor, Orly. This game was cute and it had humor in almost every part of the game like when you draw a charactor, it has eyes and a mouth so it talks to you some as you are drawing it then if you touch it's mouth or poke it in the eyes with whatever tool you are using, it will have a funny comment on it. The game only had 4 different stories so it did get kind of boring after a while but that's pretty understandable since it was made before computers and video started having more memory. I think this game would defenitly be a good one to re-release on the Wii and/or DS.

  Chao Garden

  The Chao Garden was a virtual pet feature in the Sonic Adventure games. In it, you raised Chao and kept giving it animals, chaos drives and fruit to build up powers such as flying, running, swimming, fighting and stamina. With the abilities, you could enter them in Chao Races or Chao Karate. You Chao would eventually grow up to be a neutrial Chao but if you gave it a hero fruit or a dark fruit then it would become a Hero Chao or a Dark Chao. Some GBA Sonic games had mini Chao Gardens called Tiny Chao Gardens which featured it's own fruit and Chao then if you hooked your GBA up to the Game Cube then you could put the GBA Chao in 'Sonic Adventure 2 Battle' or 'Sonic Adventure DX' and it would turn out to be a shiny colored Chao. You could transport fruit into the GC Chao Gardens too and they would be special for your Chao. You could also get special kinds of Chao by the what you did with them like a Sonic Chao, a Nights Chao, etc. This feature became a popular part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series but ever since 'Sonic Heroes', it stopped being in the 3D Sonic games then the Tiny Chao Gardens stopped being a feature of the handheld Sonic games since 'Sonic Battle'. This is understandable since it was getting old with the same things but since of there being a new generation of game consols now, I think Sega should have the Chao Garden feature return in one of their Wii Sonic games and/or GBA games then add some special features that the consols have to offer like challenging your Chao in races with other Chao online, having different weather in your Chao Gardens (like in the Nightopian feature in 'Nights Journey into Dreams'), etc.

  Virtual Cartoon Maker

  In the 2D game era, there where some games where you could make your own cartoon of the series it was themed. Marvel released 'The Spider-Man Cartoon Maker' and 'The X-Men Cartoon Maker' both for PC and they where fun to play. I never got to play the Spider-Man one much since I think you could only have one of those cartoon makers downloaded at a time and so I don't remember it much but I did spend hours playing that X-Men one since I loved X-Men at the time. You put in one of the backgrounds available then you could place in some still pictures and/or drag some animated X-Men sprites around creating a movie. If you had a mic then you could record your voice for the cartoon. The game featured some examples of movies so that you could get an idea of how you wanted it. There was a 'Tiny Toon Adventures' game that was simular and it was called 'Tiny Toon Adventures: Cartoon Workshop'. You couldn't really do as much stuff in your cartoons on it as you could in 'X-Men Cartoon Maker' but it was still pretty good. I never saw any cartoon making games since then until I saw a Nickelodeon game for the PC where you could make different crossover cartoons with various popular Nickelodeon charactors. Unlike the previos cartoon making games I mentioned, it had voice clips of each charactor that you could use for your movie or like the X-Men one, you could record your voice and do the charactors' voices yourself. Something that the game also featured that the other ones didn't was that you could send your work to friends online who have the same game. I think these are good games since they kind of teach kids what it's like to make cartoons and such. I think it would be good if eventually, the Wii and/or DS had their/it's own cartoon making game that you could post online with Wi Fi or send to your friends online.

  Sonic Robo Blast 2

  This is actually a Sonic fan game that was made for the PC but it's a very good fan game and it's defenitly the best Sonic fan game I've seen online yet. In it, you played as Sonic and co. in their classic versions and went through classic Sonic style stages. Unlike all other 3D Sonic games, you actually go threw stages and get to the marker with Sonic's (or whoever your playing as) face on it like in most of the 2D Genesis Sonic games. I was really impressed with how it was made. Unlike all other Sonic fan games I've seen, it actually has very well made original graphics and music. A feature I find real cool about it is that you can play games with it online with friends and if you have the engine program then you can make your own playable charactors. I feel sorry for those Sonic fans who are Mac users since this game only works for PC. I doubt this will ever happen but I think it would be cool if Sega bought the rights to this game from the owner, SSNTails and released this game on the Wii then had the playing online with friends feature on Wi Fi.

  • Posted Sep 17, 2008 12:56 am PT
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• 8Sep 08

  Rant: A Cool Bank From Japan That Will Hopefully Hit the US Someday

  In the September 2008 issue of the magazine 'Anime Insider', I read that over in Japan, there's a special kind of bank called a BankQuest RPG Bank and with it, you collect money like any other bank only this time, it gets put in there for more then just having a place to put your money in, there's an RPG charactor on a game screen on the bank and as you collect more money in the bank, the charactor earns more gold to earn better weapons in. When I read about this, I was amazed so I looked it up online and found out that the company that makes it is TOMY. I think this is a good idea for a future product in the US since it would teach kids to save up their money and it would also help teens who have fun with it save their money too. I'm hoping that eventually, TOMY will make a version of it that works for US money then release it in the US. If it does get released in the US then I have a feeling that it will be released in alternate versions with today's popular kids' franchise like Spongebob, Hanna Montana and such. I'm hoping that if it has alternate versions for the US then they'll have a variety of versions where in some, you get weapons, in some, you get cloths, etc. Here are what alternate versions I can see being made.

  Spongebob Squarepants: You save up money and Spongebob gets more money to buy better spatulars to make krabby patties with.

  Jimmy Neutron: You save up money and Jimmy gets more money to buy parts to make inventions with.

  Barbie and/or Hanna Montana: You save up more money and Barbie/Hanna gets more money to buy cloths.

  Pokemon, Neo Pets, Petz and/or Tamagotchi: You take care of a virtual pet like in any Pokemon, Neo Pets, Petz or Tamagotchi games and you put money in the bank to save money to buy things for your virtual pet.

  Yugioh: You put money in the bank and you get more points in the Yugioh game to buy better cards with.

  • Posted Sep 8, 2008 6:00 pm PT
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• 13Aug 08

  My Favorite Sonic Cartoons in Order

  I felt like listing what my favorite Sonic cartoon series are in order and giving them a description why since I've been a Sonic fan for a long time so here's what I think of them.

  The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

  This is my favorite Sonic cartoon because it's hilarious and it can be pretty cute at times. I grew up with AoStH and I used to watch it every night on Toon Disney until the time changed. Even though it doesn't have any rings, it's still more like the games then any of the other DIC Sonic shows since it's actually featured stages and badniks from the games and has Sonic and Tails together like in the games.

  Sonic the Hedgehog (AKA SatAM)

  This is my second favorite because it's got an interesting plotline and it can also be cute at times. The charactors are very enjoyable in this one and it's got alot of fun adventures. It references the games some since the charactors besides Sonic, Tails and Robotnik are based off of the little animals that Sonic frees and how it features power rings sometimes.

  Sonic Underground

  This one is has an interesting plotline just like SatAM does and the charactors are still enjoyable but it's still not better then SatAM. Unfortunentally, unlike the other ones, it's barely like the games and Tails isn't even in it but it's still a good series and I love that they featured Knuckles in it.

  Sonic X

  This is my least favorite since it's not really as enjoyable as the other ones and the featured human charactor, Chris has most of the screen time in the first season plus 4Kids gave it alot of bad edits and voices making the english version terrible. The Japanese version is still good but still not as good as the other Sonic cartoons. The best part of it is how it adapts the games sometimes and it's got songs playing in the background at special times like in other anime series.

  • Posted Aug 13, 2008 11:46 am PT
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