Ryoma45’s Weblog

After not posting anything for a while ( nothing exciting to post really, i have news but i can’t say it yet for reasons i can’t specify) i’ve been spending my time doing what i do usually. Nothing. I bought the Guinness World Book of Records Gamers Edition ,which i would like to add i have found to not be the ‘gamers bible’ as it states on the back of the book. Considering the book doesn’t hold that many ‘real’ records as it essentially a book about the best games in each genre and facts about them ( and facts aren’t records are they, they’re facts, hence the use of the word ‘facts’), i was slightly dissapointed with it. And i can’t get in touch with the editor any other way then by writing a letter and posting it to the guy about why the mistakes in his book can’t make it a ‘bible’ of any sort ( most valuable rpg game panzer dragoon? i think you mean panzer dragoon SAGA, along with getting the sodding picture right). As the Guinness World Records are usually known to be of a high standard when it comes to information, i find wierd that there would be mistakes when the information about all the games can be found on the internet, so whoever did the final checking needs to be fired for next years book and i need to be employed, as i want to see a book of ACTUAL records and not crap like ‘First game to be based on a movie…that was based on a game’ or ‘First game to feature a gravity gun’. There are 12 ( that’s right, 12 pages out of 256) pages that actually contain records, with the rest filled with crap like i have shown. Anyways if someone from that book even does read this get in touch, as you need to refund my time, patience, excitement and money for the months i have been waiting for this book to come out.

Anyways, back onto the original subject. After reading through the ‘filled with lies and rubbish’ gamers edition of the world records, i happend to stumble upon a picture of Guile from Street Fighter.Nothing new and what a suprise to find a picture of him in the series he is from. However, i later thought more about the picture, and why i don’t know what it is from. After a little bit of research ( or youtube really), i managed to find what it was from. Now i like to think of myself as quite a hardcore gamer (minus i don’t pay to play online or play any game online with headsets so i can scream utter nonsense if i kill people) as i own pretty much every console, spend 80% of my earnings of games and other game related stuff, pretty much only talk about games, and have done all of this since i was born ( i’m 22 and started on a specturm zx. Jetpack ftw!). I also like to think of myself as being quite knowledgeable about spin-offs for games, like books, cartoons, movies, etc. So how the hell did a Street Fighter AND Darkstalkers cartoon slip past me for the last 10 or so years. I’m not talking about the good anime ones ( Street Fighter movies and the V series, along with the Night Warriors anime), but some US made piles of you-know-what. Seriously, it must be that they are both so bad that i haven’t ever heard them spoken or written about before. Here are some loverly samples of the work for you.

What are they? I’d like an answer and an answer soon. And i thought watching the Double Dragon and Mortal Kombat cartoons during my youth might of been some of the worst shows i had ever seen. If only i could find full episodes, i would waste my bandwidth to get them, only to delete them later so i was doing the right thing.