I do believe that my favorite thing about the beginning of a new month has steadily taken form over the past year: To with, the launch of a new series of projects in Talking Time’s Let’s Play forum that each turn of the calendar page brings with it. Although TT’s completion rate isn’t quite 100%, I think the crew here has a much better ratio of finished Let’s Play threads than most similar venues. That is because Talking Time is quality people.
This month’s new collection of entries is particularly significant, because it brings with it Nich’s already incredibly promising Let’s Play of Clash at Demonhead, which already has revealed many of the most important long-running insider references ’round these here parts. Also on tap is a roundtable presentation of Mega Man 2, and newcomerish Umbaglo delving into Konami’s absolutely fascinating N64 brawler RPG Hybrid Heaven, which is one of those games I always liked in principle but found entirely too opaque to properly enjoy. So this should be a nice way to experience it.
As ever, I strongly encourage the clickage of the links above, because entertainment is guaranteed.
In other news, between marathon review sessions of Crackdown 2 (which I finally finished today) I’ve been hanging out with my brother, who is visiting San Francisco for a few days. This is the first time we’ve ever really had a chance to spend time together as adults, what with him having been flying with the Navy for the past decade or so, and it’s been nice to really get to know one another.
Much of this has simply been him regaling me with hilarious stories from his time in the service. Take, for instance, the story of one of his former squad mates from his Pacific tour of duty, a man my brother describes as “the African-American Yogi Berra of naval aviation” for the guy’s tendency to speak wisdom through a haze of malapropism. “When I hear anyone mention dim sum, all I can think about is my old squadmate,” he tells me. “The first time he ate dim sum, he said, ‘A black man must have named this.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And he nodded and said, ‘Yeah, some brother must have eaten this and said, Man, dim sum nasty eats.'” As someone who doesn’t much care for dim sum, I find that this tale resonates powerfully within my soul.
Anyway, the main thing I’ve taken away from my brother’s stories is that people in the military make for much more colorful anecdotes than people who write about videogames for a living. We’re all a bunch of boring ol’ stiffs…. the ’90s staff of GameFan very obviously excepted, of course.
“To wit.”
Naval aviator…very nice. And thank you to your brother for his service to our country.
I’ll take Dim Sum, and Dim Sum More!
(sorry)
lol that long haired nose candy sniffit stole gamefan payroll money to buy a 3′ Sonic the Hedgehog statue for himself?!?!? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
and he still uses print media to steal people’s money with no repercussions
Drats, a little too late there. I’ve already just completed Mega Man 2, so there’s no way I can participate in that. :(
tbh, I’ve never heard of dim sum in my life…
Too bad I can’t get a Talking Time forum account…
I remember being so excited over Hybrid Heaven seeing screens of it in an old Nintendo Power many moons ago. I really thought we we’re getting another Metal Gear with that game, heh.
The wresting fighter / RPG combo in Hybrid Heaven looked like it had some potential, entirely done in by awful play control if the videos so far are any indication. (Yeah, I know he’s got lag on his video encoder making it worse, but still…)
Meanwhile, I love me some Clash at Demonhead nostalgia. Mmmm.
Is this the same brother who I remember you once saying banned you from a certain system/game after you beat something before him?
Yeah, I did that to my younger brother after he beat Super Mario RPG when I was away at scout camp. No regrets.