This comes out for the 3DS next week, and I’m more excited for it than I was for the Zelda remake. I’ve got fonder childhood memories of Star Fox 64:
1. I HAVE A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO ABOUT IT FROM NINTENDO.
Nintendo was telling me that this game was SO IMPORTANT that it basically required its own movie. I know it was a long commercial, but I must have watched that video more times than most actual movies I had (READ: Zeus and Roxanne). There was even a plot about Sega agents capturing a Nintendo guy. It was pretty crazy. This video brought the following thing to my attention:
2. THE RUMBLE PAK.
I was, at this point, a Nintendo Power subscriber (I only stopped last year because I made a conscious decision to not get magazines in the mail anymore. I say this as a now reluctant subscriber of Game Informer) and I knew OF the Rumble Pak, but the video really highlighted how much the Rumble Pak would improve my life. And it came with the game! AND GAMING WAS FOREVER CHANGED.
3. THE VIDEO GAME SECTION AT BEST BUY ON LAUNCH DAY.
I don’t know if you’re old enough to have this be a nostalgia thing, but there once was a time when the video game section was like a monument to gaming. They had giant displays built out of nine (!!!) TVs each, hanging from the ceiling, showing the entire store just how bad you were at Crash Bandicoot. However, not on the launch of Star Fox 64, because the game on display that day was STAR FOX 64, and it is an image burned into my mind. It’s one of my greatest video game memories, right up there with the first time I played a PC game on a color monitor (!!!) (it was Commander Keen [!!!]). I remember playing the demo station for 10 seconds and then realizing I had to get it. I know this because I literally told people “I played it for ten seconds and then I knew I had to get it”.
While You’re At It, Mr. Fillion, Buy the Rights to “Drive”
Nathan Fillion, who was the star of the ELROYHEADDOTCOMRECOMMENDED show Firefly (also referenced on last week’s Community, and is also going to be airing on the Science Channel on March 6th) and is the current star of Castle, recently said the following in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:
If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
I have an additional idea, Mr. Nathan Fillion: buy the rights to Drive.
For the uninitiated, allow me to initiate you (lol). Drive was a TV show from 2007 that featured an illegal street race with a mysterious purpose. It was kind of like LOST meets a sinister version of The Amazing Race, because anything that involves a mystery is like LOST.
Starring Nathan Fillion.
It aired on FOX, and was cancelled within ten days. They only aired four episodes, which were awesome, and some episodes were streamed online, because they cancelled it oh my god those jerks.
You’re not going to believe the reason why it got cancelled. Take it away, Wikipedia:
It debuted in the United States on April 15, 2007 on Fox, and moved into its regular time slot on Mondays the next day; in that slot it faced stiff competition from NBC’s Deal or No Deal and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. On April 25, Fox canceled Drive only after four episodes had aired.
Yeah. Flippin’ Dancing With The Deal Or No Stars. Criminal, really. It wasn’t even given the chance to build an awesome fanbase like Firefly. What’s the Drive equivalent of Browncoats? OH THAT’S RIGHT WE’LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY ON TV FOUR TIMES. Actually, three times; the first two episodes were a two-hour premiere. So it’s even worse. That semicolon might be in the wrong place.
This is the other reason to bring it back:
Drive is the first place I saw Emma Stone, and is probably the first acting job she ever had in her entire life. So, I am basically saying that Emma Stone would not be famous today if Drive had not existed, which seems contradictory since nobody got to watch it, but this is my tumblog! “It was made for me!” Go tumbl your own og, you pedant!
Therefore, Drive was one of the most important shows of 2007, as its impact has had drastic effects on our pop culture today as we know it. Heck, even Spider-Man misses the show. And do you know who’s going to be in the new Spider-Man movie?
YUP
EMMA.
Fate has smiled upon us, Nathan Fillion, and it is telling you to Revive Drive.
I have been looking everywhere for this cartoon owl.
I used to have this on a VHS tape somewhere as a kid. It’s some old timey Disney educational cartoon about music, with a cartoon owl teaching other cartoon birds about melody.
I don’t know what happened to the tape, or why I grew up with a tape of random Disney educational cartoons from 1953. The part at around 3:06, “WELL WHADDAYA KNOW ABOUT THAT”, stuck with me throughout my childhood, and absolutely nobody understands what I’m referencing whenever I quote it. I remembered that there was an owl, so I decided to look it up online.
Searching “disney owl cartoon” on Google gives you a lot of results, mostly about the more mainstream Disney owls. “Disney owl movie” turns up links about that new owl movie, “Owl Wars” or whatever. As a joke, I Googled “List of fictional owls” and ended up at Wikipedia’s List of fictional owls.
Eventually I settled on “disney educational owl”, which turned out to be the right combination of owl-related search terms to give me the final result, Professor Owl.
Here he is in all his majesty, and spread the word so that “WELL WHADDAYA KNOW ABOUT THAT” gets the recognition it deserves.
In celebration of the fact that I finally finished the first Monkey Island game, which came out like 20 years ago, here is an awesome scan of the back of the game’s box from 1990. (Source)
![This comes out for the 3DS next week, and I’m more excited for it than I was for the Zelda remake. I’ve got fonder childhood memories of Star Fox 64:
1. I HAVE A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO ABOUT IT FROM NINTENDO.
Nintendo was telling me that this game was SO IMPORTANT that it basically required its own movie. I know it was a long commercial, but I must have watched that video more times than most actual movies I had (READ: Zeus and Roxanne). There was even a plot about Sega agents capturing a Nintendo guy. It was pretty crazy. This video brought the following thing to my attention:
2. THE RUMBLE PAK.
I was, at this point, a Nintendo Power subscriber (I only stopped last year because I made a conscious decision to not get magazines in the mail anymore. I say this as a now reluctant subscriber of Game Informer) and I knew OF the Rumble Pak, but the video really highlighted how much the Rumble Pak would improve my life. And it came with the game! AND GAMING WAS FOREVER CHANGED.
3. THE VIDEO GAME SECTION AT BEST BUY ON LAUNCH DAY.
I don’t know if you’re old enough to have this be a nostalgia thing, but there once was a time when the video game section was like a monument to gaming. They had giant displays built out of nine (!!!) TVs each, hanging from the ceiling, showing the entire store just how bad you were at Crash Bandicoot. However, not on the launch of Star Fox 64, because the game on display that day was STAR FOX 64, and it is an image burned into my mind. It’s one of my greatest video game memories, right up there with the first time I played a PC game on a color monitor (!!!) (it was Commander Keen [!!!]). I remember playing the demo station for 10 seconds and then realizing I had to get it. I know this because I literally told people “I played it for ten seconds and then I knew I had to get it”.
And also the game was pretty amazing! So buy it.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqqa47IwLd1qb7uuao1_1280.png)
