The Decline Of The Tuber

Since creating Matropolis I've met a great number of people from YouTube whom I now call friends. The gaming community on the video site are absolutely fantastic and it's been great interacting with everyone.

I've been active for nearly a year now and love filming videos to upload, even though it's given me less time to blog but in a way this blog was a starting point to for me.

It was YouTube where I discovered Rick Idak and have become involved in his Marine Boy fan film. All thanks to a comment left on a video. Amazing how it started all from that. 

And Now Lloyd's Bank Creeps Me Out Too!

I was shocked when I saw this. Whilst watching the adverts on TV one for Lloyd's Bank came on. Nothing out of the norm there until they showed the above image! This is from a Humpty Dumpty cartoon collection I had on video from when I was a kid which contains the same cartoons from my Old Cartoons Creep Me Out post.

Cardiff Comic Con March 2015

It was that time of year once more, for Cardiff Comic Con to arrive. Yet again in the Motorpoint Arena with the usual stalls and guests you come to love.

Back in November at the previous comic con, I didn't enjoy it very much. This was due to the fact that I'd been to New York Comic Con only a month before so the two didn't compare as NYCC was about 50 times larger!

X Is For...The X-Files!

The truth is out there!

Trust no one!

I can still hear the theme music playing in my head as agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully appear on screen in the opening titles. The X-Files was a TV phenomena and is in my top 5 favourite series of all time.

W Is For...Wild West C.O.W.-Boys Of Moo Mesa!

So I'm coming towards the end of the A-Z series and for W I have chosen an old cartoon I used to watch which stars cows as cowboys! Clever? Of course the cartoon is Wild West C.O.W.-Boys Of Moo Mesa. 

I had forgotten about this cartoon until I came across the video game on my modded Xbox and the memories came flooding back!

Although those memories are still a bit fuzzy.

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

D....K....Donkey Kong!

I love this game series and for many years I never owned my own copy of a Donkey Kong game. The first time I played it was over my friend's house as I didn't own a Snes. I had a Nes however. 

But now I have my Wii U of course! I played Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii and that was an awesome game!

So I was clearly going to purchase Tropical Freeze with my Wii U.

Grim Fandango

Whilst playing The Curse Of Monkey Island you come across a skeleton with a bread knife embedded into his back. From his hat falls a button that says, 'ask me about Grim Fandango.' Well the guy's dead so you can't ask him anything.

Full of in-jokes, this was one about an upcoming point & click adventure game featuring a cast of skeletons and demons. Not very scary ones though.  Also the gameplay involved you using the arrow keys to move Manuel 'Manny' Calavera instead of clicking the mouse about the screen.