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You start to hear the sounds of the morning, the wind rustling the leaves, the chirping of the birds and that’s when you realize what day it is–Saturday! Cartoons! All week long you’ve been starved of cartoons, and now it is your time to feast! You throw off the covers, shove your feet in your slippers and sprint downstairs!
Grab that big bowl of C-3POs, adjust the antennae and plop down on the floor for your weekly dose of animated fun!
This week: Dino-Riders
“…ripped a hole in the fabric of time…”
Ha! I wonder how many times I heard that phrase in 80′s cartoons? This show is obviously based on a toyline, but what a toyline! How can you go wrong action figures that ride vehicles attached to dinosaurs that shoots lasers to fight aliens?!
In this show, as soon as the good guys land on the planet they make friends with all the dinosaurs and the bad guys brainwash their dinosaurs–how typical! If I landed on an alien planet filled with Dinosaurs, I would be too worried about getting eaten, but I guess that’s just me…
This show is filled with every voice actor you are familiar with, the animation isn’t bad and the story is laughable. An interesting side note: this might be one of the first times that the dinosaurs are animated not to be “tail draggers”.
Why is it taking so long to clone Dinosaurs?! I want to do some Dino-riding instead of my car for my daily commute! I mean, c’mon, a T-rex has to be street-safe right?
Beg your Mom for some quarters, jump on your bike, ride down to that dark, smokey, noisy and slightly dangerous home for one of your video games– the Arcade!
Puzzle Bobble or as it’s known in the US, Bust-A-Move is one of my all-time favorite games. I love it. I love almost every version of it on every platform.
It’s puzzle game based on the characters from Bubble Bobble, two little dinosaurs Bub and Bob. In that game you shoot little bubbles out of you mouth to trap enemies and collect little fruits and ice cream cones. In Puzzle Bobble, you use a little pointer to shoot bubbles to bounce to the top of the screen and cling onto other bubbles. When you match 3 or more bubbles of the same color, they pop dropping everything hanging under them. A lot of the bubbles are filled with enemies from Bubble Bobble.
It’s a very simple game mechanic but adding new ways to play and amazing level design has kept this game series alive. There are later games that introduced characters that had different abilities that would affect your game field and your opponent’s. If you really knew how to use those other characters, there was nothing that could stop you.
This game was released on the Neo Geo arcade cabinet that included multiple games that you could pick to play, such as Samurai Showdown, Alpha Mission, and Metal Slug. It was released during the period in arcades when they were completely dominated by fighting games.
I always loved walking into an arcade, past all the crazy kids playing super loud Street Fighter II and plop a quarter in to start up the cheerful Puzzle Bobble. I was really happy when challenger would step up because they meant that I would just wipe up the floor with them. I was almost unstoppable.
This game lead to a lot of fights between my friends. Once we were all playing the N64 version and we would take turns playing the 2 player game mode. When the person lost, they lost their turn and the winner stayed on. Well needless to say it devolved into a “let’s take down Gabe” contest which resulted in me winning over 60 straight rounds! Man, do I love that game…
Do you like Puzzle Bobble? Do you still play a version of it on something?
