Back when the Dreamcast ruled my life I was pretty much already known as a highly ranked nerd who spent his summer vacations gaming. Classics like Gunstar Heroes for the Sega, and Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the SNES had already set a lifelong impression in my life. However, it wasn't until November 16th, 1999 that my gaming experiences reached a new level. I remember ditching school with my older brother to go to the local "Funcoland" (now a Gamestop) and finding it packed with people waiting for the same miracle I was waiting for. We all waited for 4 hours until finally the store clerk opened up 4 boxes while hollering, "This is what you've all been waiting for!" followed by a roar of applause and screams from all the girlfriend-less, stubby men like myself. Shenmue had arrived.



Going home and popping that sucker in, ignoring the obnoxious loud fan sounds of the Dreamcast, and stuffing my face as quickly as I could before the opening cinema started, the anticipation was nuts. Finally, after starting a new game and checking to see if any cutesy little animations appeared in my D-casts memory card, the opening cinema began! Ryo Hazuki (strange resemblance to my brother by the way) quickly rushed to his home/dojo where he witnessed his father being beaten by a badass wearing Chinese attire asking for the "Dragon Mirror". It was there that I was introduced to Lan Di, the evildoer of the game. After witnessing the groundbreaking realistic graphics, voice overs, and alluring unoriginal storyline, the game began.



This is where my memories of the game really revolve. Running around interacting with every single character in town which all had there own unique personality was amazing. I fell in love with every single character, especially the love interest Nazomi Harasaki. Cute-ass Asian videogame "B". To this day I still remember the awesome characters like Tom Johnson, the Jamaican Rasta who owns a hot dog truck and you always found dancing in the middle of the crowded town shops with his reggae playing boombox beside him. Anyway, this is where most reviewers and fans also were immediately turned off. Apparently running around day by day in videogame time, which was ridiculously realistic by the way, caused the game to pace really slow, and made it unbearably boring to almost all fans. But really, this game was ridiculously good, I didn't give a Sonic figurines' ass what they said about it. I loved it. Meeting every single character was epic. Everyday they had something new to say that would lead to little side missions, or be part of the storyline. The thing about this game is, in order to make certain progress, you had to go to certain places at certain times. Example, one of the most famous parts of the game is where you have to find some sailors. By asking around you'll find out sailors usually hang out at bars. Which bar you ask? Well, that's when you have to hit up every bar in town at night when they're open. And that's IF you don't get side tracked by the town arcade which had a playable Space Harrier and Hang-On. You could've bought food, cassette tapes, little toy figurines, call people up, practice your fighting, raise a cat, almost anything you imagine doing, you could've done.



The fighting in the game I remember being Virtual Fighter-esqe. Nice tight controls and many moves to learn, discover, and master. The storyline of the game is where it really shined. I played this game over at least 10 times since I bought it in 99. I fell in love with the town and every single character. The QTE (Quick Time Event) that we see in God of War and other modern masterpieces was invented back with Dragon Lair, but this game is what introduced it to modern gaming in a whole new way. The fact that this game was so lifelike is what made it epic. Hell, at one point of the game you even had a job as a fork-lift operator. Fucking sick right?!



Bottom line, if you have a Dreamcast, find this game now. I never had an original Xbox to play the sequel, but I would still love to take this one out and play it even today. The story and game was so deep and really, this is the game that got me addicted to gaming (and ended my social life completely back in middle school too.

Video games based on movies. I bet that sentence just sent shivers up some peoples spines. But this is one movie based game I'm sure everyone wanted to play or were really curious about. This is based on a movie many of us saw for the first time when we were really young, and introduced one of the greatest movie badasses ever, even though his name is Ashley. This game was released on the Dreamcast as well as PC, but I decided to review on the Playstation cause that's what I played it on. There was also 2 sequels to the game. But anyway, Dtoiders, I give you EVIL DEAD:HAIL TO THE KING



First let's put the ongoing debate to an end. Evil Dead is NOT a zombie movie. It's about Candarian demons who posses the living. On to the game, So playing as chainsaw armed Ash is like a dream come true for any movie fan (Yoj1mbo's probably nodding his head right now agreeing). A bloody-gory horror game is always tons of fun, but when I found out THQ was making this game, I got nervous. I don't like THQ. And after I played this game, my disliked THQ even more. How they ruined something that had so much potential is beyond me, but they did. However, it's still forgiveable, only because it IS an Evil Dead game. The storyline of the game goes like this: ). The "Deadites" (bad guys for non-fans of the movie, or zombies for the stubborn) have come back and kidnapped your girlfriend, made an evil duplicate of you, and possessed the local townsfolk. The only way to stop them is to collect the scattered pages of the book (Necronomicon) that summoned them and then "send the evil back."



As soon as the game starts I felt so pumped. Se ready to get some sick blood all over the place. Instead I got nosebleed cause I got so angry when I moved the analog and realized how fucking slow, choppy, and unresponsive Ash was. But wiping the blood away, I kept playing hoping I'd get use to it. Getting the controls out of the way (not for long though), I realized the game was ALOT like the Resident Evil games. You even have a "box" to store things you have no room to carry. When I headed outside the cabin to get some action going, fucking ay! Like 5 damn "Deadites" all at once rushing at you. I started yelling at the top of my lungs getting ready to saw and shotgun away some demons. Instead I found myself shooting the opposite direction while I got pummeled and hammered by those things. The deadites were so fast that when I tried using the saw it would be so fucking slow I'd get hit before I can even use it. Seriously, the controls are complete GARBAGE in this game. To make matters worse, this game is like a fucking RPG. So many damn random deadite battles come at you non-stop. Imagine running down a path and having a Deadite appear in front of you. You dodge it, but it still knocks you off your feet. You get up and try to keep running past it, only to get stuck on a spot of bad collision detection in the environment and get the back of your head pummeled in. I'm not even going to get started on the camera angles either. Fuck you THQ!



However all that set aside, If you have some sick amount of patience for games you really hope are going to get good even if you already halfway through the game, you might enjoy this! If you're also a fan of the Evil Dead trilogy, you might be forgiving and actually pay this uber frustrating game all the way through. This game could be fun if you play it in the right mood. If you play it after watching the movie, you'll really like it and have a good time with it. I know it sounds like I don't have much to back this game up as actually being fun, but like I said, play it in the perfect mood and time, and it's enjoyable. Maybe this game is only good for fans of the movie, but it should still be given a shot. Believe you me, watching the blood effects drip down your chainsaw after each deadite kill is always satisfying. Especially if you killed about 4 deadites and screamed your lungs out yelling profanities at the game. Good times.

Before I Start let's get this out of the way. It's a UFC game so yes... sweaty, slippery men rolling around with each other, yadda-yadda-yadda.



On with the game..hahha so this game wasn't exactly that much shitty, but really didn't get appreciated by most people like it should've. Seeing as to how the UFC grew in major popularity since the Ultimate Fighter reality showed aired, I thought I base this on the first UFC game that came out ages ago on a little machine that thinking about it still makes my testicles rattle to this day. This is THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP for the Sega Dreamcast!



The game looked awesome. The facial animations on the characters was spot-on which isn't a surprise since the Dreamcast had some really marvelous looking games (damn I miss my Dreamcast!! Bitch will pay..). The sound had some awesome punching crunch sound that really made you wanna get up and gladly punch the person you beat in the face out of a rush of adrenaline. The controls consisted of two punch buttons and two kick buttons. Combos were easy and very Tekken-like. But the best part of the game were the actual grappling action. Time everything right, and you can end a match in about 6 seconds. You would simply tackle your opponent down, do some fancy thumb-work, and Blap! You'd snap your opponents arm and the match would be over. Of course, this is if you're playing against a noob that doesn't know how to reverse and counter. Otherwise the match can take up to 5 minutes as you and the other player constantly yell out cuss words as reversals and counters are handed out over and over. Great fun.



But matches ending in 6 seconds was the downfall of this game to most. Non-gamers just want to pop-in a game, and get right into it. If you tried just popping this one in, like I said, the match would end very quickly. If you didn't take the time to realize you can counter every move in the game, you most likely hated this game cause the match would end so damn fast. The loading times would take longer than the match itself if you were a noob about the learning scheme. But really, this is a gamer site, so I'm sure everyone on here who played this game enjoyed the sick reversals and counters because let's face it, us gamers on Dtoid are a powerful demonic force that will soon cause brains to explode and babies to internally combust due to our awesomeness. . If you still didn't enjoy it, well than it was just a matter of taste in games



Many other sequels have been made for this game on the PS2 and Xbox (I think Xbox, not sure), and they were all pretty much the same. But still, the original stands out in my mind and this really ranks up on my shitty games = fun games list. And like I said at the beginning, the UFC is really popular right now, so expect a new UFC game to hit the next-gen consoles very soon (yes, it's in the works!). I'm fucking excited.



Here's the new UFC game trailer.This video isn't really good quality, but it still looks good.

First off I wanna say that most of the set-ups I've seen on here are so ridiculously awesome. You guys got like plasmas, sick gaming chair, surround sound, it's totally ridiculously rad! Mine comes nowhere near to being as cool as most of the ones I've seen, but since everyones putting theres up, I'd like to share mine. So here's my room.

Everything is pretty scattered all over my room (and it's pretty small) so here some pics of my gaming station, computer, and the other good stuff. Here you see the Rockband drums, stereo, the Old Spice, a Marshall amp, and my brothers bed. I guess it's my bed since he moved out months ago.



Here's some of the DVD collection and my bed. This isn't even half of my collection. I have about a little over 300 more DVD's but they accidently got placed in public storage when my brother moved. I should really go pick them up already...but I got games to play


Here's the wall next to my bed. The closed door leads to the bathroom. How convenient eh? I don't even listen to most of that stuff anymore. Not since like middle school anyway. Except Teen Idols of course..



This my ordinary normal XP. Nothing special, but it gets the job done. Plus this thing is jam packed with viruses and uber slow. DVD player on the top right, used for foreign DVD's with the region code hack.



The T.V with the 360 next to it. I use to have a PS2 but I sold it, had a Dreamcast that got stolen by an ex-gf, Sega Geneses that my dad threw away for some fucking dumb reason, a SNES that stopped working for some reason, a PS1 which I sold to buy PS2 games a couple years ago, and 2 Atari consoles that also got thrown away. Actually I think those got sold in a yard sale..Rockband guitar between the monitor.



And finally the gaming drawer! You can't see it but there's a NES way in the back behind everything, controllers, wires, memory cards and all that are under the printer paper (except that badass Goldberg memory card). I have way more NES games too, but there in a box under my bed. Sold alot of my PS1 and PS2 games, and I havne't really bought many 360 games since I just rent em and beat em, or borrow them from my brother.



Sooo...that's it! oh yeah I almost forget, I also got a window! Ooooooooooooh!

So I just bombed my midterm cause I studied the wrong material all week. It was on the most obscure material we covered for probably about 15 minutes. Bah-hambug!! Not only that, but this is what I get for playing DEVIL MAY CRY 4 for 5 hours straight everyday, followed by a 15 minute break, folowed by another DEVIL MAY CRY 4 marathon!! Do I regret it, fuck no, that game is sick!

At least i'll have the awesome memories of a buster move where you pound in "His Holiness's" face repeatedly even though he's an old geezer, when I'm working at Wal-Mart when I'm 40.

So I decided to start this blog thing where I dug deep into my personal collection of games and review the games EVERYONE bashed, but to some extent were actually pretty damn fun when played under the right circumstances. There's probably a million other blogs like this one, but oh well These are going to range from all consoles I ever had. So to start it off, this first "episode" is on a show anyone who grew up in the 90's probably remembers watching on FOX (I think they still show reruns actually). Who can forget silver haired John Bunnell and that infamous intro of the show? Ladies and gentlemen, this is WOLDS SCARIEST POLICE CHASES for the PS1.



Silver haired Sheriff John Bunnell, the man who provides the wonderfully cheesy, melodramatic voice-overs for the TV show, drops hysterical bits of knowledge between missions, making the game so hilarious and memorable for that reason. Those familiar with the show will recognize his voice instantly, but those who are not will have to hear it to believe it. This guys voice really stands out and I'm surprised there weren't any parodies since this guys seems so easy to make fun of.

Anyway, on to the gameplay. The control scheme wasn't actually THAT bad. It was extremely sensitive making those mission where you had to pit maneuver cars out of the road disgusting (and believe me, missions were repetitious). Missions varied from shooting at the car you were in pursuit of to disable it, pursuing cars until they pulled over, and driving around the city disabling bombs (Die Hard 3 anyone?). The graphics were pretty horrible, but when we look back at any PS1 game, all the graphics were pretty horrible compared to what we're use to now.

Most people didn't like the fact that you could've only played as a police car and not the "bandit", but honestly it wouldn't make much sense to play a police chase game if you could play as the bandit. So so far everything I said makes the game sound pretty bad, but really t was pretty fun for it's time! Sure you had your Need For Speed's by that time but this game was just different. Honestly I don't even know how to explain what made this game so fun. LOL MAybe it was just John Bunnell. That guy really cracks me up. And this game to me is definitely a buried gem worth at least reading about or looking at pics of.




THAT'S NOT ME PLAYING THE GAME BY THE WAY. LOL