Gaming Bits: Star Wars Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series

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Star Wars is easily the biggest Hollywood franchise out there, You could argue that the Marvel Cinematic Universe surpassed it recent years, But without Star Wars, we wouldn't have Franchising, Merchandising (Especially since they invented the modern action figure), or Long term serialization and expansions to the story. So in other words Genre films wouldn't be  the same without Star Wars. That being said however, one form of merchandise is video games, with sub series that could be Gaming Bits onto themselves, but one series might be my personal Favorite (and no I'm not talking about the Sega game from the 90s, though it is my favorite Star Wars game), I'm talking about the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight Series...

A. Yoshi Opinion Piece: Rumors, Lies, and Getting Attention on the internet by unethical means (in the video game fandom/industry)...

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What does this mean, some loser kid From Japan made fake rumor about Zelda: BotW to get attention. And we should have serious discussion about where the line is crossed to get attention using unethical means...

A. Yoshi Opinion Piece: Talking About AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, The Game Awards, and how all the pieces "fit" Together...

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This Just in, Nintendo is still Being Stubborn D*cks! Why Can't they ever grow up?

Gaming Bits Quickie: Nazo no Murasame-Jou

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Cham Chambara! Chambara! Chambara Bara! Chambara! NAZO NO MURASAME-JOU!!!!! In 1986 the Famicom Disk System Was Released, It was launched with Mystery of Murasame Castle. It became a success, It was released on the NES as "Quest to Murasame Castle". It spawned a franchise that still goes on to this day up to this day, to the Wii U and 3DS, or that's what I would say if this game had been a success, What happened?

Gaming Bits: Flash/Shockwave games from my childhood (GB Topic Buffet Vol. 1)...

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Sooooooooo, How 'bout that NX Reveal (which is now named Switch (a better name than Wii U Indeed)? It was... Interesting, we don't know it's full lineup for the first year, or the price, or an exact release date... But look at all the 3rd parties on board, you can play it as a console or a handheld, and a chip by NVidia, but yeah color me hopeful, not exactly on board yet, but hopeful....

Gaming Bits Quickie: Why the Sonic Adventure duology is still (relatively) awesome

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In 1997, Sonic was set to release his first 3D outing ever, it had great graphics for the Sega Saturn, but it wasn't meant to be. sonic wasn't meant for the Saturn, and the so called Sonic X-Treme was never released... but Sonic did have sort of a tech demo for the first true 3D outing on the Dreamcast, while it was once praised for it's fast paced 3D gameplay, it was later criticized for being glitchy, the second game was more of the same, just with bad fanfiction like storylines, but was it really that bad?

Gaming Bits: In Defense of Donkey Kong 64...

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There have been many games that were once praised when they first came out that people just don't think are that good anymore. Just look at the Sonic Adventure Duology (which I'll probably get to to fill in the need for Sonic 25th anniversary stuff on this blog), and Super Mario Sunshine. But there's also games that are essentially guilty pleasures despite being panned at launch (See ET, Superman 64, and Sonic 06). But one game has gotten an unfair rap in recent years... So in honor of DK turning 35 years old, lets defend Donkey Kong 64...

A. Yoshi Opinion Piece: Enough of the NX Rumors, just show us the damned console...

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So Nintendo NX rumors, they're no longer fun to listen to... Remember when Nintendo first teased the console. It's been almost a year and a half since the original tease, and Nintendo hasn't said much since the original announcement while Microsoft had a tease for XBOX Scorpio (at E3 no less), and Sony showed off the PS4 Neo as the PS4 Pro, I don't care if it didn't get the best reception, what matters is that they did it, but nintendo must like all these rumors and supposed leaks, Here I'll tell you why these are BS!!!!

Gaming Bits Quickie: Zone Of the Enders...

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A moment of silence, to the ones we lost 15 years ago today at 9/11...
































In the Early 2000s, Mechs were the biggest thing worldwide. They were big for decades in japan, but When Gundam came to Toonami, Gunplas became big in America for a while, there was a demand for mecha anime in the west unseen in years before. We've gone from the crappy Dubs of Dangaioh, and Giant Robo to the amazing Dubs of Gundam Wing and Evangelion, along this new found demand came new games... MechaWarrior 2 was good but it was pretty slow paceed in Comparison of...

My Top 5 Metroid Bosses

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Even if Nintendo has screwed over the metroid franchise in the past decade, it still is a marquee Nintendo franchise, always has been, and always will be...What's an atmospheric action adventurer without great bosses. Metroid has always had great bosses. From Giant alien mutant lizard thingies, to pterodactyl/Lizard hybrids. These bosses didn't get epic until Super Metroid. But here are my top 5 metroid bosses.

Gaming Bits: Nintendo Satellaview

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Has anyone in the early 90s who have been the right age to be a Nintendo kid and wanted a Sega channel like service for the SNES? What if I told you that was a thing,, but only in Japan. If you got some foreign exchange student to get you a Super Famicom Plus a Satellaview back in the day and wondered why it didn't work, which none of that happened to any of you, but it's totally hypothetical, but if it did happen to you, here's what happened...

A. Yoshi Opinion Piece: Nintendo's Copyright Takedowns are Getting Worse and More Frequent! #WTFU

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I thought Kimishima's reign of Nintendo would bring an end to this, I was wrong, If Kimishima thinks all it takes to save NX is to not call it a Wii sucessor, the company's doomed.

My Top 5 Metroid Powerups

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Samus is under Fire, She sent an emergency directive. JOIN THE FIGHT!!!! It's Metroid top 10 time, we've got the top 5 power ups, Why only top 5? you don't question my life decisions and I won't question yours. Unlike Zelda, These power ups are mainly addons to the suit or gun, so these power-ups aren't as interesting, but these power ups were amazing because they looked cool, made the game more interesting to play, were a blast to use, or all 3. So let's explore Zebes, and get to...

Gaming Bits: Famicom Data Recorder and Family BASIC...

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I honestly don't know if I can dedicate a whole segment to this thing, but I said I'd do this because right as I post a new gaming bits, I have to stick with the next segment idea until it gets written, and only then do Ideas come to my head, after that once I write a segment, My mind crashes, burns, and goes blank, so I'm forced to write stupid crap like this, here it's not stupid so much as it's not the best. Then again I dedicated a whole third of a year on a bunch of the most interesting consoles of the late 90s... Ah well, here's the Famicom data recorder...

Cool Crap You Should See Right Now GO! #3: Anarchy Arcade

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I spent hours on this game making my arcade in this game perfect, and I still got 12 or so games I want to add, but'll have to get when their on sale on steam... WHAT THE HELL AM I TALKING ABOUT?! Well...

Gaming Bits: Ratchet & Clank core series (Da F**K's a Lombax?)

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First a Ottsel, now a Lombax, When will Sony stop presenting me with these weird Pokemon things, it's bad enough that Sega introduced the Echidna to existence, I mean jeebus, there's a whole world of species to introdu...

Yoshiette 1: Ummmmmm...... The Echidna already exists...

A. Yoshi: Next you're going to tell me that Pikachu's exists...

YE1: THEY DO!!!!!

AY: WHERE?!

YE1: Pikachu Island, somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

AY: Prove it, See you never!

A. Yoshi Opinion Piece: Riders, Pogeymans, and bears, oh my...

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This is going to be a combination of 3 topics... up, up, up... This is NOT The return to R.Cubed or A. Yoshi News Desk, though it will contain elements of those series, so no entitled comments, PLEASE!!!! I know you miss those series, but if you ask "You're bringing back R.Cubed?" or "Bring Back A. Yoshi News Desk!", I will ignore your comments... Thank you for understanding. now one to the true meat and potatoes of this blog...

Gaming Bits: Jak & Daxter series

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The year was 2000, the most successful console of all time was released, it could play DVDs, It had hits in every genre, every 3rd party franchise (old and new), it had great graphics, and could play all your PlayStation 1 games. it was known as the PlayStation 2 (real creative name, amirite). Sony along with every 3rd part publisher joined the fun, one of those masterpieces was the Jak and Daxter series. how was this series created? what were it's games like? and  whatever happened to this series? All this and more on Gaming Bits...

A. Yoshi Opinion Piece: #ShuffleTheGate (or why Zoe Quinn is a lying fraud)

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Seriously, this chick's still a thing? and she's still an Attention Wh*re.... Yeah...

Gaming Bits: The Nintendo 64DD (N64 20th anniversary special)

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I Already discussed the 64 several times on this blog, but did you know that the 64 had an add on? It was only released in Japan, and pretty much bombed there too. What happened? What makes this console so interesting? Is it worth buying today? Find out all this and more on Gaming Bits...