Transformers – Studio Series – Black Out
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Transformers – Studio Series – Black Out

As sort of a last hurrah for the Michal Bay Transformers series, which is effectively done, Hasbro has been doing a sort of "greatest hits" line themed around the movies called Studio Series.  It's not a bunch of re-releases though, it's new molds of most of the figures, with an emphasis on Robot Mode Scale.  It's also a way for Hasbro to give us better versions of a lot of characters who aren't named Bumblebee or Optimus Prime.  Often in the case of movie toys, for the sake of spoilers, toy companies end up working from pre production art and…
Review – Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)
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Review – Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)

Konami – GBA – 1 Player Castlevania is a game series I haven’t always cared much for. The early games were just plain too difficult for my tastes. If I was going to play a tough platform game I’d play something fun and fast like Blaster Master or Ninja Gaiden. After many recommendations I picked up a copy of Symphony of the Night. It languished for years, un-played, on my game shelf. I’d never been a big fan of the whole “horror/gothic” thing, why would I want to play a game full of it? I then of course played Symphony…
Review – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
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Review – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)

Konami – Playstation – 1 Player Castlevania games are hard. Or at least they used to be. They tend to be kind of random, long and have clunky controls. At least on the NES. I have never really cared much for Castlevania games. The whole “goth” and “vampires” thing never really appealed to me either. Still, Symphony of the Night I one of those games you hear people talk about a lot. When people start saying a game is one of the best they have ever played, it generally is worth giving a little attention to. I had first purchased…
20 Years of Blogging…
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20 Years of Blogging…

It seems like I should address this pretty big anniversary for this blog.  Lameazoid.com, is twenty years old, more or less, today.  I honestly don't have the exact date for sure, but I do have an old copy of the original site that suggests it was created on 10/09/1998.  More accurately, it's predecessor, The Chaos Xone, was created on 10/09/1998.  Back then it was just a random Geocities website.  It didn't really use a "Blog Engine" but it did use a "Blog format" of sorts, in the form of manually updated HTML webpages and a copy/paste archive of old posts.…
Review – High School Dreams (PC)
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Review – High School Dreams (PC)

April 15, 2010 | DR Studios Back in my college days i played a fair number of Japanese “dating simulators”.  The style pushed by these games tends to be still image graphics with walls and walls of expositional text.  Occasionally you make a choice.  It’s sort of like a Choose your own adventure book.  High School Dreams is sort of an American take on the same basic concept.  This game has a fairly rough development history according to Wikipedia.  Originally developed by Eidos, it was dumped when SquareEnix bought out Eidos.  After being dumped, DR Studios went on to develop…