For Anyone Who Cares…

State of the Blog will be up tomorrow… haven’t been feeling well in all honesty and fell behind on a couple things, but we should be on track soon enough. Another Gimmick Table is due later today at the usual time.

But for curious parties who didn’t catch the latest overpriced PLE last night or check the results of said show, I did the bare minimum of the latter for you and, well…

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The DTM Mailbag – Year Two Episode #02

Click here to download the MP3.

Post went up earlier without a link. Sorry about that… but in any case, it’s another monthly edition of Mailbag questions with a plea for a cessation of certain lines of questioning that will never get satisfactory answers, some prospective sales number predictions, and a push towards what may prove to be (one of) the most divisive video review (if not the longest) that I’ll ever put out… this and (not) much more.

Review #1288 – The Peace Keepers (Super NES)

Hey, look at that. This one’s early, so let’s keep the peace, everyone… by beating everyone up into pieces… or something… I don’t know…

The final game in the Rushing Beat trilogy left me a bit conflicted, but not as bad as Rival Turf, I suppose. On the fence as to whether I’ll be getting the new one that’s out in a month… yes, there’s another coming up… that’s all we need these days are more of these revivals that are… well… that’s another story for another time.

How Many Of EGM #100’s Top 100 Games Of All Time Have I Actually Played?

About a decade ago… but not quite a decade ago because 2016 was a leap year… I did a quick lookback at The 100 Best Games Of All Time from the 100th issue of esteemed publication Electronic Gaming Monthly. For those who want to read said lookback, click here.

Today, we’re doing something different and we’re going to list how many of these games I’ve actually played. A lot has happened in ten years and I’ve played slightly more games than I did originally, so… yeah, here we go.

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The Weather And The Delay

Noting the weather forecast up here after a bunch of snow hit, Friday is looking a bit warmer, Saturday hits us with showers, and Sunday goes into a deep freeze… and we’ll be a week away from Daylight Savings, which always a fun time, he lied.

Health-wise, I’ve been better. Got a bit more sleep this week, which is nice. I’ve even gone to bed before midnight, which is rare for me these days since I often take unwanted hours-long naps during the evening… fine for the weekend when I want to burn midnight oil on personal projects. Not so fine when you want, you know, sleep. The dog is better at sleeping than I am and she often gets spooked with all sorts of weird noises. Not all bad, I suppose.

In other news, it looks like Peace Keepers is going to be another evening upload tomorrow, as there’s a couple extra bits of footage I need to grab before putting aside the Switch for other projects. That Ataribox needs a bit of love.

WCW Monday Nitro (Feb. 26th, 1996) – Good Show, Crap Main Event

Opening match see Sting defeat Big Bubba (a.k.a. the former Big Bossman is he big, Ray Traylor) with a crossbody in a pretty fun opening match, which is followed by the Road Warriors challenging Sting and Lex Luger to defend their titles in a Chicago Street Fighter at the upcoming Uncensored PPV… which is in Tupelo, by the way… the farthest thing from “Chicago” as you can get. For those who have seen the Monday Night Wars DVD, this is where the clip of Eric Bischoff giving away RAW results is taken from. You’ll note that I don’t make mention of these happening all that often because I try to blank out on commentary… and part of that has to do with Mongo, who started off tolerable and sometimes even good, but had since degraded into unintelligible twat that it’s almost sad. It’s probably for the best that he eventually transitioned to wrestler in a couple months.

Lex Luger defeated THE RENEGADE via Torture Rack with an assist from Jimmy Hart, which causes Sting to come out and cry foul. The Renegade is no longer wearing any facepaint, but still maintains some Warrior mannerisms. It’s too bad the guy stuck with this Warrior rip-off gimmick and never bothered to remake his image because I’d imagine he would have had some modicum of success for being his own man rather than being a rip-off… maybe he wouldn’t have taken his own life as a result… yeah, I’m being grim here. Sorry.

Road Warriors defeated Harlem Heat to cement their status as challengers for the tag titles. Good match for what it was and this is followed by our main event, which features Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, and the BOOTY MAN (Ed Leslie’s 48,882,802th gimmick change after being Zodiac… his sudden turn from the Dungeon Of Doom being explained that he was actually a SPY for Hogan… so that whole thing with Starrcade ’94 and them fighting for the World title was a ruse? My brain hurts more than it deserves to be hurt – why are you stupid, Nitro?! WHY?!! Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah…) facing off against Ric Flair, Kevin Sullivan, and Arn Anderson – the last one being the recipient of a Hogan legdrop as the Huckster gets his win back, JACK!

The show ends with Hogan helping Liz put handcuffs on him so that he can get pummeled by Flair and friends. An absolutely wretched main event to close an otherwise serviceable Nitro.

So quick note before we close up: there’s no Nitro Musings next week because Nitro didn’t air next week, so we’ll be continuing two weeks later. However, Nitro musings will resume on Wednesdays rather than Thursdays for the simple reason that 1996 was a leap year (every fourth year, February has 29 calendar days) while 2026 is not. That way, we can continue the gimmick of “On This Day 30 Years Ago…” that these Nitro posts have adopted.

With that said, there is going to be something to fill the void, but you’ll have to wait and see…