PixlBit

I was never a fan of Charles Martinet's Mario voice, but that doesn't mean that I hate Charles Martinet.  I have a lot of respect for him for doing that voice for so long, and even though I don't like his Mario voice, I do like his Luigi and Wario voices.  I don't think Nintendo will change the voices too much in the future, though.  I think they'll try to keep similar sounding voice actors and actresses, just maybe ones that are cheaper and younger.  Charles Martinet is at the age to retire.  And I think Nintendo making him be a Mario Ambassador is just their way of saying there was no ill will between him and Nintendo for the departure.

I got to meet Charles Martinet once.  During the E3 that they were first showing the DS, they had press wait in a room before going to another room with the DS demo stations.  While we were waiting, a screen of Mario was at the door and he was talking to all of us in real time.  He did impressions.  He did Mario's voice trying to impersonate Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.  "Luka, I'm-a your poppa!"  "No, you're not my poppa!"  "Why did you cut-a off my hand, poppa?"  After we playing games in the demo station, Charles Martinet himself was outside the door waiting to shake our hands.

There was another time I may have gotten to talk with Charles Martinet as Mario.  At another earlier E3, they had an animatronic Mario you could interact with, and I know there was somebody who could see you because right behind Mario was a screen on the wall.  I was wearing a UT Longhorns hat and the white Longhorn logo was on the side, and Mario said, "It looks like a bird pooped on-a your hat!"  I think Charles Martinet was behind that screen.

The big games I was playing in 1994 were Super Metroid, Final Fantasy 6, and Donkey Kong Country.

My mom liked the Underworld movies because they have vampires and werewolves in them and she likes that kind of stuff.  I think vampires are gross, myself.

Some monsters help you farm, and others help you fight!

I watched most of the Resident Evil movies when they came on TV.  There got to be so many of them it was hard to keep track!

Millia Jovovich is pretty cool, but I don't really know why.  She cracked me up in The Fifth Element with that red Raggedy Ann hair and weird outfits.  "Autowash."  "Multipass."

One movie I think I forgot to mention in the podcast was Rampage.  My brother Jeff and I played that game a lot when he was a kid so we had to see it in a theater.  At the theater, the little girl behind us was very concerned about George the Ape's welfare.  She kept asking her dad if he was going to be OK.

If you give me more specific details, I might be able to help you in Banjo-Tooie.  I played that one to death on the N64, and I got all the achievements when it came to Xbox 360.

I just finished Illusion Island, so I finally got around to playing a game I got last Christmas called Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits.  It's based on an arcade game and the Switch version has a theme park and an aquarium you can walk around, kind of like Animal Crossing.  I may write a blog about it in another month or two, since my plans for writing a blog on Everybody 1 2 Switch fell through.  I wanted to talk about all the mini-games in that one, but since they pick them for you randomly, that would've been too hard to do.

I reviewed that Chicory game as well.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2022/02/09/chicory-a-colorful-tale-switch-ps4-ps5-pc/

I think there was also a SNES game based on that King Arthur cartoon.

I reviewed Rune Factory 4 Special

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2022/01/19/rune-factory-4-special-ps4-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc/

No Stage Select?  Aw, well I guess I'll just use this time to comment on stuff I've heard you all say in previous podcasts.  You don't have to read this aloud if you don't want to.  

A few podcasts ago, you were talking about if high school bands have their own fight song or if they use college band fight songs.  From my experience, I think all high school bands use a college fight song.  I was in band all through middle and high school.  I know in our middle school band, we played the same fight song that Texas A&M had.  And sometimes in high school, we'd play another team that had the same fight song as us!

Also, while I know we probably have different views on politics and religion, I know one thing we all agree on.  I hate country music, too!  And I also live in Texas!  Country music is either too depressing, too pandering, and/or too twangy.  Blech!

And as far as names go, I'm OK with my name but I am so tired of people either misspelling it or telling me that "Cary" is a girl's name.  So much so that if I ever had a kid, he or she would have a clear boy or girl name.  Not any of that unisex name business.

And here's a shameless plug for the latest episode of MY podcast!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/71wfoWsy5IF7CekOlBTWlS

You know it's strange that I never got into The Tick.  Especially since I really like a similar underground humorous comic series.  That being Sam & Max.  They're my favorite comic book characters and they also had a funny yet short lived Saturday morning cartoon.  And a bunch of great point and click adventure games, too.  If you haven't checked them out yet, I recommend that you do!

The big draw for me with Collection of Mana was I was finally able to play Trials of Mana in the US.  Unfortunately it was a hot mess.  The first SNES Secret of Mana game is really good, though.

It's a mess is what it is.