On the Set of Forrest Gump: A fine if bland retelling of the production story from the producer's perspective. Feels like an enhanced version of the making of books included inside some deluxe Blu-ray box sets. Lots of empty space, big pics, little text. Didn't hate it, but skippable.

Future Boy - Michael J Fox writes about his split time between Family Ties and Back to the Future, but the stories never find their hook and everything reads as scattered ideas. Fox avoids any controversy about Eric Stoltz or Crispen Glover. There are better books on both Fox and BttF.

Well this was... nothing. Cliff's stories just weren't that interesting to read. I kept waiting for any kind of meaty behind the scene stories, but he spends more time talking about his cars and houses. Meh.

Clearly written with Jackie Chan's approval (even if he admits to numerous faults) there's a lot of, "These are good things I've done" segments that feel forced. However, it's decently written insight into his career, with a tilt toward his then recent Chinese Zodiac (a rather terrible movie).

What's amazing is the more I play, the more they use it and the angles get better.

This paid ad ran in the Toledo Blade today. Gets right to the point.

They MIGHT want to reshape a few of these pieces though

Found an old LCD at a thrift store. I can finally hook the S-VHS player back up and watch the weirdness of Coming Soon. Directed by John Landis in 1982, it stars Jamie Lee Curtis, introducing various Universal monster movie trailers.

My wife collects these little birds sold at Target. We like coming up with absurd ways to display them, and now I've used a tablet to display screens from various summertime movies, as if they have an outdoor theater.

Waited a while to get my hands on Flawless Victory, which I assumed was a book on the history of MK. It is, but a terrible one. Clearly written with PR approval, the information is thin, the images are terrible quality in most cases, and they smothered the portraits with an awful filter. Dismal.

"Do you love reviewing physical media?" I wouldn't do it if I didn't, but there are those days where Mortal Kombat Annihilation is on the docket and I do have to question myself. The most impressive thing about this release is Arrow found someone to write a positive eassay inside the booklet

ILM: 50 Years of Innovation: There are numerous books on ILM. This one is good, but there are better. Some images are poor or altered/manipulated. Text is often too brief to get into dense detail and it becomes a surface level reading. It also reads as pre-approved and "official" for ILMs purposes

RoboCop vs Terminator (Game Gear): I firmly believe this is the most violent 8bit game ever made, but no one ever talks about people literally erupting when shot like they do Mortal Kombat. No blood code needed. It's a perfect bloodbath for something with a trashy title like RoboCop vs Terminator.

Samurai Shodown (Game Gear): A hall of fame worthy port. A small miracle that captures not only the visual side of Samurai Shodown l, but the drama of the fights too. I could play the Neo Geo original, but this is easy to appreciate for its quality.

Pit Fighter (Atari Lynx): I'm an oddball who loves this game. It's ugly, rotten, violent, and scuzzy. The aesthetic is perfect, and the low resolution is like you're watching on an old security cam. Fighting feels desperate, and half the blows don't land because it's just a melee.

Super Baseball 2020 (SNES): A rare case where I prefer the SNES port to the Neo Geo original. The field isn't as cluttered with mines. It feels fair. The best of a small genre of futuristic baseball games, I'd argue. Base Wars? Eh.

Axelay: Prime Super Nintendo shooter. Still one of the most technically impressive games on the hardware. Between the soundtrack and rolling ground effect, there's a genuine sense of urgency. An essential game in the system's library

Jurassic Park (Genesis): What I love about this era of gaming is how little the movie studios controlled or cared what the game was as long as it was out on time. So we get a dozen off-the-wall takes on what Jurassic Park could be as a video game. This specific one is terrible though. Sorry.

Phantom 2040: Licenced shooting/fighting game that ends when you can't figure out where to go or what to do, which is pretty early. Great use of the Genesis color palette though. The purple and blues were meant for the console

KaGeKi: I dunno what to make of this thing. It's a cartoon-like version of The Raid where you beat people up on each floor of a tower. Weird, oddball of a game that's kind of like Ring King on the NES, but also not. Enjoyable though. Great soundtrack at times.

Rambo III, Sega Genesis. A game sold entirely on a single screenshot of Rambo, with a bow, staring down a helicopter. Mind blowing imagery in a game magazine at the time. A competent Ikari Warriors/Mercs shooting gallery where you kill a fuckton of Russians for an hour because America and stuff

Watched a couple of Rambo movies this week. Time for some Rambo games, beginning w/ the Master System. It's exactly what you'd expect from an 8 bit game based on the tragic story of a Vietnam vet enduring uncontrollable PTSD. Then you see First Blood 2 and wonder if the movie is based on the game

Can I save Gamecube games? You betcha, and they'll look like new when I'm done too. ebay.us/m/UMRh5f

First time with this early Jackie Chan/Lo Wei production. Not expecting much from the movie at all, but the 3D should be worth a go.

The Nintendo eShop is definitely a place...

Love these "lost in translation" bits concerning the work producers on the Real Ghostbusters animated series had when working with the Japanese animation team

Just finished reading the final issue of G-Fan magazine. It was truly an anomaly these days. What started in the early '90s as a small fanzine made it to 150 issues, and it's not stopping due to any sales/financial decline, but rather the owner retiring.

Two screenshots. The one on the left is from Avatar 1. The one on the right is Avatar 3. I just don't know what we're even doing anymore

Managed to snap this fuzzy bastard today. It's the hair style that makes it. Apparently it's a teenage red wing blackbird

Some friends of mine spent a few months choreographing an entire lightsaber duel for a Star Wars night at a local science center. It came out spectacular