Dingo Chavez

Shucks...! I'm out of Kim Jong avocados, it's a hot item these days. Kim Il Sung tangerine have been outlawed since the sixties for "classified reasons". But I like you, so I tell you what, brother-man. I'll sell you a Fidel Castro papaya and a Muammar pear-Qaddafi for just $9.95. Specially for you, brother-man! I'm gonna open a web site sometime this month. Those hobo servers are so troublesome, you know.

I never played any of their games. Gish looked nice, but it didn't make go "yay!" inside just from looking at a screenshot.

I forgot Virtua Fighter 5, yesterday. The only next generation game shown that made me drool. And Porntris, I gotta tell ya

Some other people that I don't see mentioned: Takashi Tezuka Eiji Aonuma Shigesato Itoi - Mother 3 is coming. It's his comeback, people! Mitsuhiro Takano, Hajime Takahashi - The script and event planners in the Wind Waker. They were rumored to be directing Twilight Princess when it was first shown, so there's definitely some potential in those two. Kenji Kaido Dave Grossman And if Loco Roco ends up being as good as it looks, the heads behind should be added.

Hello, brother-man! I am a traveling hobo that sells fruit and other edibles that are shaped like historical dictators. They have brought pain and misery to their country and the world, but they sure make a lovely fruit basket. Would you care for an apple shaped like Stalin? A kiwi Hitler? A peachy Nero? An orangey Saddam? Or Tomito Mussolini for your sauce? All for just $39.95. "We keep the evil of the world united in cute pink fruit baskets"

Palm trees piss me off for some reason. I live in the mountains and the government keeps planting them around here because they're cheap and they are claimed to be "pretty". I hate those damn palm trees! Mother Nature doesn't love them, you know.

Anything that has 'Nintendo game' and 'on the Revolution' in its desciption. I'm also looking forward for SEGA's, and Capcom's projects on it. The others: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Okami (TellTale's) Sam and Max LocoRoco New Super Mario Bros. Mother 3/Earthbound 2 Final Fantasy XII - It doesn't look too great, to tell you the truth, but it got a perfect score in a Famitsu, and my brother said he'll pay for it. A Vampyre Story Metronome I also still really want Nintendo to localize Giftpia. it's been out in Japan for years now, but I think there's still hope for a localization... sigh... And I still haven't bought Chibi Robo. Hopefully sometime in the Summer. EDIT: Spore also looks pretty cool, so that too. EDIT 2: Also, the Ico team's next game. I think that's it. EDIT 3: Oh, and obviously Double Fine's next game. That's it... hopefully.

I voted for Garriott, but looking at the pictures again, I say Molyneux wins. Garriott's inferno in the backround tricked me into thinking that he's an alpha being from Hell that can conquer the world and set it ablaze in mere seconds. Then I noticed that his smirk isn't even evil enough for enforcing child slavery... maybe adult slavery, but that's not evil enough. Molyneux on the other hand, shows patience and shrewdness, with a look that says "I'll cut out your liver and feed it to enslaved children if you dare just to look me in the eye". Just look at him. I wouldn't want to be in a knife fight against him. Molyneux is definitely the supreme being here.

Well I tried cutting them, but I had some trouble so I gave up and just croped some pictures without shrinking them. Obviously, anyone is more than welcome (needed) to make a smiley out of any of these if they like them. You can even take the credit for them and leave me dying in the gutters while you get rich from pictures I posted, and I won't hold it against you... for now. To be honest: I just want a GOB and Franklin smiley. "Let's put some brown sugar on that oatmeal!" The picture I took this one from had a chair blocking everything below were I croped, so some of his hair is missing, and it's a bit dark, but his facial expression in it is just priceless. I saw these guys in the UK Resistence. Indeed the greatest promotional picture of all time. And of course, there's always Mr. Belvedere.

I watched all episodes of Arrested Development gearing up to the glorious finale (I already miss that show so much... sigh...). Tons of Colbert Report. Etc. Visting tons of drawing blogs, (John K. of Ren & Stimpy fame started one, cool!). I've became a even bigger fan of Tom Waits, Tim Buckley, Billie Holiday, Bert Jansch, Skip James, Django Reinhardt, Incredible String Band, and Fred Neil. I've rediscovered the greatness of Bob Dylan and Stanley Kubrick. I've bought a shiny white headband! I'm contemplating on learning how to play the viola. I think I'm slightly taller And I've bought shoes that do not squeak... as much. ...I think that's it.

-Shadow of the Colossus :tup: I loved it even more than the smilies show. -Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time -Animal Crossing: Wild Life -Mario Kart DS -Fahrenheit ... er... - I just thought it was very lame, and really disliked the animation (animation is life, it's essential for proper story telling and they blew it in my opinion). Replayed: -Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker -Grim Fandango -Super Mario 64 -ICO -Earthbound - It was even better the second time around. -Psychonauts they all get galore. EDIT: It's Animal Crossing 'Wild World', not 'Wild Life'. The culprit that was responsible for this mistake (which was my memory) was beaten with a baseball bat in the face, shot four-teen times, and was fed to a lovely blue shark named Freddy. For some reason, the name Freddy is always suiting for a blue shark. And I'm also playing VF4 Evolution a lot.

While the forums were off I had so much free time that I listened to more music than ever before, played more games, watched more movies, read more books, and started exercising to the sound of The Final Countdown with my fashionable white headband for that oh so '80s feel (the jogs around the mean streets were especially sweet). And I even met a cute girl. I guess that's over for me now that the Idle Forums are back... oh well. Anyway, I have a delima. I named the Miyamoto smiley as the awesome-est smiley of all, but then this guy came: and now I'm filled with confusion and have a salty bland taste in my mouth. Miyamoto's creativity against Colbert's truthiness................................ ah screw it, Mr. T wins it because we have a history.

I'm currently mostly playing SNES games that I played a thousand times such as Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, and Zelda: A Link to the Past. And I replayed Mickey Mania which I haven't played in years, still a great game with fantastic animation. I've also played the CD version of Loom which I never played before. The writing and voice acting were great, my problem was that it's hard to keep track of your spells and know exactly what they do as you get them (which required me to play the 'write down then guess' game). Overall; a fine game. And I'm anxiously awaiting this year for Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Shadow of the Colossus, Bone, Chibi Robo, and We Love Katamari (which I'm not positive that I'll get because I have no money and want to finally buy a DS). Well here's something good about a game that I wasn't really excited about until I saw this scan: Steamboat Willie's gonna be a world in Kingdom Hearts 2. Now I want it.

The first game I played was probably Hang On on the Master System. My brother loved it, but I always found it to be frustrating (I don't remember correctly how I felt about it back then, I was about 2 years old). Super Mario Bros. 3 made me love video games, but I only started being interested in who made them when I played Super Mario 64. Not because it was 3D - I like Mario Bros. 3 more than Mario 64, but because it came in the right time when I was in a highly influential state of 10 years of age. Really traveling in worlds, meeting silly characters, seeing sights and exploring in the developers imagination. That's really what I love about games... well that and them being fun.

Don't make me start using Mr. T again. I'll do it. Fine, you made me do this. Mr. T: You the foo'! Foo' with teeth! I pity the fool who doesn't respect Dingo's punk-ass, fool!

I'll stea... I mean endorse that nice idea in the upcoming elections. Also: I nominate myself for the upcoming election. I'll start campaigning in the General Gaming section, then move on down to the Retro and Review sections. The Feedback section is a tough one, but I have high hopes. I imagine the votes are mine in the Idle Banter section, I do love a good dong salad. Mmmmmm... dong salads... mmmmmm... So when's the election anyway?

That only took me two months. I've had the so-called IdleThumbs invented word 'wuxtry' stuck in my head for months now. That has nearly nothing to do with this thread, but I'm just saying...

LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've read so many articles saying "Shenmue III's coming soon" that I just don't trust them. Hopefully it'll be made someday and will finish the story so this type of thing with Shenmue won't happen again (though I doubt it because the story's supposed to be much longer than that). And hopefully they won't needlessly waste money on bad English voice acting while the Japanese acting is better and more apt for the game. I'm also glad they cancelled Shenmue Online. It felt like an insult that they say they don't have enough money for a Shenmue III but they do have enough money for an online game that probably won't be successful. Finish the story and then consider making an online game if you must. I didn't even find Shenmue's story to be that great, it nice so far and all. I just really like the game and want them to finish what they started.

I check Orisinal at least once a week in hopes for a new game, not that playing the old ones isn't great. In every new game he makes me smile. I've payed for games with less quality. The new one is great, but I can't say that I've played it that much so far (time issues and such). My high score so far is 1860, I think... so I need practice.

Back when I went to buy the Wind Waker In the importing store that I go to, there was this customer there who started a conversation with me for some unknown reason. We we're obviously talking about games, he asked me what I'm here to buy, I said the new Zelda and he replyed by saying that it's garbage because it's childish. I asked him what he's buying, and he told some new Star Wars game (the first person shooter one on GameCube) and some shit Xbox fighting game that had nice graphics and he was buying it just because it had nice graphics (one of Microsoft's games, don't know which). I wanted to punch the guy in the throat for encouraging developers and publishers to make these type of dreadful games. The guy actually knew about games like ICO, he just didn't care about them. Maybe it was his personal taste or whatnot. I wouldn't even care if it didn't mean fine game makers who actually want to make something good aren't going to be appreciated. And even the store owner who knows much about good games never heard of Grim Fandango until I mentioned it to him. I still get pissed off when someone tells me this game is good because of its graphics. Many of my friends are like that, they see some ultra realistic tough guy holding a shotgun and they're sold, they don't even need to know much about it, as long as the blood is more real it's good. Then they see me playing something different like the Wind Waker, Katamari, or even Mario and ask me why I play these ugly kiddie games, "what are you six?". Even my cousin who's taste in games I trust sometimes acts the same way, I keep telling him to buy Psychonauts when it comes out on PAL because it's great, and he still gives me a look and a probable no because he doesn't like the character design (the character designs in Psychonauts are some of the absolute best in games, but of course that's my opinion), and my cousin loves Grim Fandango and Monkey Island, which makes this Psychonauts thing with him even more frustrating. Something needs to change, good developers are struggling because of this. I still think it might be a matter of personal taste, but that doesn't mean I need to see a developing house that I love go bankrupt. Why won't some people at least give lesser-known games that they're told are good a shoot? Very good article, Chris.

I was hoping New Super Mario Bros. would at least be a 1st quarter 2006 release, I need a new Super Mario game... badly. It is a great list, and I do need to buy a DS already.

Screw an October release, give it to me now! Why must this torture take so long...? (Nearly two months.)

That does suck, I love that place. I wish the best for those who ran it.

I'm a guy. And apparently a part of a majority. Though sometimes I wish I was a polar bear. Snow's pretty.