Mario Kart: Double Dash (Gamecube, 2003)

Time to step into the realm of the Gamecube, as Mario and friends get into the business of tag-teaming karts. Since this game coincides with Super Mario Sunshine, I expect it to share a lot of the same assets. Does this also mean the game will consist only of redundant Delfino Island levels?

Originally Posted July 2016

Mario Kart: Super Circuit (Game Boy Advance, 2001)

Next up is the series' jump to portables. This is basically Super Mario Kart 2 in every respect, from the visuals to the track-list. The usual suspects return, and everyone's ready for another round of kart mayhem. Except for Koopa Troopa, who is still out of a job. Thanks, Wario. Thanks a lot.

Originally Posted July 2016

Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64, 1997)

Time for one of the best games of all time and one that I took waaaay too long to play. The Super NES Super Mario Kart was the last game in this series that I really spent any substantial time with (until Mario Kart 8), so this one is pretty new to me. And it's awesome. How have I never spent any real time on this game?

Aside from playing it for a few minutes at a time at people's houses, which doesn't count. I basically missed out on the whole N64 era, outside of Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye when I got the system with them in 1999. Know how much it was? $70, plus $10 each for the two games. However, adjusted for inflation, that $90 wasn't the steal it seems like. It was still a pretty solid find regardless, and I've got good memories of that day in mid-1999 when I finally had an N64 and brought it home in a backpack.

Fun Addendum: I got stopped by the police while walking home. They were looking for someone else who looked like me and was "carrying weapons", and asked me if I minded opening the backpack and showing them what was in it. I complied, showing them the N64. Was afraid they would think it was a bomb or something. Instead one of them was like "my son has one of those!" and they apologized for stopping me and I went on my way.

Come to think of it, I'm lucky I got home with an N64 in tow if there was some maniac in my neighborhood with weapons. Imagine finally getting a new system and then immediately getting mugged.

Originally Posted July 2016

Super Mario Kart (Super NES, 1992)

Before I cover the new Mario Kart 9, I'm taking a trip back in time to look at some of the earlier games in the series by reposting my earlier playthroughs.

In 1992, Nintendo decided to put a bunch of beloved Mario characters (and Toad) into a kart-racing game. The result was one of the highest recorded awesome levels of the past thirty years. Until Toad started killing, anyway.

Originally Posted July 2016

Highlander 5x08 - Little Tin God

 

This episode is an interesting one. What would happen if an immortal exploited their inability to die and used that to convince people to follow them as a Christ-like figure? Well, finally one has decided to give it a try.

I don't think the series ever actually tackles the question of whether Christ Himself was an immortal, because it would have probably angered some group or other and gotten the show bashed online by moral busybodies. Kinda like what happens all the time in the 2020's. However it seems logical to conclude that yes, in the Highlander canon, Christ was indeed most likely an unspoken immortal. Wonder what happened to him. Maybe he ended up becoming the holy man that Darius slew when he sacked that unknown city in the early 100's, the one who was so pure/good that it made Darius completely change as a person?

...Well, there's a reason the show doesn't talk about this. Onward to the episode.