Reviews Are Going For Good

Alright, I need to stop sitting around doing nothing about my reviews. I'm afraid I am going to give up on them. A lot of you might go up in arms about this, but I have lost any kind of motivation to do them whatsoever. It's all gone down the drain. I've lost every last motivational aspect to do one. I just don't want to. When I started this channel, I didn't have a clue on what I could have done, so I just posted a random video of me drooling on about Lego Racers. It got semi-popular. I started making more of the same thing. It got to the point where it's all of what my fans wanted. Just before I reached the last one, I started making Let's Plays of HE games. At first, I didn't have anything to record HE games because Fraps didn't work with them. But after I got CamStudio, I jumped on the LP bandwagon. I was still making reviews by this point, but I noticed I was enjoying making LPs much more. So I started neglecting game reviews and began Let's Playing. I had a small audience, but I was determined. It got to the point where I completely forgot about them, so I made a comeback with Lego Island Xtreme Stunts. I noticed it was actually of good quality given that it was scripted. But I started dedicating the channel far less to Lego game reviews and more to Humongous Entertainment. And here I am now, not wanting to do a review anymore. You see, everybody has to start somewhere. And if it's not what they like, they have to find something else. It took me a while to find I actually wanted to do Let's Plays, but it finally got there. Now I've lost every last piece of motivation to do such. I'm sorry it has to end this way regarding reviews, especially since I never got around to doing those three other Lego games, but I just don't want to. I am going to get a lot of backlash from this, but let's face it - reviews aren't my thing. So, to those who are subscribed to me for my reviews (and ONLY my reviews and nothing else), you may unsubscribe. Seriously, do. It will do me more of a favor than anything else.

My complete collection of computer and video games

I haven't posted here in such a long time now >_>
Anyway, I thought about making a video showing off all my games, but it turned out to be too much of a hassle so I'll just make the list here, in case somebody ever asks me what I have. I wouldn't consider myself a gamer, so I don't really buy that many games these days. And also, to those who ask why my collection is littered with kids' games... they're extremely cheap and easy to find these days, and considering I'm known for uploading walkthroughs of them, it makes more sense. Plus, they're much easier to come across in thrift stores dirt-cheap. Anyway, here's the list for ya.
PC Titles:
Lego Racers
Lego Racers 2
Lego Rock Raiders
Lego Island
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge
Lego Island Xtreme Stunts
Legoland
Lego Alpha Team
Lego Stunt Rally
Rayman Forever
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Rayman Arena
Frogger 3D
Monopoly
Wheel of Fortune: 2nd Edition
Humongous Classics Collection (Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon)
Humongous Entertainment Collection (Let's Explore the Farm, Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds, Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, and Putt-Putt & Fatty Bear's Activity Pack)
Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo (3 copies, both 1999 version, but all are different looking, and between two of the three, one's disk label is slightly different, as it has the the Atari copyrights instead of the HE copyrights)
Let's Explore the Airport with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug
Let's Explore the Jungle with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug
Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse (1999 version)
Pajama Sam in "No Need to Hide When it's Dark Outside"
Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal"
Putt-Putt Travels Through Time
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening
Putt-Putt Enters the Race
Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required
Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch
Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet
Putt-Putt Joins the Circus
Spy Fox 3: Operation Ozone
Freddi Fish 5: The Case of the Creature of Coral Cove
Freddi Fish and Luther's Maze Madness (1999 version)
Super Duper Arcade 1 (Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama, Spy Fox in Cheese Chase, Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries, and Pajama Sam's Sock Works)
Super Duper Arcade 2 (Putt-Putt and Pep's Dog on a Stick, Spy Fox in Hold the Mustard, Freddi Fish and Luther's Maze Madness, and Pajama Sam's Lost and Found)
Putt-Putt's One-Stop Fun Shop
Freddi Fish's One-Stop Fun Shop
Pajama Sam's One-Stop Fun Shop
Backyard Baseball
Backyard Baseball 2001
Backyard Baseball 2003
Backyard Football
Backyard Soccer MLS Edition
Backyard Soccer 2004
Backyard Basketball
Backyard Football 2002
Backyard Hockey
Pajama Sam: Life is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff!
Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise
Tonka Construction
Tonka Construction 2
Tonka Garage
Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games 2007 (A title my parents got me for Christmas, even though they enjoy it way more than me)
RollerCoaster Tycoon Gold
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum
Living Books: The Tortoise and the Hare
Living Books: The New Kid on the Block
Living Books: Arthur's Birthday V1
Living Books: Arthur's Birthday V2
Living Books: Sheila Rae, the Brave
Living Books: Dr. Seuss's ABC
Living Books: The Cat in the Hat
Living Books: D.W. the Picky Eater
I Spy School Days
I Spy Treasure Hunt
I Spy Spooky Mansion
I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe
I Spy Fantasy
Reader Rabbit's 2nd Grade
Secret of Monkey Island (via the iOS port)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (via the iOS port)
Team Fortress 2
The Oregon Trail Deluxe

PC Titles I had as a kid but not anymore (This list is likely incomplete; I can't remember every computer game I ever owned!):
I Spy Junior
Jump Start Kindergarten (Original Release)
Jump Start Reading For First Graders
Jump Start Preschool
Reader Rabbit's First Grade
Reader Rabbit's Second Grade: The Mischeese-ious Dreamship Adventure
Tonka Search and Rescue
Tonka Dig n' Rigs
Disney Animated Storybook: 101 Dalmatians
Amazon Trail: 3rd Edition
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
Rescue Heroes: Lava Landslide
Aladdin Activity Center
Toy Story Activity Center
Toy Story 2 Activity Center
Detective Barbie: Carnival Caper (My sister's game, but what I find funny is that they have a list of names so that the game can say yours, and not only did they have my sister's very rare name, but they had MALE names too, including mine!)
Barbie Pet Rescue (Again, my sister's game)
The Way Things Work
George Shrinks (Living Book clone)
Forever Growing Garden

PS1/2 Titles:
Pac-Man World
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Crash Team Racing
Crash Bash
Pac-Man World 2
Rayman 2: Revolution
Rayman Arena
Sonic Mega Collection Plus
Lego Soccer Mania
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (My dad's game)
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (Again, my dad's game)
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Nitro Kart
Crash Twinsanity
Crash Tag Team Racing (This game deserved way better reviews. I had a blast in multiplayer with this game, mostly because it was easy for my friends to pick up and play!)
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 (Gutair Hero still wasn't popular when we bought this. In fact, I STILL don't have GH or Rock Band)
Shrek 2 (Actually a pretty awesome game)
Namco Museum (Has Pac-Man, Pac-Man Arrangement, Galaga [Arrangement], Dig Dug [Arrangement], Pole Position, Pole Position II, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaxian, and two unlockables Pac-Attack and Pac-Mania)
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (My sister's, and widely ridiculed I might add)
Backyard Baseball

PS1/2 Titles I used to have:
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge (The whole reason I had this version was because I couldn't get the PC version to work on my old low-end computer back then, so I had to settle for this one instead.. I got rid of it after I got my 2005 computer)
Pac-Man World 3 (That game was a huge let-down, as it was WAY too focused on combat and not enough on platforming)
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (Must I go over this again?)
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Pac-Man Fever (I was young when I bought this and only bought it because it had Pac-Man. It turned out to be a Mario Party clone with characters from other Namco games competely out of my age range at that time. It was actually pretty good even so, but I got rid of it so I could make a quick buck)
Shrek Superslam (I didn't have a Nintendo console, so I just bought the closest thing to SSB as I could. It entertained my friends, so it was good. I gave it to my friend after I didn't want it anymore)
ATV Offroad Fury (Only played it for a little bit for me to get bored. Was originally a Christmas gift and my second PS2 game, after PMW2)
ATV Offroad Fury 2 (Why did I buy this again?)

Wii/GameCube/VC Titles:
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Super Paper Mario
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Super Smash Bros Melee
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mario Party 6 (This series gets hated on a little too much IMO. I actually like it for being good, simple fun, not matter how similar the sequels are)
Mario Party 8
Sonic Unleashed
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Wii Sports (And how!)
Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
Super Mario World (Best SNES game ever!)
Super Mario 64
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Mario Kart 64
Super Mario Kart
Mario Party 2
Kirby's Adventure
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Earthworm Jim
Yoshi's Story
Wrecking Crew (Why did I download this again?)

Wii Titles I used to own:
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Must I go over this one for the hundredth time?)

GBA/DS Titles I own:
Super Mario 64 DS
Lego Battles
Namco Museum DS (Has Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug II, Xevious, Mappy, The Tower of Druaga, and Pac-Man Vs.)
Kirby Super Star Ultra
Kirby Squeak Squad
New Super Mario Bros
Mario Kart DS
Super Mario Advance
Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Mario Kart Super Circuit

DS Titles I used to own:
Crash Boom Bang! (Lost it. Wasn't really a good game anyway)

Whew, I had way more games than I imagined. I didn't think this would take me the whole night to type up.

My Initial Thoughts on Soccer/Football Mania

Whew, this place has collected a lot of dust! I haven't had much to say, but I've finished Lego Soccer Mania now, and I figured I'd give my initial thoughts on it. It's by far my favorite of the three Lego games I ordered, so it shouldn't have been surprising that I finished this one first. Jamessterv2 had told me it lacked difficulty, and he was mostly right; until the last world. The first three worlds aren't very difficult, but the last world is another story. It's quite a fun game even so. It's very fast paced, the only times you are halted are when somebody scores a goal or halftime comes in. I also like how they made each of the power-ups useful in a way, unlike most other games where some power-ups are completely useless. Now, they aren't blanced in power (coughrocketballcough), but they're useful, and that's all that matters to me. The controls work perfectly and I never had an issue with them. The music is mixed; some are catchy, some will drill into your head from their annoyance. I won't turn this into a full review, I'm just saying what I thought. The full review won't come until after Alpha Team, which I still need to play through, so don't yell "UMG WEN WIL U REVIEW EHT". Be patient, I don't want to review a game I don't have enough knowledge on. I have seen a certain other irate (hint hint) reviewer do it way too often, and the outcome is horrendous.

SO BORED AUGH

So it's been some of the most boring days before Christmas I've ever had. I have been doing absolutely nothing but sit in my home, exhausting every last idea to escape boredom. I want to get out my childhood computer, but I have to wait until after Christmas to do that. So I'm stuck with my OmniBook, but I've been there done that on that computer. Now I'm playing games I rarely play anymore on my PS2 and Wii because I'm so bored. CHRISTMAS, GET OVER HERE NOW! Ugh, you'd think it would get hectic around here. That's only the case for my parents though. I would invite friends over, but in the whole 3 years I've been in this house I'm incredibly paranoid to invite anybody over. I fear they'll laugh if they find out I don't have an Xbox or PS3. This is torture. WHEN WILL THIS END!? I would skip over this whole day if I wanted to. There is NOTHING. Complete NOTHING. I think I'll start uploading completely random videos due to boredom.

My Childhood: Computers

In my last post I told you about building toys in my childhood. Now it's time to begin with computers. My dad is an electrical engineer and has been into computers since he was in high school (Apple IIs FTW!), so he's half the reason I love computers so much. In 1992, he bought our first computer, 3 years before I was born. It was a custom-built computer he got at a shop. It was an MS-DOS computer (don't ask me which version, he doesn't remember), but if I was able to remember that time, I wouldn't have cared. In 1995 or 96, he got it upgraded to Windows 95 (BEST OS EVER, MAC FANBOYS CAN SHUT UP). This is where my childhood really kicked in. Now, this computer was slower than you can imagine, since, after all, can you expect much from a '92 computer? Anyway, it was slow, but I loved it anyway. At the age of 3 as far back as I can remember, the thing I loved most on it was playing games. Oh yes, you know what I'm saying next. I know you do. If you don't, shame on you! Take a guess. No, seriously, take a guess what is coming next. If you have been living under a rock for about a year now if you're following my YouTube, you should know this. It was...

If you didn't see that coming, I pity you. HE was everything when I was a kid. I'd go to school and the only thing I'd look forward to was popping in a HE game. I can't remember the first one I played, but I can tell you the first few games I had.

Pictured above is the Humongous Classics Collection. It included HE's first three games: Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon. Here's another CD I remember having:

Here's a rare 4-game disk that includes Putt-Putt Joins the Parade (I kid you not, I have two), Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack, Let's Explore the Farm with Buzzy, and Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds. The only other one I remember having as far back as I can remember is Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal". I had opened Freddi Fish 3 for Christmas 1998 (And I have it taped too), I bought Pajama Sam 2 somewhere, then I got Putt-Putt Enters the Race, then I got Putt-Putt Travels Through Time and Balloon-o-Rama at some store (Dang I played BoR a ton), I got Spy Fox 2 and Pajama Sam 1 for my fourth birthday (Got it taped too), then I got Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, then I got Pajama Sam 3 (I distinctly remember my dad running out of the store with it because we were in a hurry), then I got Putt-Putt Joins the Circus, then Spy Fox 3, then Freddi Fish 5, and finally Freddi Fish 4. I had every Jr. Adventure as a kid except Freddi Fish 2. I'm not kidding, I was such a spoiled child. Now, HE wasn't the only company that I got games from. I also played a few Living Books games, Tonka games, and Jump Start games. For the crappy computer it was, it sure stood the test of time when it was still alive. Since my dad is an electrical engineer, I've had plenty of laptop computers as well. Here's one I've shown to my YouTube subscribers:

That's right, the good ol' HP Omnibook 800CT. This thing is from 1997, and is still alive and well. When I was young that computer wasn't his work computer; his work computer was an IBM Thinkpad, booted with Windows 98, my personal favorite from that time. He also had a Windows NT 4.0 (again, an IBM laptop) but that one was useless IMO. His Windows 98 played all the games that didn't run on my childhood computer or my HP Omnibook. But after we moved to our third house, his company made him upgrade it to a Windows 2000, eventually becoming our home computer. Why? Well, our previous home computer's monitor died. When we moved, we set the whole thing back up. The computer, keyboard, mouse, speakers, EVERYTHING was working properly except the monitor. The thing was just pitch black and refused to do anything. We couldn't just go out and buy another monitor; I wasn't rich, you know! So that pretty much marked the end of that computer. The Omnibook was our "new" computer until my dad had to give up his Windows 2000. This was our first computer to go on the internet, but it didn't really matter. Why? Let me explain this in one sentence: THAT COMPUTER WAS A PILE OF CRAP. Yes, I may have said that my childhood computer was bad, but it was usable. This one on the other hand...totally unusable. The keyboard was delayed in most programs, making it impossible to play pinball, the battery back up didn't work, so if you unplugged it, it died instantly no matter how long it was plugged in, half my PC game collection didn't work...ugh, there was so much bad about it. It just simply wasn't usable. And to add insult to injury, I WAS STUCK WITH IT UNTIL 2005. My dad couldn't figure out that I hated it so much, so he waited way too long to replace it. It was 2005, and we finally got a new one, and it's the one I use now. It's an HP Pavillion a1250n. It's booted with Windows XP Media Center Edition. It's been highly useful to this day, and still does everything I need it to. Microsoft has not-so-secret plans to get rid of it once and for all, but I assure you XP will stand the test of time. My dad has had several other computers over time: He's had a Dell Latitude PP01S booted with Windows 2000, which is still alive and well, but the screen isn't that great and it takes 15 minutes to boot up. Another one he had for the longest time was another Windows 2000 and was the same model as his NT 4.0 (but wasn't the same thing as it was originally booted with XP, and was downgraded since his company didn't like how unsecure XP was). The one he has now used to be a Vista, but a few weeks before writing this, it was upgraded to 7 (and I don't know if you will believe me, but it got worse). The only remains I have from all of these computers are my childhood computer, my Omnibook, the HP Pavillion, the Windows 7, and the Dell Latitude. The rest have died or gone away. (I hope to never see my old home computer again, or the same model for that matter. Those are the kinds of memories I don't want to bring back) I don't know if I have said this before, but my computers are one of the few things that survived when I moved to my current home. When I moved from my third house, I did the dumbest thing I could ever do - we didn't have enough closet space for all of the stuff we had, so we had to drop quite a few things. I dropped every childhood memory of mine - my computer games, my stuffed animals (one survived), my non-Lego and Thomas building toys, my Hot Wheels cars, my Happy Meal Toys, you name it. The only computer games to survive were my Lego ones and a few others. I felt stupidest about HE games, so a couple of years later, nostalgia came back to hit me hard, and I started recollecting a bunch of them. I now am back to having all of the ones I had as a kid, and now I have more. But I'll never be able to recollect some of those things. Who knows if I'll ever come across that Putt-Putt plushie ever again. If you have childhood memories, DON'T DROP THEM. It will be for your own good not to do that. Thanks for reading this post, and I'll see you next time!

Well, just to start, let me tell you a little something about my childhood...

I have mentioned quite a bit about my childhood, but never really told you the whole story. So I figure I might as well do so.
Now, I've lived in four houses my whole life. The first one I know almost nothing about. The second and third I know the most about. I moved into my current one about two years ago, but I'll start with my second house. Possibly the first things I remember in my whole life were two things - building toys and computers. I'll start with building toys. Now, of course the first ones I remember were Lego. The first Lego set I had was a tub of Duplo, but I stopped caring about that quick when I got my Power Pitstop.
Here's the first set I ever owned. It was fairly small, but for some reason there was something so interesting about it. I would often tear it apart and put it together again because I loved it so much. I don't know what made me love it, but this is where it all began. I still have the instructions to it, now I just need to find where I put all those pieces. But if you've seen this video...

You'd know that it wouldn't be quite easy to do. Now, that wasn't the only set I had. Over the years I started getting countless numbers of sets, and as that video shows, those tubs are filled with all the pieces I had from those sets. Just to name a few, I had a couple of boats, a ton of cars, several Star Wars models, Znaps, town sets, the actual soccer field thing (not an accesory, the actual model, and the first version), some of the board games, and way more that I wish I could think of right now. I think my favorite set was the soccer field.

I had a lot of fun playing this with my dad and my sister. What made it so special was that it was my first "expensive set", and I wanted it more than ever as a kid. You try to pass the soccer ball to your teammates and score a goal, but make sure that it doesn't end up hitting an opponent. It was my favorite for a while, but in third grade, I got this set.

Yep, the Castle of Morcia. I actually still have this one built, and I loved it to death. It was fun changing the aspects of the castle to make it evil or good, and I would often make half of it good and half of it evil just for lulz. I got it in Christmas 2005, and have loved it since. This was back in the day when if they were advertising Lego at McDonald's, they would actually give you car sets and not cheap giant minifigures (no oxymoron intended). Besides Lego, I had quite a few other building toys as well. Firstly, I had Lincoln Logs, which my grandmother gave me when I was little for my birthday. And boy did I play with those a bunch. Jigsaw puzzles were also a big role in my childhood as well, and like that pitstop, I would always take them apart and put them back again because I loved them so much. Then there was one that had as much of an impact as Lego - Thomas the Tank Engine. I don't know what it was I loved about it so much, but I played with it way too much. My first set I got (which I'll eat my pants if you've even heard of it before) was called "Instant System Set No. 3". I can't find any pictures of it (and I'm not getting it out of my attic just to take a picture of it), but it was a figure-8 set that featured Thomas, Annie and Claribell. It also had a shed, Sir Topham Hat, and a couple of signs. But unlike the pit stop, I wasn't too big on it. I started getting more, and what do you know, I got hooked. I was an impatient child, so making freestyle Lego sets was something I just couldn't do. That's why I free built Thomas way more, as it was quick and simple. Now, possibly my favorite extra segment I got was the coal station.

What you did here was grab some coal, put it in the conveyer belt, roll the belt up, and drop it into the car waiting at the other end. I have no idea why I loved this so much, but I did. In fact, I still have all of my Thomas stuff, in my attic. It's all going away when I make it to college (This stuff will be rare, Instant System Set 3 can already be going for outragous prices!), but if I ever feel like taking a trip down nostalgia road again, it's there.
Thanks for reading this post, tune in next time for computers!

Welcome!

I've decided to make a blog for myself. Why? Why not? I'm not quite sure how this will go, but I'll do something with it in the near future.