Jason V.

phire

Chocolate Lemon

Since I’m soo awesome. I’ll answer questions you may have about E3 while I’m there Via tweets and Facebook. Honestly, I don’t know what to expect from the West Coast.  My only experience with Cali come from rap videos from the 90’s .

But for E3, oh man I am pretty excited. There’s going to be live music, Methodman and Redman are preforming. They aren’t Megaman villains but they might as well be. There’s going to be some Lucha Libre going down. I want to interfere in the match and cost someone the belt and then oil up.

Gamewise I’m excited for Rockband 3.  The team and I will be getting a hands on-session, with that expect lots of video. Fist of the Northstar will be there. I don’t know how Cali will handle all that manliness. Sega is going to be on hand with a few goodies such as Phantasy Star Portable 2 and a new Sonic game. Capcom is up to its usual hi-jinks if there’s some MVC3 you’ll know. The list is extensive of all the stuff that’s going to be there.We’ll do our best to cover all the booths for you guys. I mean with booth babes I don’t know how much is going to get done but we’ll try to git’er done.

But with that said.
I am proud to say check in with Chocolate Lemon for its E3 coverage. Let’s rock!

Chocolate (phire) :  has joined the ranks. With more free time he has been to a few events with New York-Tokyo. The most recent events were the Tekken 6 tournament at the White Rabbit and Emily Cook snowboarding event. There was the second Street Fighter Fight Club that was attended.  What has he been playing? Demon Souls, DJ Hero, the last few days of the Mag Beta, Tekken 6, and some Dragon Age.
Lemon (jwong) was in an issue of  Gamepro along with his rival  Daigo.  He also attended the SFFC, you can read his thoughts on it here. He fought in Seasons Beatings and lost only to Daigo for second place. What has he been playing?  The usual; Street Figher, Tekken, and some Dungeon Fighter Online.
Galarian: Due to all his retro reviews is currently caught in a time warp and is working on a way to get back to the present.
Megumi: is lost somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness, was injured during a game of MAG.
Krismas: Is currently dressed up as Snake and behind you.
Wally: Is still in shock about reciving his first set of press passes for NYAF along with a reviewer’s copy of FairyTale Fights. He will be working with Jessness to cover that game.
Jessness: Avoiding her mob of fans and doing the school thing. Also maintaing high levels of Jessness. Working on the review for FTF.
Allowei: currently time travelling but still making time to write. Is working with Mircosoft to make sure you’re playing good games.
Beast: has been dealing with deleting data on his hard drive.
Expert Penguin: is in hiding due to the fact he made the switch from pad to stick after being so set in his pad player ways.
Everyone else has been off doing err something or the other in filler episodes obviously. That brings us up to date and that is (wait for it) the story thus far.

Up top (hopefully) is one of my favorite MJ tracks done live, called You Are Not Alone.

Michael Jackson (8/29/58 – 6/25/09)

The Angry Video Game Nerd

James Rolfe started this addicting, and hilarious phenomenon, as a joke. He was encouraged to do another ‘episode’ and it just started to spread. Over 50 reviews later, James has created a quite a following, with his reviews of the horrible games of the past, dropping f-bombs and other crude words and references, consumption of Rolling Rock, and some memorable guests during some episodes. Although there may be a few questionable titles he disliked (I thought TMNT on the NES was fun  as hell), there were quite a few ghastly titles that he dared to play and review (Batman Forever on the SNES, Zelda CD-i games).

James also does other things outside AVGN reviews, such as movie reviews at Spiketv.com, Top 10 compilations (Jackie Chan stunts, movie bad guys, etc) and other projects that he’s constant working on. Kyle Justin, who performs the awesome AVGN theme song as well as some other episode specific songs, is a talented musician in his own right. His first album, Live at the Tin Angel, is quite the piece of work, although not everyone’s cup of tea.

Recommended Nerd episodes — Fester’s Quest, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Blowout, The Wizard of Oz and The Wizard & Super Mario Bros 3.

My other favorite non CLGamer internet show is something I discovered while bored with job searching one late night. Bored as hell I started sifting through Youtube for the hell of it. I saw something about an i-Dog, and that got my attention. I had once worked at Toys R Us in Times Square, and i-Dogs were sold there and tried to be pushed as the next big phenomenon riding of the coattails of anything with “i” at the beginning. To spare any further unnecessary details, this i-Dog had something done to it that I never thought anyone would do….and now I present to you –

Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?

The whole premise of the show is to microwave various things in each 3-6+ min episode, and see what happens.  It sounds stupid, but the weirdo inside me got hooked and enjoys watching this. Throughout the series (160+ episodes) they have microwaved many different things, ranging from a Nintendo Gamecube, to firecrackers, to a laserdisc, to even Pikachu. Some things have no real reactions, and some things look pretty killer (CD, John McCain and Barack Obama….yes you read that right) It’s not a bunch of kids randomly throwing stuff into their microwaves. It’s college kids putting a microwave outdoors about 10-15′ away from the door, with masks, gloves, goggles and a tin foil shield. It’s to protect their nuts, because nobody likes roasted nuts (you’ll get that if you watch it).

Look up “Is it a good idea to microwave this” on Youtube and you should have a lot of options open to you. The 6th season just got underway on April 1st with the gang microwaving an XBox 360 and original XBox controller. New episodes will air every Monday and Friday evening until sometime in July. I’m sure there’s one episode that everyone would get a kick out of.

My recommended microwave episodes — Is it a good idea to microwave…. a Gamecube, Furbys, Ping Pong Balls, Fireworks, Giant Mercury Light Bulb, Pikachu.

I would have mentioned Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager, but this long awaited new season started off in such a boring way, I stopped watching it so I could save it for a really long dragged out day. Anyone else watch anything good out there on the web?