Vintage Visions

"It's not the Hardy Boys or a Nancy Drew mystery. It just Kenan and Kel in your vicinity!"
Kel was an idiot or something, fiending for orange soda like a crack head. But the show was true entertainment. It had the one-liners that you heard every show and integrated comedy,action, love, and drama. What's Kel doing now?

Playin Trix

Kids can be shitzy. Especially the kids in those Trix commercials. The rabbit got his hustle on getting himself some cereal and then these gangstas come around and Deebo him. Reminds of inmates that steal your sneakers. "Dat's Mine!" I was waiting for Trix to hit them kids up. They didn't even make it seem like a joke. At the end the of the commercial you see the rabbit sulking to the side of the screen and the kids getting their pillage on. What's worse is they then spat a derogatory comment, "Silly Rabbit"! Was he silly to believe in anti-disrimination? The lesson is... Stand up.

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New York Undercover

Yeah, yall remember this one. Starring Michael DeLorenzo and Malik Yoba, this show came on Fox every Friday after Martin or Living Single. Back then, Fox was killing it with the shows. It had just stopped airing In Living Color with all the Wayans and Jim Carrey (and J-L0 as one of the dancers). That show launched a lot of careers to.

Every show it would have them going undercover and they would have some musical guest in the show playing a role as themselves. It was a fun show.

The title of the show described the first few seasons of All That.

• Pierre Escargo, Repair Man, Good Burger, Ear Boy, Super Dude, Baggin Saggin Larry, Vital Information etc.
• Musical performances by TLC (sung the Intro), Immature, Da'Brat, Montel Jordan, 3LW, Monica, Mya, 2 Live Crew( j/k :)
• Launched careers..

The only thing that stopped them was aging. Then they started "jumping the shark" all over the place until we have the All That that our young siblings are watching. I don't know, maybe it's the same to them.

What's "jumping the shark?" This site explains it, Jump The Shark

I'm gonna drop some old school stuff for ya real quick...

21 Jump Street
A Different World
Hangin With Mr. Cooper

What yall know about that

I bet you yall can't remember this one... The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo.
"Ohhhhhhhhh, he got em with that one!" That came on Nickelodeon SNICK with all the other hits.

She was this detective kinda that solved mysteries and the show was made so the viewer had the chance to solve the mystery before her. Her grandfather was the Karate Kid guy and she had a couple of sidekicks/friends to help her.

She never listened to her gramps when he told her not to pursue some mysteries, but she did it anyway. Disobedience masked with perseverance.

Nowadays it's just straight up disobedience with a side of slapstick humor.

Remembering Rangers

Yeah I watched Power Rangers. Yeah I was the black ranger. He had that hiphop/martial arts style. However, his big robot was wack. Nobody, wants a mastadon.

He was on Space Cases too. Space Cases was a show on Nickelodeon's SNICK program. I was down with him there too.

But then everyone started biting off the whole theme of "teens with martial arts training saving the world" with VR Troopers, Beetle Borgs, and some samurai show with the Lawrence brothers.

I suggest we all go to the Power Rangers Central site and relive the magic.

Having A Blast

Sonic 3D Blast was the first game I got with the Sega Saturn. I was supposed to get a N64 that year but I'm glad my dad picked Sega.

This was a long jump from the 2-D days of Sonic on the Genesis. Reading an article on the Sega Roms Information blog about the game brought back memories.

I remember I was so happy when my brother and I beat the game. Robotnik was stupid hard.

Vintage Video Games I Want to Play

Clockwork Knights 1 &2 for Sega Saturn
Space Channel 5 for Sega Dreamcast
Final Fantasy 7 for Sony Playstation
Final Fantasy 8 for Sony Playstation
Mario's Lost (the one where you only play as Luigi)
Super Monkey Ball
Pandemonium for Sega Saturn
Twisted Metal for Sony Playstation
Dragon Ball GT Final Bout
Sonic Fighters
King of Fighters 97

More to come…

Nights with Nights

I loved playing Nights Into Dreams for the Sega Saturn. You see thats why Sega was a great game company. The Sonic Team was off the chain making those games that realy took the player somewhere else. And the there was Christmas Nights.

In the beginning you could pick a date and the game would change based on whatever date you picked. If you picked April Fools you got to play as Reala. There was a way you could play as Sonic too.

I remember playing that game at night with Capri Suns and some pizza in a moderately cold room with my blanket. No worries, no research papers, no projects due on Monday. sigh

I found a nice Nights Into Dreams fan page that shows what Nights was all about.

Dreamcast's Nightmare

I was betrayed and angry when I heard Sega discontinued the Dreamcast. After years of brand loyalty I was shafted after spending over $200 (really big for me back then).

I was reading in interesting blog on the causes of Sega's abandonement from the Game Cheats Portal blog, and I was saddened to again here how the PS2's hype killed Sega. It had the same specs and less games. It could play PS1 games, but some people thought it would actually upgrade them. There was other hype/myths surrounding the release that haters listened to. Oh well, I don't see Crash anymore. PS1 was lucky to have Tomb Raider and the FF series to help them out in those tough times.

I'm not hating though I have a PS2.

One Last Sample

I always wanted to play Clockwork Knights 2 on the Sega Saturn in its entirety. I remember only having the sampler and only being able to play the first level and look at the beginning intro. '

What captivated me was the Salsa song they played during the beginning. I would love to find how I could get that song. I will probably have to get a Sega Saturn and the game.

The game seemed to be about a toy knight trying to save a toy princess. However, in the demo's intro it never showed who the final boss was. I have to play that game.

An Earthworm Named Jim

I remember when this video game came out I didn't really show it much love, however when I played it and experienced the fast gunplay, weird humor, and etc. I was on board.

I really liked the show they came out with on the WB too. Those were back in the days of Freakazoid, Animaniacs, and Pinky and the Brain. What happened to the good cartoons.

Check out the lyrics to Earthworm Jim Television Show

The old Sonic the Hedgehog 2 game was one of the best games I played. It was the first game I played on the Sega Genesis 16-bit console and back then it seemed like 128 bits. It was so cool how he speed through the levels nonstop which required the player to play at a quicker pace.

The addition of Tails allowed for 2 player capabilities. It sucked trying to follow Sonic during gameplay but the racing mini-games took up a lot of my time.

One of the coolest features they had was if you collected all chaos emeralds you had the ability to turn into Super Sonic. All you had to do was collect 50 rings and jump in the air. Super Sonic was invincible and even faster.

Check out the Sonic the Hedgehog Live Journal Community

When I was playing these games I never would have imagined seeing the advancements we see today in video games. From 16 to 128, these are my memories of video game entertainment.