I still need to hook up one of my cheap DreamCasts from the Salvation Army super thrift shop and see what all the buzz was about. One of these days I will get my cottage squared away and not have a pile of boxes in the center of my living space and maybe I can pull out the old CRT TV once in a whle to play my retro systems on. A girl can dream...
Catch of the Day
On 02/06/2014 at 04:02 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Linked to Article Series: Blog a Day (BaD) 2014
I was playing Sega Bass Fishing on my Dreamcast the other day when I noticed it was Wednesday, comics day. I told my Dreamcast to bring up the Sega Marketplace and, with the fishing rod controller, made my way through the new releases, the announcer said “Hit!” on every one, which became annoying after a while, and selected the ones I wanted with a tug like you do when hooking a fish in the game. Then I reeled them in to my purchase screen, the announcer saying, “Fight!”. I don’t know why they make you pretend to reel in a fish when you select products to buy, but it is fun. Then an image appeared looking like a basket of fish but filled with comics and the announcer said, “This one’s huge!” A day later, they showed up at my door and here’s the pictorial evidence.
Turok Dinosaur Hunter #1: Read it today. It’s pretty good. It’s retelling Turok’s origin story, or recreating it. I’m not sure what his origin story is from previous comics. In this one, Turok lives in North America at the site of today’s New York City around 1200 AD. For some reason, there are dinosaurs, but there’s no explanation of them so far. All you know is Turok’s family was killed mysteriously and that Turok’s Native American tribe claims they committed murderer and were punished. Thus Turok is an outcast who lives in the woods, having to pay the price of his parents’ misdeeds. However, his parent’s death is shrouded in mystery, so I wouldn’t be surprised if later on it was found they were the victims of some malicious plot. I think I’ll stick with this series for another issue to see what happens next.
Trillium #6 and Harely Quinn #1 are still unread. Probably get to them tomorrow.
Dark Souls Design Works: I just started looking through it. I love the images of ancient ruins, dark and gloomy, with a lone figure at the bottom intent on traveling through it. These landscapes and creepy architectures are my favorite subjects in this book so far.
Wouldn’t it have been cool, in an alternate universe, to have witnessed the amazing success of the Dreamcast and still be playing it today?
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