Review: Rollerball is a fantastic NES game!

Rollerball is a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.  My best friend (at the time) introduced me to this game sometime in the late 1990's or early 2000's.  Interestingly, I found that this game was first released for the MSX in 1984.   I'm not familiar with the MSX at all.  I was quite impressed by this game when I played it at my old best friend's house and it influenced me to get the rom at some point.  Early in 2020, I actually bought a physical copy of the game off eBay.  I got a great deal on it.  The game has no real objective to it.  The objective is to score as many points as possible.  That's pretty much it.  No quests, no bosses, none of that stuff found in Rollerball.  The premise of this game is quite simple.  This game is not talked about too much and I don't think it ends up on top lists of games for the NES.

This game was released in 1988 by HAL Laboratories, the same publisher that brought you The Adventures of Lolo and Kirby.  It seems like this game has been lost in the sands of time and it's a bit forgotten.  I certainly haven't forgotten this game!  There are two modes in this.  The first mode is Skyscraper.  In Skyscraper mode, 1-4 players can play.  It plays like a pinball machine you'd find at an arcade except it's emulated.  There's four levels on the emulated pinball machine.  On the highest level, you can rack up a lot of points.  The goal is to get up there as much as possible to rack up big points.  I have provided a video above to show you what the game is like.  No, that's not myself playing the game.  It was played by whoever from the World of Longplays YouTube channel.

The second mode is Match Play.  It is a 2 player mode where you and a 2nd player play at the same time.  Whoever scores the most points win.  The first player has an elephant and the second player has a donkey.  This is in the American version of the game.  Wait a second... so it's basically Republican vs. Democrat!  What was HAL thinking?!  Not a good idea whatsoever.  The Japanese version had a giraffe.  They should have kept the giraffe in!  So if you're a Republican, you're most likely going to be the first player.  Obvious if you're a Democrat, you'd wanna be the 2nd player.  I'm more of an independent, so it doesn't matter which side I choose if you face me in Match Play.

My only complaint about Rollerball is that you can't move the emulated pinball machine.  There are times where it would be quite helpful.  Besides that minor complaint, it's a fun game and one of the best games for the NES.  It is truly a hidden gem and it's too bad that it doesn't get that much praise.

Rating: 5/5.

Solar Opposites

Today's blog is about an upcoming animated series called Solar Opposites.  It was created by Justin Roiland.  You may know him as one of the co-creators of the hit animated series Rick and Morty.  Solar Opposites is going to be on Hulu.  I'm going to share my thoughts on this upcoming animated series.

I watched a trailer of it on Facebook and I thought it was pretty good.  The show definitely has potential.  It's has a Rick and Morty vibe to it and that's no surprise since Justin Roiland created this animated series.  Eight episodes have been made so far.  The first episode will be available on Hulu on May 8.  It's basically about aliens from a better world who come to live in Earth and they take refuge in middle America.  They decide whether it's cool or not.

If you are unaware of Solar Opposites, here's a trailer of it.  Watch it!  Sadly, I don't have Hulu anymore.  Whenever I do get the opportunity somehow to watch it, I will watch it!  I like Justin Roiland and his animation.  I know it won't disappoint.

Oh and don't forget to watch the sixth episode of the fourth season of Rick and Morty tonight!  Click here for info on it!  Honestly, I've only watched the first episode of season four so far.  I'll have to catch up by watching the others I missed, then I'll watch the sixth episode and other episodes!

Who expected 2020 to be so bad?

2020 is what 2012 should have been and 2012 would have loved it.  Right?  LOL!  Yeah, we got COVID-19 going on right now.  People are panicking and people are buying up toilet paper like crazy.  As "The Kid From Brooklyn" Michael Caracciolo would have said, "the whole world's coming to an end!"  It seems to be that way and I agree with Big Mike to a certain extent.  I hope things get better for 2020.  I try to make this blog to be as positive & optimistic as possible.  If you've read my obituaries and stuff, eh not that positive & optimistic.  I have nothing else to say on this matter.  Here's 3 good sources for this COVID-19 mess:

Source 1

Source 2

Source 3

That's it.  I'm gonna take a break from this blog.  I'll continue writing in May.  If I feel like writing something else in April, I'll write something here for sure.

Earth is not flat

Today is a blog that will be focused on flat earth and the absurdity of flat earthers.  All of us know that the earth is not flat.  This has been proven well before I was born, before my parents were born and so forth.  It was proven over a thousand years.  I don't care if I'm going to offend you flat earth people.  You are 1000% wrong.  Are these people serious?  Read this and find out.  It is unbelievable that you have these people who believe the earth is flat and they believe it is even a proven fact that the earth is flat.  It isn't!  It is equivalent to saying that 2+2=3.

They think that they were lied to in school about the shape of the earth.  Give me a break!  There's seven ways to prove the earth is round.  I know in school they did not lie to us about math.  Why in the world would they lie in science class about earth's shape?  Seriously people.  I know this blog barely gets any traffic.  I was happy that one of my blogs actually got a comment and I was happy.  Now if I get comments from you so-called flat earthers, go ahead and I don't care if I rustled your jimmies.

I've noticed that in the 2010's and 2020's, people are being more vocal nowadays on certain things.  That's why you got these flat earth people who are being vocal on their ridiculous belief.  The shape of earth is not supposed to be debated.  It does not require a debate whatsoever.  You flat earthers are no better than the Illuminati conspiracy theorists and birds-are-not-real conspiracy theorists (yes, there are people who actually believe that birds are not real... I might write a blog about that one day)!  C'mon now!

Breaking News: R.I.P. Kirk Douglas

Today Kirk Douglas has died at the age of 103.  R.I.P.  My condolences to the Douglas family, friends and anyone else affected by his loss.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kirk-douglas-dies-spartacus-670526

Drew Monson (mytoecold)

I did mention that I'd get to writing a blog entry about Drew Monson and I did!  Drew Monson is a YouTuber who is somewhat famous.  He claims he's not famous anymore.  I provide a video below where he goes on about saying he's not famous anymore.  Drew Monson and Shane Dawson have some things in common.  Not only do they have the same amount of syllables in their names and have "son" in their surnames, they are real good friends.  They have appeared in videos together.  Drew has been criticized as a Shane copycat.  He is not a copycat of Shane to me.  Watch Drew's earliest videos and watch Shane's earliest videos, they're quite different.  Their content is somewhat similar.  Now why am I writing about Drew?  He's a somewhat interesting guy to me.  It took him several years to get to over one million subscribers.  I'm wondering why he didn't have a million sooner.  Above is his latest video.

It's funny he says he's going to be famous and he already was.  This video is from four years.  Next we have a video of him where he say he's not famous anymore.  This guy is one humorous person.

This vid is from two weeks ago.  LOL!  Well to me he's still famous.  I don't think he'll ever reach the amount of fame Shane has gotten, but Drew was a bit close to reaching that fame.

One thing that baffles me a bit is that he actually managed to survive the purge of younger YouTubers (refer to my blog about hejhog for more on that) in his early days on Youtube.  Why?  Look at him, he could easily pass for 13.  Plus no one ever reported him back then.  He didn't reveal his age back then too.  That's another thing that helped him make videos.  I actually thought he was about 14 when I came across him in 2007.  Now that I'm older and my perception on peoples' ages is a lot better, he clearly looks well under 13 in the video above.

According to his page on YouTube Fandom page, he was born in 1995.  Technically, he was not allowed to have his own channel on YouTube when he signed up late in 2006.   This blog would have been titled "Whatever happened to mytoecold?" if his channel got terminated.  I'm glad his channel didn't get terminated.  Perhaps his channel was supervised by a parent or guardian.  Who knows!  I doubt it.  I guess people liked him a lot and they had the heart not to report him for being an underage YouTube user.

Well I'm happy for Drew Monson.  He is a successful personality on YouTube and he has over a million subscribers.  He still has his legacy YouTube name, which is "mytoecold" and the video is about his username.  When I came across him in 2007, I thought the name stood out.  I never understood the appeal of videos him and Shane make, but they're quite good.  I thought of making videos like them.  Then I decided not to, I could get caught up in drama and stuff like that.

There's my blog about this YouTuber!  I'm not sure if I'll be writing any more blogs about YouTubers.  They're best documented elsewhere.  I'd say the best source for that is this YouTube Fandom site.

Happy Palindrome Day!

A day like today will not happen in 101 years.  That will be 12/12/2121.  Will we make it that far?  We'll see.  I don't think so.  Thankfully I'm not writing something that's full of doom & gloom.  January 2020 was a turbulent month.  I am hoping the rest of 2020 is more positive.  A friend of mine dubbed this year as "2016 2.0."  Remember how I said 2016 was the year of death?  It just may turn out that 2020 is another 2016.  For more on what this day is all about, I suggest you click here.